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Larry Pederson, who started his career as a screenwriter, became an accidental inventor & entrepreneur, and now he has a story to tell.
Screenwriter who accidentally became an inventor & entrepreneur, and now serendipity has led me back to my first love – this time, writing a thriller novel.
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It's a well-worn cliché that great ideas often come about in unexpected and mysterious ways. My best ideas are never mere coincidence – not divine inspiration, to be sure, but epiphanies nonetheless. They strike without warning, appearing in my mind’s eye fully-realized, presenting themselves with such urgency I am left scrambling to record the details in what approaches automatic writing. One such brainstorm led to me becoming an accidental inventor of a groundbreaking innovation. And now, inspiration has struck again with the premise for my first novel, fueling my compulsion to pick up a pen again and write.
My roundabout way back to storytelling
A few miles from the Know Inc. campus in a Palo Alto park, a young woman out for an evening jog turns up dead. Everyone assumes it was a hit-and-run. Little do they know, she has uncovered a piece of information that was worth killing her for.
One month later, Madison Maxwell, a recent psychology graduate, accepts a job offer as an executive assistant at Know, the Silicon Valley AI giant, and relocates from Boston, hoping to start fresh and put her past behind her. But the new life she’s trying to build takes a sudden dark turn when she discovers she’s replacing the hit-and-run victim, and her charismatic Senior VP boss, TJ Khan, begins to appear in her recurring nightmare. This leads Madison to notice Khan has the same distinctive smile as Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 hijacker who crashed her father’s plane twenty years ago. Madison, who has dreamt about Atta for years, and even wrote her college thesis on the hijacker, begins to question if it’s possible Khan really is Atta, whose DNA was never found at Ground Zero – or is she just losing her mind?
Madison’s attempt to prove she is right puts her on a collision course with veteran FBI agent Markus Niles, who reveals there is more to Khan than meets the eye. Suddenly Madison’s past, her fate and that of the nation, are much more connected to Khan and Know Inc. than she ever imagined – and in a way that could even get her killed.
Blurb
The Sacrificial Lamb
It's a well-worn cliché that great ideas often come about in unexpected and mysterious ways. My best ideas are never mere coincidence – not divine inspiration, to be sure, but epiphanies nonetheless. They strike without warning, appearing in my mind’s eye fully-realized, presenting themselves with such urgency I am left scrambling to record the details in what approaches automatic writing. One such brainstorm led to me becoming an accidental inventor of a groundbreaking innovation. And now, inspiration has struck again with the premise for my first novel, fueling my compulsion to pick up a pen again and write.
My roundabout way back to storytelling
The idea behind my book
L.V. Pederson
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