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Treg Julander

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Born

Ogden, Utah, The United States

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http://www.TregJulander.com

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Genre

Thriller, Suspense, Religion

Influences

Lisa Scottoline, Scott Turow, John Grisham, Sheldon Siegel

Member Since

February 2015

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Treg Julander was born and raised in Ogden, Utah. He is a graduate of Weber State University and George Washington University National Law Center, where he graduated with highest honors and was a member of the Law Review and Vice President of the Moot Court Board. His writing draws on twenty years of practice as an attorney with prestigious law firms in Washington, D.C., and Southern California and as general counsel for a general contractor. He is now in private practice in Orange County, California, where he lives with his wife and two daughters. Treg podcasts about rock music at www.RockTaleHour.com. His official website is www.TregJulander.com. You can find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LegalThriller and on Twitter @TregJu ...more

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What are three things people may not know about you? (Omitted from Books & Benches interview.)

Treg Julander My daughters’ middle school cancelled their drama class. My wife and I had experience directing a high school summer Shakespeare program, and we know …moreMy daughters’ middle school cancelled their drama class. My wife and I had experience directing a high school summer Shakespeare program, and we know the great value of theater training for kids, so we volunteered to run an after-school drama program at the school for four years. It was great to work with youth again and to flex our theater skills. Scripts that are appropriate for middle school students are hard to find. So one year I wrote a script for the kids to perform—a Facebook parody called Fallsbrook, depicting people behaving in real life like they do on social networks.

I love rock music, which shows through in the main character of my novel. I also enjoy learning about the meaning behind songs. So a few years ago, I got together with some buddies and created a podcast called Rock Tale Hour. In each podcast, we choose a song and tell the stories behind the song and the band.

While I was in law school in Washington, D.C., I was a White House intern in the Office of Presidential Letters and Messages. I worked on compiling all the separate policies for handling incoming correspondence into a single manual. One of the interesting things I remember is that the White House regularly receives gifts of food, and the policy required all perishable items received to be donated to a homeless shelter.(less)

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What has been your greatest challenge as a writer?

Treg Julander Developing the characters, keeping the plot moving, and staying internally consistent fried my brain on this project. But my greatest challenge was de…moreDeveloping the characters, keeping the plot moving, and staying internally consistent fried my brain on this project. But my greatest challenge was determining what to cut. I filled the initial drafts of my legal thriller with too many descriptions, lengthy subplot scenes, and self-indulgent commentaries about topics such as the evils of big law firms. When the first completed draft weighed in at about 130,000 words, I knew no one would read a legal thriller that hefted like War and Peace and dragged on for five hundred pages. So I spent literally months analyzing every word and cutting anything that wasn’t absolutely necessary to get the pace right without sacrificing the story. Cutting the words and ideas I’d fallen in love with and spent so much time carefully crafting felt like severing a limb. In the end, I told the story I wanted to tell at the pace I wanted to tell it.(less)

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Why I Write

If you’ve never put on headphones, sat in a dimly lit room, and listened to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, stop reading right now and go do it. The album is musical perfection, and experiencing it without distractions will take you on an emotional journey.

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