So I wasn’t really concerned that the first book didn’t get published. It’s the second or third book that hits it big. But, at the time, and all writers hear this, that it’s usually not the first book that hits it big. I shopped it around some, and it came actually relatively close to being published. Stephen King was just coming out at that point. It was a horror story, kind of a Stephen King-type thing. I’ll learn the craft of writing even though, at that point, when I was young, I was so arrogant I really didn’t think I needed to learn the craft of writing. What should I do? Well, I decided then to become a journalist because journalists write. I need to make a living at least until the first novel hits big.
Then I thought, well, I’m not a rich person now. And that’s in the mid-1970s, so that’s probably $300 million of today’s dollars.
I remember even back then when I was what, 16, 17 years old, I was going around and telling people that I was going to be a best-selling novelist, and I was gonna make $75 million. MELVIN: Well, when I was a teenager, about the age, say, of a junior in high school when you’re really finally starting to try to take seriously what you’re gonna do with your life, it just hit me really hard that I wanted to become a best-selling novelist. And a lot of it was based on things like shows of that time period back in the late sixties, early seventies like “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and “Lost in Space.” And my imagination was almost as tantalized by fantasy and superheroes and magical powers, and so The Death Wizard Chronicles really were born then.ĪNDELMAN: Had you written any of this as a teen, in college, any of that kind of stuff, or did it all come after you retired? One thing we did was we played a lot of imaginary games, and we would get together, five, ten of us and play for hours. And, like a lot of boys, we played football and baseball, and we ran around all day long, especially during the summer. I was lucky to live on a street that had quite a few boys my age. Petersburg, Florida, and I lived on a little island called Coquina Key. MELVIN: It’s actually been living inside of me probably since I was a little boy. And pretty much everyone who’s known you, family, friends, co-workers has been aware of this, right? This has been living inside of you for years. I want to be able to look in the mirror and tell myself, “You gave it your best shot.”ĪNDELMAN: Now, you can affirm to people that I did not exaggerate here. I had an opportunity to live off savings for a couple years and to take this risk and, rather than bank the savings and retire at age 62 and write the book then, I wanted to do it in my late 40s when I had at least a little bit of youth left.
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And so many people have dreams in their lives that they’re never able to achieve because of the reality of living and working and raising families and mowing the yard and maybe taking a break at night to watch a little TV that their dreams are set aside. When I would get in the shower, when I’d drive in the car, when I would fall asleep at night, I would think about this series, and, to me, it felt like this is what Jim Melvin was supposed to do, to create this series. JIM MELVIN: Well, Bob, I think it was sort of something that built up over 25 years. What the hell were you thinking? You gambled an awful lot on your imagination. MEDIA: Jim, for everyone who knows you personally and your story, let me ask this as plainly as possible. Is Pali real? Look it up on Wikipedia here!īOB ANDELMAN/Mr.
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The first book in the six-book epic fantasy was released in September by Rain Publishing, and a new installment will be delivered to bookstores every thirty days until the entire series is available in February 2008. He put everything else aside to fulfill what he believed to be his destiny and nearly two- thousand pages that became The Death Wizard Chronicles. He retired from the newspaper, took his family and savings, and moved to North Carolina. Well, a few years ago, Jim decided it was now or never. Petersburg Times, and did all the other good stuff that eats up time and interferes with achieving those very personal dreams we all entertain. He was married, raised two wonderful daughters, had a full-time job as an editor at the St. Jim Melvin has been a friend of mine for more than twenty years and, for as long as I’ve known him, his driving interest has been writing an epic fantasy series, something that might find shelf space alongside J.R.R. Jim Melvin, author, The Death Wizard Chronicles Order ‘Forged In Death, Book 1 of The Death Wizard Chronicles’ by Jim Melvin from by clicking on the book cover above!
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