Episode 5
Kevin Tumlinson needs no introduction in the Indie publishing world – or in the podcasting world for that matter – and there’s a growing interest in his transition amongst his followers, including me, to full-time RVing. Kevin and his wife, Kara, will be travelling in style and for a while in this interview I forget about writing as I get lost in the detail of his new lifestyle. But, never fear, Kevin is as ever generous in his writing advice as he is in sharing the excitement of his new lifestyle. This man writes 5000 words a day, which to me, makes Kevin one prolific writer. I can’t wait to see how he maintains the schedule when life outside his rig proves too tempting. He has visions of sitting inside at his already designated writing desk as he churns out his words. Good luck, Kevin, there’s a big wide world of distraction out there waiting to tempt you. For more about Kevin’s writing and writing journey, visit www.kevintumlinson.com. His latest adventure thriller novel, The Coehlo Medallion is available in all the usual places and his non-fiction book, The 30 Day Author, has become this wanna-be-prolific-author-when-I-grow-up’s bible of sorts.
Kevin Tumlinson
Duration: [01:05:49]
Melinda: Welcome to another episode of Writer on the Road. I have a very, very special guest with me today who I've been courting, I guess, for several months now. My guest is Kevin Tumlinson and to most of people in the podcasting world he's going to need absolutely no introduction whatsoever. Good morning Kevin!
Kevin Tumlinson: Good morning, good afternoon. Let's see, I'm, I don't know how many hours opposite you that I am, but it's 3 o'clock here and 6 am there. So I guess, good afternoon here, good morning there.
Melinda: There's another difference as well that I'm going to point out, my business is called Tropical Writing Services and I've just moved down from a tiny place called Magnetic Island off Townsville in far north Queensland and I'm down in Brisbane, which is still tropical, but it's 5 degrees here today.
Kevin Tumlinson: Oh really?
Melinda: And I'm not a happy writer. So I'm sitting here in UGG boots and coats and mittens with a cup of Milo in my hand and Kevin you're from Texas?
Kevin Tumlinson: Yes. It is not 5 degrees here. It is very warm here right now. I believe it's somewhere in the high 90s right now and the humidity is killing me.
Melinda: I think there was something, I think one of the times I contacted you, you were quite happy to be in the air conditioning and it was 30 degrees and very sweaty outside.
Kevin Tumlinson: Right, right, exactly. That's what happens when you're in the general Houston area, that's one of the reasons why my wife and I were keen to get in the RV and get on the road full time so that we can choose comfortable places to live.
Melinda: There's a mass exodus north as we speak this time of year, anyone who has any sense of all is in their RV and heading north, the tried and true track is you go up through Brisbane up north to Townsville, Cairns, Daintree, and across to Darwin where it's very comfortable, thank you very much, and that's where you stay for the winter. I'm assuming when you travel that big wide country of yours that you will have plenty of choices.
Kevin Tumlinson: We do. One interesting thing is the way the mountains actually sort of dissect the country at one point, so there's kind of a definitive east and west here and then once you go a little further west there's a big huge dessert. So we haven't really...
