I started writing because the world sometimes made no sense, and I wanted it to make sense. I didn’t understand why people said one thing and did another, or how history consistently injured those who were trapped inside it. I wanted to unravel that. I wasn’t sure at the time whether I wanted to write […]
A new thriller from the critically acclaimed novelist Warren Adler, well known for his iconic novel turned box office hit, The War of the Roses, and many more notable titles including Random Hearts, Target Churchill and Mother Nile… Milton Gold is a fringe operating “hustling lawyer,” barely making it in the cutthroat chaos of 1970s […]
Apparently an interviewer once asked Flannery O’Connor why she wrote, and she said, “Because I am good at it.” Embarrassingly enough, I first started writing, or started to think of myself as someone who wanted to write, simply because I was praised by my teachers for writing. And I really liked to read. And writing […]
I began writing out of a deep, almost mystical bafflement. I did not understand what story was. I swooned over the implicit confidence of directly narrated causation. The idea that an author had figured out that a character did x because of y which occurred because of z was entirely beyond me. I lived in a buzzing hive of multiple possible […]
I started writing as a young child. I remember reading the Box Car Children and later The Outsiders and those stories got me writing. As a kid, I was always making up stories, wanting to fix the bad things I saw, the problems. I think you can be born with a voice for words like […]
June is audiobook month and we are celebrating all month! Many talented voice actors have narrated Warren Adler’s repetoire of 50+ works of fiction, including Shawn Saavedra who narrated Torture Man, a psychological and political thriller. Tell us a bit about your background. What inspired you to become an audiobook narrator? My first love is acting, […]
June is audiobook month and we’re celebrating all month long! We wanted to shine the spotlight on the very talented Will Tulin who narrated both Natural Enemies and Banquet Before Dawn. What do you look for in a project? Is there a particular genre you gravitate towards? What initially drew you to Natural Enemies? When […]
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