BONUS CONTENT: Adem Tepedelen Does It for the Love of Music

Interview outtakes and his recommendations of things you should read, watch, and listen to.

Adem Tepedelen

Last week I published my interview with journalist and author Adem Tepedelen. We discussed his decades of freelance writing and how that morphed into a career co-writing memoirs with rock stars (including his most recent release, A Fabulous Disaster, co-written with Gary Holt of the bands Exodus and Slayer). There were a few things that didn’t make it into the finished piece, so I’m sharing those outtakes here, along with Adem’s recommendations for things you should read, watch, and listen to.

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Interview Extras

SANDRA EBEJER: How do you feel when a book is published? Are you excited? Or is it more like the work is done, it’s out there, and you’ve already moved on to the next thing?

ADEM TEPEDELEN: There’s a lot of ups and downs along the way. You sign the book deal, great excitement. Then you start the work and you turn in the work, and depending upon the schedule of the book and the editor you're working with, there may be nothing going on for the next little while, until you have to address the edits. There’s periods of downtime where you don’t think about it, then it’s final edits and cover design and you’re six months away from publication. Nothing really happens for a while, and then as you get two months closer to publication, the promotion kicks in. It’s on your radar again and the excitement builds. I’ve been collaborating with musicians, and they start getting excited and start ramping up their promotion of it. So it just builds. The other thing I would mention is that since I’ve been doing these books, working with musicians, I have to have one on the go. So when I finished writing Gary [Holt’s] book, I was already on to the next one [with Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil] because it takes so long for a book to come out.