It’s partly because the television premise naturally lends itself to the script format, but also because it’s so much easier for things to fall through the cracks that way. What made you decide to write this book using a format of transcripts and emails?
I would get desperate and try to kill a lizard and it would spray poison in my face or something. It’s so much more than eating bugs, people! Would you be able to survive if you were seemingly trapped on a deserted planet (or in the desert!)? And the level of strategy and calculations that go into it is insane. The producers are still making up rules and twists and surprises, which keeps the contestants guessing and keeps the format fresh. A big goal of mine is to get more people to watch Survivor again - it seems to have faded in popularity, but in my opinion it is the gold standard for competitive reality shows. I like anything where skilled talent is on display - Project Runway, Top Chef, Face Off - and anything that involves adventure – The Amazing Race, Survivor.
What sort of teenagers would willingly volunteer to be shot into space? What are they hoping to find? Or, perhaps a better question, what are they trying to escape? What are some of your favorite reality television shows to watch? It’s low-hanging fruit, I know - how hard could it be to make a funny book about reality television? - but I wanted to write a deeper story than that, to first present the sort of over-the-top caricatures that are cast in these shows and then dig deeper into the backstories that the show wouldn’t want you to know. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with reality TV for over a decade, and was dying to write a satire about the genre. What was the inspiration behind ‘Waste of Space’?
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