Sealed Up: Interview with Steve Dunn Hanson
I've lived in
places that grew me . . . from a small Idaho farm town, a run-down neighborhood in St. Louis, and a middle-class southern California community, to Sydney, Australia, and Bucharest, Romania. My experiences are as varied as the
places I've lived. I have a hopper full of "reality" including being
a volunteer jail chaplain and flying with a U.S. presidential candidate in his small plane
when an engine conked out. And all of this is fodder for my writing.
My latest book is
the action/adventure/suspense novel, Sealed
Up.
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About the Book:
UCLA anthropologist Nathan Hill, in a funk since his young
wife’s death, learns of staggering millennia-old chronicles sealed up somewhere
in a Mesoamerica cliff. This bombshell rocks him out of his gloom, and he
leads a clandestine expedition to uncover them. What are they? Who put them
Striking Audra Chang joins Nathan in his pursuit and brings
her own shocking secret. As they struggle through a literal jungle of puzzles
and dead ends, she finds herself falling in love with Nathan. Her secret,
though, may make that a non-starter.
When a shaman with a thirst for human sacrifice, and a
murderous Mexican drug lord with a mysterious connection to Brother Luke
emerge, the expedition appears doomed. Yet Nathan is convinced that fate—or
something—demands these inscrutable chronicles be unearthed.
And if they are . . . what shattering disruption will they
unleash?
Intricately layered and
remarkably researched, this enthralling suspense-driven and thought provoking
tour de force begs a startling question: Could it happen?
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Q: Welcome to The Writer's
Life! Now that your book has been
published, we’d love to find out more about the process. Can we begin by having you take us at the
beginning? Where did you come up with
the idea to write your book?
The actual idea for my novel, Sealed Up, came to me some seven or
eight years ago, and it has been five years in the writing. Much of this time
was spent in research. I wanted every aspect of it to be completely authentic. Where
did I come up with the idea? Actually, to say anything about that would be to
give away too much of the plot and the conclusion. I will say, it has the
potential to be controversial in the vein of The DaVinci Code.
Q: How hard was it to write a
book like this and do you have any tips that you could pass on which would make
the journey easier for other writers?
I’m not sure I could say anything
that would make the journey easier for anyone. A willingness to work hard, be
disciplined, and patient with yourself are all keys. Oh yes, and constantly
seek objective input and read, read, read!
Q: Who is your publisher and how
did you find them or did you self-publish?
Sealed Up, is self-published. I probably would have gone
traditional if I could have found an agent that fit. As it turns out, I went
the right way. I’ve learned a ton in the process, and my book is doing very
well. The downside is the time it is taking to do everything myself. That’s
slowed the writing of my next book in the series, but that’s okay.
Q: Is there anything that
surprised you about getting your first book published?
I guess my big surprise was
seeing it place in the top 100 Amazon Kindle books sold just two months after
it was released and also designated an Amazon Best Seller. As optimistic as I
tried to be, that was a shock!
Q: What other books (if any) are
you working on and when will they be published?
Sealed Up is the first of three books in The Course of Fate series. I am looking to publish the second book,
The Council, by the end of 2017,
beginning of 2018.
Q: What’s one fact about your
book that would surprise people?
I don’t believe anyone has
written a novel about this topic before. Certainly not with its startling
conclusion.
Q: Finally, what message (if any)
are you trying to get across with your book?
One way or another and at some future
time, I believe that what I have portrayed fictionally, will, in fact, happen.
Prescient? I guess we'll see.
Q: Thank you again for this
interview! Do you have any final words?
Thank you for interviewing! Enjoy
the book.
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