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Interview with Mr. Tim Waggoner, author of Kingsman: The Golden Circle( movie novelization) and numerous novels

2/6/2019

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Bram Stoker Award-winner, Mr. Tim Waggoner, has written over thirty novels along with novellas and three short stories collections. His writing has received Honorable Mentions as well as finalist mention at the Scribe Award and Shirley Jackson Award. When he isn't writing, he is being a full-time tenured creative writing professor at Sinclair College.Mr. Tim Waggoner has also written articles and media tie-ins novels such as XXX: Return of  Xander Cage , Resident Evil: the final chapter, supernatural series, etc. This blog interview will mainly focus on his experience writing Kingsman: The Golden Circle as well as his life as an author. So, get to know a very talented author and check out his numerous publication as soon as possible.

1. First off, what is the scariest book you’ve ever read?

It’s a tie between Salem’s Lot by Stephen King and The Mothman Prophecies by John Keel.
I was in junior high when King’s novel first came out, and a friend recommended it to me. I was a huge horror fan, and I was excited to read the book. But King’s horror was different than any I’d read before. His focus on what his characters were experiencing inside their minds as opposed to what was happening outside them made the horror far more impactful than anything I’d ever experienced. King’s approach taught me that horror is about what people experience, and it’s something I always keep in mind when writing my own fiction.

The Mothman Prophecies is a supposedly true account of paranormal events. I read it more or less around the same time I read Salem’s Lot. While the stories recounted in the book were scary, it was the last line of the book – a quote from Charles Fort – which absolutely terrified me: “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?” That quote has resonated with me throughout my life and has formed the central theme of most of my horror fiction.


2.  What is the scariest story you have ever written?

I don’t know what story readers might find scariest, but the story that scared me the most did so for a reason you might not expect. In the early nineties, I’d only published a handful of stories in small-press magazines. I was working on a story called “Mr. Punch” that I planned to submit to an anthology called Young Blood, which would feature stories written by authors younger than thirty. Up to this point, the horror I’d written was fairly run of the mill, but I had a different vision for this story. I wanted to write a horror story that used nightmarish, surreal imagery that (I hoped) would have a greater impact on readers than anything I’d done before. When I got two-thirds of the way through the story, I realized it was the best thing I’d written to that point, and I got scared that if I kept going, I’d screw it up. I stopped writing, but after a while, I forced myself to go back and finish it. I sold the story to Young Blood. It was my first professional sale, and Ellen Datlow gave the story an Honorable Mention in that year’s edition of Best Fantasy and Horror. Most importantly, “Mr. Punch” is where I found my voice as a writer, and if I hadn’t overcome my fear, that might never have happened.

3.  Do you recall the first story you ever wrote?

The very first story I remember writing is a cartoon version of King Kong vs Godzilla. I’d seen photos from the film in Famous Monsters magazine, but I hadn’t seen the movie. I took a stenographer’s pad, turned it sideways, and drew what I imagined the movie might be like. In a sense, it was my first (unofficial) tie-in story!

4.  Do you recall the first book you ever read that made you want to become a writer?

I don’t know if any book did that for me, but an article did. When I was in high school, I read an interview with Stephen King in an issue of the B&W comic magazine Dracula Lives. The Shining had just come out, and King wasn’t super-famous yet. It might have been the first interview with a writer I ever read, and before this, it had never really occurred to me that being a writer was something a person could choose. Something I could choose. I later told my mom that I thought I might like to be a writer, and she said, “I think you’d be a good one.” Her simple encouragement meant the world to me, and it still does.

5.  Out of the protagonists you’ve written about so far, which one do you feel you relate to the most?

I know this sounds like a cop-out, but all of my characters are drawn from aspects of myself, so I can relate to all of them. But many of my characters find themselves caught in a world that’s weirder and more dangerous than they imagined, and they struggle to understand it and, if possible, find a place in it. That’s pretty much my experience of life, too, so I’d say that type of Tim Waggoner character is most like me, and therefore, the one I can relate to the most.

6.     Describe what your ideal writing space looks like?

I can write anywhere. All I need is someplace to sit and my laptop or a notebook. I do a lot of my writing in Starbucks cafes. I like having a certain amount of noise and activity going on around me as I write – not too much – but enough so that part of my brain is constantly stimulated while another part produces prose. I’m not sure why this helps me, but it does. Or maybe it’s just the caffeine.

7.      What’s the strangest thing you have ever had to research online for your book?

I can’t remember if I researched this for a book or I just heard about it and got curious, but I learned that some people have a fetish where they like to read about people being boiled alive. I found website dedicated to fiction in which people – usually women – would be boiled alive and were turned on by the process and the knowledge that their flesh would be eaten. The site’s owner also offered to write boiled-alive stories featuring celebrities that readers chose. I’m very much a consenting adult can do whatever they want kind of guy, but the psychology behind this fetish fascinated me. I’ve never found the right opportunity to use this knowledge in a story, but it’s still in the back of my mind, waiting for the right story to come along.

8.      How has Lawrence Block influenced you as a writer? Did you watch the film-adaptation of his novel A Walk among The Tombstones?

I first became familiar with Lawrence Block through his fiction-writing columns in Writers Digest. I then bought his books on writing and devoured those. I learned more about writing fiction from Block than I ever did from a teacher in class. He offers solid, non-nonsense advice about the craft that is never too prescriptive. His approach has also helped me become a better teacher of writing. After a time, I decided I should read Block’s fiction to see if he practiced what he preached, and he definitely did. He became one of my favorite novelists, regardless of genre, after that. I named the zombie PI protagonist in my Nekropolis urban fantasy novels after Block’s detective character Matt Scudder. I haven’t seen the film version of A Walk Among the Tombstones yet, but I’m looking forward to it. Liam Neeson seems like a perfect choice to play Scudder.

9.      Reading from your blog post about your experience writing Kingsman: The Golden Circle (http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2017/09/kingsman-golden-circle.html), what did you wish you knew when you started writing media tie-in books?  How did your experience help you now and in the future?

I wish I’d understood the glacial pace the approval process takes and the insane lightning-fast pace you have to write once an outline is approved in order to make a deadline. For example, years ago I wrote a tie-in novel featuring Freddie Krueger called A Nightmare on Elm Street: Protégé. My original pitch was that Freddie has accidentally returned to life as a human and another force takes his place in the dream realm. The editor loved it and sent the outline to Newline for approval. The approval process took so long that, in order to make the deadline, the editor told me to start writing. I wrote sixty pages before the studio killed the idea, saying they didn’t want Freddie to return to life because that would raise the specter of Freddie having been a child molester/murderer when he was alive and they didn’t want to deal with that issue. I had to come up with an entirely new plot ASAP, and once it was approved, I had to write very fast in order to hit the deadline. Now I know not to write a single word of an actual tie-in novel until the final outline approval comes through, even if that means the publisher will have to reschedule the book’s release.

10.   Did you do a book tour for Kingsman: The Golden Circle? If so, where was the furthest you traveled for it or any book tour in general?

I’ve never been on a book tour. In general, publishers usually send their best-selling/highest-profile authors on tours. The whole point of book tours isn’t for authors to sell books and meet readers. It’s to get media coverage of their visit. This coverage reaches far more people than authors actually meet on tour, which hopefully translates into more sales. I think social media has taken the place of tours, especially for midlist, small-press, and indie authors. Social media allows authors to engage with readers directly and has the potential to increase sales in a more cost-effective way than a tour.

11.  What marketing strategies do you find most helpful? Any resources you would recommend to other authors?

It’s difficult to say if any marketing strategies have any real impact for individual authors, but we still have to try. I think social media can work well if you can be authentic, provide interesting content, and don’t overwhelm your audience with constant sales messages. Interacting directly with your audience on a regular basis is important. Promoting and celebrating other writers – being part of a literary community – is a vital part of marketing in that it helps build your support network and makes you seem less like a totally self-involved marketer of your own work. A blog can help, too. My blog, Writing in the Dark, provides tips and insights for writers. It’s an outgrowth of my teaching career, but it also works to promote my own writing. I have a newsletter that I send out once a month, and along with the sales messages, I give writing tips and a list of favorite movies or books. A resource I always recommend is Guerilla Marketing for Writers by Levinson, Frishman, Larsen, and Hancock. There’s a ton of great advice in the book.
Blog: http://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/
Newsletter: http://timwaggoner.com/contact.htm
Guerilla Marketing for Writers: https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Marketing-Writers-Low-Cost-Guerilla/dp/1600376606/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1544033553&sr=8-1&keywords=guerilla+marketing+for+writers


​12. Do you have any fun, interesting fact to tell when or after writing Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, or Supernatural series?

The movie before Resident Evil: The Final Chapter ended on a huge cliffhanger: Alice and her companions were preparing to battle a horde of zombies and mutants in Washington, DC. The Final Chapter begins with that battle already over and Alice is the sole survivor. All of her companions, including the young girl she unofficially adopted in the previous movie, are never mentioned. This is the kind of thing I hate as an audience member, so I decided to write the battle that occurred off-screen, and hope the studio wouldn’t cut it from the finished novel. The battle turned out to be several chapters long, but the studio let me keep it in. In fact, they let me keep everything I added to the script – including my tying the book into previous novelizations in the series. I’m so grateful they gave me that artistic freedom. It’s rare in novelizations.

13.  Silly-Game question: From Kingsman: The Golden Circle novel, could you please leaf through the pages and point at a random place. What is the full sentence? And what is the page number of this random sentence?

Pg. 121:  But before the man could pull his half-eaten feet out of the tank, Charlie’s robot hand – moving faster than any human eye could track – took hold of Angel’s neck and gave it a swift, savage twist.

14.  Which movie would you like to do a novelization to and why?

I love the old Universal horror films of the 1930’s-40’s, and I think it would be amazing to adapt one of them as a novel. Frankenstein vs the Wolfman was the first one of these I saw. I was four at the time, and the idea that these two monsters inhabited the same world, could meet and interact, fascinated me. So I guess I’d pick that film.

15.  Which of your short stories, novella, and novels would you like to see made into a film?

I think the Nekropolis series would make fun films, and my Bram Stoker Award-winning novella The Winter Box is one of the best things I’ve written, and it would make a wonderfully bizarre film. My novel The Teeth of the Sea would make a great creature-feature movie. Although I’d honestly be happy if anything of mine was adapted for film. I’d love to see how a director and actors would interpret one of my stories.

16.   Have you ever considered writing a screenplay?

I’ve toyed with the idea on and off over the years. I wrote a couple plays in college and even directed one, and I enjoyed the experience, but a script isn’t a thing in and of itself: it’s a blueprint for a performance. It’s only one aspect of a larger creative process. Writing fiction is a deeper, more complete experience for me, and I have complete creative control. I think the highly collaborative nature of scriptwriting – one in which the screenwriter is often on the bottom rung of the ladder – would drive me crazy.

17.  Would you considered an aspiring author to write a media-in novel or be a published author first before taking that route?

It’s almost impossible to get started writing tie-in fiction if you haven’t written and published your own original fiction first. You need to have a track record as an author before a publisher will hire you to write a tie-in novel. Publishers need to know that you can write successfully at novel length and that you can write to deadline. They also need to know that you can work well with editors, since tie-in fiction has to hew closely to the established universe and rules of the original IP and editors have to make sure this happens. Publishers also need to know that you’re open to revising and can revise successfully, since the IP rights holder will review a tie-in project and require changes. The only way publishers can be sure if writers have the necessary skills and experience to write a tie-in is if they’ve already proven themselves as published authors.

18.   Can you inform us about your latest story?

Right now I’m working on a tie-in novel set in the Alien universe called Alien: Prototype. It deals with a former space marine who’s training a security force for a corporation that’s a rival of Weyland-Yutani’s, and of course an alien infestation breaks out in the training facility. I hope readers will enjoy it as much as I enjoy writing it.

19.  What is your favorite joke?

Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The fish.


20.  Last question, what is your favorite meal at your favorite restaurant?

Saag paneer and chicken tikka masala (with rice and naan) at my Amar India Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio.

You all should, no question, check out those valuable links that Mr. Tim Waggnoer offered, especially if you want to know more about  his novels/novellas/short stories. My sincere appreciation for him in regard to answering my questions and for his time. His insight was informative and will probably help other writers in their writing journey. Thank you for stopping by to read this latest blog interview. I hope you visit here  again. Take care and happy reading. 
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Interview with Ms. Jennifer Dornbush, co-screenwriter of God Bless the Broken Road

1/30/2019

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Jennifer Dochbush has won awards for her forensic comedy Home Bodies and bi-lingual kid’s show. She uses her forensic expertise to write fiction for TV (Suits, White Collar, Hawaii Five-O, etc), novels, and film. In fact her book titled Forensic Speak has been used by CSI, cops, and writers. Her seminars on forensics and crime have been given internationally. Last but not least, she teaches screenwriting and mentor writers.

Screenwriter, Speaker, Author, and Forensic Specialist, Jennifer Dochbush has now taken her time to be an interviewee in order to answer my questions. Get to know her and read why you should see God Bless the Broken Road as soon as you can. 


1.      What is the genesis of God Bless the Broken Road?
 
God Bless the Broken Road (GBBR) actually began as a feature film script. My friend and director, Harold Cronk, who is best known for the God’s Not Dead movies, called me one fine summer evening. He pitched me the seed of the idea and asked what I thought? I said I thought it sounded like a solid story. And then he asked if I wanted to write it with him. Of course, I said yes.
 
We finished the first draft of the script on Christmas Eve, 2014. Over the course of the next year we refined it while the producers rallied the funds. In the spring of 2016 Harold shot God Bless the Broken Road.
 
A few months earlier, as we finished the script version, I talked with the producers about penning a novel version. They thought it would be a great idea. So my agent put a pitch together and while we were filming I quickly wrote the first three chapters. Within two weeks we had a couple contracts. We happily chose Simon & Schuster. I spent the summer of 2016 scribing the novel. It released a year later in June, 2017. The film released the following September, 2018. This gives you a small taste of how long it can take for a project to come to fruition.

 
2.      Which writer/s inspired you to become a screenwriter? 

I’ve known since before I could understand it, that I was a writer. I was that kid who was creating plays and forcing their sisters and friends to act in them. This was my “play time.” There was no person or thing that influenced me at this young age. As a kid, I was inspired by story in general… I read and read. I attended professional theater. I watched film and TV. I took it all in. I can’t say there was just one writer, book, or film that inspired me… I went wading into the sea of story and never got out.
 
3. How was your overall experience working with Mr. Harold Cronk on God Bless the Broken Road?  

We’ve been friends for a long time so the creative process was pretty seamless. We have very similar story sensibilities.
 
4. What was your writing schedule when you write a novel and/or screenplay?

Writing is my day job. So, I treat it like a day job. I work business hours and I set and meet goals and deadlines. I use an 80/20 rule. 80% of the time I’m doing what I do best- create! 20% of the time I manage the business side- taking meetings, making new contacts, marketing, responding to emails, connecting with my audience, and all the other tasks an entrepreneur must do maintain a business.
 
5. On average, how many draft scripts do you find yourself writing until you are happy and satisfied with your work?

I actually don’t count. I just work until it the project sings… and sells.
 
6. How was it like to see Lindsay Pulsipher, Robin Givens, or Jordin Sparks speaking the words that you wrote?

It’s a funny thing… people who aren’t in screenwriting think it’s like writing a play—all dialogue. But it’s so much more. It’s crafting a whole story, a whole world—with description and tone and nuance. So, it’s not just that the actors are speaking my dialogue… it’s that they’re interpreting the story that I created. And you have to credit the art department for creating that world… and the wardrobe, make up, sound, and lighting for filling it in… and the director for bringing life to it. It’s a pretty amazing feeling to see the story that was in your head unfold in front of you live and in 3D!
 
7.  What piece of advice do you have for screenwriters starting out?

Have patience. Have perseverance. Have a real life.
 
8.   What was your favorite book when you were a kid? Do you have a favorite book now?

I have so many… I can’t choose just one. My tastes vary a lot. Like I said, I went swimming in the sea of story and never got out.
 
9.      Do you ever get writer’s block? What do you do to get back on track?

I guess that depends on what is the definition of Writer’s Block? Do I have those days when I feel stuck and muddy and don’t get much done? Of course. That’s part of the job. Do I even not know what to write about? Never. I think the best tool for a writer is to cultivate the skills of listening and looking around. If you do, you’ll find there’s always fodder for story.
 

10.  What’s your favorite line from God Bless the Broken Road?

Amber Hill: She will live in faith and joy and sacrifice--As one who is deeply, deeply loved. Because she is. And always will be. Nothing can take God's love from her. 

11.  Could you give us an interesting fun fact about your experience on Suits, Prison Break, Rectify, or/and White Collar. 

I’ve mostly served the writers from these shows via email correspondence so there’s not too much exciting to reveal. They work with me when they have forensic related questions.
 
12.  What book have you read that has most influence in your life?

The Bible. I’ve been reading it over and over and over since I was a kid. It never gets old and it always guides me and surprises me.
 

13.  What do you currently do as a hobby?  

Hobby? Who has time!?! When I get a moment, I like to run, hike, yoga, read, bake, spend time with friends, and travel. I’m also addicted to the Weather Channel.  
 
14.   Could you give a sneak peek on your next projects?

I never have just one project going at a time… I’m also spinning many plates… here are a few of the dishes I’m working on…
 
1)I finished scribing a mystery/thriller novel called Hole in the Woods based on true crime story that I’ve followed for 25 years. We have several publishers waiting to see it. Fingers crossed!
 
2) I’ve just finished a TV pilot called Prey based on the real life experiences of a group of nuns who pose as prostitutes to save sex trafficked victims. Now we have to go pitch it and try to sell it!
 
3) And I’ve been pitching my novel, The Coroner, as a TV series. We have some solid interest so it will be interesting to see what unfolds in 2019 with that project. The second Coroner novel also releases in fall, 2019.

 
15.   (Fill in the blank question): The furthest I have traveled is in my imagination.

It travels a lot more than I do!
 
16.  Last questions, what is your favorite commercial? Any with dachshunds.
What commercial annoys you the most? Anything regarding pharmaceuticals. They all threaten severe illness or death. Truthfully, I fast forward commercials or watch streaming. I can’t stand them. I even flip the radio station when a commercial comes on.

My great appreciation for Ms. Jennifer Dochbush for this blog interview. If you want to know more about her and her projects, just visit her website:
https://www.jenniferdornbush.com/ If you want to read the novelization of God Bless the Broken Road just click the title itself. You can definitely get a copy of the film by clicking this link: Amazon.com.  Don't miss out on an inspirational and  noteworthy movie. Take care and thank you for vising my blog. I hope you come  again to read more posting. 
 

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Interview with Mr. John Passarella, author of Halloween (movie novelization)

10/19/2018

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The cheer from YouTube clip says:
      "We're from Haddonfield, couldn't be prouder, can't hear us now, we'll yell a little louder!"
Well, Mr. John Passarella, author of the novelization of Halloween, will take you back to Haddonfield to experience the reunion between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. You should unquestionably read--and watch--this event, forty years in the making. Before you do, I hope you check out this interview I did with Mr. John Passarella in order to know him as an author and his experience writing Halloween. 



1. What is the scariest book you’ve ever read?

​Probably The Exorcist, because of my age when I read it and the sense that I probably shouldn't be reading it, which came a while after I almost saw it in a drive-in at a definitely inappropriate age. The most disturbing books I've read are The Wasp Factory and The Girl Next Door.


2. How long did it take you to write the first draft of Halloween?

I wrote the entire first draft in less than two months, but more than 50,000 words of it in less than a month. I'm accustomed to short deadlines on my original tie-in novels. This was my first movie novelization and, if anything, the timeline was more contracted.


3. What is your writing process like for Halloween?

First thing I had to work with was the script, so I immediately read it to get my first impression of the story. Then I let my subconscious work on how I would approach that story in novel form. Since the timeline was tight, I had to begin writing before I had access to any visual assets, so I would send questions to my editor to relay to the studio. Later, I had access to tens of thousands of set photos to help with scene descriptions, character appearances, etc. While writing, I received revised pages. At various times I had to circle back and revise scenes to match set details and revisions.


4. How many hours a day do you write?

That varies quite a bit. But I'm more of a pages-per-day rather than an hours-per-day author. If I'm working on a tie-in type of deadline, I have a target word count divided by number of writing days left until that deadline. That becomes my daily word count. If I miss a day, I know I need to go over on other days to 'catch up' so to speak. For my own novels, when I'm not on a deadline, I tend to write four to five pages until later in the manuscript. In the last 100 pages of a manuscript, I have written 20 to 35 pages in a single day.


5. What were the challenges (literary, research, etc.) in writing Halloween?

 I knew right away that the new Halloween was a direct sequel to the 1978 original, ignoring all the other sequels and reboots, so that simplified what I needed to know of the Halloween "lore." Halloween is my wife's favorite movie and she watches it annually around the holiday, so I've seen it several times. I watched it again before diving into the novelization of the sequel. This was my first movie novelization, so I asked other writers I know who have done novelizations for tips and traps, etc. and received some good advice.


The script was approximately 110 pages and I needed to transform that into a 350 page manuscript. Having more 'room' to work with, I could get into characters' heads more, explore motivations, extend scenes and conversations, add some characters, etc. Screenplays are lean by design. I had an editor who once described a screenplay as the skeleton of the story. When you hear of a book becoming a movie, you know they will drop subplots, combine characters, trim and cut here and there. Readers tend to miss or bemoan what was lost. Writing the novelization, I tried to imagine the reverse, and fill in stuff that might have been in the story if the novel(ization) predated the screenplay. My goal was to enrich the experience for the novel reader.


As far as research, beyond studying the original film, I took cues from the screenplay. For example, a casual mention of cleaning a rifle in a screenplay is mainly a script direction. That becomes a bit more detailed in a novel to give it a feel of authenticity. On screen, you see the actor/character performing the action. In a novel, the writer needs to describe the process in order to paint the mental picture. 




6. What was your favorite book when you were a kid? Do you have a favorite book now?

I'm bad at picking favorites in any category. I read a bunch of Hardy Boys mysteries when I was young. In high school, I probably read two to three books a week, everything from westerns to science fiction, along mysteries, thrillers and fantasy novels. I remember weekly bookstore visits and the anticipation of waiting for the next Travis McGee book by John D. MacDonald, which are some of my all-time favorite books.


7. What was your experience working with another author on your first novel Wither? Would you co-author in the future?

My co-author was my friend before he became my co-author and we shared our stories of struggling to get published before we finally decided to work together and combine our various strengths and, we hoped, to learn how to become better writers. We met on several occasions to map out the story of WITHER. We each had our own characters and would write those character POV scenes, then read each other's work and blend our styles. Eventually, Columbia Pictures purchased the movie rights to WITHER and it went on to win the Horror Writer Association's Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, so the experiment was a success. Afterward, my co-author wanted to focus on screenplays, while I wanted to keep writing novels. But yes, I would work with another author in the future on a collaboration. I'm actually a bit surprised it hasn't happened already, but I've been off the convention circuit for several years and most novel authors tend to write in a state of solitary self-confinement.


8. Which one is more challenging for you: writing your own novel or tie-in novel?

The challenges differ. With an original tie-in novel (such as my Supernatural tie-ins), I need to come up with an outline a new story while remaining true to the characters and the show. With the movie novelization, I didn't need to come up with an original story, but I had to remain faithful to what fans will see on screen while simultaneously giving readers a satisfying book experience. And both of those come with short deadlines and layered review/approval systems. For my own novels, I need to create the characters and the story from scratch but without the pressure of a looming deadline. One problem with not having the deadline is that I'm more likely to procrastinate, run errands, perform household chores, instead of sitting at my desk and increasing my page count. With tie-ins, I don't have final say over the story or the characters, since the licensor must approve the work to move forward. With my own novels, I have ultimate control over those aspects. Of course, my editor may request or suggest changes, but I can hold the line on something if I feels strongly about it. But those suggested edits are often good advice.


9. Were you ever on set for the making of Halloween movie? If so, could you tell me what scene you were present at that is very memorable to you?

No, I was never on set. I'm not sure, but filming may have been over before I even started working on the novel, or nearly so. I know some reshoots happened while I was writing, but I was never there.


10. How did you get the opportunity to write media tie-ins novels such as Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel?

I emailed the BUFFY editor after an early review of WITHER compared it favorably to the Buffy TV show. I told her I was a big fan of the show and inquired about writing a tie-in. After that I got invited to write the two Angel novels. Years later, a Titan Books editor saw my website, that I had done supernatural suspense and tie-ins, and asked if I was a fan of the TV show Supernatural and if I would be interested in writing a tie-in for that show. That led to my other Supernatural tie-ins as well as the Grimm tie-in. Titan Books is the publisher for the Halloween novelization and I had a track record with Titan. So, in short, my initial query has led to all my tie-in opportunities.


11. Villains are hard to write especially one like Michael Myers. How did you get in touch with your inner villain to write this book?

"Villains" sounds too judgmental, so let's say antagonist. Someone or something working against the protagonist. You need to find the motivation of the antagonist and write him/her/it from that perspective, whether it's revenge, entitlement, territoriality, even bloodlust. So the goal is to make that motivation real for the antagonist. Michael Myers is kind of a special case, more of a mystery than most antagonists. What I felt most about him was an immediacy -- an immediacy of purpose, intent and action. So, naturally, his POV is unlike any other in the novel.


12. What was your favorite chapter (or part) to write in Halloween and why?

 I really enjoyed the whole experience. I'm always "in" whatever moment I'm writing about. But this is also a case of not giving away anything from the movie before its theatrical release. 


13. Do you ever get writer's block when writing Halloween? What do you do to get back on track?

Never writer's block. The story was right there in front of me. Overcoming general procrastination is the biggest issue for me, but when I have a tight deadline, there's no room for procrastination. There were times, especially before I had access to set photos, where I had a question about a detail I needed for the book that wasn't clear from the script. In those instances, I tried to wing it or write around it until I had an answer.


14. Silly-Game Question: From Halloween novel could you please leaf through the pages and point at a random place. What is the full sentence? And what is the page number of this random sentence?

Don't think I can do that before the movie's general release date due to the NDA I signed.


15. Do you have beta-readers to read the draft of your novels?

Not a regular group. We had readers for WITHER because it was an experiment, blending styles, etc. Nor for the tie-ins, since the licensor has final say. And it's been a while since I've finished an original novel of my own, though I'm working on one now.


16. In your experience, what would you say it takes to be a successful author?

Finishing your novel, if your goal is to write novels. I've met so many authors who have been working on their first novel for years and haven't finished yet. You have to learn how to power through the whole story and finish it. Especially important if you want to become a professional author, since you will have deadlines. Almost every author I've met is a voracious reader. I think you need to love books to create them. One of the best feelings for me, as an author, is holding the finished book in my hand for the first time. Books take months, even years of your life to produce, so you need that dedication, the knowledge that the final product validates all that work and time that went into it. What also helps is an ongoing sense of curiosity, because I'm always learning new things for my characters or scenes and generally absorbing information from multiple sources. Love of learning is a real asset for an author. And when you aren't writing or learning, listen and observe.


17. How did you break into publishing?


Through WITHER. After my co-author sold his first screenplay, his agent asked him if he had anything else he'd worked on, and he had WITHER on a closet shelf at home. WITHER's movie rights soon sold to Columbia Pictures which generated a high level of interest in NY. WITHER sold as a three-book contract, negotiated down to two since my co-author intended to stay in screenwriting. I wrote WITHER'S RAIN, the first sequel to WITHER, on my own, and continued to write novels from then on.


18. Last question, if you could choose a movie title for the story of your life, what would it be?

I'm bad at titles, which is why I try to keep them simple. Probably something like, The Storyteller's Story.


​Many thanks to Mr. John Passarella for doing this interview with me. If you want to know more about him and his other work just visit his website: www.passarella.com/. The novelization of Halloween will be available on October 23, 2018, but you can pre-order it at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, or Indie Bound by simply clicking those links. As always I appreciate you guys using your time to read my posts. I hope each and everyone of you are having a great, great day today. Take care:)
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