Mike H. Mizrahi is an award-winning creator whose fiction explores themes of loyalty, sacrifice, religion, and redemption. His novels and novellas span historic and modern settings, typically specializing in extraordinary folks dealing with extraordinary ethical selections. He loves rescue tales and American historical past. Along with fiction, Mizrahi writes articles on historical past, tradition, and religion, and has served for a few years in church management and instructing roles. He lives in Washington State together with his spouse, Karen.

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“Loyalty”…a robust feeling of help or allegiance. It’s a phrase all of us suppose we perceive till it’s examined.

The Weight of Loyalty is about in 1941 in the course of the Second World Battle. After his submarine is sunk within the Ionian Sea, an injured British sailor escapes to the shores of a Greek island beneath Italian occupation. Hidden by native villagers and aided by the resistance, he begins plotting his return to the Allied warfare effort. However the longer he stays on the island, the extra sophisticated his mission turns into.

As he falls in love with a neighborhood girl, he’s pressured to confront troublesome questions on obligation, sacrifice, and the true which means of loyalty. Is loyalty owed first to nation, to family members, or to 1’s personal conscience?

At its coronary heart, The Weight of Loyalty is a narrative about survival, love, and the price of human selections throughout warfare. In a world formed by concern and conflicting beliefs, proper and mistaken are usually not all the time clear.

Whereas rooted within the historic realities of wartime Kefalonia, the novel asks timeless questions: What will we do when loyalty calls for a sacrifice we’re unsure we will make? And the way do moments of disaster reveal who we actually are?

Why did you wish to write a e book?

I stumbled upon the outstanding true story of British submariner John Capes. He was the only survivor after his submarine struck a mine and sank off the coast of Greece throughout World Battle II. Injured, he swam a number of miles to the island of Kefalonia, the place he finally collapsed on a seashore. Native villagers hid Capes from the Italian occupiers for eighteen months till he was lastly rescued and returned to service.

However what occurred throughout these intervening months? That query stayed with me.

My analysis finally took me to Kefalonia, the place I interviewed a person whose mom was among the many islanders who risked their lives to guard Capes. He had been just a little boy on the time. He stuffed in lots of the particulars about each day life beneath Italian occupation – the concern, the secrecy, and the braveness required merely to outlive. However there was nonetheless little or no details about Capes’s private experiences throughout these hidden months on the island.

That’s the place the historical past provides approach to the fiction – and the place The Weight of Loyalty actually begins.

Why did you select to self-publish?

Initially, I obtained a contract from a standard publishing firm for The Weight of Loyalty. In the long run, I mentioned thanks, however no. Apart from offering a canopy, the agency provided little incentive and just about no promotional help. I’ve self-published 4 novels, a novella, and one short-story e book, with one other one on the way in which later this yr, and have an incredible cowl designer who does all my books. I preserve extra of the revenue for every e book offered, preserve all publishing rights, and direct my very own advertising and marketing, one thing I’d need to do at my expense with many conventional publishers anyway. When you can grasp the method, which most anybody can, why not self-publish?

What instruments or firms did you employ, and what expertise did you’ve gotten?

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. There was a studying curve at first, however the KDP web site is full of useful background, ideas, and prompts. With follow, the method turns into intuitive.

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