Welcome to the 2024 ARIA Author Showcase and Giveaway Event! 

  

  

How to enter – Comment on the daily showcases to enter the daily giveaway. Comments close four days after the initial Showcase post. GRAND PRIZE drawn on Dec 5th (1 -$250, 1 -$100, or a 1 -$50 Amazon gift card. One grand prize pp) – For every showcase you post on, you automatically gain one entry to the grand prize. 30 Authors = 30 entries.    

Robert Hirsch  will be at the Rhode Island Author Expo.

On to the Showcase! 

 

What name do you like to write under? Robert L. Hirsch

Where do you call home? From Framingham and live in Warren RI now; lived all around  Eastern  USA.

What genre(s) do you write? Fiction, contemporary, thriller, scientific

What genre(s) were you drawn to when you were younger? Was there a reason that genre(s) appealed to you the most? 

Medical thriller, science fiction, - probably because I was a science focused kid and hoped to  go that way in school.  And did eventually, getting a PhD in immunology.

What were some of your favorite books growing up? Why?  

There was a balance; I love golf and played in college. Ben Hogan's "Five Lessons" is a classic that I have read countless times since it was published 65 years ago. 

What are some of your favorite books today?

Lots of non fiction.  Enjoy Annie Jacobsen's research and books on topics such Nuclear War, Area 51, Operation Paperclip.   Bio's as well - tend to read about contemporary persons. 

What inspired you to become a writer? 

Would like to focus on this. This hits at the heart of my work as scientist and a pharma/vaccine developer for children.   I worked hard at developing and marketing products to prevent disease and when I see persons trying to dissuade others to not use them, I cringe.   That's where it all started.

 

Invisible Threat

Dr. Alan Mazer graduated from Harvard Medical School at the age of twenty and started curing rare diseases by age twenty-five. He grew into one of America’s most brilliant scientists, so no one could have foreseen his true intentions. Now a radicalized Muslim, Mazer uses his genius to isolate viruses that attack the nervous system. One “vaccine” kills instead of protecting, stealing the lives of children. In particular, Mazer targets Israelis and Americans in an effort to bring down Western society. Now, skilled Mossad agents, the Joint Terrorist Task Force, and an immunologist from a biotechnology company work together to fight against jihad. They rush to stop Mazer and his team of terrorists, even as unlimited funds roll in from across the globe supporting Mazer’s cause. This team must find this man and stop him before the virus and others spread indiscriminately.

 

Tell us a little about how “Invisible Threat” came to be. Did it start with an image, a voice, a concept, a dilemma or something else? 

Written just before COVID hit our shores, this book started with my ongoing  feeling that pediatricians were not doing their best job convincing parents to protect their children.  Too many outbreaks of measles occurred throughout the States and in Europe and we had brought the number basically down to zero except or sporadic cases.   I personally saw the ravages of this one preventable disease in a developing nation during my research and did not want to see this happen again in the States.  My novel began as a tale to relate what could happen if they left children unvaccinated.  I brought into the story a  jihadist and his hate filled anger against the West and Jews.  All of this parallels eerily events that are occurring in our real world today.   (My second  book,  (We Can't Go Back) just being released, is follow up to this novel, but can be read as a stand alone novel as well.)

Which scene, character or plotline changed the most from first draft to published book? 

The war on the State of Israel/Athletes was never part of the initial outline of the book.

Which character was the most challenging to create. Why?  

Two characters:

Dr. Mazer,  whose life is told from his teen years through his adulthood in this  book, I would say was difficult.  I personally have never been involved in hurtful activities, and trying to develop such ideas and thoughts did not come easy.  Further, once they are on paper, I reconsidered whether publishing them was a good idea.  Would someone with a warped brain try to recreate such ideas?  

Dr. Nari Lee- I found it difficult to write from the woman's perspective,  but I wanted her to be the main protagonist.  I thought she would be the perfect opposite to Mazer.  An athlete and a thoughtful scientist, doing the right thing.  But in the end I became  more comfortable as I did have role models in my career to lean upon.  And, she will be prominent in the next book as well. 

What do you like best about being a writer? 

Opening up and just writing with free flowing ideas.  It's always easy to chop them out.  But I love the ability to just put things down, and as they say think out of the box.  It is not  quite the same when you have already have a hypothesis and work  toward an answer in the lab or in a clinical study.

If you could collaborate with any author past or present, who would it be? What would the title of the book be? (If possible) - Give us a one sentence blurb.  

"Washington without power for 21 days"  with Stephen King

The title is a real double entendre--do the animals have the power, the people, the politicians, people with food? 

 

You can follow Robert Hirsch here - 

Website - www.roberthirschauthor.com 

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/robert.hirsch.7545 

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/robert_hirsch_author 

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Robert Hirsch is giving away a hard cover of   - Invisible Threat.

 

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