You actually have several books you wrote, what is your favorite genre to write about?
My favorite is biography, specifically close, personal looks into the humanity and personal lives of people who’ve entertained so many over the years. People who make-believe in their professional world … how do they go about living in their personal world? There are SO many stories—think of each individual who’s ever lived as a story. If someone doesn’t record those lives, important pieces of our world’s communal history is lost. My favorite quote is, “History is the essence of innumerable biographies.” We can’t make up the details of the lives that have already been lived, so I prefer to discover what makes real people tick, and tell their stories.
What was the first book you wrote?
The Unpromised Land is a biography, though not entertainment-related. This istells of their fight for a right which has been extended over the years to every other faction claiming to be Jewish, every faction but the Messianic Jews.
is the story of a Messianic Jewish couple, Gary and Shirley Beresford, who wanted to immigrate to Israel from their native South Africa based on Israel’s “Law of Return.” That law invites Jews of all nationalities to live in Israel, make it their homeland … a la “returning to the Promised Land.” However, because the Beresfords are Messianic—believing in Christ as the Son of God—benefits of this Israeli law were not extended to them. Powers That Be in Israel claimed a Jew who believed in Jesus was not really a Jew and therefore, the law didn’t apply. The story tells of their fight for a right which has been extended over the years to every other faction claiming to be Jewish, every faction but the Messianic Jews.
You were on Oprah show once, what was that like?
Rather surreal, actually. I’d written a letter about emotional child abuse—a topic I know about—indicating that in a show they’d done on child abuse, they left out the crucial