Featured Author Ilan Herman

July 8th, 2009 |

Author: Junior Editor

Hello Readers!

Our featured author for this post is Ilan Herman.

Here we have Ilan ready to take on the bad guys of the wild wild...balcony!

What inspired you to write “Dilemma”?

My ongoing and growing awareness that society could do much better serving the planet.

If you could be any character from any story, what would you be and why?

James Herriot from All Creatures Great and Small. He was a veterinarian in rural England in the forties and fifties, and lead a meaningful and long life.

Are you a procrastinator or preparer?

Both, depending on the issue.

Tell us about other things that you are involved in besides writing?

Raising my daughter Emily, producing music and playing with bands, reading.

If you could speak with yourself as a child, what would you tell him? Do you think he would listen?

I would tell him to follow his heart. I think he would listen, but I’m not sure.

How would you describe yourself in 7 words or less? (and no, it does not have to be a complete sentence:)

Patient, Pragmatic, Funny, Agnostic, Social Democrat, and all around nice guy

How do you encourage the delinquency of your inner child?

I play music and never wear a necktie or a wrist watch–nooses and shackles I do well without.

Ilan Herman was born in NYC but now lives with his young daughter in the California Sierra foothills. Ilan holds a degree in music composition, and has spent many years touring the world with show bands. He does music production in various styles, samples of which can be heard at www.emily-music.com Ilan reads every day, usually pecking at two or three books at a time, and is comfortable with having a pile of books on his nightstand. He credits his love of books to the likes of Chekhov, Marquez, Melville, and Updike. Ilan has written nine novels, five novellas, and about fifty short stories.
His novel The Gravedigger will be published by Casperian Books in the fall of 2010.
Other credits include:
The online literary magazine Ten Tons of Black Ink has published an excerpt from the novel Chan Kim.
The online literary publication The Write Place at the Write Time has published the story Gold Rush.
The online publisher, Planet Mag, has published the short sci-fi story The Package.
The online and print magazine Twisted Thistle has published the short story The Medic.
The online and print publication Cantaraville will publish the short story Fly on the Wall in their fall edition.
Wanna know more? Visit www.scribd.com/ilan-herman (to read some of Ilan’s work) or www.emily-music.com (to hear some music samples).

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