1–What is the title of your latest release?
2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book?
The six-year-old son of a network news anchor vanishes in New York’s Central Park. Secrets held by the boy’s family unravel as time ticks down on his life.
3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
My protagonist, Corina Corado, has worked her way to the top of her profession as a TV news journalist with a major network, so it was easy to see how she’d be based in Manhattan. Central Park is glorious and a great setting to launch the story. I actually walked and studied the area where my fictional incident happens.
4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
Yes. If she had the time, maybe we could have lunch together. I’d love to hear her stories on what’s going on. In fact, I know two former news colleagues, who are with major news outlets based in New York. Maybe they’d join us.
5–What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Loving. Brilliant. Unbreakable.
6–What’s something you learned while writing this book?
After more than 30 books, I’ve come to learn that while a writer works in solitude, you’re never alone in the entire process. From first secret readers, to agents, editors, proofreaders, cover artists, production teams, sales teams, audio folks, digital experts who get your story online; publicity and marketing people, reviewers and outlets, like Fresh Fiction, to the people who box up your physical books, drive them to the stores, get them on the shelves; to booksellers who hand sell them; to libraries and book clubs; all of the effort by so many, to get the story that lived and grew in my imagination, to readers where it comes to life in theirs.
7–Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I edit as I draft, then edit (cut) again. I prefer rewriting to first drafts, which for me, is like drilling through rock.
8–What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
Cashews. Nachos.
9–Describe your writing space/office!
Cluttered, chaotic, perfect for me.
10–Who is an author you admire?
One who captures me with great story told well.
11–Is there a book that changed your life?
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, ignited my imagination at an early age.
12–Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
I was working as a crime reporter in the newsroom when my agent called from New York. After trying for a year to sell my first novel, a crime thriller titled, IF ANGELS FALL, she said, “We have an offer.” I stopped her, saying” Before you tell me the offer, will I be able to buy a new car, or get my brakes fixed?” She said: “You can get your brakes fixed.” After that, it didn’t matter. I was walking on air. I spoke to the acquiring editor, who loved my book and, next to getting married and the births of our kids, it was glorious. It had been a long road from when I was in the first grade and the teacher said, “Now class, you’re going to write a story.”
13–What’s your favorite genre to read?
I read everything. Classics. Current crime fiction. Non fiction. History.
14–What’s your favorite movie?
I have a few. Manhunter. The Exorcist. Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The Boys From Brazil. Fail Safe. I Am Legend. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
15–What is your favorite season?
Summer
16–How do you like to celebrate your birthday?
With my wife’s homemade apple pie.
17–What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
I liked Society of the Snow. Also, Mare of Easttown was a great series, along with Last of Us. As for recent reads: In a Lonely Place, by Dorothy B. Hughes; Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane, by Paul Auster.
18–What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
Mexican. I also love eating clubhouse sandwiches at greasy spoon dive-type diners.
19–What do you do when you have free time?
Watch old movies. Read. Walk. Plot. I’m always plotting.
20–What can readers expect from you next?
I’m smiling, because I don’t like to discuss what I have on the go, only to say that it’s a psychological thriller with a number of twists.
SOMEONE SAW SOMETHING by Rick Mofina
A missing child is every parent’s worst nightmare.
For journalist Corina Corado, it’s a terrifying reality.
When six-year-old Gabriel vanishes from Central Park, his mother, news anchor Corina Corado, is desperate for answers. Who would take her son—and why?
Detectives suspect there’s a connection to the barrage of hate mail Corina’s received over the years. In her line of work, it’s not unusual for agitated conspiracy theorists to send messages that threaten violence…or worse. But as the investigation deepens, the secrets that Corina, her husband, Robert, and her stepdaughter, Charlotte, have kept start to unravel.
As the truth behind Gabriel’s disappearance emerges, Corina must race the clock to track down her missing child…before paying the ultimate price.
Thriller [MIRA, On Sale: April 30, 2024, Trade Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780778305439 / eISBN: 9780369747853]
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About Rick Mofina
Rick Mofina, is a former reporter and the author of several acclaimed thrillers. He was a finalist for a Thriller Award from the International Thriller Writers, and a two-time winner of the Arthur Ellis Award, Canada’s prize for crime fiction. He’s done face-to-face interviews with murderers and patrolled with the LAPD and the RCMP. He’s reported from the Caribbean, Africa and Kuwait’s border with Iraq. Please visit his website and subscribe to his newsletter for draws at chances to win free autographed books.
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