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'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson!

~Andrew Gross

Topics: Bottom California Central Chance Charles Cliff Encounter Events Eyes Forty Forty Years Found Kid Landmark Life Manson My Own Nephew None Open Other Own Past Real Real Life Sad Second Shape Straight Suicide Than Took Troubled Two Who Wide Years Years Ago Young

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'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

~Andrew Gross

Topics: Being Blind Book Book Tour Car Crazy Curve Did Easily Except Get Going Happened Hero Incident Jail Last Last Year Me Minor Now Off Out Pulled Story Thrown Tour Traffic Violation While Working Year

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I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

~Andrew Gross

Topics: About Crisis Dads Danger Daughters Families Foot Fund Hedge Husbands Kids Like Managers Might Moms Other Regular Rescue Say Sidelines Soccer Thrillers Watching Who Writing

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As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

~Andrew Gross

Topics: Belief Books Draw Family Family Member Hero Like Line Lives Member Opening Pages People Plight Put Something Suspense Truth Where Write You

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I'm all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and give the book what's really 'at stake,' but ultimately it's not about them - it's always a personal story of everyday people thrust into life-threatening situations and having to perform heroic acts.

~Andrew Gross

Topics: About Acts Always Book Edge Entertaining Everyday Everyday People Give Having Heroic Issues Keeping Life-Threatening Me Meaningful People Perform Personal Reader Really Seat Situations Social Social Issues Stake Story Them Thrust Ultimately

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One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.

~Andrew Gross

Topics: Beautiful Book Influence King Life Men Most Most Beautiful My Life Novel Think Written I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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