Ask the Author: Alan A. Winter
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Alan A. Winter
Sorry for the very, very belated answer. Yes, there will be a third book. We are probably one year from now (July 2024) from getting it published. Will try to keep you posted.
Alan A. Winter
When my father passed and I went through his things, I found a key for an unknown safety deposit box. Through a host of machinations, I found the bank and got a court order to open the box, only to find Swiss bank accounts from the 1930s, with my name listed on each one. Whose money was this? Where did it come from? Would I be able to retrieve it?
Alan A. Winter
The Covid-19 virus has a latent genetic trigger that can be activated by a manacing outside force that controls heart rate and thus, what a person needs to do to survive. Controlled by alien beings that land on earth two years from now, they space beings realize that those vaccinated earthlings are immune to their powers and are able to raise up and defeat them.
Alan A. Winter
Skip the part that I might be stuck on and jump past it. In time, the block evaporates.
Alan A. Winter
The ability to speak the truth. Fiction permits this more than non-fiction. Think about it!
Alan A. Winter
Read as many books in the genre that you wish to write in, and for that matter, read as much as you can. Analyze why an author might have written a certain way. Study the time frame of every book...meaning that while a book can encompass 5, 50 or 500 years, what is the actual time frame of the "action" in the book. It is sometimes surprising that in the hands of a skillful writer, a 3 week or 3 month story is able to tell the sage of a 1000 years. Such was the case in my last novel, "Savior's Day."
Also, write, write, write...and don't listen to what anyone says about your writing. Write to please yourself and be your own toughest critic.
Also, write, write, write...and don't listen to what anyone says about your writing. Write to please yourself and be your own toughest critic.
Alan A. Winter
My latest novel, "Island Bluffs," will be published June 6, 2015. It is based on a true story of Americans sympathetic to the German cause during WWII who lived on the Jersey Shore.
Alan A. Winter
I hear or read or think of a story. I never write ideas down. If the story has legs and stays with me for days, weeks, and months on end, I begin to feel it is worthy of further exploration. In the end, the good ideas become books.
Alan A. Winter
The idea for Savior's Day was brought to me by a Biblical scholar who wanted me to write a book for him. It is too long a story to explain here, but he tutored me for 2 years, and then it took many more years of research to get comfortable enough with the material to write Savior's Day. I was proud that it was chosen as a Best Book of 2013 by Kirkus.
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