Ask the Author: Paul Starobin
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Paul Starobin
Make writing a habit-- your 'muscle memory'--try to write every day something that you feel can stand up, even if it is only a post on social media or a jotting in a notebook. And, read, read read--keep your pores open!
Paul Starobin
Hmm. So many good choices! Dickens' London for one, 'Fog everywhere...' But I think I will go with Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' Russia, the Napoleonic Wars unfolding. I love Russian literature, I lived and worked in Russia as a foreign correspondent, and that would be a wonderful time travel. I suppose what I would do is my usual thing, of being a sponge and trying to find something of interest (shouldn't be hard, given those times) to write about...
Paul Starobin
My last book was set on the eve of the Civil War. I thought it would be interesting to follow with a book set in the Gilded Age that followed, and I liked the idea of a story about a gold rush. Where there is gold you will find adventure, comradeship, ingenuity, backbreaking work, greed, envy and the criminal impulse in all sorts of mischief-making schemes--in other words, you will find human beings, in all their humanness.
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