Fictional novelist shared his journey as an author

Fairmount resident and author, Adam Alexander shared his journey as an author and avid fiction writer.

“I’ve wanted to write fiction since I left high school. My favourite book when I was at school was The Bourne Identity. I was spellbound in the author’s world, and I wanted to capture people’s imaginations the way he did,” he expressed.

Alexander said he didn’t have a computer or a typewriter back then and was always going to write when he got a computer. “My now ex-wife read one of the stories I started writing in my twenties and told me I couldn’t write a book because books needed to be researched and what did I know about the subject I was writing about anyway?

“I made the mistake of listening to her and I forgot my desire to be a writer for many years. Life happened. Years went by. I got divorced, and remarried many years later.”

He explained that one morning he woke up and remembered the last bits of his dream. “I told my wife about the dream and that it would make a great story or at least, the opening scene of a story. She said she wanted to read the story that was in my head, so I wrote the first chapter for her.

“From then on she kept on asking for the rest of the book and I finally got to write my first book, Lost Soul – Immortality in 2013. Since then, I’ve pretty much written a book every year.”

Alexander explained that due to the motivation he received from his wife, he became an author. “If she hadn’t encouraged me to write that first book, I would still be one of those people saying, ‘I’m going to write a book someday’.”

When asked why he decided to write fiction, Alexander elaborated on the dream he had which inspired his first book. “In my dream there was this girl in a forest in the middle of the night, burying something, like she was hiding it from someone. I remembered the scene when I woke up and I made it the premise of the story– the girl was burying her soul because she couldn’t let it fall into the wrong hands.

“How can that be anything but fiction? After that, I had this other idea in my head, a universal theme that ‘no good deed goes unpunished’.”

Alexander stated that he used that as the theme for his story, Porter’s Rule: Slave to the City – a story about a cop who tries to save a woman from her abusive ex-boyfriend and in the process gets caught up in a web of deception that changes him from cop to fugitive. “It’s easier to illustrate themes like that in stories rather than spell them out in a work of non-fiction.”

Alexander is set to release his next novel, Lips of an Angel, and shared what people can expect. “Lips of an Angel is the first romance novel I’ve written, and this was a stretch for me, having written mainly action thrillers until this book. Lips of an Angel will reach into your soul. It’s going to make you cry, and laugh, and bite your nails, and cry again.

“For the first time, I think I’ve produced a book that sucker punches you in the emotional gut and challenges a lot of what you think is important in life. It’s a romance with a supernatural theme that will take you on an emotional rollercoaster journey.”

Alexander said Lips of an Angel will be released in April, just in time to give readers something to curl up with during the holidays.

“If you’ve read the book, you’ll know why I say it should be launched in a hospital, but I don’t think that’s a very good idea,” he concluded, adding that he will probably have the launch at Skoobs in Montecasino as they support South African authors.

Details: Adam Alexander www.adam-alexander-author.com; www.amazon.com

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