I’d like to introduce you to the next
featured suspense author, Steven Nedelton. It was Mark Twain who lured him into
reading, but it was the challenge of his friends that started him writing.
Steven was introduced to reading Tom Sawyer
and Huck Finn by one of his aunts, otherwise known as a Twain fanatic.
Initially, there was a fairly weak bond between him and anything bookish at
best - partly because his Aunt was not his favorite one and, most probably,
because of his loathing for anything ‘grammatical’. It wasn’t until he was around thirteen and his
friends were starting to write that it became a matter of personal pride, so he
joined in. These few facts nailed ‘the old lid to his coffin’—Steven became
addicted to books and writing.
He started his first serious writing with the
Crossroads novel, while employed in Arizona. There was a thought-provoking
article in a major newspaper about the use of psychics in international
espionage and Steven saw his first green light. Nowadays, he writes novels with
crime, mystery, paranormal and noir. His published titles are, Crossroads, The
Raven Affair, Fear!, and Coma Sins/The Madness of Ben Bluman co-authored with Joe Parente. Three of these novels were evaluated by the
Midwest Book Review, The U.S. Review of Books and Apex Reviews and were rated
'Five Stars.’. His current book, Tunnel/The Lost Diary is available now.
The Tunnel/The
Lost Diary Synopsis
It all began in an abandoned coal mine tunnel
at the end of World War II... Bendiks (Ben) Kalninsh, a teenage boy, spends his
summer afternoons spying on soldiers who gather at the old coal mine tunnel
entrance. His persistence is finally
rewarded one afternoon when he sees an officer and two soldiers carry two
suitcases into the tunnel. When the
three men depart, he enters the cold and musty darkness hoping to find stolen guns
the soldiers left in there. But– he is not alone in the tunnel. What happens
next will change the life of his family – though not yet and not in the country
of his birth.
Many years later, two older men are viciously
murdered in the small community of Forks, Minnesota. The boy, now a man and an
up and coming sports star, discovers his life is at risk and his father one of
the murder victims. What was in those suitcases that would suddenly put so many
lives at risk? And then, all of a sudden, those investigating these incidents
are told to cease their activities, even threatened and blackmailed with lies.
Or, they simply disappear. Is one of
Hoover's top men in the FBI involved? War, stolen gold, a secret diary, murder!
Did it really happen?
The Start of
Tunnel/The Lost Diary
Tunnel/The Lost Diary is a fiction novel. Steven
wanted to write suspense with a lot of action and espionage. He used a friend’s
recollections and the various characters were mostly composites of individuals he
had met in his life or read about. He assumes the idea about starting the novel
with a young boy came from Tom Sawyer.
The main theme in the book evolved as he wrote the novel.
Why
Self-Publish?
It took him a while to get published with his
first book, Crossroads. He got in
with Publish America, and a year later, Steven was able to get the same book republished
by Asylett Press, Inc. When Asylett Press went out of business, he decided to
go on his own. It was then that the self-publishing became doable in e-books
and in print.
When did you
get the writing bug?
Steven started writing fairly early—in his high
school days. It was mostly short stories. The serious desire to write a novel came
much later, sometime in 2000. A lot of it had to do with his work. Being an
engineer, Steven didn’t have the time to write.
Links for purchasing Tunnel/The Lost Diary:
http://amzn.to/QOC3pd (Paperback
and Kindle)
Author Website:
Tunnel/The Lost Diary Book Trailer:
I want to thank Steven Nedelton for taking
the time to share his story with us and participating in Pay It Forward. Much
luck and success with your book and writing. Please spread the word about
Steven Nedelton – http://bit.ly/UqWJEc.
Mark Twain and Writing,
Bea
