Just like films are often influenced by books, many writers of novels also take cues from the movies. Though usually not as strongly as Richard Chiem, who — in the following email interview — talks about how he was prompted to write his new novel King Of Joy (paperback, Kindle) after watching the movie Spring Breakers.
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