The big question I ask myself is, “How can I change my readers’ lives?” It’s not enough to provide an exciting chase. I want my readers to reflect on what they’ve read in a positive, poignant way. However, I recognize the threat of sounding preachy, so I keep the story light and work at slipping in the meaning without standing on a soapbox. Come for the ride, stay for the epiphany.
Read MoreCleaning my files today, I stumbled across an e-mail correspondence I had with master storyteller Dan Brown before he wrote The Da Vinci Code. He had published Digital Fortress and on his website mentioned how part of his inspiration came from reading an article about a priest. (Possibly an urban legend.)
Read MoreThere’s a great challenge every November called National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) presented by Chris Baty The challenge is to write a novel of minimum length 50,000 words, the approximate length of Catcher in the Rye. So I wrote The Torah Codes November 2005.
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