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On Giving Interviews: Do your research & say thank you

 I once thought of interviews as some sort of cliff notes; I thought that the questions answered from the author would save my time of reading the actual book. As an adult I now look at that as moronic, but hey...things change, I changed. This was over 15 years ago, but I have learned a lot since then.  At the time I was in my early teens, and even though I loved music I really didn't love reading yet. In my experience books that were of no interest to me often felt 'forced' on me. I look back at it as normal books everyone has read at the same age, and I just wasn't into it. Reading books for young Becca was like pulling teeth, and I had to force myself to read assigned books for many years.  At this same time I was rock n roll obsessed and started to accumulate rock books, mostly ones with pictures. But my love of rock also pushed me to get into reading books, but for some reason it was a huge uphill battle. I was newly in love with The Who and bought a bo...