Mr. Cartwright and the Final Solution

by Greta C. Wink

Across cultures and religions, there's only one person that everyone hails as a hero -- Emelius Cartwright. Mr. Cartwright has the power to reach across gender, race, and age, to transcend experience and touch hearts and minds. Unfortunately, Mr. Cartwright is a fictional character, as effective a tool for world peace as a jar of pickles.

But Mr. Cartwright's creator is very real, and has a very real plan for world peace...to hire tens of thousands of people to proselytize on the street and convince strangers to abandon their selfish ways in pursuit of peace. But will the human need for peace trump the human lust for war?

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First published May 27, 2015

About the author

Greta C. Wink spent most of her childhood in Machias, Maine, where a lack of extracurricular options resulted in a lot of time spent entertaining herself with dolls, books, and the stories she began to write down. For several years she was editor-in-chief of THE FRENCH FRY NEWS, the Wink household periodical, in which she first began to tackle topics like dictatorship and revolution.

After graduating from Messiah College in 2005 with a degree in Communication,she moved to New York City to pursue a career in filmmaking, where she was a briefly a producer before she realized that she didn't want to work in filmmaking. But she did want to keep writing.

Wink evaluates scripts for the Nantucket Film Festival, New York Midnight, and IFP. She is also the writer/director/producer of TIGHTS: The Radio Show. She lives in Seoul, South Korea.

Reviews

[Katie Bokan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved. The main character was an odd duck, the premise was really fresh and interesting, and I really enjoyed how the book unfolded.

[Lee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mr. Cartwright is an impeccably logical character with idealistic tendencies. I thoroughly enjoyed the play between these two fields of thought, as well as the distinctions between fictional characters, real people, and the stories told of the successful and famous, and how the plot, too, pulled strings from each of these to weave together a darkly humorous story. While the end may seem inevitable to some, it was told in such a way that, while I was expecting the direction, I was still surprised by the details and the exact turns it took to get there. Mr. Cartwright is a quick, engrossing read, and I'm happy to say my graphing calculator is tucked away in some forgotten box and lies unused for several years now, and after this book, so it shall remain.

[Greta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again, I wrote this book, so I'm not exactly unbiased. But as its writer, I am extremely happy with how it turned out. I got some incredible feedback after the first draft that made it 1000% better than what I first imagined.