John McIlveen - Worlds Best Story
John McIlveen

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John Mcilveen

Haverhill, USA

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Synopsis

In a suburb on Boston’s North Shore, a catatonic little girl is found behind a dumpster. She is a mystery. As Social Worker Debbie Gillan pieces together the puzzle of the child’s identity, she discovers the child had disappeared two years earlier along with a twin sister. She also discovers HANNAHWHERE, an alternate world that is both a haven and a prison…. Life altering trauma becomes the key to unraveling the truth about the children, about Hannahwhere…and about Debbie herself. Truths that could either save them or destroy them all.

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About Me

John M. McIlveen is the author of the paranormal suspense novel, HANNAHWHERE (Winner of the 2015 Drunken Druid Award (Ireland) and Nominee for the 2015 Bram Stoker Award (HWA) in the First Novel category.

With more than fifty short stories in print, he has two story collections, INFLICTIONS and JERKS AND OTHER TALES FROM A PERFECT MAN, and the well received novelette GOT YOUR BACK. A father of five daughters, he works at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and lives in Haverhill,

Favorite Things

Charity Amnesty International
Coffee YUCK
Book A Prayer for Owen Meany
Superhero Thor
Movie RThe Green Mile
App Google Maps
Ice Cream Cookie dough

Q&A with Vincent

How would you increase literacy?

White stories people will want to read. Promote writers. Work with the schools.

What are the ingredients for a blockbuster story to you?

Hit the audience with what they're passionate about.

What are your top stories that entertain and/or inspire you?

The Green Mile - Stephen King
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
The Dork of Cork - Chet Raymo

Do you have any advice to aspiring writers?

Never give up.
Make sure your work is edited well.
Be Original.

Do you recall how your interest in writing originated?

A passion for reading from a young age.