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Jake Needham is an American lawyer who became a screen and television writer through a series of coincidences too ridiculous for anyone to believe. When he realized how little he actually liked movies and television, he started writing crime novels.
Jake has lived in Asia and Australia since 1980, first in Sydney, then in Hong Kong, and from 1992, in Bangkok. He and his wife, an Oxford graduate and prematurely retired concert pianist, have been married for thirty-two years and have two adult sons. Jake has published seventeen novels that have collectively sold over a million copies. You see? The great tradition of the American expat novelist isn't entirely dead yet.
We talked about masks (psychological, not covid), childhood trauma, plastic surgery…and Aquanet wiggling into tight pants in the 80! (And more!)
00:00 START
05:30 Drink 1: Mango Cinnamon Margarita
08:11 Reading 1: Charlie and the Dogs
13:48 From law to writing for film & TV
24:27 Character-driven fiction
25:05 Drink 2: Singapore Sling
28:24 Reading 2: A Hot Day in Singapore
33:31 Misbehaving Characters: Plotting and Pantsing
41:20 Cultural differences and life in Singapore
44:40 Drink 3: The Zombie
48:18 Reading 3: Charlie Trust
56:16 Living next door to Farrah Fawcett
58:01 Law, the legal system, and justice
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