One becomes three. A screenwriter becomes a novelist. (Guest Post by Anthony Peckha
After decades as a Hollywood screenwriter, COVID (and my mid-life crisis #7) turned me into a middle grade/YA fantasy novelist. The final book of my Children of the Black Glass trilogy lands July 28. Why middle grade/YA? Because I have a 15 year old son, and I write for him and his friends. I’ve been the invisible parent driver, listening to them talk and think (or not think) on the way to school, or basketball, or the beach, or movies. Okay, that’s only partially true. Also, because I love the storytelling in YA. And I love fantasy of all kinds and for all ages. Ender’s Game, Hatchet, Lord the of Rings, The Other Side of the Mountain, The Fifth Season, A Story Like the Wind - yummy! I actually read most of them as an adult. But also I wanted to write about our reality from outside our reality. My books are dark, twisty thrillers about a brother and sister who risk their lives to save their father … then their remote village … then t...
