![]() ![]() The focus shifts from time to time, but it’s always storytelling. So I think I’m just doing what I’ve always done. I also wrote story songs and poems and short stories from a young age. When I was 9, I used to rewrite the endings of comic book stories in magazines like Amazing Stories and Fantastic Tales. JK – I’ve been a storyteller as long as I can remember. When you embarked on your artistic journey, did you realise it would be so ecclectic and cover so many different forms of expression? MN – Your first novel, World Enough and Time launched a career that has taken you around the galaxy and back again, taking in novels, film, novelizations, television and music. It was exhilarating, and my wife tells me I was all full of myself. But in fact it was an amazing time, finding myself working with these incredible film makers, on projects that I loved to watch, let alone write. JK – And don’t forget the timeless classic, Poltergeist II. Looking back, how exciting a time was that for you, mixing it up with these amazing franchises? ![]() MN – Yours is a name that will be very familiar to novel readers of the 80’s, with your work on the novelisations of Return of the Jedi, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Poltergeist and Goonies. ![]() We continue our look back to interviews conducted in years past by members of the Fantha Tracks team, and our 2012 interview with the author of the Return of the Jedi novelisation – James Kahn. ![]()
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