It’s not a fictional story but the character’s back story is similar to mine.” In order to ever get this story out I had to fictionalize it. “The first version of the first half of the book was non-fiction. How much broken people are thrown away rather than allowed to repair.” I wanted to tell the story of how the world does not allow for damaged people to find their way. It’s only after you are free that you can try to be a person.
You aren’t self determined when you are an object. Trying to become a person after spending years being an object. I didn’t want to tell the story of my abduction and abuse itself, stories like that have been told and retold, I wanted to tell the story that hasn’t been told before: The aftermath.
In your book, ‘Not Okay,’ an epic read, your protagonist Peter Wilson has been through it and then some, having been kidnapped, and trafficked. “Every single one is something very special,” he said. In November our first two children’s books are coming out and in the spring of 2021, four more titles will follow. We put ads out and calls for submissions and I started reading 750 manuscripts a month looking for the true gems,” he said.Ī year and a month after his first day at work Vinal’s first two books are due to be released. We didn’t only want to see work by established authors. Vinal signed wonderful books by Sparrow and Wang Ping in the first weeks. “I had met thousands of authors in my years on the road and was now assigned with the task of reaching out to the best of them and coming up with exceptional books for Vinal to publish. The Vinals Incorporated Vinal Publishing, paid to move my family and I to Buffalo, and on August 4, 2019, I sat behind my desk for the first time.” Ultimately, I was offered the top position. The Vinals took that very seriously and brought me out to Buffalo twice more to meet and discuss what sort of role I might be able to have at Vinal. You know what I could really use, I said, not expecting anything at all, is a good job. “I’ve been told it is too traumatizing to read. “ Not Okay has been considered and rejected so many times it’s not even funny,” he said. While I was in college two of my plays were put on by the school drama department, which lead to a third play being put on in the community,” he said. I’d always written and occasionally submitted but I didn’t take it very seriously until I was in college and had a professor take a special interest in my work.
“I started getting published when I was 13. Axel started writing when he was nine years old.
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