Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Martin Fletcher
Author Name: Martin Fletcher OBOJC Book Title: The List Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? If so, what is the title? Can you briefly describe the book? If you have another book due out soon, please tell us about that one and the estimated publication date. Jacob’s Oath, 2013. Tells the story of two Holocaust survivors who go home to Heidelberg after the war and fall in love, the only two Jews in town. But a promise Jacob made to his dying brother to kill the SS guard who beat him to death threatens his future love [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Mitchell James Kaplan
Author Name: Mitchell James Kaplan OBOJC Book Title: By Fire, By Water Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? If so, what is the title? Can you briefly describe the book? If you have another book due out soon, please tell us about that one and the estimated publication date. I've recently finished revising my second novel, tentatively titled Same Stars, Different Constellations. It's another historical, and it deals with Roman military and religious colonialism in Britannia and Judea. Characters include Yohanan ben Zakkai, Paul of Tarsus, Nero, and a refugee from Britannia named Aislin. Themes and issues include the [...]
Celebrating 10 Years of OBOJC Authors: What’s Cooking with Dara Horn
Author Name: Dara Horn OBOJC Book Title: All Other Nights Have you published another book since your OBOJC book? If so, what is the title? Can you briefly describe the book? If you have another book due out soon, please tell us about that one and the estimated publication date. My fourth novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, was published in 2013. It's about a software developer who creates an app that records everything we do-- and then the story spirals back to the discovery of the Cairo Genizah, a massive depository of over 100,000 Hebrew manuscripts in a 1000-year-old Cairo synagogue. It's [...]