Author Interview : Michael Mclellan
Image Courtesy: Michael Mclellan Michael Mclellan's new book In The Shadow of the Hanging Tree is slated for release towards the end of January, 2017. While his previous books After and Again and American Flowers were in the adventure/reality genre, this is the first time he has dabbled in historical fiction. Let us get straight to the interview. Q1. Hello and welcome, Michael. Let me start by asking what the book is about? Thank you for having me, Chitra. The story is a fictional account chronicling the early life of a slave who is freed at the beginning of the American Civil War. Finding himself on the run from Confederate militiamen, he flees west where he befriends a tribe of Native Americans. He eventually attempts to interfere with a plot by the U.S. Government to eliminate the natives as an obstacle to the westward expansion. Q2. What were the challenges you faced while writing this book? Making sure that the book was as histor...