We’re back with Chuck Sasser, for the second half ot his interview. If you missed the first part, just scroll down. It’s just below this part. 
Don’t miss it. Chuck has taught at universities and lectured worldwide. He’s included in Who’s Who in the World. His books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Serbian, Thai, French, Spanish and other languages. He has solo-canoed the Yukon. In 2001, he set a world’s record by making the first transcontinental flight in an ultralite Powered Parachute aircraft.
I can’t cover all he’s done, so let’s just get on with the interview.
JRC: Before we get back on the subject of books – or maybe this is on the subject o books – did I hear that you led a hunt for Big Foot?
Sasser: I have not yet written a book about Bigfoot, but I may, as I have gathered sufficient research. One of my publishers, who is now a small publisher but becoming quite renowned, and an old friend of more than 30 years, Dan Case, and I spent a summer backpacking into Bigfoot country and interviewing people from Oklahoma and Arkansas to Idaho, California and Washington.
No, we didn’t find Bigfoot—but that’s not the fun part of this research: the fun part is working with the people who HAVE SEEN Bigfoot.
JRC: Sounds like it would be fun. Actually seen Big Foot. Interesting. How did you happen to collaborate with Norma Cobb, the last woman to claim land under the Homestead Act?
Sasser: Norma Cobb and her husband Les Cobb, the last U.S. homesteaders, 
who settled on government land north of Fairbanks in Alaska, had become old friends of mine through another friend, a Colorado rancher. Les was a big game guide, mostly grizzlies. (Les died of an accident about 3 years ago). Anyhow, over the course of our friendship, the idea germinated that Norma and I would write ARCTIC HOMESTEAD from her, a woman’s, POV. It turned out pretty good.
JRC: You’ve collaborated on several books. Any thoughts on the good, the bad and the ugly of collaboration?
Sasser: I’ve collaborated on two books with my son Michael, who is also a freelance writer and now senior editor of OKLAHOMA Magazine. Those books were LAST AMERICAN HEROES and FIRE COPS. I’ve also collaborated on a number of other books, most of which are war books, and the collaboration consisting of my interview the subject and writing the story.
I simply will not take another person’s story without giving him credit (almost always, the one book will be the only one on which the person will have a byline), and I will not take his story without compensating him for it. In other word, I write the book, but I give my collaborator (my source) both credit and compensation. It’s always worked very well for me—and from which I’ve developed some long-lasting friendships.
JRC: Can you tell us a little about your latest book?
Sasser: THE WAR CHASER, now for the first time on Kindle, is fiction 
based on my experiences in Central America during the 1980s when I was a combat correspondent freelancing for such publications as TIME-LIFE, SOLDIER OF FORTUNE, TULSA TRIBUNE, etc. My protagonist follows the wars, accepting dangerous assignments during which the U.S. must not be implicated. His latest assignment is to assassinate an American gunrunner for the CIA. It becomes complicated when he joins a guerilla band and falls in love with the gunrunner’s woman.
JRC: Sounds pretty fascinating. And based on your experiences. Hmmm. I 
think I’ll not pursue that any further. You’ve had a number of bestsellers, like One Shot – One Kill, The 100th Kill, The Return, and others. Which is your favorite – and why?
Sasser: Generally, my favorite book, fiction or nonfiction, is whatever current project I’m working on at the time. For example, right now, my favorite nonfiction book is BACK IN THE FIGHT (St. Martin’s), the story of an Army Ranger who lost a leg in Iraq and could not be kicked out of Rangers because he passed all requirements to remain. He has since become the only U.S. warrior to return to FULL combat duty as an amputee, and has since deployed 6 times to war.
My favorite novel is SANCTUARY, a Science Fiction, to be released in August.
Perhaps it is that my books are like children—all are favorites but in different ways.
JRC: Any words of advice to those of us with few books (and maybe even less experience) under our belts?
Sasser: Advice? Write. Write every day. Write with a vision of what you hope to accomplish. And continue to learn and to experience and to use your knowledge and experience for an ever-wider view of the world from which we draw our works.
JRC: That’s it folks. As you can probably guess, I could have written three or four blogs on Chuck Sasser. But let me end by saying you will not find a more humble and kind person – particularly if he not kick boxing or maybe in Central America.
His website is at: http://www.chucksasser.com
is books are at Amazon can be found at: http://amzn.to/M9JeVT
And leave Sasser a comment. We’d both like it.
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Again, it proves the point that “people with interesting lives make interesting writers.” Could it be that Chuck is such a prolific writer because he has so many stories to tell? He has become a master at recognizing the story potential in everything he does, the people he meets, the situations he finds himself in. Thank you for another fascinating interview, Jim.
Great interview. I’d really love to read that bigfoot book!
Yes. Well worth the read. Hey, Chuck, anytime you want to go looking for Bigfoot I’m game to join you. He may never be found, but the idea the critter is out there sure stirs the imagination.
Wonderful interview!
I especially liked Chuck’s comment that his books are like children – all are favorites but in different ways.
Someone recently commented to me, something like “I see you all over the Internet, promoting your book.”
I replied, “They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, MIXED MESSAGES is my first born.”
Bigfoot? How fun!