Hello everyone, it’s time to take an author interview and today Author Tal Klein is with us.
Ans. => I think
pretty much as soon as I was able to write. My parents tell me I preferred
writing stories to watching TV. I was a strange kid.
- How
long does it take you to write this book?
Ans. =>I had
mulled and researched the topic for about four years before I “put pen to
paper,” but once I actually began writing it took almost exactly one year from
start to finish.
- What
is your work schedule like when you're writing?
Ans. => It’s
very chaotic and opportunistic. I have a full time job and a young family, so
every single word is written on stolen time. Late nights, early mornings,
airplanes, hotels – Whenever I could sneak a second, it went to writing.
- What brought you to
write this book?
Ans. =>There
were a couple of catalysts for writing this book. First, about five or six
years ago, I had one of those non-sequitur water cooler chats with the CEO of
the company I was working for at the time. We discussed teleportation and he
explained that teleportation was actually an asynchronous replication
technology, not a transportation technology. That blew my mind. Then, a few
years later, my daughter Iris became a published author when she turned five.
She wrote a kids’ book called “I’m A Bunch Of Dinosaurs.” One day she asked me,
“Daddy, when are you going to write your book?”
- How
you become a published author? Any inspiration?
Ans. =>I’m not
published yet! But hopefully with the support of your readers, The Punch Escrow
will see the light of day. Like many first time authors I struggled with the
best publishing path for my book. I have friends who are publishers and
published authors, and everyone seemed to have their own spin on things. I had
recently supported a friend’s successful Inkshares campaign, and the process
seemed incredibly positive. I was approached by a publisher, but the terms they
were offering were not that great, and they were not willing to compromise on
things like creative control and editor selection. I’ve been very happy with Inkshares.
It’s a great platform and a very supportive community of authors.
- Where
do you get your information or ideas for your books?
Ans. =>I’m very
fortunate in that I have some very smart friends in the fields of physics,
biology, politics, law, religion, and philosophy. Since you asked about
science, I’ll give you an example: I have a friend who’s a physicist. In the
book, humanity solves for air pollution by genetically modifying mosquitoes
into steam reformers (devices that convert one toxic fumes to air). So I needed
to know how to turn a mosquito into a flying steam reformer. I called my friend
and he explained that it’s possible, but would require a wake transducer that
would reclaim the kinetic energy generated by the mosquito’s wings. Then it was
up to me to take that information and make it readable and enjoyable to someone
who wasn’t a professional physicist.
- When
did you write your first book and how old were you?
Ans. =>The Punch
Escrow is actually my second manuscript. I nearly published my first at the age
of 22. It was a collection of satirical essays titled “Confessions of Ron
Jeremy’s Hypothetical Love Child.” I had a book deal with a well known
publishing house but they wanted me to convert the book from a collection of
essays into a first person narrative and it didn’t work out. Fast forward a
decade and change, I read Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One and Andy Weir’s The
Martian back to back and thought to myself, this is my voice, these are the
type of guys I would hang out with, and their books are best sellers, so maybe
the world is ready for my voice. Also, my young author daughter, who I
mentioned before, kept prodding me to publish something because in her mind it
was “my turn.”
- What
do you like to do when you're not writing?
Ans. =>I love
hanging out with my family and composing music.
- How
many books have you written? Which is your favourite?
Ans. =>Technically
I’ve written two books, but I’ve abandoned the first, which would make The
Punch Escrow my favorite.
- What's
next for you? What are you
working on now?
Ans. =>Right now I’m just trying
to get The Punch Escrow published. The book is intended to be self-contained.
There are like three “big questions” at the end of the book, each of them would
be great nuclei for a book, but I’m not counting my chickens before they hatch.
Book Link -> https://www.inkshares.com/books/the-punch-escrow
Book Trailer => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0lRxh-eTcI
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