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Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Nadine Heroni.

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Speaker 2: Hi Nadine, how are you doing? I'm good?

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Speaker 1: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely fantastic. Excited to talk about teen Read Week because.

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Speaker 2: Boy, we need this.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I realize they're reading, but are we doing

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it as a as a solid connection or community and

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then sharing it with others. It seems to be such

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a personal thing these days.

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Speaker 2: I'm reading a book. What are you reading about? I

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don't know. I'll get back to you.

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Speaker 1: I agree.

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Speaker 3: How do we get people more involved in something like this?

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And that's the way I would like to start this

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off is I want people to understand that that teen

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Read Week is very real and that it really is

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one of those things that inspires people to start digging

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in and find something that you enjoy reading. It's not

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a popular game. Just make it happen in your own way.

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Speaker 1: Exactly. I think it's really finding what makes you, something

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that interests you, maybe in another world you want to

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step into, maybe you want to learn about something else,

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learn about something new, and keeping a book by your

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bed at night is a really great way to It

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helps you kind of get into like a rhythm of

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reading before you go to sleep.

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Speaker 3: Well, look at what you do with the Hat Diaries

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in the way when you speak of learning, Oh, they're

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going to walk away with a history lesson here, but

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it's not one that's going to be driven into their head.

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They're going to experience something and then grow with it.

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Speaker 1: I hope. So, yes, I do hope.

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Speaker 3: So So what was it like to put a project

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like this together, because I mean that involves a lot

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of research, which a lot of people, you know, they

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hit chat GPT and they think that's research, and that's

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just not the.

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Speaker 1: Answer, right, So yeah, it's you do do you do?

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You do need to do research when you're writing a book,

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and especially if you're if you're it's somewhat historical fiction,

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especially the third book, The Escape from the Adventure. But

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it's it's really kind of it's it's there's a lot

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involved in putting the books together. And the Hat Diary

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series is composed of three books, and each book has

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its own little sort of twist on things happening. But

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for each of the three books, I did have to

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do research, which I think is an author is really

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important to do if you're writing about something that's not

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in your immediate world. To make it more credible in

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the minds of the reader. You need to know what

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you're talking about. So if you're talking about history, you're

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talking about a particular job. In the first book, I

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talk about Brian puts on these magical hats and he

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transforms into the role of the hat wearer, and he

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becomes a surgeon, and he becomes a doctor, excuse me,

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a surgeon. He becomes a firefighter, he becomes a police officer.

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And I familiarized myself with the different medical jargon or

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the cop lingo or the firefighter fighter expressions and stuff

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like that. So you need to sort of do your

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research when you're writing a book to make sure that

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you're using the proper terms. And when I was. In

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the third book, Escape from the Adventure, Ryan is able

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to travel through this magical and in the second book,

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Discover the Portal, He's able to travel through this magical

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portal where he steps into he can step back into

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history into various historical events, and I've described the historical

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events and what he's seeing and what he's feeling and

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stuff like that. So again I needed to do research

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about what was happening during those different time eras to

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make the reader be able to visualize it and to

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make it more believable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you do something here that I can relate

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with as a daily writer, because I've had it as

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a subject so many times. The diary is dropped near

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the portal. Now, no, No, I've always been afraid of

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is there going to be something I'm going to drop

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that I should not have dropped? And what did I

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learn in doing so? And what did I lose by

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not picking it up? I mean, I just think that

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that is such a powerful statement in this when it

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is dropped.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and we kind of also learned that sort of

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history repeated itself because Ryan's grandfather did the same thing

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before he left the portal, because this was this portal

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and the hat diaries and all of the magic that's

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happening from this Halt factory spanned the generations. So yes,

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it's a very pivotal moment in the book and history

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sort of repeating itself.

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Speaker 3: But you know what's so interesting about the way that

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you write, Nadine, And I'd love to see the research

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on this. How many adults they don't necessarily see that

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it's a YA book series or anything like that, they'll

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read a book that's a great book. I mean, they

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don't care. People want to read a great book, and

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especially when it comes to.

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Speaker 2: History, right, I guess yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of I say. My stories are

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nothing like the Harry Potter series, but it's the same genre,

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which is technically YA or middle grade fantasy adventure. And

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just like the Harry Potter series, my readers span from

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age eight through adult and I think my books, the

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lessons sort of woven into each of the stories are

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universal no matter what your age, and they're meant to

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sort of take you out of your head and take

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you to another place.

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Speaker 2: So they do, so.

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Speaker 1: I think it is I do. I do write the

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books so that they're g rated enough to be appropriate

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for younger children, but also interesting enough to keep adults attention.

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Speaker 3: Please do not move. There's more with Nadine Harony coming

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up next. The name of the book series, The Hat Diaries.

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We are back with the author, Nadine Haroney. How did

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you deal with the three different narrators? Because I mean

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that right there in my writing heart is that's three

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different personalities.

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Speaker 1: This book, the new book, Escape from the Adventure, was

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definitely the most challenging to write, because that is the

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first book that I did have more than one narrator

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that wasn't just Ryan Rigby. And it's when you're writing

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a book, you do kind of just like you hear

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sometimes method actors when they're in films, they kind of

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become whatever role that they're playing. Certain actors are famous

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for doing stuff like that, like Jaque in Phoenix, I think,

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and Lee DiCaprio. And when you're writing a story, it's

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kind of similar in that you sort of start. I

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started when I was writing the first book, The Hat Diaries.

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I was constantly thinking about what would Ryan Rigby be saying, thinking, doing,

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And you really do sort of step into the shoes

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of your character. So in this situation where I had

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three different narrators, it was definitely a bit of a challenge,

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and it was the first time I ever wrote a

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story like that, So I had to kind of change

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my style for each of the chapters where they'd be speaking,

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because Ryan would certainly not say the same thing, say

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things the same way the Violet, his girlfriend would say things,

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and Merlow, who's an older man, he would he would

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certainly use expressions like whipper snack for Duggeries or things

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that people from margin kids from this generation wouldn't use.

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Speaker 3: So, you know, but the thing that I think one

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of the attractions of your stories is the one where

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it's set in Germany in nineteen forty four. And my

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wife asked me, she says, what do you think is

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your reasons for.

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Speaker 2: Being connected to this?

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Speaker 3: And I think it's because my mother was from that

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era and I don't have anything really to kind of

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showcase what she may have gone through as that child,

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and so I depend on books such as this, and

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I want them simple because I want my mother to

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come from a simple life, maybe challenge. But you don't

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understand when I'm coming from on this, right.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm sure, I'm sure that you're not. And right,

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I mean, these books are the stories in the third

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book are meant to give a little bit of a

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glimpse into history and to what was happening in the

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world at that time. So it's meant to have the

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reader sort of step into Ryan's shoes and sort of

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visualize and feel like they were there.

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Speaker 3: How do you think the reader is envisioning Ryan? Because

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and maybe I'm sick like that because I always sit

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there and I try to inside my imagination, try to

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figure out who the narrator is, what they're wearing today.

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Are they sipping on coffee or is it a soft drink?

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What are they doing are they are they anxious to

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get outside with the dog and play. That's the kind

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of person I am. I want to know who that

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narrator is and what are they doing.

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Speaker 1: So when I wrote the book, I wrote the books

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in for the very first book, my agent when she

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was pitching me to various publishers, she wanted me to

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say who I envisioned playing the role of the different

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major characters. Yes, And that was because eventually the goal

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is for this series to become a screenplay or a

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mini series.

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Speaker 4: And I don't.

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Speaker 1: Recall the name of the actors who I had given

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her as a because I didn't really know many young

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actors for the Ryan character. But I envisioned visually like

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sort of like a Harry Patter looking type of kid,

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sort of nerdy with glasses. And a few of the

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other characters I do have that I had to tell her,

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which were for the baseball dad, who I describe in

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the first book, I had Bradley Cooper in mind.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I want to meet Bradley Cooper like you

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know anyone else, and Jessica Chastain I have envisioned as

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the mom because she's supposed to be sort of a

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Yogi natural looking I described as strawberry blond hair.

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Speaker 1: And for Marlowe, I've envisioning a Dustin Hoffman with a

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white right leg.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, wow.

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Speaker 3: I got to admit to you I've been with Bradley Cooper,

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and I mean it was it was one of those

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things where my sole job that day was to make

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sure that he got from the Ritz car in to

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the Charlotte Motor Speedway to promote a movie. And so

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therefore when I met him at the at the hotel

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elevator and he stepped off and he was a giant

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of a man, and all he wanted to do was

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talk about football and baseball. And it was like he says,

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come on over here, let's let's just sit down and talk.

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Let's just sit down and talk. I he won me over.

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Speaker 4: You.

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Speaker 3: You need to put it in the universe to meet

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this man, because you will see that he's.

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Speaker 2: Just one of us. He's just a guy and he

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loves storytelling.

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Speaker 1: Well, Bradley Cooper, if you are listening you are hired.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, you gotta get me in there. Man,

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let you Okay, everybody put it in the universe.

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Speaker 4: It can't hurt, right.

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Speaker 3: Where can people go to find out more about you

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and what you're doing with words? Because your words allow

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people to try their own words on paper, and even

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though they crumple it up and throw it away, it

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doesn't matter. You moved them to write.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. That's my That's definitely my goal. So if

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they go to my website, which is Nadineharni dot com.

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That's Na d I n E h A r u

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ni dot com, or on my Instagram and Facebook, I'm

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at Adine Harony Books And on my website I have

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book trailers for I have the Hat Diary series, I

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have my children's series Free to the Frog, and I

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also have links for author events if people want me to.

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I like going to schools and talking to kids and

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getting them excited about reading.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I love where your heart is. Oh my god,

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thank you.

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Speaker 3: Well, You've got to come back to this show anytime

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in the future. The door is always going to be open.

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You were every bit the reason why I created the

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YA Author's Channel on iHeartRadio and man, people come to

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that because they want to know what you are like

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in real life.

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Speaker 1: Wonderful. Well, thank you so much for having me as

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a guest and I appreciate you you having me on.

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Speaker 2: You'd be brilliant today.

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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you you two