James Mueller On The 5 Things You Need To Be A Successful Author or Writer

Talent, passion, perseverance, a knowledge of great literature, and self-honesty. As George Bernard Shaw said, “Those who can -do, those who can’t -teach.”

As part of my interview series on the five things you need to know to become a great author, I had the pleasure of interviewing James Mueller.

One hundred years from now, Mueller dares to want his novel, Confessions of Saint Augustine, to be regarded as the most extraordinary literary fiction of the 21st Century. In the meantime, however, he says he’ll settle for that cult-like following that generated the kind of response that classics like The Catcher in the Rye, Portnoy’s Complaint, and Catch-22 generated — the type of novel that not only spoke to a whole generation — but the kind of novel that changed a whole generation — and since he is already getting responses from readers of every persuasion from every continent (except Antarctica) listing it on Facebook, Instagram, and elsewhere as one of their all-time favorite novels along with the greatest novels of all-time, including the most extraordinary novel of the 20th Century, ULYSSES! The real question now is — where does he go from here? Because it’s obvious the one thing he has…