Just at the very base of the story, what sparked the idea to write this story? What blew this idea open for you guys?
The way the story ties into, and was influenced by those things is something that we’re really excited to share with everyone. For one, I think for our fans that have followed our work, they’ll like to see us go back to where we grew up, like our childhood homes and the places we hung out in as kids. So, I think it’ll make a lot of connections for people. So, in order to illustrate and explore that personal connection that our upbringing has on the story elements themselves, we went back to Buies Creek this past summer, and revisited a lot of the places and locations that come up in the novel, and we’re going to be premiering that documentary as part of Bleak Creek Conversations in Boston. Bleak Creek is essentially Buies Creek, and I think people will pick up on it pretty quickly that Rex and Leif, the lead characters in the book are basically Rhett and Link. McLaughlin: One of the really cool things about the story is that while the events are largely fictitious and made up, but the setting and the characters are very muchso based on us growing up in a small town in the south. We’ve crafted an entire show around the themes and the story of the book, as well as our experiences in writing it. Neal: We’re not doing what you might expect from a normal book tour, which might be going to bookstores and reading excerpts from the book. Right on! In addition to the release, you’ve got a book tour to help hype the book kicking off in Boston at the Wilbur Theatre. I will cry if it doesn’t scare people and make them laugh, let’s put it that way. It’s going to scare some people, it’s going to make you laugh, it might even make you cry a little bit. Link Neal: I’m excited to finally let all of our fans and others read it. From a creative standpoint, we’re as excited about it as anything we’ve ever done, so we just want to get it in people’s hands so they start reading the story and discussing it. Well, closer to two years now, so compared to a lot of things we do, which are created and a few days later it’s on the internet, this is a different timeline. We’ve been working on it for over a year. Rhett McLaughlin: We are super excited about it, man, and we are ready to unleash this thing on the world. How are you feeling about it as we get closer to the book hitting shelves? You’ve got the Lost Causes of Bleak Creek coming out on October 29th. Jason Greenough: Starting off with why we’re here, we’ve got some fun things coming up for you guys. Vanyaland got the duo on the horn recently to chat a bit about the book, the autobiographical streaks within it, what brought them to the exploration of a new genre, and what the writing process did for them, in terms of fueling the creative fire for what’s to come after this. The continuously curious comrades will bring their latest vessel of creative brain power all over the country for the Bleak Creek Conversations with Rhett and Link book tour, an outside-of-the-box take on your “normal” book tour, and will be kicking said book tour off at The Wilbur Theatre on Sunday (October 27).
But as the lifelong best friends and YouTube stars embark on the latest chapter of their conjoined creative journey with their first novel, The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek, which hits shelves on Tuesday (October 29), they’re in uncharted territory. Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal have made a career out of pushing each other to the limits of themselves and their friendship.
The YouTube personalities bring ‘The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek’ around the country this fall on a book tour, and it starts in Boston
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