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Brad Meltzer is the bestselling author of about nine books at the time of writing, including the #1 The Book of Fate, as well The Tenth Justice, Dead Even, The Zero Game and The Book of Lies. He is the Eisner Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed comic book, Justice League of America. His first non-fiction book, Heroes For My Son, is a collection of heroes – from Jim Henson to Rosa Parks -- that he'd been working on since the day his son was born. His books have spent months on the bestseller lists, and been translated into over 25 languages.
Raised in Brooklyn and Miami, Meltzer is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia Law School.
Meltzer earned credit from Columbia Law School for writing his first book, which became The Tenth Justice. Before all of that, he got 24 rejection letters for his true first novel, which still sits on his shelf, published by Kinko's. He currently lives in Florida with his wife, who's also an attorney.
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I. WRITING
How did you get started writing?
It wasn't until I graduated from college. I was coming out of the University of
Michigan and I had a job offer from the man who used to run Games magazine. He
told me, "If you love the job, you'll stay. If you hate it, you'll leave a
year later with some money in your pocket." Since I had some debt to pay
off, that seemed like a fair deal. So I moved all my stuff to Boston. But when I
got there, the publisher left the magazine. (Surprise!) The whole reason I went
there was to work for him. I thought I'd wrecked my life. I had no idea what to
do. So I did what all of us would do in that situation. I said, "I'm gonna
write a novel." And I just started writing. Every day, I just fell more and
more in love with the process.
Did you always know you wanted to be a writer?
No, but I always liked writing. Even back in high school, I tried to write all
my papers using tons of dialogue. But it never hit me until I left college.
Where I grew up, writing wasn't "a real job." And, thankfully, it
still isn't.
Where do you get your ideas?
Research, research, research. You can invent all the stuff you want, but if it
doesn't smell real, ...
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