Interview: Joshua Graham, Author of Beyond Justice

Growing up, Joshua Graham spent the majority of 35 in Brooklyn, New York.  Mr. Graham went on to earn a Bachelor and Master’s Degree and later, his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. While in Maryland, Joshua Graham taught as a professor at Shepherd College (WV), Western Maryland College, and Columbia Union College (MD).

Mr. Graham is a  member of the Oregon Writers Network, as well as a graduate of the Master Classes and professional writing workshops held by Dean W. Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch.  Dean and Kris, along with the entire OWN, have been a major influence in his journey to become a published writer.

Joshua Graham resides in San Diego with his wife and children.  In addition to his novel, Beyond Justice, Mr. Graham has several short fiction stories published by Pocket Books and Dawn Treader Press under different pen names.

Readers can visit Joshua Graham at the following:

Website at www.joshua-graham.com, Facebook at www.facebook.com/j0shuagraham or twitter www.twitter.com/j0shuagraham.

Please tell us a bit about your book: Beyond Justice - characters, plot, etc.

In Beyond Justice, through Samuel Hudson we explore the depths of human character when his worst nightmares become a reality. His wife and daughter brutally raped and murdered, his son beaten and left for dead. And on top of all that, he becomes the primary suspect. This is for sure a legal/crime thriller but it also reaches at the core of one’s belief system. The most powerful themes in this story are loss, redemption, forgiveness and justice.

If you could meet, in person, any of your characters, who would it be and why?

I’d probably like to meet the protagonist, Sam Hudson. Sam’s not pretentious and doesn’t struggle to hide his imperfections. He’s real about his convictions and you don’t have to wonder what he’s thinking behind a polite veneer. You might not like everything he has to say, but you’ll always know where you stand with him. He’s overcome some of the worst imaginable tragedies and become a stronger person for it. God forbid I ever have to go through what he did, I would hope to develop the character he does in this story.

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