J.J. (James) DiBenedetto was born in Yonkers, New York. He attended Case Western Reserve
university, where as his classmates can attest, he was a complete nerd. Very
little has changed since then.
He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with his beautiful wife and their cat (who has thoroughly trained them both). When he's not writing, James works in the direct marketing field, enjoys the opera, photography and the New York Giants, among other interests.
The "Dreams" series is James' first published work.
He currently lives in Arlington, Virginia with his beautiful wife and their cat (who has thoroughly trained them both). When he's not writing, James works in the direct marketing field, enjoys the opera, photography and the New York Giants, among other interests.
The "Dreams" series is James' first published work.
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Title:
The Dream Series
Author: J.J. Dibenedetto
Publisher: Writing Dreams
Pages: 280 (each book)
Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Author: J.J. Dibenedetto
Publisher: Writing Dreams
Pages: 280 (each book)
Genre: Paranormal Romantic Suspense
Sara Barnes thought her life was perfectly ordinary – until
the night she began stepping into other people’s dreams.
Follow Sara as she learns to cope with this extraordinary
gift (or curse) in the Dream Series:
DREAM STUDENT
It’s bad enough that,
thanks to her supernatural talent, Sara is learning more than she ever needed
to know about her friends and classmates, watching their most secret fantasies
whether she wants to or not. Much worse
are the other dreams, the ones she sees nearly every night, featuring a
strange, terrifying man who commits unspeakable crimes. Now Sara wonders if she’s the only witness to
a serial killer – and the only one who knows when and where he’s going to
strike next.
DREAM DOCTOR
Medical school and life as a newlywed would be enough by
themselves for anybody to handle. But
Sara’s got another problem – her dreams have started up again. Almost everyone at the medical school is
dreaming about the death of the school’s least popular teacher, Dr. Morris, and
once again, Sara finds herself in the role of unwilling witness to a murder
before it happens. But this time, there
are too many suspects to count, and it doesn’t help matters that she hates Dr.
Morris every bit as much as any of his would-be murderers do.
DREAM CHILD
Sara thought she had made peace with her dreaming talent,
but she’s got a surprise coming: her four-year-old daughter has inherited it,
too.
Unraveling a mystery with lives on the line is difficult
enough under the best of circumstances.
But when Sara has to view all the evidence through the eyes – and dreams
- of a toddler, it may be an impossible task.
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Thank you for this interview! I’d like to know more about you as a person
first. What do you do when you’re not
writing?
I ‘m a big science fiction geek, so a lot of movies & TV. I like to cook. I’m an opera fanatic. And I’m a huge New York Giants fan, too.
When did you start writing?
Back in high school.
I finished the first draft of what eventually became DREAM STUDENT after
college, 15 years ago. But I let it sit
on my computer for years, until a friend published her first novel about 3
years ago, and I asked myself, “Why not me, too?” So I dusted it off, rewrote it from page one,
and now I’ve got ten books out!
As a published author, what would you say was the most pivotal
point of your writing life?
When I sent the final draft of DREAM STUDENT out for an
evaluation and I got back positive feedback.
Up until that point, I didn’t know if I really had a book anybody would
want to read.
If you could go anywhere in the world to start writing your
next book, where would that be and why?
Paris. Just because I loved it on my one visit
there, and I’d take any excuse to go back there.
If you had 4 hours of extra time today, what would you do?
Sleep, probably. I
know that sounds boring, but the cat had me up at 4:45
AM this morning, so some extra sleep would be a good thing!
Where would you like to set a story that you haven’t done
yet?
I’ve got an outline in my head for a big, sprawling, epic
science fiction story. I just need to
figure out how to actually make my ideas make sense on paper.
Back to your present book, DREAM STUDENT, how did you
publish it?
It’s self-published.
I decided from the start I was going to go that route, and I got a lot
of help from friends and fellow authors I met on Facebook, Kboards and
elsewhere to guide me along.
In writing your book, did you travel anywhere for research?
No, but the college Sara attends in the book is a (very
thinly) veiled version of the college I actually went to, so I think that
counts for research.
Why was writing DREAM
STUDENT so important to you?
Mainly just because I needed to prove to myself I could do
it.
Where do you get your best ideas and why do you think that
is?
They come from pretty much anywhere – movies or shows I’ve
seen, things that happen to friends or family, and then maybe a little twist to
turn them into something that will fit into the books. And sometimes it’s just asking the question
of “what happens next” after I finish a book, and seeing whether the answer is
something I can turn into another story.
Any final words?
Thanks for having me here today!
Thanks for hosting me today!
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