I want you to read books and be blown away because it was so close to your own soul and experience and you can take things from it and use it in your own real life." "I thought it alienated the reader, the way that it was written," she said. She also read Dante's "Inferno," which she didn't like. Preparing to invent her own underworld, Souljah researched religious texts for seven months, " nonfiction works that refer back to the major three books: The Torah, The New Testament and the Qu'ran."
It doesn't resonate with what you can see with your eyes in the real world." "Growing up Christian, there's the devil and he has horns and a tail. "I didn't want to write a book where everything looks the same as how people expect or imagine," said Souljah. Though Winter's journey in "Life After Death" may take place largely in the metaphysical realm, there's still plenty of sex, danger and debauchery. I want to write something that you never would have imagined." "And I say, as an author, if I write what any reader expects me to write then I've failed because that means the readers could have written the book. "People have said, 'It's so unexpected,'" said Souljah. True to Souljah's insistence on consequences, the sequel begins with a hard shock: Winter is dead, stuck in a purgatory known as the Last Stop Before the Drop, and given one last chance to avoid eternal damnation. Finally, 22 years later, Winter is back in "Life After Death," out this week. "But the character was always alive in my imagination," Souljah said. She even planned to write a Ricky story (and still hopes to). So instead she wrote spinoffs: three books about Midnight, the handsome and capable lieutenant of Winter's father, Ricky Santiaga, and one about Winter's younger sister Porsche, who ends up in juvenile detention. There are real consequences to the things that happen in real life." "Like 'Ta-da! Here she is,' and it's all good. "I didn't want to feed the hood a fantasy that going to prison is a joke or a cakewalk," she said. "Quite naturally, the book company and everyone expected me to write the sequel," said Souljah by phone from the United Arab Emirates, where she had gone to find "peace of mind" and to finish a draft of the book's long-awaited screen adaptation.īut because Winter Santiaga's story had ended with a mandatory 15-year prison sentence, Souljah felt she had to wait until Winter's time was served.
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