Bay City Library Interview with Tooki

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Bay City Library Interview with Tooki
Interviewer:	Wolfpup
Interviewee:	Tooki
Date(s):	February 2006
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Starsky & Hutch
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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In 2006, Tooki was interviewed for the Bay City Library.

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Some Excerpts

Well I would like to say since the day it came on but that would be exactly the truth. My mom (she was a total Paul fan) started watching the show first and bugged me to watch it. My response was "not another dumb cop show" but finally she talked me into watching and I was hooked and never stopped. Let me tell you she never let me live down that fact that I did called it a "dumb cop show".

I started writing right after the show went off the air. I have to say I was pretty devastated, I even wrote the network (got a letter back from them too). I guess it was my way of keeping the guys alive. I wrote four or five stories I had them stashed under my bed for years. Life happened and I kind of forgot I guess but then the boys were back on TV in reruns and suddenly that love for the show was back. So I drug out my stories dusted them off and started writing again. I guess that was about '95. That was when I kind of combined a few stories and wrote "You've Got A Friend". And even though that is not listed first under my Susan Carlston series it was really my first. I then went back and wrote "New Parters New Friends" to kind of explain where this new person Susan Carlston came from. I guess I could say seeing the show again after all those years are what inspired me to write it.

I hate to say this but I don't read very much S&H fan fiction. I guess that is awful since everybody is out there reading mine but I want to make sure that my ideas are my own that I haven't gotten it from somebody's story I just read. Don't get me wrong I do read some occasionally. I don't think I can single any one person out. I think everything that I have read is outstanding and I can tell that it comes from the writers heart.

Susan Carlston is me, I'm sure most readers know that by now. When the show was on I think my biggest dream was to be a cop on the show with them. So I started writing it, little did I know when I wrote my first few stories with Susan Carlston that it would grow into a whole series. When I first started writing I guess I was more of a Hutch fan at the time but then when I refound the show in the 90's I guess I had changed I don't really know but it was Starsky who touched my heart, that is where the tug of war comes between Susan and the guys. I know that the readers either love or hate that series but it all comes from my heart.

I can remember all those years ago when I posted my first story, someone wrote a scathing feedback, nit picking every little thing that was wrong with the story, I think their feedback went on for pages. It hurt me so much I nearly threw in the towel and stopped writing. I feel readers have to have a responsibility in their feed back, you can't tear a writer limb from limb and expect them to come back for more. It's a scary process, anybody that has posted a story and I don't care if it's your first or your 40th you are apprehensive. You have to give feedback with love and care, I'm not saying it should be all roses and sunshine but you have to be kind in how you say things. I think sometimes people forget that we are not professionals, we are mom's, housewives, secretaries, officer workers etc.