Literary Fiction
Date Published: 01-13-2025
In a school/reformatory, a teacher fights his own loss of faith in the
power of education and the twin assaults of drug cartels, their hired
assassins among his students. and the blind idealism of his principal.
Interview
What is the hardest part of writing your books?
It’s all hard and difficult to single out any particular part of the process. In the case of a story that is multigenerational, like the one I’m writing now, I suppose I could point to the meticulousness necessary to make sure all the time elements comport.
I do happen to have inherited a love of words from my father, so I have to curb my penchant for using $50 vocabulary.
The scariest (but also the most fun) is the very first step, free associating on a vague idea or suggestion that comes to mind.
What are your most played songs?
Che gelida manina; Johanna; If I Fall in Love; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Do you have critique partners or beta readers?
That’s a sad situation for me: I had two beta readers. One is now in a nursing home and unable to help and the other is otherwise engaged. I’m looking around.
What book are you reading now?
War and Peace
How did you start your writing career?
I started writing plays. I was an actor in a former life and found the times between projects nail-biting. So, I wrote a one-act that had some success being produced twice in New York City. I then expanded it to full-length, then wrote six more. One was just for voices, and I noticed that all it needed to exist as a novel was narrative. That became my first, The Dogs…Barking.
Tell us about your next release.
My next is set in the latter part of the 19th century. I had written a fictional account of my father’s family’s immigration from Poland, then continued with one of the characters (who would have been my great-great uncle) in a story of historical fiction about the establishments of the Mexican and Texas Republics.
This story continues with that character and his travails with his adoptive family, being railroaded and sent to prison and his redemption from utter and absolute cynicism.
About the Author
Jan Notzon is a novelist and playwright in Charlotte, NC.
His first novel, The Dogs Barking, is a coming-of-age story set in a sleepy
backwater Texas border town in the 1950s. And Ye Shall Be As Gods, recounts
a brother’s fight to rescue his sister from the clutches of despair
and his lost love from catatonia. The Id Paradox, is the story of three
friends, assumed betrayal, rescue and healing from the horrors of spiritual
annihilation. Song for The Forsaken chronicles the tale of two sisters
and the loss of faith that tests the bond between them. Suffer Not the Mole
People, is the story of a family's travails as they make their way from
Poland to the United States in 1866. ONLY THE DEAD tells the personal
stories of three families, one Anglo and two Mexican as they participate in
the establishment of the Mexican and Texas Republics. His seventh novel To
Sing Like a Mockingbird is now available on Amazon.
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