Title: The Traveler’s Wake
Author: J.P. Moynahan
Genre:
literary fiction, crime-thriller
Publisher:
Curiosity Quills Press
Date
of Release: July 31, 2014
Cover
Artist: Michelle Johnson at Blue Sky Design
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Wesley
Rourke is a mouthy, Irish-lucky millionaire, trotting the globe in search of
the perfect place to kill his most hated enemy, himself. Blowing his money on
charity, and booze as he zooms from city to city, he lays his course towards
Lima, Peru.
Once
he arrives, he sets about his grisly task only to be inconvenienced by the lure
of a pretty young tourist, the daughter of a prominent British lawmaker.
A few
days after their first date, he awakens in a hospital to find her missing and
he himself embroiled in a media blitz and massive manhunt. With time running
out, and wracked with horrifying night-terrors, Wesley is forced to face his
past cowardice and wade into the bowels of a pitiless underworld in search of
his one ray of hope.
The
city of Lima awaits him.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I’m
a wilderness guide and mountaineer, musician and poet. I’ve climbed all over
North and South America, and played my music throughout. From mission’s work in
Mexico, to clinking beers with toothless Canadians, and onto climbing an Andean
glacier, I enjoy whatever comes my way.
I’m
a mouthy sort with a quick tongue and an even quicker grin. Most folks hate me
for the first seven minutes, then fall right in love with my winning
personality and straight-toothed smile.
Though
I harbor a strong sense of independence, I believe in the strength of a
supportive community and tight knit family. I enjoy working with youth and
young adults and showing them that staying out of jail isn’t so hard and can
even be fun. But I’m not a goody-two-shoes, my head isn’t anywhere near my ass,
much less in it.
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AUTHOR INTERVIEW
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
Did you always
want to be a writer? If not what did you want to be?
I did not at all ever
desire for a millionth of a second to become a writer. I had it in my mind to
become either a fighter pilot or an Emperor. Sadly I harbor a deep hatred for
math so no flying and the army I planned to raise never materialized. I wasn’t
greedy, perhaps a swath of Central America would have sufficed to make me a
ruler of some sort.
When did you
first consider yourself as a "writer"?
When I wrote a
book. Hell, I think that’s when most consider themselves writers right?
Who is your
publisher? or do you self publish?
I found a
publisher. Curiosity Quills. After a few rejections I received a positive email
from them after the talented author James Wymore had recommended my book.
What can we
expect from you in the future? ie More books of the same genre? Books of
a different genre?
You can expect
more comedic literature. Also belligerent rants about sexism and the decaying
freedoms of our nation. Also I like to write about cats.
Where do you get
your book plot ideas from? What/Who is your inspiration?
I spent time in
South America climbing mountains and sampling the culture. When there I
encountered a dizzying world of crime and punishment and insanity; Ecuador and
Peru aren’t for the faint of heart. I truly enjoyed living in a world where
Darwinism swung its scythe, shaving the weak from the strong without mercy. It
was a soft version of alpine survival, I say soft because I had a shower on
occasion and hot food whenever desired.
Do you have a
certain routine you have for writing? ie You listen to music, sit in a certain
chair?
Yes. I sit in a chair. How else would I write?
Jog and type? That’d be a hell of a sight. As for music, I listen almost
exclusively to classical pieces and movie scores. Composers like Philip Glass,
Beethoven, Hans Zimmer. When I was a child I would lay on the carpet as Tchaikovsky’s
1812 overture painted pictures of battle and glory, blood and shame in my little
head. Music, from a very early age, created in me an opus of storytelling that
didn’t truly spring from me until much later. I guess one could say it was the
soil and the seed, simply waiting for the water of experience to actuate the
process of life.
What do you do
to unwind and relax? Do you have a hobby?
I spend a few days up in the Cascade mountains
to clear my head; cut off from the scourge of humanity and its civil wares.
Isolation is how I cope with an over active and sensitive mind. Fishing, hunting,
living off the land, fighting for every breath I take. This isn’t the
difficulty of civilized life, with its bills and clocks and weak-armed, power
hungry bureaucrats. This is simplistic, uncomplicated survival, me vs nature.
It produces a true introspection, honest self awareness and the ability to tap
into and understand emotions and therefore create stories.
Have you ever
based characters on people you know or based events on things that have
happened to you?
Oh yes, been in
many a scrape and bind. Hell, Ive been robbed, stabbed, guns poked into my
face, I’ve even been arrested. The
getting arrested sucked. Lawyers are horribly expensive and are top of my
post-apocalyptic extermination list. Well, at least a few of them.
Is there a
certain Author that influenced you in writing?
Jon Steinbeck
and Louis La’mour. Steinbeck’s
thoughtful but brash and off hand philosophy coupled with La’mours hard
knuckled, blood soaked and temperamental hero’s. I have some British “flowery ”
influences, I’ll admit that. Probably C.S. Lewis or Kipling’s fault. I do
borrow from Lewis’s other-worldly mind stretching and Kipling’s use of phonetic
spelling for accents.
What do you
think about book trailers?
They suck.
Unless your target demographic is young people or barely literate
trailer-trash(pun!), you’re just insulting your potential audience.
If you could
invite three favourite writers to dinner, who would you invite and enjoy
chatting with?
I’d invite Dan
brown, Hemmingway and Jon Steinbeck. I HATE Dan Brown. What a mindless, mass
market hack who craps meaningless drivel as literature. Me, Hemmingway and
Steinbeck would get lit on some seven year bourbon, beat the snot out of Dan
Brown, then argue over something stupid and end up singing songs and making
bets on how long it would take for Brown to get out of his cast’s. Also I’d get
autograph’s.
(Please note the opinion shared above is not mine but that of the Author J.P. Moynahan)
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