I want to welcome Paul Batista to Books R Us. Paul is the author of the action thriller Extraordinary Rendition coming soon in May 2013. Thanks for stopping by.
Guest Post:
WHEN WHERE AND HOW DO YOU WRITE?
I hear this question many times. And the answer is: "wherever, whenever,
and by any means possible."
Here is just one example.
I have been a long-distance runner for many years.
I often take a hand-held voice recorder with
me and dictate into it as I run.
I do
get puzzled looks from fellow runners, but over the last few years as more and
more people use cell phones all the time, even while running, I get fewer and
fewer quizzical glances as I speak into a recorder. I'm blessed to have an
assistant who doesn't mind typing from dictation, and I find that after a six
mile run my dictation translates into four or five written pages. Listening to
my panting, almost breathless voice on the tape could make you think I’m doing
something other than running. Since I run in places as diverse as central park,
long island, and whatever city I happen to be in, the answer to “where do
you write?" is "all over the place."
As to "when do you write?" the answer is any
time during the day when I can. I still practice law because I enjoy it, but
it's demanding work. There are times
during the day when I can start or finish a scene in a new novel but those
interludes don't last for more than fifteen minutes before I have to take a
call or leave for court. And I can even
write when in court, because a judge often takes a long time before appearing
on the bench, and that enables me to write while waiting rather than staring
out the window. A great deal of my
writing happens in the quiet hours of the night. I'm one of those people who'd rather write
about intrigue than watch "CSI."
It would be nice to have the kind of routine some writers have with a set schedule of writing from 8 to
noon, as if it were a job. I admire that
discipline; I will say that on a day when I don't write I get that empty
feeling that the day was not as well-spent as it could have been.
About the Book:
When Ali Hussein, suspected terrorist and alleged banker for Al Qaeda,
is finally transported from Guantanamo Bay to the US mainland to stand
trial, many are stunned when Byron Carlos Johnson, a pre-eminent lawyer
and son of a high-profile diplomat, volunteers to represent him. On
principle, Johnson thought he was merely defending a man unjustly
captured through rendition and water-boarded illegally. But Johnson soon
learns that there is much more at stake than one man's civil rights.
Hussein's intimate knowledge of key financial transactions could lead to
the capture of or the unabated funding of the world's most dangerous
terror cells. This makes Hussein the target of corrupt US intelligence
forces on one side, and ruthless international terrorists on the other,
and puts Byron Carlos Johnson squarely in the crosshairs of both.
Written by no-holds-barred attorney Paul Batista, Extraordinary Rendition
excels not only as an action thriller, but as a sophisticated legal
procedural as well. Smart. Fast. Heart-pounding. A legal thriller of the
highest order.
About the Author:
Paul
Batista, novelist and television personality, is one of the most widely known
trial lawyers in the country. As a trial attorney, he specializes in federal
criminal litigation. As a media figure, he is known for his regular appearances
as guest legal commentator on a variety of television shows including, Court TV, CNN, HLN and WNBC. He’s also appeared in the HBO
movie, You Don't Know Jack, starring
Al Pacino.
A
prolific writer, Batista authored the leading treatise on the primary federal
anti-racketeering statute, Civil RICO
Practice Manual, which is now in its third edition (Wiley & Sons, 1987;
Wolters Kluwer, 2008). He has written articles for The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, and The National Law
Journal.
Batista's
debut novel, Death's Witness, was
awarded a Silver Medal by the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).
And his new novel, Extraordinary Rendition, is now being published—along with a
special reissue of Death’s Witness—by
Astor + Blue Editions.
Batista
is a graduate of Bowdoin College,
where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa,
and Cornell Law School. He’s proud to
have served in the United States Army. Paul Batista lives in New York City and
Sag Harbor, New York.
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Here is just one example.
I have been a long-distance runner for many years. I often take a hand-held voice recorder with
me and dictate into it as I run. I do
get puzzled looks from fellow runners, but over the last few years as more and
more people use cell phones all the time, even while running, I get fewer and
fewer quizzical glances as I speak into a recorder. I'm blessed to have an
assistant who doesn't mind typing from dictation, and I find that after a six
mile run my dictation translates into four or five written pages. Listening to
my panting, almost breathless voice on the tape could make you think I’m doing
something other than running. Since I run in places as diverse as central park,
long island, and whatever city I happen to be in, the answer to “where do you write?" is "all over the place."
