Ask the Author: Barry Bowe
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Barry Bowe
Sorry, but I must be blessed because I don't know what that is,
Barry Bowe
Keeping my mind fertile.
Barry Bowe
I don't like Stephen King. Just not a fan of that genre. I read "Carrie" when I was hospitalized following knee surgery. But I got tremendous advice from Stephen King via an interview I read somewhere. To paraphrase: the interviewer asked King how it felt to be an overnight success. King laughed. He said it took him seven years to become an overnight success. He said that if you weren't ready to face rejections for seven years, find something else to do. I took that advice to heart and began my seven-year program. And he was right. I got rejection after rejection for a good two years. But I never took any of the rejections personally. They were reminders that my writing was not yet good enough for publication. But I kept trying and learning. During my third year, I got job as a sports reporter with the local daily newspaper. And less than a year later, a national magazine bought a detective-fiction piece.
Barry Bowe
"21 Years" is an episodic crime saga. It's a fictionalized adaptation of my true-crime Born to Be Wild published by Warner Books in 1992. I used the opening scene in BTBW as my starting point and let my imagination run wild from that point on. I have enough material for 88 episodes - that's four TV seasons. Three episodes are published - Where's Beth? - Blue Wings - Matter of Life and Death. And a fourth, as yet untitled episode, is a few days away.
Barry Bowe
I wake up inspired - sometimes in the middle of the night because my mind's been working while I'm sleeping. Someone told me long ago that if I needed external stimulation to become "inspired" to write, then writing was a hobby and not a profession. Fortunately for myself, I grew up before computers and video games. We had to use our imagination to amuse ourselves.
Barry Bowe
Warner Books published my true-crime Born to Be Wild in 1992 and it did well. Last summer, a documentary filmmaker wanted my opinion on a cold case from years ago. Could bikers be responsible? I took one look at the specifics and knew that bikers were not responsible. She interviewed me in the Tinicum Marsh where some of the bodies were buried from BTBW. They're known as "The Marsh Murders" and remain unsolved decades later. A notion struck me. If I fictionalized BTBW, I could solve all the unsolved murders.
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