Max Elliot Anderson grew up as a reluctant reader. After surveying the market, he sense the need for action-adventures and mysteries for readers 8 – 13, especially boys.
Using his extensive experience in the production of motion pictures, videos, and television commercials, Mr. Anderson brings the same visual excitement and heart-pounding action to his stories. Each book has completely different characters, setting, and plot.
Seven books have been published, with an additional twenty-eight manuscripts completed. Young readers have reported that reading one of his books is like being in an exciting or scary movie.
Dear Reader,
My wife and I are the parents of two grown children. When they were small, I used to tell them original stories nearly every night. I’d made up a couple of characters and called the stories "The Harv and Marv Dumb Guy Detective Agency." The trick was, Harv and Marv only pretended to be dumb, and that threw off the bad guys. The way Colombo used to solve his cases might make a good example.
But I grew up hating to read, one of my worst subjects was English, and my father published over 70 books during his lifetime. I never read any of them while I was growing up. So how does a guy like me end up writing over thirty-five manuscripts and publish 10 books? Read on.
I’ve just submitted my second story to the Guideposts incredible prayer series. One of my stories, "Two Circles of Angels," was published in book #2 of this series. There will be two more books in the Sam Cooper Adventure series. The titles are Captain Jack’s Treasure and River Rampage. More stories are planned for the series.
A second publisher will release Barney and the Runaway later this fall. After that they plan to republish my first seven books which include Newspaper Caper, Terror at Wolf Lake, North Woods Poachers, Mountain Cabin Mystery, Big Rig Rustlers, Secret of Abbott’s Cave, & Legend of the White Wolf.
Following these titles, we’ve signed an option for another sixteen titles. So I’ll be spending a lot of time working on revisions.
As I indicated earlier, I grew up with little interest in reading. My work in film and video production have taken me down a path of more visual expression. I read for information, but I still don’t read much for enjoyment. I do read an occasional book so I can review it on my blog. Recent examples would include Big Nate, Horrid Henry, the Fred Bowen Sports Stories series, Hardboiled Detective by Nate Evans and others, Rime Soldiers by Robert Gould at Big Guy, Daniel X by James Peterson, and others.
For my own reading recently, I’ve finished Wild at Heart by John Eldredge.
There are a number of ways that readers can find more information about my books. These include my Author Web Site "Books For Boys" blog, http://booksandboys.blogspot.com/, Twitter http://twitter.com/marketpl and Facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/max.e.anderson
Books can be purchased directly from me when readers are interested in autographed copies. Requests for more information should be sent to mander8813@aol.com My books are also available on Amazon and other online sites, and because they are distributed by Ingram, they are available in any bookstore, though they may need to be ordered.
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Thanks for the chance to interview you, Max. Best wishes with your many projects.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested in your latest book, and would love to obtain a copy for my son.
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