What’s your name (or pen name) and where are you from?

Ty Unglebower. I’ve lived in Maryland my whole life.

How long have you been writing? How did you start?

I’ve been writing in some fashion since at least high school, but I started fiction writing on a regular basis about ten years ago or so.

Who are some of your influences?

I’m influenced by the reading experience more than a specific author. I can say I’ve read more than one book by folks like Steve Berry and Louis Bayard.

What is your book about?

U.S. President James Garfield is dying from an assassins bullet. On his death bed he is recruited from a sort of afterlife to help retrieve souls of the departed that have been stolen. He accepts this offer as he dies, and the novel tells of his experience there.

Where did you get the idea?

Garfield…