In the following review, Pate talks to Hiaasen about his first children's book and the experiences from his own childhood that inspired it.
Carl Hiaasen's nerves were shot. He'd finished the first draft of his latest book and turned it over to a new critic.
Not one of the developers or politicians he routinely skewers in his columns for the Miami Herald. Not one of the corrupt bureaucrats he makes fun of in his best-selling novels, nor one of the inept crooks for which he devises hideous fates. He couldn't give a hoot what they think.
The new guy had nonchalantly taken Hiaasen's manuscript and disappeared with it—and still hadn't said anything after two whole days. Hiaasen knew that when the moment came there would be no pussyfooting around. He'd get the stark, unvarnished truth.
But.....
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