Meet Sam Yarney Author of Ninety Days, Air Rage and his most recent thriller, The Banjo Player
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By Norm Goldman
Published on October 5, 2010
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Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Sam Yarney author of Ninety Days, Air Rage and his most recent thriller, The Banjo Player.
Good day Sam and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm:
How did you get started in writing? What keeps you going?
Sam:
One day, in my mid-teens, I suddenly woke up and announced to my family and friends that I was going to write a book. Everyone laughed! Ha! Now I look back and smile, because it was no ordinary book I decided to write. It was a cold war thriller called ANGER NUMBER 132. I was 16 years old and I nearly started a hot war between NATO and the WARSAW PACT, because the space shuttle had been nearly sabotaged by a laser beam from a Russian trawler called the Georgi Makayev. That manuscript never got published, but I did finish it. From that time on, eons ago, till now I’ve never been short of plots.
Norm:
Where do you get your information or ideas for your books? As a follow up, how much research did you put into the writing of The Banjo Player?
Sam:
I’m a news and current affairs junkie – a near-total ‘devotee’ of the 24 hour news cycle. I’ll latch onto one story and check three or four different news outlets to see their angle on the same story. I’m fascinated by the entire 20th Century and how it has crafted the new century we live in. Pertaining to research for The Banjo Player, I dug deep. It was a massive effort. I did so much fact-checking on a particular American outfit, that shall remain nameless, that I believe they decided to fact-check me. Ha! I hope all that deep research paid off.
Norm:
In fiction as well as in non-fiction, writers very often take liberties with their material to tell a good story or make a point. But how much is too much?
Sam:
That is a tricky question to answer. My unwritten rule of thumb is to stretch the elastic pretty tight, provided there’s enough fact in there to keep it from snapping. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. I believe the reader will travel along if he or she is kept informed with regular bits and pieces of fact through the journey. With The Banjo Player in particular, there was a big geopolitical edge to the whole story. As geopolitics is an amorphous blend of several multifaceted strands, I had to be pulling on several pieces of elastic at the same time. You asked the question in code, so I’ve answered in code. Ha!
Norm:
Are the characters in your book based on people you know or have encountered or are they strictly fictional?
Sam:
Quite a number of the characters in The Banjo Player are real people, a few are aggregations of real and fictional people and some are purely fictional.
Norm:
What was your main focus when you created your protagonist Zac Pullman in The Banjo Player?
Sam:
I think there’s a bit of Zac Pullman in all of us - an innate desire to kick against the system, but most of us never really do. We conform. Zac uses the system, fights against it and rides on its back all at once. You have to be special to do that.
Norm:
What obstacles did you have in trying to tell your story in The Banjo Player?
Sam:
The Banjo Player is just not one story. It is several stories rolled into one. My main challenge was to be able to credibly weave all of these stories into one piece of cloth. That was a major challenge. Several times I had to undo the fabric and re-weave again. I hope the final product was worth it.
Norm:
Other than pure entertainment, is there some message in The Banjo Player that you want your readers to grasp?
Sam:
The events and sub events in The Banjo Player could actually happen. I stay neutral as to whether that’s a good or bad thing. Pertaining to Zac Pullman in particular, I think we can learn a few things from him.
Norm:
Where can our readers find out more about you and your books?
Sam:
By going on my website www.samyarney.com
Norm:
Is there anything else you wish to add that we have not covered?
Sam:
Nyet!
Norm
Thanks once again and good luck with all of your future endeavors
CLICK HERE TO READ NORM'S REVIEW OF THE BANJO PLAYER
Click Here To Purchase The Banjo Player
Norm Goldman, Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com interviews Sam Yarney author of Ninety Days, Air Rage
and his most recent thriller, The Banjo Player.
Click Here To Purchase The Banjo Player
Today, Norm Goldman Publisher & Editor of Bookpleasures.com is pleased to have as our guest Sam Yarney author of Ninety Days, Air Rage and his most recent thriller, The Banjo Player.
Good day Sam and thanks for participating in our interview.
Norm:
How did you get started in writing? What keeps you going?
Sam:
One day, in my mid-teens, I suddenly woke up and announced to my family and friends that I was going to write a book. Everyone laughed! Ha! Now I look back and smile, because it was no ordinary book I decided to write. It was a cold war thriller called ANGER NUMBER 132. I was 16 years old and I nearly started a hot war between NATO and the WARSAW PACT, because the space shuttle had been nearly sabotaged by a laser beam from a Russian trawler called the Georgi Makayev. That manuscript never got published, but I did finish it. From that time on, eons ago, till now I’ve never been short of plots.
Norm:
Where do you get your information or ideas for your books? As a follow up, how much research did you put into the writing of The Banjo Player?
Sam:
I’m a news and current affairs junkie – a near-total ‘devotee’ of the 24 hour news cycle. I’ll latch onto one story and check three or four different news outlets to see their angle on the same story. I’m fascinated by the entire 20th Century and how it has crafted the new century we live in. Pertaining to research for The Banjo Player, I dug deep. It was a massive effort. I did so much fact-checking on a particular American outfit, that shall remain nameless, that I believe they decided to fact-check me. Ha! I hope all that deep research paid off.
Norm:
In fiction as well as in non-fiction, writers very often take liberties with their material to tell a good story or make a point. But how much is too much?
Sam:
That is a tricky question to answer. My unwritten rule of thumb is to stretch the elastic pretty tight, provided there’s enough fact in there to keep it from snapping. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction. I believe the reader will travel along if he or she is kept informed with regular bits and pieces of fact through the journey. With The Banjo Player in particular, there was a big geopolitical edge to the whole story. As geopolitics is an amorphous blend of several multifaceted strands, I had to be pulling on several pieces of elastic at the same time. You asked the question in code, so I’ve answered in code. Ha!
Norm:
Are the characters in your book based on people you know or have encountered or are they strictly fictional?
Sam:
Quite a number of the characters in The Banjo Player are real people, a few are aggregations of real and fictional people and some are purely fictional.
Norm:
What was your main focus when you created your protagonist Zac Pullman in The Banjo Player?
Sam:
I think there’s a bit of Zac Pullman in all of us - an innate desire to kick against the system, but most of us never really do. We conform. Zac uses the system, fights against it and rides on its back all at once. You have to be special to do that.
Norm:
What obstacles did you have in trying to tell your story in The Banjo Player?
Sam:
The Banjo Player is just not one story. It is several stories rolled into one. My main challenge was to be able to credibly weave all of these stories into one piece of cloth. That was a major challenge. Several times I had to undo the fabric and re-weave again. I hope the final product was worth it.
Norm:
Other than pure entertainment, is there some message in The Banjo Player that you want your readers to grasp?
Sam:
The events and sub events in The Banjo Player could actually happen. I stay neutral as to whether that’s a good or bad thing. Pertaining to Zac Pullman in particular, I think we can learn a few things from him.
Norm:
Where can our readers find out more about you and your books?
Sam:
By going on my website www.samyarney.com
Norm:
Is there anything else you wish to add that we have not covered?
Sam:
Nyet!
Norm
Thanks once again and good luck with all of your future endeavors
CLICK HERE TO READ NORM'S REVIEW OF THE BANJO PLAYER
Click Here To Purchase The Banjo Player