Exclusive Interview with Acclaimed Author Boston Teran in Writer's Digest

Boston Teran has returned from obscurity with his eleventh novel, A Child Went Forth, an epic historical crime adventure, set in 1851. Jess Farris of Writer's Digest caught up with Boston to talk about his reasons for staying anonymous, writing tips, and the vagaries of working with Hollywood.This will be your 11th novel, correct? What have you learned over the course of publishing these novels that you didn’t know when you set out to publish the first?How to steer one’s own course while engaging in a form of literary freedom of choice. Always reserving the right to crash and burn on your terms. And understanding full well the wondrous fact that 99.9999% of a writer’s career takes place after they are swept from this world.Two of your novels are slated to be adapted into films. What has that process been like so far?It’s like getting drunk and trying to climb Mount Everest wearing swimming trunks and snowshoes while you carry a three-hundred-pound schizophrenic on your back who means to do you harm… other than that, the process is a cinch.Read the full article here.