Interview with Brian Kaufman, Author of A Shadow Melody

What’s the story behind the story? What impressed you to put in writing A Shadow Melody?

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights was an affect, as was some pastoral poetry I’d been studying. But the story originated from childhood occasions. My father was a NASA scientist. Among different initiatives, he studied electromagnetic subject principle, experimenting with odd Styrofoam shapes wrapped in copper wire. I helped wrap the shapes, feeding out wire whereas he common tight, excellent rows. That caught in my reminiscence.

If you needed to decide theme songs for the principle characters of A Shadow Melody, what would they be?

My novel takes place in 1920, and the music from that period has an excessive amount of bounce. Maybe Kansas’s “Portrait (He Knew),” if I had to decide on a contemporary music.

What’s your favourite style to learn? Is it the identical as your favourite style to put in writing?

I learn quite a bit of totally different genres, and that’s mirrored in my writing. No use sitting nonetheless. I feel you’ll be able to study quite a bit by studying outdoors of your ordinary genres.

What books are in your TBR pile proper now?

John Gardner’s “Mickelsson’s Ghosts”/Phillip Fracassi’s “Behold the Void”/Robert Crais’s “Racing the Light”/Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”

What scene in your ebook was your favourite to put in writing?

The proposal. I actually preferred seeing my protagonists blissful.

Do you’ve any quirky writing habits? (fortunate mugs, cats on laps, and many others.)

My writing habits are work-oriented. Nothing uncommon. The quirk is within the pages.

Do you’ve a motto, quote, or philosophy you reside by?

Philosophically, I’m caught halfway between existentialism and nihilism. I might in all probability make a stable noir character.

If you may select one factor for readers to recollect after studying your ebook, what would it not be?

The units attributed to Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla within the ebook had been actual. Oddly, you’ll be able to order digital components on-line to construct Tesla’s gadget, and I did so.