A Mission. A kidnapping. Secrets Unraveled...

1) Let’s start from the top. What is your author name (pen name if you use one)?

E. William Podojil

2) Do you have a favorite movie?

Anything with Wonder Woman in it.

3) Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?

I’m working on the screenplay for The Poseidon Project and have already cast the actors in my mind of who would play the characters.

I actually had a poll on my website for the main characters. Here were the results:

Molly Halloran – Helen Mirren

Lukas Halloran – Taylor Zakhar Perez/ Ben Aldridge (tie)

Taylor Pastore – Theo James

4) What inspired you to write this book?

I am a huge fan of Thrillers, Suspense, Action-Adventure and like to write in that genre. My idea for Poseidon came from a couple of areas. First, the main characters are retired women scientists who are kind of bored in retirement and they have a secret past you’ll learn about in the book. Second, I like stories that have protagonists/heroes who are not stereotypically perfect, strong, fearless and things like that. So I took the four retired women, one woman’s son who is a tech genius but complicated and afraid of getting into a relationship, the man he finally meets and all the family dynamics that go on while the mystery is playing out.

5) What made you decide to get the book made into an audiobook?

My mom loves audiobooks as do her friends, so I made it for her and others who spend a lot of time in the car or traveling and wanted to be able to listen to the story.

6) Who did the narration on the audiobook and what made you choose them?

I auditioned a bunch of narrators and they were all good, but just not what I was looking for. The minute I heard John Mancuso’s voice and reading style, I knew he was the one. I’m not kidding, it was one sentence in and I hired him. He was wonderful to work with. Very collaborative and adaptive to things I wanted to focus on or not. Very professional and a complete pleasure to work with. I’ve already asked him to narrate Archipelago.

7) What can we expect from you in the future?

Book 2 is titled Archipelago and involves the same characters and an expansion of the story and mysteries from Book 1. Archipelago is in production and will be released in 2025. Book 3 is the continuation of the storyline and is titled, Chameleon and that should be out in 2026. The storylines are complex, twisted, multi-dimensional with many surprises thrown in.

8) What genres do you write?

Genre: Techno Thriller, Adventure, Romantic Suspense

9) What is your book/series about?

The Poseidon Project

The Herb Society Mysteries Book 1

Molly Halloran and her friends have a secret past.

Their bucolic retirement is suddenly upended when Molly’s husband is abducted and held for a steep ransom. Now she, her friends, her tech executive son, Lukas and his Air Force pilot boyfriend must race against the clock and travel halfway around the world to meet the kidnappers’ demands.

But when they learn why her husband has been abducted, they realize how high the stakes truly are. Molly and her friends now must face their past in order to save the future. But not only their futures; the world’s.

10) Please tell me a little bit about yourself.

E. William Podojil is an international business executive and novelist. He has traveled extensively and visited over sixty countries while living in Europe and the United States. Podojil works as an executive business advisor, and strategist while also pursuing his love of storytelling and writing. Podojil's first novel, The Tenth Man, was published in 2004. His second novel, The Poseidon Project, was be released in August, 2024 by The Wild Rose Press, and is the first in The Herb Society Mysteries, a series of adventure thrillers. His novels and other writing are showcased on his website www.ewpodojil.com. Here he also writes a personal blog with humorous stories of his life and travels with his husband and three sons. He and his family currently reside in Northeast Ohio.

11) Since you just mentioned it but I want to make sure readers can easily find it, what is your website?

h ttps://www.ewpodojil.com/

12) What are your socials and where else can we find you?

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EWPodojilauthor

X: https://x.com/EWPodojil

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewilliampodojil

Threads: https://www.threads.net/@ewilliampodojil

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ewilliampodojil.bsky.social

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/e-william-podojil

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/E.-William-Podojil/author/B001K8O4YO

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/173768582-e-william-podojil#

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