An Interview With P. J. Lazos

I first met P.J. (Pam) Lazos way back in the 20th century before the days of blogs and cell phones. She and my wife Krista (who wasn���t yet my wife) had just graduated from Temple Law School and decided to celebrate with a group adventure to Europe. As Krista now says, I tagged along like gum on their shoe.

These days P. J. Lazos is an environmental lawyer and the author of the eco thriller, "Oil and Water", about oil spills and green technology, and of a collection of novellas, "Six Sisters", about family, dysfunction and the ties that bind us; creator of the literary and eco blog www.greenlifebluewater.wordpress.com; a blogger for the Global Water Alliance (GWA) in Philadelphia; on the Board of Advisors for the wH2O Journal, the Journal of Gender and Water (University of Pennsylvania); a former correspondent for her local newspaper (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal); an editor and ghostwriter; the author of a children's book ("Into the Land of the Loud"); and, because it's cool, a beekeeper's apprentice. She practices laughter daily.

About Oil & Water: When inventor Martin Tirabi builds a machine that converts trash into oil it sends shockwaves through the corporate halls of the oil cognoscenti. Weeks later, Marty and his wife, Ruth are killed in a mysterious car accident. Their son, Gil, a 10-year old physics prodigy is the only one capable of finishing the machine that could solve the world���s energy problems. Plagued with epilepsy from birth, Gil is also psychic, and through dreams and the occasional missive from his dead father he gets the push he needs to finish the job.