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Michael French On His Characters - The Morning Brew

5/3/2016

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Readers Become 'Friends' with Main Characters of Michael French's Latest Book
Michael sits down to chat with host Dan Mayfield about his characters social media. You can "friend" Alex Baten and Jaleel Robeson here:
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Relevance and Relatability

3/28/2016

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 I hope readers of the novel can relate to [the characters'] struggles and impulsive judgments, even when we react by thinking,  “no, please don’t do that!”  Their lives twist and turn like ours, and realistically not everything ends up tied in ribbons.  But life lessons are real.
I try to challenge myself as a novelist by communicating what I understand the world to be.  I like reading other writers who storytell a different vision than mine, as their narrative is as unique to them as mine is to me.  Everything is about a point of view, realized through  three-dimensional characters embedded, hopefully, in a compelling and memorable plot.  

In Once Upon a Lie, a story of the Eighties, my two principal characters seem as different as the Americas they live in—one in a white and privileged enclave in Los Angeles, the other a Texas town with walls to climb if you’re poor and black and have the ambition and talent to escape.  Their paths cross and a relationship as complex as their differences begins to bloom.   Jaleel and Alexandra (“Alex”) deal with societal problem as well as the personal ones they make for themselves. I hope readers of the novel can relate to their struggles and impulsive judgments, even when we react by thinking,  “no, please don’t do that!”  Their lives twist and turn like ours, and realistically not everything ends up tied in ribbons.  But life lessons are real.  Jaleel and Alex even have their own Facebook pages, their interweaving stories continuing in the present, picking up where the book leaves off. 
Jaleel Robeson's Facebook Profile
Alex Baten's Facebook Profile

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ONCE UPON A LIE, EXCERPT FROM CHAPTER 5

2/11/2016

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Once Upon a Lie
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Excerpt from Chapter 5 of Once Upon A Lie

    It wasn’t until dinner that he found Marcus again. They sat by themselves in a corner. Jaleel asked where he’d been all day.

    “Cleaning staff quarters. Good gig if you can get it. No one watches you there. Which is funny, because loose change and cigarettes are all over the place. They want someone like me to steal, so they can beat the shit out of me again.” Marcus laughed. “How dumb do the assholes think I am?”
    “Can I talk to you about something?” Jaleel said earnestly. “You’re not going to tell anyone—” ​
    “Let me guess. You don’t like it here. You want to escape.” Marcus smiled, as if knowing every thought rattling in Jaleel’s head. “New kids are all the same.” 
    “I’m not like everyone else.”

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    Michael R. French

    Michael French is a graduate of Stanford University and Northwestern University. He is a businessman and author who divides his time between Santa Barbara, California, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.


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