Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Jerry Bader is Senior Partner at MRPwebmedia.com, a media production company that specializes in Web video, audio, music, and sound design. Mr. Bader has written and produced dozens of video commercials for clients. Writing scripts and novels is a natural extension that grew out of the experience of creating attention-grabbing mini movies that focus on the emotional motivator.
Mr. Bader has written over a hundred articles on marketing, and he’s self-published novels, marketing e-books, hybrid graphic novels, scripts, biographies, and a series of children’s books. The Neo Noir Hybrid Graphic Novels are story concepts developed with the goal of having them turned into television series or feature films. There are currently ten screenplays, five of which have been self-published as hybrid graphic novels: The Method, The Comeuppance, The Coffin Corner, Grist For The Mill and The Black Crane.
He’s also written The Fixer published by Rebel Seed Entertainment. It has consistently been in the top ten percent in several Amazon categories. The Fixer is based on the true-life story of a colorful horse racing character. The follow-up to The Fixer is Beating The System that continues the story of the horse racing legend. Mr. Bader has also written Organized Crime Queens, The Secret World of Female Gangsters, What’s Your Poison? How Cocktails Got Their Names, Cowboys, Lawmen, & Outlaws, The Outlaw Rider, Dead End, Palermo, Stone Cold, The Aussie Switch, Ballet of Bullets, Noir I, Noir II, Deception, and Delusion.
Mr. Bader has also written a series of children’s books, ZaZa Books For Kids, that currently includes, Two Dragons Named Shoe, The Town That Didn’t Speak, The Criminal McBride, The Bad Puppeteer, Mr. Bumbershoot, The Umbrella Man, The Ninth Inning, and 14 Ridiculous Tales of Sage Silliness. All books are available at amazon.com/author/jerrybader
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is “Delusion” which is the follow-up to “Deception”. I am currently writing the third book in the series called “Dilemma”. These books are about an MI6 analyst named Harry. The books are Neo Noir political/spy thrillers in the vein of “The Impcress File” and “The Third Man.” The books are inspired by the current political landscape and a short article I read by John Le Carré that was about his experience as a young agent and how the job can sometimes make agents slowly lose their minds and retreat into a fantasy world.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I divide my time between writing and painting. I generally start a book with a very general idea of plot direction, but for me the most important element is character. If your characters are developed properly they become real and take on a life of their own, doing things on their own without much help from me. I visualize each story as a movie so that it plays out in my head. Sometimes it goes in the opposite direction that I initially conceived but then I know it’s successful because the characters have come alive and grown independent from me.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I like writers like Victor Canning and Lemore Leonard although I belive that writers like Quentin Tarantino and movies like “The Third Man” (Graham Greene) and “The Maltese Falcon” (Dashiell Hammett) have the greatest influence.
What are you working on now?
I am currently working on the third book in the Harry series called “Dilemma”.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
I hope that “Awesome Gang” becomes that vehicle as I find that most promotion sites are either ineffectual or charge an amount that is so high you can never make your investment back.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Write. The only way to learn is to write. I also believe that you have to approach writing as a learning experience. If you haven’t learned something new while writing then what you’ve written is probably not worth reading.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Writers write for themselves and if others find what you’ve written interesting, great, if they don’t that’s okay too. If you try to approach writing like a marketing exercise become a copywriter not a storyteller.
What are you reading now?
Mostly researching ideas about story direction and interesting characters.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I haven’t decided.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Anything by Victor Canning, Dashiell Hammett, and Lemore Leonard.
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