Laura Kennedy’s Double Take: Bikinis + Hollywood crazy + sponges? VIDEO INTERVIEW - Mr. Media Interv

Today's Guest: Laura Kennedy, writer of the young adult novel Double Take.
 

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Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of teenage girls who hate their lives, but not as much as they hate you for making the mistake of ever providing them with an honest, straight-forward answer to a question… in the NEW new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!

Laura Kennedy?

Now there’s a name from the past!

Almost – gulp! – 30 years ago, I had the crazy idea to start a lifestyle magazine for young people in the Tampa Bay area -- JUMP Monthly. It was a few years before Creative Loafing entered the market and I thought it was an unfulfilled niche in my adopted community.
LAURA KENNEDY podcast excerpt: "I started in my early 20s writing love stories. I wrote about 30 and sold 24 of them. But then I had kids -- four children in a row -- and life got in the way."
You can LISTEN to this interview with young adult novelist LAURA KENNEDY, author of DOUBLE TAKE, by clicking the audio player above!

What I needed were advertising salespeople.

What I got were writers!

The magazine lasted maybe four issues, but it was a blast. We sold very few ads, but everyone who worked on Jump Monthly is still friendly and in contact... although it took Laura Kennedy, then a salesperson, now a writer, about 28 years to get back in touch.

Laura, who I always thought of as charming, resurfaced recently with her first book, a young adult novel titled Double Take. As first efforts go, it’s remarkably compelling and smartly executed, telling the story of 16-year-old Brooke’s life-changing meeting with 80-year-old former actress Laura de France.
LAURA KENNEDY: "I have a young life voice and attitude. A 17-year-old protagonist is perfect for me -- I think that's where