If you like your summer reads to be like your summer movies — big, explosive and fast-paced, then look no further than T.J. Newman’s new novel “Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421…
Time is a precious commodity and some readers need to be hooked from page one. T.J. Newman’s 2021 debut novel “Falling” begins with a sentence that blasts out of a cannon: “When the shoe dropped in her lap the foot was still in it.”
Newman says she’s “obsessed with the reader experience” and feels satisfaction if her books are devoured in big gulps. In an interview that’s been condensed for clarity and brevity, Newman discussed why women in the action-thriller space are rarities and how working as a flight attendant for 10 years informs her writing.Q. You’re one of a number of authors lately who gets to be involved in the Hollywood adaptation of your novels. Do you think that helps to keep the bones of the story intact?
These stories are the kind of stories that I want to tell, but they’re not the kind of stories that women usually get to write and that’s really exciting to me. You look at the books that I love and and the movies that I love, and you look at the screenwriters and they’re not women. There wasn’t a place for me in this world for a long time. As I was trying to get my first book out there, I faced a lot of rejection because of that.It is not.
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