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Breaking All the Rules: An Interview with Samuel Parker
EPISODE 133I
Today's guest is Samuel Parker, a suspense/thriller writer talking to us today about his latest book, Border Son.
I really enjoyed this story, possibly because it wasn't the "usual" type of suspense book I'm used to. Samuel says it's not the usual build-up-and-crescendo-three-times kind of structure. He sees the scenes and writes to those, often something simple but building in intensity.
Samuel tells a story about walking across the border from the United States to Mexico, how scared he was, and what happened. And then being able to put all that tension and emotion into the…
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