Featured Interview With A.M Torres
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was raised in the projects of East New York Brooklyn which was the setting that helped inspire my novel Love Child especially at the beginning of the book. I was born in St. Vincent’s hospital in Manhattan, but currently live in Staten Island with my two boys Jason and Kristofer and their father Walter.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Books like The Call of the Wild by Jack London and Heidi by Joanna Spyri were books I loved at a very young age. I have read these books repeatedly. I first read S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders when I was fourteen and it was such an inspiration to me. I have been writing for years but I really wanted to continue after my essay on winter was chosen as one of the best in the class by my fifth grade teacher. I wasn’t thinking of writing a book yet, but I loved writing and enjoyed it for the most part.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
S.E Hinton was an early inspiration and maybe my real first one. I love the suspense genre. I love books that I hate to put down once I start reading them. You know the kind of books you rush to pick up again. V.C Andrews Flowers in the Attic along with the sequel Petals on the Wind were two such books. I wanted to write a suspense book and did with Love Child. Tale of the body Thief by Anne Rice, and Misery by Stephen King were great inspirations too.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Love Child was first released in 2011 but I have released a new revised version this year. The story is one of isolation but it’s also one of survival for Tommy Hulette the story’s protagonist. Tommy is a strong boy who only wants to play stickball while looking after his sister Greta especially when their mother sinks into depression. Life throws unexpected things at him until he winds up living with a relative who hates him and does horrible things to him hoping to drive him to suicide. Tommy is strong and must fight all this hoping to survive. This book took me about 5 to six years to write perhaps because I was fussy and started it over more than once. Thankfully it was finished and it’s available.
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