As someone who stood on the sidelines of a couple different music scenes — the hippie jam band scene, New York’s avant-garde jazz scene… — I can tell you that every music-related scene has its share of colorful characters.
Which brings me to author Taslim Burkowicz’s coming-of-age / coming-out novel Sugar Kids (paperback, Kindle), which is set in the ’90s raver scene, a precursor to today’s EDM scene.
In the following email interview, Burkowicz talks about her own involvement in that same scene, as well as how stories about other scenes inspired and influenced what she calls “contemporary fiction on the racy end.”