See a photo of Corey, a link to his bio, Part 1 of this Q&A, and Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.
Q&A with Corey Blake (Question 6):
Q:With the success of Edge! A Leadership Story (named a finalist in The National “Best Books” 2008 Awards), do you foresee creating more narrative nonfiction/business novels? Do you have anything in the works?
A: I just finished Excalibur Reclaims Her King, a medieval fantasy, with
Angelica Harris. I’m in love with this book! As far as narrative nonfiction, I just finished the book and the proposal for The Family Business with Dr. Kay Vogt and Jarret Rosenblatt. It is a non-fiction narrative look into the work Kay does with business families — like the ones we watch in the news but rarely get to see behind the curtain. Kay provides guidance to these people and assists them in navigating this incredible world where the family often takes a back seat to the business. It’s a world steeped in power, buckets of money, and quite a few unhappy people. Wonderful stuff for a manuscript that uses a real life narrative to get across some phenomenal new ways of looking at business and family dynamics. We’ll be shopping that this spring.
I’m also working on The Corporate Madonna with Heather Leah Smith and Eva Silva Travers. Heather is a director at Trinity Health, and she has a brilliant approach to business that combines the masculine and feminine in the workplace. Groundbreaking stuff, in my opinion. We use story throughout the book, though it is not a total narrative like EDGE! or The Family Business.
Other than that, we put out Duckey and the Ocean Protectors recently — a book for middle-schoolers about a band of adventurous sea creatures that save the planet, teaching about the oceans and the environment along the way.
I’m also in the middle of working with a man named Daniel Cardwell, who is probably the most intelligent man I have ever worked with, and I’m desperately trying to get my head around his life story. Dan is a dark-skinned German man, a product of WWII, with a German woman for a mother and a dark-skinned American soldier for a father. He grew up unwanted by Germany or the US, unwanted by whites or blacks. His life is a brilliant study of racism from the perspective of total outcast. The story spans nearly every continent as he traveled around the globe working to save African Americans with cancer by bringing radiation technology to underdeveloped nations. We’re not sure of a title for that one yet, but here’s his Web site.