I was initially writing a novel about a corrupt governor before his arrest, so I was already writing a book about it. How is this going to (or has it already) affected your writing and/or legal career? Good? Bad?ĭavid Ellis: It certainly affected this novel. So we chatted with him about how the book evolved when Blago got impeached and his personal experience both as a writer and with corrupt governors.ĭavid Ellis reads from Breach of Trust, February 11, Barnes & Noble - Webster Ave., 7:30 p.m.Ĭhicagoist: From now on, you'll have "the prosecutor who convicted former Illinois governer Rod Blagojevich" associated your name. Breach of Trust is being released tomorrow, the same day that Ellis is starting his book tour. Breach of Trust is about something we Chicagoans can all relate to: a corrupt governor. The lawyer author is now back with a new novel. “Kind of a big deal” doesn’t begin to explain how big of a deal David Ellis really is. And then there’s that one time when he was the Rod Blagojevich Impeachment Prosecutor.
Several novels later, he has earned a reputation as being one of the most popular contemporary thriller writers. It was a novel he worked on for hundreds upon thousands of hours before being rejected by agents time and time again, revised and finally published. The Springfield-based author won the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award Best First Novel with his Line of Vision. Being a full-time writer, a full-time lawyer and full-time parent is super duper triple hard work. David Ellis' new book is about a corrupt governor.Being a full-time writer is hard work.
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