Molly:
What did you do first write your book or seek out an agent or a publisher?

David:
I started writing my first book, "Contract for Deceit" and when I was into it a good way, I began to do some research as to what step to do next. Everything I read specified that when writing fiction you have to have the book finished before seeking out a publisher or agent, so armed with that information, I buckled down and finished the first draft of the book before I even looked at publishing companies.

Molly:
When I read CONTRACT FOR DECEIT for review I was really caught up in the story. Is this tale based in fact or is it the product of your fertile mind?

David:
Well, obviously, Duprel Oil and Gas is fictional. (although, just between you and I, I worked on a couple of National Sales Meetings of some of the larger Oil Companies and I used what I saw and heard there for a lot of in-depth information) The stories of the Avro Arrow and the Orenda Iroquois engine are all fact. The Avro Arrows CF-201 through CF-206 were test aircraft that were being put through their paces based on fulfilling a contract for an all-weather interceptor requested by the Canadian Military. The contract got pulled and the aircraft and all work on it was ordered destroyed even though the performance specifications were far ahead of anything that anyone had hoped for. The mystery remains to this day as to WHY. Many of the details about what happened to the craft and the engine are verified facts, including the details about the brains of Canada being taken aboard by NASA. According to many, the moon landing would NEVER have happened without AVRO's Canadians being at NASA.

Molly:
Can you tell me how you came to decide to write in mystery thriller genre?

David:
To answer this question, all you have to do is take a look at the books that I have laying around the house. My favourite authors include Dean Koontz, Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum and Clive Cussler. Just to name a few that I feel have been most influential to my writing. I have always been a fan of conspiracies and have a great interest in things that nobody can offer a brick-solid explanation for. To this end, I like to take something that has basis in fact and then simply say..."What if?" To me, there is nothing that is more fun than knowing that somewhere, someone is reading simply because they have to find out what happens next.

Molly:
Is there a reason why you chose not to use a pen-name?

David:
To be perfectly honest, I never even considered using a pen name. I suspect that vanity plays a little in my decision because I like to take credit for things that I have worked on.

Molly:
I find that I particularly enjoy writing series because when one book is finished I don't have to say goodbye to the characters I know as friends, rather I follow them as they enter their next adventure. I believe you have just had a book accepted for publication by electricbooks. Is this your second book featuring some of your Contract for Deceit characters? Would you tell us a bit about that book.

David:
Actually, ElectronicEbooks have not accepted "Common Foe" for publication yet but I'm keeping My fingers crossed that they will like it enough to publish it and most definitely we see Jean-Val Fincoeur, Patrice Fincham and even Phil Shaddock again. "Common Foe" is the second book and I'm currently working on the third book in the Jean-Val/Patrice series; "No Return," with creative concepts already begun for 3 more that as of yet have no titles. The best way to describe "Common Foe" is with this:

Your vacation has been cancelled. That is what Jean-Val Fincoeur finds out when he and his Canadian friends come across some information while attending the celebrations of the supposed crash of a UFO near Roswell, New Mexico. The information sends Jean-Val on a daredevil run for the Canadian border with the most powerful intelligence agency in the world doing everything they can to prevent him from getting home with the evidence he is carrying. Being in business is a gamble, but gambling with your life is a dangerous business. Ex-American and new Canadian citizen, Patrice Fincham, learns that lesson the hard way when she begins investigating the history of a bank account owned by a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot that died more than fifty years ago. Canada's Intelligence agency, CSIS, will do whatever it takes to prevent Patrice from discovering how and where that pilot died. Although they don't know it, Jean-Val and Patrice have come across two secrets that are so incredibly interwoven that it might be assumed they were working together.

Molly:
Thank you David for a most interesting interview. Lots of luck with your future work, I look forward to reading more of Jean-Val, Patrice and even that scoundrel Shaddock.

Bio Info
At 42 years of age, David D. Furlotte resides in Markham, Ontario with his wife and 3 children, but spent most of his formative years in St. John's, Newfoundland and Montreal, Quebec. Two years after finishing a course in business communications with Seneca College he started a business that was instrumental in getting him to see the world for the next 15 years until 1996 when he sold the business. David has traveled throughout the world in his career as a Multimedia Project Manager, staging business events worldwide. He admits that this experience has given him great insight and help in writing, from the main character to his attention to detail. David has been directly involved in marketing and communications areas with some of the largest corporations in Canada and has acted as advisor and consultant in addition to doing the same type of work portrayed by the main character in his books. He has taught business marketing skills to students at Humber College and has taught multimedia presentation courses to students at his old alma mater, Seneca College. He can also be heard every Saturday evening on CFRB 1010 doing his weekly piece for the "Strange Days ... Indeed" talk radio program.

To learn more about David Furlotte and his books, please visit his authorsden site.