Tell us about your
latest book.
In Grace Revealed: A Memoir, I recount my
experiences getting a “sign” to look more deeply into my Polish family’s past.
As a result, I decide to
toss Hollywood reporting aside and examine my clan’s remarkable if not heroic
odyssey of the 1940s. The misadventure leads me to expose one of the most under-reported
events of the 20th Century: Joseph Stalin’s mass deportations of
Polish citizens. Nearly 2 million Poles were deported in the 1940s, sent into
slave labor in the Siberian Gulags and later, left to wander throughout
Southern Russia and the Middle East, their lives hanging loosely on a thin
cosmic thread. Some of those refugees, like my own family, wound up in Eastern
Africa. I felt strongly to get the book done after listening to many recorded
interviews with my family. And with 2015 marking the 75th anniversary of the
deportations, the opportunity to bring this remarkable yet under-reported story
about the Poles-—in a sense, the forgotten Holocaust—to light has never been so
timely. However, the book isn’t all “heavy.” One review told me it’s “an Eat
Pray Love by way of a Polish Alex Haley.”
I’ll take that.
What formats is the
book available in?
The book is available on all platforms. From
physical copy to e-book / Nook/ Kindle, etc.
Who are your favourite
authors?
David, Sedaris, Carrie Fisher, Jonathan
Franzen, Molly Ivins, Caroline Myss, Deepak Chopra, Elizabeth Gilbert, Dan
Brown
What advice do you
have for other writers?
Get out of your own way … as much as you can.
What's your favourite
quote about writing/for writers?
It’s not about “you” yet … it’s about you.
Write from what you know.
What's the best thing
about being a writer?
Being able to create and allow characters and
stories to pour out of you. There’s a “high” in that process.
Where can people find
out more about you and your writing?
@Greg_Archer
Who
is you favorite character in your book and why?
My Polish grandmother,
Jadwiga. Her strength, her resilience, her ability to keep it all together for
the sake of her children… it’s quite remarkable. I am in awe. Some times it
takes me months to get over a mood swing. I have no idea how this woman managed
to keep her family together.
Why
do you think readers are going to enjoy your book?
I think journeys of self-discovery are
appealing. Like Eat Pray Love, this book takes the reader along for a ride and
in the process, chronicles the author’s unraveling (me) as he exposes a part of
history of which not many people were aware. Plus: there’s the remarkable
family survival story, too.
Where
can a reader purchase your book?
GIVEAWAY
