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Hey, what's going on? This is Rad, your host for software, radio, bringing you another awesome episode today.

My guest joining me is author John Wynn Miller.

Okay, and that's W-I-N. I want to point that out. John Wynn Miller, and he has written the book, The novel, The World War II, Epic.

Right now that you can go and purchase on Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and it's called The Hunt for the Peggy Sea.

Welcome to the show, John.

Thanks. I'm happy to be here.

I'm happy to be anywhere, actually, but I'm not happy to be here.

Well, to our listeners, you're an author, you're an investigative journalist, you have background in research and studying.

What is it that made you just want to write and become an author?

Is this your first endeavor?

It is my first novel. I became a journalist more than 30 years ago, let's say, because I wanted to write the Great American novel.

Unfortunately, I didn't know how to write, and I had nothing to write about.

I had no exciting experiences, so I became a journalist, ended up being an investigative reporter.

It's a Pulitzer finalist. Then I was a foreign correspondent based in Italy for almost five years, for the AP and the Wall Street Journal, covered politics.

And when I retired the first time, I, he took a buyout because the newspaper industry was collapsing.

I was determined that I was going to learn how to write screenplays.

And the idea had actually occurred to me years before. This is true story. It's strange.

I had been watching a movie, a really bad movie, that I can't remember the name, with my daughter, Allison.

And the whole time I kept saying, I know I can write a better script than this. I just know it.

And that night, I had a dream, and when I woke up, I knew the first scene, and I knew the last scene of the screenplay, and I knew the name of the ship, the Peggy Sea.

Where that came from, I have no idea.

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