Minisode: An Interview with "The Passengers" Author John Marrs
The Currently Reading Podcast
Meredith Schwartz
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In today's spoiler-free mini-episode, I (Kaytee) am chatting with John Marrs, author of The Passengers (his new release) and The One (his previous release that I loved) and 4 other awesome thrillers. This minisode was so FUN to record! John is an absolute charmer, and I hope you love it.
In this "minisode", Kaytee and John are talking about being a serial killer and the cops combing your Google history, jury duty and writing a book from many perspectives, the transition from journalism to murder and much more!
As always, we'll end with a book he wants to press into your hands, readers!
Minisode shownotes are not timestamped, but linked titles are below for you to peruse.
The Passengers by John Marrs
The One by John Marrs
Welcome to Wherever You Are by John Marrs
When You Disappeared by John Marrs
The Good Samaritan by John Marrs
Her Last Move by John Marrs
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Connect with John Marrs: on his website johnmarrsauthor.com or all over social media, although his favorite is Instagram @johnmarrs.author
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi readers, welcome to another minisode of the currently reading podcast. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm Katie Cobb, a homeschooling Mama 4 living in New Mexico, and I'm here today with John |
| 0:19.6 | Mars, the author of The Passengers, a near future sci-fi thriller, along with five other best-selling |
| 0:26.1 | titles. His books have prompted me to use words like Nutso and Thriller Master and Unput Downable. |
| 0:33.2 | He lives in Northampton with his husband John and his dog Oscar. |
| 0:36.9 | I wonder if that gets confusing. |
| 0:38.5 | John, welcome to currently reading. |
| 0:40.1 | It gets very confusing and thank you very much. |
| 0:42.4 | Yes, it's always confusing because when we got married people kept saying to us well are you going to change your name you're going to have like a joint surname? |
| 0:48.8 | We're like no that's going to be even more confusing because we can have exactly the same name. |
| 0:52.0 | Right. |
| 0:53.0 | So do you, I mean, my husband and I refer to each other as babe and bebes and all kinds of other things. |
| 0:58.0 | Do you guys have nicknames for each other to make it less confusing at least at home? |
| 1:02.0 | I don't think we do not other than |
| 1:03.9 | cuss words no. Okay because in the acknowledgments the afterward of the |
| 1:10.9 | passengers you referred to him as JR. Do you not call him JR? |
| 1:14.1 | I think probably in front of other people, yeah, I refer to him as JR. |
| 1:16.5 | I just because then that's easier for us to differentiate. |
| 1:19.7 | Although we have friends with kids and one of the sets of friends called John Big John, |
| 1:24.1 | so me Big John, the other one Little John, |
| 1:26.1 | even though there's only about an inch and a half |
| 1:27.7 | difference between us. |
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