Lemuria by Burt Clinchandhill (most popular novels of all time .txt) 📗

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FQ: You have had a long career in photography. Has this creative pursuit helped your writing? In addition, because of that career path, do you create your own book covers?

CLINCHANDHILL: To start with your last question, no, I don't create my own covers. A very talented lady from Ukraine designed my indie-published book covers, and for my latest books, my publisher works with a talented designer named Kabir Shah from the UK. Don’t you love that the world has become the small place it is now? Regarding my photography career. When studying photography, you learn to visualize a picture before you take it. I like to think that's how I write. Before the words appear on paper, I visualize every image, every scene, like a movie. When I close my eyes, I see my characters speak every piece of dialogue, and the environment they're in.

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FQ: Please tell readers a little about this fantastic title, Aldaraia, and when/how the idea came to you in regards to this work? In addition, will this be part of a series or a trilogy?

CLINCHANDHILL: To be honest, I wanted to write a 'Dan Brown-like' story. Not that I'm a big fan of his writing style, but I love the way he develops a story—especially the intertwining of past and present and making it (almost) believable. The same goes for the books by Michael Crichton and the way he combines adventure with current medical knowledge to create science fiction stories. Fantastic and, again, believable. I try to tell my stories, however wild sometimes, in a plausible way.

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FQ: Do your characters, in this case Matthew Bishop, share any characteristics with you personally?

CLINCHANDHILL: I don't think so, at least not much. He and I like fishing and traveling, but for the rest. I do think that all of my characters reflect some smaller traits of me. Even the bad guys. I do like strong but flawed character so in that way we might have more in common than I like to agree on.

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FQ: With other titles, such as Kursk, 47 Hours, etc., you concentrated on true stories and real-life tragedies. Is this work more "out of the realm" for you when it comes to genre? If so, what made you decide to go in this direction with your writing?

CLINCHANDHILL: I love this current genre. This is absolutely my favorite. It took this long to write my first book in this genre because I simply believed I couldn't do it, that it simply would be too difficult to do. That's why I started with more or less true stories like Kursk. I felt that a story like Kursk was especially suited to start writing (again) because, being a true story, there was a sort of an outline there. Fortunately, there was also a lot of unknown mystery that I could fill in using my fantasy. In that first book, I created a character called James Mitchel that I felt deserved a sequel. And since I like trilogies, the James Mitchel trilogy was born.

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FQ: What comes next? Can you give us a "sneak peek" in regards to Matthew Bishop's next step?

CLINCHANDHILL: Ah, well. Bishop's next adventure is called Atacama which I plan on to be Bishop’s final adventure. It’ll take him and his friends all across the globe again to find the truth behind the biggest secret yet. I plan to have the end of the journey plunge the reader into a new storyline in a brand new genre.

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FQ: Is there a genre you have not explored as of yet that you would like to one day?

CLINCHANDHILL: Matthew Bishop's adventure comes as a trilogy, and currently, I'm writing the final installment, planned to be released in December 2021. That final chapter will end in a sort of cliffhanger into a new series that will be in a different genre. Think of it as more of a fantasy series that plays in our own current realm. Confused? Sorry, that's about all I can tell you about it now, and it changes just about every day in my mind, so who knows. I love the fantasy genre, but again, It seems so hard to write.

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FQ: Is there one author you would love to sit down and talk to about writing? If so, who would that be and what would be one question you would like to ask them?

CLINCHANDHILL: Michael Crichton would absolutely be the one I'd like to sit down with. Unfortunately, that will never happen, of course. But I simply admire, maybe even worship, the man. Not just for his active writing style but also for the way he wrote his view of the near future into his adventurous stories. Many of them have a predictive value that I love. I love books that when you finished reading them, your first thought will be, What if?"

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PROLOGUE

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Kola, Murmansk Oblast, Russia, Spring 1992

A relative warm wind from the south gushed over the tundra, making it a nice, friendly April day of 30 degrees Fahrenheit at the North Pole. With temperatures varying between 60 degrees Fahrenheit in the summer and -30 degrees in the winter, Mitya Morozov had seen it all in the past thirty years working the drill. Little over a decade ago, they enclosed the site in a vast superstructure, with the drill itself encased in a huge three-hundred-foot tower. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any heating in the building. In the winter, the workers would fire-up oil drums filled with the sparse wood they could find out there in the flatlands. Now, the men working the drill were glad the winter was over, and the oil drums stayed cold. At its peak, more than thirty people worked the site. Now,