New Things
It's been busy lately on the TV front. I joined up with Alex Kurtzman & Bob Orci (Star Trek, Transformers, Fringe) on a new show for ABC. http://www.deadline.com/2012/07/abc-b...
And I've got another big deal in the works, should be announced this week.
On the book front, I'm about 150 pages into a new novel. I'm excited about it, but it's still too early to say much.
I've gotten a lot of email lately from readers of The Good Father. Most of them from readers with adult children, often writing openly of their own torment and heartbreak about the path their kids have taken.
The book, for them, was not enjoyable, per se, but felt desperately personal and cathartic, as if I wrote it just for them. This is the weight we carry, as writers. In the search for the truth of things it's important to remember that what the writer think of as invention is, in fact, painfully real for some readers.
A 70 year old man wrote of his adult son accused of sexual assault. The mother of a 21 year old boy wrote of her paralysis in the face of her son's destructive drift. This is a book about what it's like to lose someone close to you, to see them vanish right before your eyes, all the while ignoring your outstretched hand. It is the fear of all parents. What if our best isn't good enough?
In the U.S., The Good Father comes out in paperback on January 8, 2012.
And I've got another big deal in the works, should be announced this week.
On the book front, I'm about 150 pages into a new novel. I'm excited about it, but it's still too early to say much.
I've gotten a lot of email lately from readers of The Good Father. Most of them from readers with adult children, often writing openly of their own torment and heartbreak about the path their kids have taken.
The book, for them, was not enjoyable, per se, but felt desperately personal and cathartic, as if I wrote it just for them. This is the weight we carry, as writers. In the search for the truth of things it's important to remember that what the writer think of as invention is, in fact, painfully real for some readers.
A 70 year old man wrote of his adult son accused of sexual assault. The mother of a 21 year old boy wrote of her paralysis in the face of her son's destructive drift. This is a book about what it's like to lose someone close to you, to see them vanish right before your eyes, all the while ignoring your outstretched hand. It is the fear of all parents. What if our best isn't good enough?
In the U.S., The Good Father comes out in paperback on January 8, 2012.
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Deborah
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Aug 19, 2012 06:49AM
As a parent of one 30 year old adult daughter and 2 adult step children, this book was so well written, and I have recommended it to so many friends.....as a RN of 33+ years, we parent the way we work...attention to all details, and we still fail from time to time. It takes a ton of prayer to raise a kidm, right?
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I just finished it and thought it was brilliant frankly. My son works in juvenile detention and reading this book and the role of the father as such a complex intricate factor in the boys life as well as in your novel, opened my eyes. The moment a whole life changes and the ripple effect on so many. The historical background of other assassin helped create a tapestry I wont forget.Thank you.
