My daughter, I think, has brought me the most happiness. Robinson: Of all the contributions you’ve made, what are you most proud of?Ĭhild: I’d have to go to family for that. You don’t want to be sitting there writing aware of the stakes. You got to be 100% aware of that and 100% blind to it so that the joy and fun continue. So it’s a very real career–a real job with multiple people planning their bottom line that year. At a certain level if you get as far as I’ve been lucky enough to do, you’ve go a lot of people depending on it: publishers, the book trade, agents and lawyers. On the other hand, there is the fact that it’s a job and career. When you’re making up a story and it’s going well–which it is most of the time–and it’s sometimes unbelievable that you get paid for that. On the one hand, it’s an absolute joy and pleasure. Do you still love writing as much as you used to?Ĭhild: That’s part of the fascination of it for me. I don’t have any friends who are not from those worlds. Looking back, I would say you generate almost all your friends and your ongoing relationships through the job. Work is where some people have their significant relationships, friends and social connections. Robinson: A lot of people are talking about work/life integration instead of work/life balance. The idea that you have these other activities that you should be balancing doesn’t really come into it. You’re going to work so you just get on with it. What else am I supposed to be doing other than work? So in a lot of ways the balance thing is a non-question. Therefore, the balance thing is almost an empty question. So to what extent is work different from life? In a lot of ways life is work. Part of being masculine in my generation is you just knew that you’d go to college and work really hard the rest of your life.
Do you feel like your life is pretty balanced?Ĭhild: I find that to be almost a circular question. Robinson: So you do have a mindful approach to this. It’s both selfish and aggressive in that I won’t be beaten, certainly not by something like stress or overwork. Robinson: Do you think that works for you? In a way, it sounds like that is a form of resilience because you consciously have that mindset.Ĭhild: Yeah, I very much do. I’m aware deep down I’m reacting against my own interests. I grew up with the catch phrase which was, “I’m not afraid of stress stress is afraid of me.” It’s not very mindful or certainly any part of this modern wellness thing. Thinking about it deeply from my point of view, it is a kind of toxic masculinity. I’m probably a bad subject for this article because I don’t do anything to mitigate pressure. Everyday has 10 things that have to be done. It’s the promotion, endless interviews reading books for blurbs. I’ve never run into too much stress with that, but it’s everything else. Not so much the books because it’s the primary function. Robinson: With all the irons in the fire, what would you say are your biggest pressures?Ĭhild: Deadlines always. The casting was never thoroughly approved of among the readers in the feature films, so we’re going to be very careful this time. That’s the next big decision, and obviously it will be a crucial decision in light of the movies. Robinson: Do you know who will play Jack Reacher yet?Ĭhild: We don’t. We plan to reboot it with Amazon starting pretty soon I hope. We switched away from the feature film world to streaming television.
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Robinson: So you got the coffee, the books, the movies, the band and now Jack Reacher will be a TV series on Amazon.Ĭhild: Yes. Jack Reacher coffee is for sale worldwide online. We were approached by a coffee roaster, and we did a deal. Reacher’s famous for liking his coffee, and that was about the only thing we could merchandise for a guy who owns nothing. Robinson: I understand that you have a coffee brand.Ĭhild: Yeah, we do. I probably could have, but I felt like it was more respectful to let the professionals do it. Robinson: Do you sing or play an instrument on the CD?Ĭhild: I don’t. I wrote the lyrics, and they wrote the music. I was independently a fan of theirs, they were a fan of mine and we found each other out about 15 years ago. If you put it in a book, nobody would believe it. Robinson: You’ve done some music with Naked Blue from Baltimore.Ĭhild: Yeah, we have a CD out.
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