Ask the Author: Rebecca Cantrell
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Rebecca Cantrell
Of course! He goes where Joe goes!
Rebecca Cantrell
There will be more Hannah Vogel books coming out in 2018!
Rebecca Cantrell
Yes! The next Joe Tesla book, The Steel Shark, is due out at the end of May 2017.
Rebecca Cantrell
YES! It's been a long time getting there, but expect to see more of Hannah in 2018. I don't have a date or a title, but I'll put it in my newsletter. Thank you for your support of Hannah!
Rebecca Cantrell
Yes! There will be more. Joe Tesla #4 is due out early next year. It will be called The Steel Shark. Joe and Edison have a submarine in this one!
Rebecca Cantrell
Hi! The World Beneath was released as a paperback, ebook, and audiobook.
Glad to hear that you like the new book!
I wasn't planning any tie in with the doctor and Hannah Vogel, but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!
Glad to hear that you like the new book!
I wasn't planning any tie in with the doctor and Hannah Vogel, but now that you mention it, that's a great idea!
Rebecca Cantrell
Read. Write. Write about something else. Write with a pen on paper instead of on a computer. Never give up.
Rebecca Cantrell
I'm working on the sequel to THE WORLD BENEATH--THE DANGER BELOW, where Joe Tesla must confront the dangerous Tesla legacy.
Rebecca Cantrell
2. I had the idea for the novel, The World Beneath, when I was going down into a subway station in Berlin and was greeted with a blast of air. “Subway tunnels breathe” popped into my head and I knew that was the start of a novel. I was still working on Innocent Blood at the time (book 2 in the Order of the Sanguines series that I write with James Rollins), so I jotted the idea down on my phone. Other the next few months, more notes followed as I realized that the story was about a man, Joe Tesla, who lived in the in-between spaces in people’s lives—the tunnels, the steam tunnels, and Grand Central Station itself. Not by choice, but because he was stricken with agoraphobia and couldn’t leave. But he had means—he was a software millionaire who managed to find a Victorian house built deep underneath New York and moved in there with his service dog, Edison.
Rebecca Cantrell
Edison is Joe's psychiatric service dog. He helps Joe deal with his anxieties so that he can function. It's a complex relationship, but it's not a complicated one--Joe loves and needs Edison and vice versa. Edison keeps Joe grounded and can always be relied on to recognize down to earth problems which Joe might miss because he lives so much in his head.
As for pairing them up, you have to take some credit for that! Early on, I talked to you about Joe and his life under New York City and you said "Won't he be lonely? Doesn't he need a dog?"
I thought about it, researched psychiatric service animals and decided, that , yes, he DID need a dog. So, thank you!
As for pairing them up, you have to take some credit for that! Early on, I talked to you about Joe and his life under New York City and you said "Won't he be lonely? Doesn't he need a dog?"
I thought about it, researched psychiatric service animals and decided, that , yes, he DID need a dog. So, thank you!
Rebecca Cantrell
With the historical mysteries, you have the benefit of hindsight--you know what the characters are going to face in the world and how it's going to come out. History provides so many wonderful plots and subplots and fascinating details. The difficulty is that you can't visit the past, so it's much harder to create a world of smells, tastes, sights, and even emotions that fit into an era. So, it's a different kind of research (one that I love, obviously).
With the modern thrillers, I can visit many of the places that Joe calls home--the tunnels of the New York subway, Grand Central Station, the Grand Hyatt and take a look around to see what he might notice (or might overlook).
With the modern thrillers, I can visit many of the places that Joe calls home--the tunnels of the New York subway, Grand Central Station, the Grand Hyatt and take a look around to see what he might notice (or might overlook).
Rebecca Cantrell
Joe wants to have a big life and once he realizes that he has agoraphobia and realizes that he can't go outside, he comes up with a clever solution: make the inside bigger by moving into the tunnels under New York City.
I came up with the idea after I moved to Berlin, Germany and started taking the subway often. I was struck by how many people travel through the tunnels without ever seeing the spaces in between. There's an almost invisible world down there that millions of us pass through, but about which we know very little. It made me wonder about someone who chooses to live in those tunnels, not someone who is forced into them by economic necessity, but someone who could live anywhere he wants (he's a multi-millionaire after all!) but is forced to live in this invisible space.
I came up with the idea after I moved to Berlin, Germany and started taking the subway often. I was struck by how many people travel through the tunnels without ever seeing the spaces in between. There's an almost invisible world down there that millions of us pass through, but about which we know very little. It made me wonder about someone who chooses to live in those tunnels, not someone who is forced into them by economic necessity, but someone who could live anywhere he wants (he's a multi-millionaire after all!) but is forced to live in this invisible space.
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