Yeah You Write

If you’ve ever dreamed about writing or dabbled in writing then
you’ve probably engaged in that fantasy where Terry Gross or
Oprah is interviewing you about your brilliant new best seller or
memoir or thriller or screen play. For most of us that's just a
day dream. But a rare handful of local writers are actually
authors of books with titles published by legitimate publishers.
How does this happen? Is there a secret to getting someone to
read your manuscript? If a publisher picks it up, does it change
your life?


Two local authors tell all


Michael Rubin is a full-time attorney specializing in appellate
law with the high powered McGlinchey firm here in Baton Rouge.
He's also a successful author of legal thrillers that, like John
Grisham’s gripping novels, center on things Mike knows well—the
Deep South, racism, family legacies and where the law intersects
with the criminal justice system.


Mike is the co-author of The Cottoncrest Curse, Cashed Out and A
White Hot Plan along with his wife, Ayan. The books are published
by LSU Press and the University of Lafayette Press and have
earned a handful of book awards.


Mike's varied career doesn't end with just the law and writing
novels, he's also had stints as a jazz musician, a humorist and a
public speaker.


Barbara Sims is also an author. Her 2014 book, The Next Elvis:
Searching for Stardom at Sun Records, is a memoir of her years
working as a publicist and promoter at Sun Records in Memphis in
the male-dominated workforce of the 1950s. At the time, Barbara
was in her early 20s, and her job at Sun placed her in the studio
with the likes of Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis,
Charlie Rich and other Sun entertainers.


Like Mike, Barbara has had a rich and varied career, and though
her time at Sun Records was perhaps the most glamorous and
book-worthy chapter, she went on to become an English Professor
at LSU here in Baton Rouge, where she taught for more than 30
years.


Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the
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