Ask the Author: W. Michael Hewitt
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W. Michael Hewitt
Knees trembling and her breath coming in gasps, Rachel finally stood before the tall rusted iron gate she hoped would lead to freedom. When her hand reached out for the old brass knob, it was swallowed and Rachel was sucked into the whirling vortex, screaming inside a world where sound didn't exist.
W. Michael Hewitt
I never experienced writer's block. Sometimes I'll take a week or a few months off from a manuscript to work on another one but that is usually to give me time to contemplate. When I sit at the PC, there is no difficultly in getting words to flow. It's more difficult to rid the manuscript of the unnecessary ones.
W. Michael Hewitt
Researching the materials that make the story authentic and interesting.
W. Michael Hewitt
I'm an aspiring writer.
W. Michael Hewitt
I am currently working on a sequel to 90 Days which features Essie exploring the origins of a super virus that targets certain ethnic groups.
W. Michael Hewitt
Once I started on the manuscript now called Malicious Deception, I got hooked. The early versions of the book had over a dozen chapters that I cut for various reasons. A few of the chapters were rewritten into a new manuscript that is now the first novel in the Essie Openwaters mystery thriller series, Girl Emerging. Other chapters were converted into another manuscript with a different protagonist (same antagonist) that takes place 50 years before Malicious Deception but provides part of the back story for it. That manuscript will be released as Pernicious Proclivities later in 2023.
W. Michael Hewitt
90 Days is the third book in the Essie Openwaters mystery thriller series and the sequel to Malicious Deception. During the Cold War the United States produced far more weapons grade plutonium than it needed to intimidate the Soviet Union. Now, the United States is converting the excess plutonium (roughly thirty metric tons) to a from suitable for disposal in a geologic repository. Although the plutonium conversion takes place in one of the most secure locations in the world (the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site), I thought it was an interesting premise for the next Essie Openwaters book to have Essie discover plutonium was being stolen.
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