Hypocrites In His Midst: A Story About
Flawed Human Beings
1. What inspired you to write your book? I always loved to read - and while reading
many of the historic great books and authors of our times, I studied their
writing styles. By the time I was a
teenager, I knew I wanted to write - but that process did not start until I was
in my mid-to-late twenties. I knew I wanted
to write about my interesting and crazy life.
The neighborhood I was raised in actually was called The Melting
Pot. It was filled with a lot of very
diverse people, some of whom were very good, solid citizens, but many others
who were extremely bad, usually social misfits and lawbreakers. And I was one of them.
2. What is it about? Hypocrites
In His Midst: A Story About Flawed Human Beings is a fictionalized memoir
about my life and describes my personal journey of overcoming a great deal of
personal adversity. Many of these
adversities were self-inflicted by the mistakes I made as a rebellious teenager
and young adult. The book probes my
life events and how I gradually came to understand why I carried out so many
negative and self-destructive behaviors until much later in life.
The themes of hypocrisy, ethics,
success, and personal maturation reflect the more individual natures of the
characters, certainly giving us something to think about... what captures us
most is that they are quite different from the “normal” ...likeable, but not
exactly “good” people. These are people from the ‘wild’ side of life.”
Kirkus Reviews said
about Hypocrites In His Midst: “Wilson’s memoir chronicles the life and
times of an ordinary man… A substantial life-and-times novel.” - Kirkus Reviews
3.
What do you hope will be the
everlasting thoughts for readers who finish your book? First of all, that it was a good read and that
they enjoy themselves while reading about my antics. But my real intention and hope is that my
readers will learn, and realize, that no matter where you are in life, you can
turn yourself and your life around, by taking as many negatives as possible and
turning each into a positive to advance your life into a set of better
circumstances. And it is also my hope
that my readers will realize that it’s possible to laugh at your own mistakes -
but also take seriously the personal steps needed to make your everyday
existence a positive, life-affirming one.
One last thought, but likely the most important, is to appreciate the
influence of the positive people in your life and show your gratitude - and
love - as soon as you can.
4.
What advice do you have for
writers? If you want to write, do it!
And never give up your dream of writing.
Think about what you want to write about but first, study your own life
and the lives of those around you.
Constantly watch others and figure out why people are the way they are
and why they behave as they do. After
that, write about what you know from personal experience - OR, write about a
subject that interests you greatly, but be sure from the get-go that you are
willing to do the research (sometimes extensive) on that subject to write an
interesting and believable story. Once
you are firm on your idea, start your project by writing an initial outline of
your book. You can - and will - change
it many times, but you need to start by putting all the basics of your story
down in print, in order to have a solid starting point as a reference. New ideas for what I want to write about next
are always swirling around in my head, waiting for me to put them into
writing. For me, the process of writing
about the human condition is a constant one which sometimes makes for very few
hours of sleep!
5.
Where do you think the book publishing
industry is heading? I think brick-and-mortar bookstores will always be
with us. I do think that bookstores
would benefit themselves - and writers - if they hired staff to exclusively
read and review the products of independent authors and choose those authors
and works that they want to promote in their stores. People like me love to hold a hard-copy book
in their hands and read it. I hope the
day never comes, at least not in my lifetime, that I would not be able to go to
my local bookstore and leisurely spend as much time as I wanted to browse and
peruse titles new and old. I think the
day is coming when eBooks will become even more mainstream than they are now
and that they will always be around for people who want to read but prefer the
downloadable convenience and lower cost of an eBook.
6.
What challenges did you have in
writing your book? I was a poor
student in school. Not because I wasn’t
smart enough, but because I was so wild when I was younger. I believe that part of this was due to my
Attention Deficit Disorder which I really did suffer from, but about which I
and my parents were not even aware, because it had not even been developed as
an actual diagnosis yet in those days.
And so I had to go to writers’ workshops and take evening classes. It would have been a whole lot easier if I
had stayed in school - yet another mistake from earlier in my life that I had
to overcome.
7. If people can only buy one book this month, why should it be yours?
Simply this: It’s not boring! It will be a “walk on the wild” side for many
readers - and it’s extremely colorful and very interesting. I utilize a lot of dialogue, making the book
move quickly. I have been told by a good
number of my readers that it is a page-turner, and they’ve also told me that
they didn’t want to put the book down because they wanted to keep reading to
see what happened in the next chapter.
These readers have told me they think Hypocrites In His Midst would make a good action movie. I just need someone who is in the right
position to read my book and work with me to give Hypocrites the recognition it deserves. I have the ability to promote myself well,
given the right venue.
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