TopShelf Magazine April 2018 | Page 23

interviews Your very first book, 9/11: Official Complicity, was targeted towards adults and then you began writing children’s stories. What is it about children’s adventures that you enjoy more? After writing and self-publishing 9/11: Official Complicity, I was hooked. I would like to proudly add, that the book has been endorsed by Dr. David Ray Griffin. DRG is www.TopShelfMagazine.net Tell us about your Holly KissKiss series, what age they are targeted towards and what they teach young readers. The Holly KissKiss series has been written to help young children with learning difficulties and on the spectrum. Also for children of all ages, not on the spectrum, making them aware what it is like to have autism. I have been told by a number of children and parents that I write in pictures, which is gratifying because when I do write the stories, I always imagine the story flashing like a movie in front of me. You wrote The Key to Survival, a vividly descriptive historical fiction about the Titanic, targeted towards middle-school age children and up. Can you tell us more about the novel and what prompted you to write it? Good question. I wanted to combine historical fact with an edge-of- the-seat fiction children’s novel. The idea about the background to the story and the main character––Jake Hollywood came to me one morning. I do have a vivid imagination. I won’t give anything away, but there are a number of clues throughout the story, which will be made clearer once the series comes to an end. I am fortunate, liv