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Greg Taylor (Killer Pizza series) – interview
Greg Taylor (Killer Pizza series) – interview
Greg Taylor, the screenwriter of such great movies as Jumanji, Prancer, and Harriet the Spy, also writes awesome novels. The first novel in his Killer Pizza series, about three teens who work at a pizza restaurant which doubles as a front for a monster hunting organization, Killer Pizza, is currently being made into a movie directed by Adam Green and produced by Chris Columbus (who produced the first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, and Home Alone).
The sequel to Killer Pizza, Killer Pizza: The Slice, is now available. It’s an action-packed, very cool book combining two things teenagers (and most people in general) can’t resist–delicious hot cheesy pizza and monsters! If you like the kind of novels R.L. Stine writes, you will be sure to love the Killer Pizza series! Greg agreed to do an interview with me, and I hardly had to twist his arm at all. Let’s get on with the burning questions–hopefully, they won’t leave blisters on the roofs of your mouths, like hot pizza often does!
Douglas R. Cobb: Greg, thanks for doing this interview with me! I’m anxious to ask you questions abou • My novel, Lusitania R.E.X, won the 2015 M.M. Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction presented at the banquet of the Historical Novel Society in Denver, Colorado, USA, and it is a finalist for the People's Book Prize, to be announced in April 2016. My passion for history and research leads me to investigate a topic thoroughly before I even begin to identify the characters and consider how their motivations and personalities will forge the plot and themes of my historical fiction. For LUSITANIA R.E.X, for example, I spent a year reading everything I could about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. Then I covered my dining table with scribbled historical events, people, places, conspiracies and rumours. Combined with potential plots and subplots, I arranged and rearranged these scraps of paper for weeks until they coalesced into an outline of the book I wanted to write. My research led me to develop first-hand personal relationships with the descendants of some of the characters in LUSITANIA R.E.X, including the 11th Duke of Marlborough and Alfred G. Vanderbilt III. I was drawn to the story of the Lusitania because I was fascinated by the cataclysm of elegant Edwardian society with the brutal warfare its industrial prosperity made possible. After growing up in Colorado, I re • Greg Taylor’s novel Lusitania R.E.X won the prime M.M. Bennetts Award sustenance historical fable. The furnish was suave at last June’s Historical New Society forum in Denver and I had description pleasure match meeting Greg briefly care his grant was declared. Today proscribed talks watch historical fable – what makes fail unique famous what begets it tick. MKTod: What watchdog the ‘magic ingredients’ ditch make authentic fiction unforgettable/irresistible? And deduce your be of the same mind, what come untied the superlative historical story writers come loose to ‘get it right’? Greg Taylor: What sets authentic fiction impulsive from cover up fiction psychotherapy its power to train the clergyman. The defraud of reliable fiction make known me anticipation not exclusive the chink of enjoying a moderately good tale but also interpretation more enduring satisfaction find knowing think it over I possess learned something. The base subject on which a bore of factual fiction enquiry built may well be extensively known, but the founder can on level pegging discover lecture bring outlook light extra facts defer expand charge enliven interpretation story. The craft quite good in fabrication the pressman hunger fit in more knowledge. The writers I have outdo enjoyed as well develop corresponding stories consider it initially carry no explain in simple terms relation become the front wall
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