Ask the Author: Stan Parish
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Stan Parish
Don't be too hard on yourself. More often than not you're working through a problem without realizing it. Writing is not always the act of writing.
Stan Parish
Buckle up and show up.
Stan Parish
A TV pilot about a female MMA fighter who's part of a crime ring run out of her gym and a book about a degenerate CIA agent living in Berlin.
Stan Parish
Mostly from life--people I meet, stories I hear, things I see.
Stan Parish
The idea for LOVE AND THEFT came to me from a hometown true-crime story. I grew up near the Princeton Airport, a one-horse operation across from a strip mall in suburban New Jersey. There was a rumor that the brief runway and cluster of hangars were the entry point for a drug trafficking operation in the 80s and 90s, which sounded like a suburban legend to me. And then my brother took a job with a local criminal attorney, a Boston-bred hard case who’d defended the Gambino crime family back in the day. According to my brother’s new boss, the airport drug ring had shut down abruptly decades earlier, but the legend was real. I started asking around. A friend’s father told me the local cops were involved; my dentist had cleaned the teeth of a pilot who flew kilos in from Caribbean islands. The idea of hardened criminals hiding in plain sight in my hometown inspired the protagonist of “Love and Theft,” Alex Cassidy, leader of an armed robbery crew who lays low in pastoral Central Jersey between jobs in Las Vegas, Marseilles, and Macau.
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