Ask the Author: Steve Pribish
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Steve Pribish
Simple Truth - David Baldacci
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
The Watch in the Sand - Nathan Thompson
Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy
The Watch in the Sand - Nathan Thompson
Steve Pribish
I don't need inspiration to write. I need inspiration to do other things, like work.
Steve Pribish
Pick a good sub-title. When I wrote my first novel, Ikons, I planned to use the title of an ikon as the sub-title. For my first book, I used Ikons: Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker. The idea being it was the ikon most Russian's carried with them on a sea voyage. Big mistake. It was presented as a religious book about the saint. I missed my targeted audience and upset those who thought they were getting a book about the saint. So I learned to have more descriptive titles for my next two.
Steve Pribish
Well, it seems to drive away boring people at parties.
Steve Pribish
Since I've been working on this for three decades, I guess I don't have have real good suggestions.
Steve Pribish
Don't write on a computer that has games.
Steve Pribish
My three books, Ikons, Banners and Slogans, are based loosely on the lives of my relatives who lived in Russia from 1905 to 1931. Through them I wished to put a face on the sweeping world events of that period. Couple their history with mine as an intelligence agent working the Soviet Union for 33 years, and the basis for a saga appeared. So far, my overnight wonders have taken me nearly thirty years to complete.
Steve Pribish
Currently I'm working on my third book called Slogans. It is the third in a series of books dealing with the Russian-American experience from 1905 to 1931. (IKons follows their lives from 1905 to 1914) and Banners from 1914 to 1918) Slogans takes place in the fourteen years following the 1917 Russian Revolution. It follows the lives of people from two diverse villages - Rockdale, Illinois and Hutawa, Belarus. I am finally wrapping up the novel with a nice red, white and blue bow as the people of the two villages become one.
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