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[Christopher]

Please feel free to ask any and all questions about my new novel Death Raise, the writing process and marketing ideas.

[Carla]

Who is your favorite character in "Death Raise" and why?

[Christopher]

This is a tough question as I have spent a great deal of time developing and discovering all of them. I would have to go with Shen, simply based on the fact that he is the only character in the novel that I based on a real person. Shen's real-life counterpart is a close friend of mine for years. His English is very hard to understand and often times makes no sense at all. One time he was asking me to have a look at the "Signal light" on his car but he says this as "Sig a rall light" so I in tern thought he was referring to the cigarette lighter in the car and it took quite some time and an almost Abbot & Costello type routine until we hashed it out. I tried to capture his dialogue as best as I could and hope he comes across as I intended.

[Carla]

I think you succeeded; Shen's dialogue is one of my favorite things about the book. I enjoyed "hearing" him speak, and a couple of things he said had me laughing out loud.