Emelia asked Michael A. Ferro:

What an interesting concept for a book. And we have to wait till Feb. 2018 to read it? ACK! I'm not good at waiting. ;) Where did you get the idea for Title 13? And why that title?

Michael A. Ferro Thanks for the question and kind words! Sorry about the wait—I hate waiting, too. If there's a Hell, it's gotta be some form of waiting in a long line.

I got the idea for TITLE 13 because I worked in the federal government for a short time and saw just how absurd some of it really is. I wrote the book during the boon times of the Obama administration, and LOVED everything he did, but I sensed something foul festering underneath the surface of our society. I don't consider myself prophetic, but I had a terrible feeling that Trump was going to win, especially after I'd finished writing TITLE 13. Now that it has happened and our country has taken a right turn off the cliff, many who have read the book have told me that it captures the world we now live in so well (which is, unfortunately, so kind of everyone to say). I wrote the novel as a satire, but I'm afraid that not much of it seems like satire anymore... I am hopeful that the book can help us identify these toxins poisoning our culture and get us back on a track away from paranoia, depression, and submission.

As for the title, within the novel, there is a government regulation known as TITLE 13. Some very secretive documents of TITLE 13 information go missing in the first chapter, setting off a chain reaction of absurdity and madness, so it seemed like a fitting title. Plus, TITLE 13 for a title just kind of felt right. I could very easily be wrong about this, though. Ha.

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