Historical Fiction
Newark Minutemen Optioned first film
a. The green, crystals rom Superman's world of Krypton that had first weakened me as an author grew from my experience as a screenwriter. I’m so used to “showing rather than telling.” It took my editor Catherine Stine helping me write in first person through four narrators for Newark Minutemen that helped me get into the characters head and “show” what they were feeling.
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2.
If you could tell your younger writing-self
anything, what would it be?
a.
I would tell my younger writing-self that there
is no end to your writing your story. Your story is like a song. You can sing
it so many ways and make so many improvements that if you’re not careful,
you’ll never be done. I was fortunate that I promised my ninety-four year old
Mom that I would have Newark Minutemen,
the story of her older Jewish-boxing brother, published by the time she was
ninety-five. And we did it!
a.
Across the Nightingale floor and the series that
followed is a magnificent work. In fact, the story put me on a path to becoming
a writer and writing Newark Minutemen. Set in medieval Japan, the young hero
discovers he is part warrior, part pacifist and part assassin. Talk about
conflict.
4.
How about overrated?
a.
I know this will not make me friends, but I
think “Where the Crawdads Sing” is overrated. Albeit my expectations were so
high, but the motivation of characters wasn’t satisfying. I wish the way the
reader finds out that Kya murdered Tate was more clever.
5.
Favorite childhood memory involving books?
a.
My favorite childhood memory involving books was
reading a book called “Tom Brown School Days,” about an English boy coming of
age at boarding school. It was the first time I fell in love with a character.
I also am shaped by Stephen King’s “The Shining.” I learned how much a book can
come alive and shock you. The other memory that influenced me was the reading
of “The Magus” while travelling through Greece after college. If your haven’t
read this book, you will be flattened by the twists. The puzzles that unravel
in Newark Minutemen are a directly influence of this amazing story..
6.
If you could dine with any literary character,
who would it be and why?
a.
I love unlikely heroes. Katniss from Hunger games
is my favorite and I hope that if I ever have to step it up, I would be like
her. The hero from Newark Minutemen, Yael Newman, is made from this same
fabric. At an early age, Yael experiences an inciting action that sets him on
the path of revenge and retribution. His values drive the story, including his
choices around a star-crossed love affair.
7.
What fantastical fictional world would you want
to live in (if any) given the chance?
a.
How could there be a better fictional world than
Harry Potter as the details truly let you transfer into this world . For Newark
Minutemen, a story that takes place during the Great Depression in the 1930s, I
spent two years talking with my Mom walking in her shoes so I could share this
world with the reader and offer that escape. Many readers who lived during the
times have been profoundly touched by the memories. I’m especially warmed by
those who are inspired to research their own family.
8.
Did you want to be an author when you grew up?
a.
When I was sixteen, I wrote down that I wanted
to tell a story that had a meaningful impact on the world. I am crossing my
fingers that Newark Minutemen will touch readers and encourage them to being a
voice for the voiceless.
9. What book do you wish you had written?
a) I
wish I’d written “American Royals,” a modern day alternative history where colonial
America had assumed a monarchy under George Washington and crowns its first
Queen. My devotion to fictionalizing history
as with 1930s Newark Minutemen and personal ties to George Washington would
have made this an ideal story to have written.
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