The Divine Dantes: Paella in Purgatory
(Infernal Trilogy #2)
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 The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades (Infernal Trilogy #1) was a "Best Second Novel" award-winning finalist in the Indie Book Awards.
Book #1 Reviews
“a lively and good-natured work” —Publisher’s Weekly Reviewer
"reminds me a little of the fun I find in Carl Hiaasen or Christopher Moore, but he definitely has his own vibe" -Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Reviewer |
Book 2 of The Divine Dantes's Infernal Trilogy finds Eddie and Virgil in Barcelona, Spain. Eddie, the young rocker with an active mind, thinks they are there to get on a cruise. Virgil, however, has tricked Eddie and arranged for Bea to secretly meet them. Meantime, Virg and Eddie visit famous Barcelona landmarks (La Sagrada Familia, Park Guell, La Rambla Street, etc) as Eddie adds his trademark commentary. Will Eddie speak to Bea when she arrives? And if he will, does their two-person band get back together?
Interview with Andrew
Q: Eddie and Virg attend the bullfights in Spain. Without giving away too much, how you portray the bullfights is much different than, say, Hemingway. You even make reference to "The Sun Also Rises."
A: Hemingway felt it was his job to show the beauty of bullfighting and I felt it was my duty to show the brutality of it all.
Q: Was book II of the trilogy harder to write than the first?
A: In some ways yes because Virg and Eddie are exploring a foreign country. I just finished a first draft of book III and I can tell you that the second book is the most supernatural of them all. On the other hand, having written book I made the characters very familiar and their dialogue flowed very easily. They are real people to me in so many ways.
Q: Beatrice does not appear until the back half of the novel just as she does in “The Divine Comedy” by Dante. Was that a concern?
A: It was a big concern because she is one of the main characters and everybody who read the first book kept telling me how they wanted to meet her. But if I was to be true to the poem, she had to enter at the right spot. What I did was various backstory and dream sequences so Bea could play a larger part in the book.
Q: Your Goodreads profile even shows Dante’s image.
A: (Laughs) That’s not me. I’m much better looking and I typically try not to wear fig leaf crowns (at least not in public). I modified the image to add Beats headphones. Who knew Dante was the first poet to rock out? The headphones were my way to tie the rock novel theme in with the underlying poet and his work.
Q: Are you going to make a soundtrack for the novel? There are a number of references to songs.
A: I plan to do that on Spotify or iTunes. The list will allow readers to hear the book II of the trilogy.
Q: “The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades” was a finalist in the best second novel of the Indie Book Awards. How is it different.
A: For one thing, there are more dream sequences. I have never liked them because to me it’s the author taking the easy way out. Poof! A scary dream or a reverie of a murder. They are used much too often. In “The Divne Dantes: Paella in Purgatory” I could not write around them because--along with flashbacks--it was the only way to have Bea appear in the story as much as she does. She could not appear in real life or it would fly in the face of Dante’s poem (and might even knock his fig leaf crown off).
Q: What’s in store for the final book in the trilogy?
A: Don’t you wish I would tell! Suffice it to say that Bea and Eddie are together for the entire novel, and that spells rocker trouble.
A: Hemingway felt it was his job to show the beauty of bullfighting and I felt it was my duty to show the brutality of it all.
Q: Was book II of the trilogy harder to write than the first?
A: In some ways yes because Virg and Eddie are exploring a foreign country. I just finished a first draft of book III and I can tell you that the second book is the most supernatural of them all. On the other hand, having written book I made the characters very familiar and their dialogue flowed very easily. They are real people to me in so many ways.
Q: Beatrice does not appear until the back half of the novel just as she does in “The Divine Comedy” by Dante. Was that a concern?
A: It was a big concern because she is one of the main characters and everybody who read the first book kept telling me how they wanted to meet her. But if I was to be true to the poem, she had to enter at the right spot. What I did was various backstory and dream sequences so Bea could play a larger part in the book.
Q: Your Goodreads profile even shows Dante’s image.
A: (Laughs) That’s not me. I’m much better looking and I typically try not to wear fig leaf crowns (at least not in public). I modified the image to add Beats headphones. Who knew Dante was the first poet to rock out? The headphones were my way to tie the rock novel theme in with the underlying poet and his work.
Q: Are you going to make a soundtrack for the novel? There are a number of references to songs.
A: I plan to do that on Spotify or iTunes. The list will allow readers to hear the book II of the trilogy.
Q: “The Divine Dantes: Squirt Guns in Hades” was a finalist in the best second novel of the Indie Book Awards. How is it different.
A: For one thing, there are more dream sequences. I have never liked them because to me it’s the author taking the easy way out. Poof! A scary dream or a reverie of a murder. They are used much too often. In “The Divne Dantes: Paella in Purgatory” I could not write around them because--along with flashbacks--it was the only way to have Bea appear in the story as much as she does. She could not appear in real life or it would fly in the face of Dante’s poem (and might even knock his fig leaf crown off).
Q: What’s in store for the final book in the trilogy?
A: Don’t you wish I would tell! Suffice it to say that Bea and Eddie are together for the entire novel, and that spells rocker trouble.
“[A] lively and good-natured work with a great deal of humor . . ..”
Publisher’s Weekly Reviewer
“[R]eminds me a little of the fun I find in Carl Hiaasen or Christopher Moore, but he definitely has his own vibe . . ..”
Breakthrough Novel Award Expert Reviewer
Publisher’s Weekly Reviewer
“[R]eminds me a little of the fun I find in Carl Hiaasen or Christopher Moore, but he definitely has his own vibe . . ..”
Breakthrough Novel Award Expert Reviewer
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