Thom Vernon in the Lansing State Journal

Thom Vernon returned to his hometown of Lansing, Michigan this week to from his debut novel The Drifts at Schuler Books & Music. Vernon spoke with The Lansing State Journal over the phone this week about the book, the characters and what drew him to writing in the first place.

'As a student at Everett High School, Thom Vernon remembers sharing a short story in class.

"The kids in the class were like, 'You have got to be a writer,' but I never thought that ..." Vernon said. "I did it secretly but didn't really aspire to that.

"I didn't know more than anyone else about writing."

It wasn't until Vernon moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career - appearing in the blockbuster movie The Fugitive and having roles in TV shows like Seinfeld and General Hospital - that he became so "bored out of my mind, that I started writing."

And that writing has culminated into The Drifts, his first novel, for which he's in the midst of a book tour that will make a stop in Lansing this week.

The Drifts is ... a story about internal displacement, about characters 'fighting as hard as they can to get what they want.'

Read the whole article here.