Fiona: Are the experiences [you write about] based on someone you know, or events in your own life?
Edgerton: Mostly my own life. Among other experiences, I’ve lived a lot of places from New Orleans to Bermuda, was a womanizer, worked as a male escort, appeared in porn movies, was a burglar, armed robber, a bouncer, have been shot at and shot back, have been stabbed, was a… pimp of sorts (call girl, not street girls), been in high speed car chases with the police (and won), been married five times, and done lots of stuff straights call “anti-social activities.” I’ve also been a college professor and the coach of a youth baseball team. When I was five, I knew I was going to be a writer and my idea of the right kind of training to be a good writer was to have experiences. It’s all job training…
