Interview with author Charles Whipple
Charles was born and raised in Show Low, Arizona. He worked on the family ranch/farm until he went to University. He came to work in Japan soon after graduation and spent eight years in marketing and advertising in Japan, Hong Kong, and Hawaii. As a writer, Whipple worked first at Waikiki Beach Press in Honolulu as a reporter. Then moved to Japan to work as a copywriter. Charles has published four non-fiction books, including Seeing Japan from Kodansha International . Eight Western novels in the Black Horse Westerns line-up are either published or accepted for publication. The Snake Den , a western novel, from Solstice Publishing was published in February 2011. All the proceeds from A Matter of Tea , the winner of the 2010 Oaxaca International Literature Compeition, will go to help the victims of Japan ' s March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. What inspired you to write A Matter of Tea ? I gained an interest in Japanese ceramics soon after I arrived in Japan in 1961. Then, a...