NZ writers have interest in release of Dan Brown's 'Inferno'

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May 14, 2013

New Zealand writers have vested interest in today’s release of Dan Brown’s latest novel

With today's release of bestselling author Dan Brown’s latest novel Inferno, New Zealand father-and-son writing team Lance and James Morcan are resigned to one of their books being bumped from third place in the popularity stakes on a major international literary site.

The Morcans’ conspiracy thriller series, The Orphan Trilogy, currently occupies third place behind Brown’s Angels & Demons and The Da Vinci Code on the Conspiracy Fiction list on Goodreads, the world’s leading book review site recently acquired by Amazon.

The three novels that make up The Orphan Trilogy occupy the next three places on that same list –ahead of books by such acclaimed authors as Steig Larsson and J.K. Rowling.

Today is D-Day for Inferno’s release in North America by Doubleday and in the UK by Transworld Publishers, a division of The Random House Group. The book will have a first printing of four million copies. Inferno, featuring the return of renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon, is set in Italy and centers on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces.

On his own website, Dan Brown says although he studied Dante’s Inferno as a student, it wasn’t until recently, while researching in Florence, that he came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante’s work on the modern world. With this new novel, he says, he’s excited to take readers on a journey deep into this mysterious realm – a landscape of codes, symbols, and more than a few secret passageways.

Papamoa-based Lance Morcan says he and James feel honoured to even appear on the same list as acclaimed writers like Dan Brown. “If one or more of our novels are bumped down a list as a result of Inferno hitting the bookstores, we won’t be too discouraged,” he says.

Sydney-based James Morcan agrees, saying The Orphan Uprising – the third book in The Orphan Trilogy – was only published in January and the trilogy box set in February, so “it’s still early days” for the completed trilogy.

The Morcans now have four published novels including their historical adventure-romance, Fiji: A Novel. They are also screenwriters and film producers, and have already put two of their novels into development with Morcan Motion Pictures.

James, who is also an actor, recently played a star role in two soon-to-be released Indian-Australian feature films, Love You Krishna and My Cornerstone, which he also wrote the screenplays for. The latter film is being promoted at Cannes this month.

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For further information go to:

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2407.Conspiracy_Fiction#17377036

www.danbrown.com

http://morcanbooksandfilms.com/

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BGGM05U/

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