Interview Jim Green

by

Carol Parsons

1) What makes Across Thin White Lines special to you?

This is one of those autobiographical novels. The characters, plot situations, and setting are taken from my early life, massaged, expanded, and manipulated to create the project.

2) What is something about Across Thin White Lines that has a piece of you in it?

All of it.

3) What made you write this novel?

Not sure. It seems that ideas find a niche, grow, then have to be told. This was fun.

4) Where did you get your idea for it?

My hometown.

5) Are you working on another novel?

Yes, I have three novel projects in the file.

6) Do you write other things besides novels?

I'm currently working on a project with a friend for another publisher which will be a pictorial history of the community in which I live. It is a part of the IMAGES OF AMERICA series. Very excited about the project, too.

7) What is the hardest part of writing a novel?

Let me think about that. Well, I guess making the pieces fit so that I feel it's a book I personally would love to read. Sometimes what develops is not too good at all, and one has to work, work, work.

8) How long did it take you to write Across Thin White Lines?

It's only about 40K words, so the initial manuscript took about two months on and off. It's the editing, changing, developing that takes the longest. Probably nine months to a year for finished product. Then comes the editors. Oh!

9) Have you always wanted to be an author?

Yes, and I'm not really sure from where the inspiration came.

10) What does your family think of your accomplishment?

They're supportive.