and you redesign it and add another question and the essence of good science as it is good art is to ask questions not only to answer them but to cause the people following you to read everything and ask more questions. a good piece of art like a good piece of science should leave you with more questions that should answer enough of them as you were going along to make you turn the page and that is pretty much how it works. ..

but this book will be different too. every time a book of mine is released about 5% of fans, a vocal minorities aim so disappointed in this book because i didn't do what i do in the last pull what i did in the first book. great, wonderful, go read it again. something a lot of undue. the world record is 43 times some woman in australia, she writes long detailed lists of everything she thinks i got wrong and then goes back to read the book again in case i changed it in the meantime. anyway, speaking of questions and so forth the main question, two main questions people ask whenever i talk, one of those is

when is your next book coming out? the answers two months after i finished writing it which i haven't yet but it should be out later this year. i need to finish writing and around the end of september in which case it will be out in september. things happen as they say. the second question i'm able to answer because so far i haven't, people ask is there going to be a movie or a tv show based on your books? people have been trying to make a movie of it for the last 25 years, a script written by people -- it is hard to compress the 900 page book into a two hour film. people say they would love to see a film of your books and be the way it is in your books, which 40 pages do you want to see? what release struck me is a tv series would be much better and a mockery of number of people agree with me including stars which has picked up the option

and last night signed the final contract so there will be at least some. [cheers and applause] >> i can answer two more questions following that one which they are going to start shooting in september and if all goes well will air in spring of 2014. [applause] >> i will leave with one more question. i don't know who will be cast as jamie. you have to figure that one not yourself. thank you very much. [applause] >> what a morning. thank you. john lewis, thank you. i promised to put you all in hardball, sylvia l. out of your books.

[applause] >> when it comes to tipping the gipper i will still and all the way through christmas. thank you very much. [applause] >> coverage of book expo america:the annual trade show held at the jacob javits convention center new york city continues. up next interview with each mail on his book radiance of tomorrow followed by a panel on self publishing. >> on your screen is the author of a long way gone, a memoir, of a soldier. the second book is coming out. why didn't you choose to make it a novel. >> first of all i wanted to divide from the memoir of nonfiction. the issue i am writing about in the new book, radiance of tomorrow is about a lot of people, my experience is going

back home. and play around with images -- >> what from freedom does writing a novel give you rather than nonfiction? >> with a novel particularly creative language. and occurrences and dramatize the little bit more. and things that are not necessary for the same time. in a way that is what i wanted to do, things that existed and afterwards exist again. just the way i think they do. >> host: what is appearing in the novel?

>> guest: a sound that exists looked at in a fictional way, a remote part of the country where they get to hear about. and devastating more strongly. and going back home and when you return home, there has got to be a come back. and to sustain your family. and enable what has been during the war. to get back together again what did you lose, what do you gain, how you get around all of this. >> after a long way gone your first trip back to sierra leone.

>> my first was very difficult in this sense that i was going back to a place that had function as a soldier as a boy soldier, and back to the younger one who had some variety. so it was very difficult, brought back a lot of memories. >> what about sierra leone? >> i am to some extent. >> i speak the language very well. and i want to observe, interestingly. >> radiance of tomorrow coming out in january 2013 at the

finish the book? >> i have finished the book, looking for a cover. we already have some. >> what we are seeing here. and it is the cover. >> an image of the first we five chapters. it is coming out. >> is this written more in the tradition of sierra leone rather than a long way gun. >> storytelling, everything i write, and when you write about anything, there's another background. you can write about a very big term kind of like picking up, a

beautiful poignant story that you want them to do. you don't want them to be disappearing in this country like this. i would never say that in the book. i would just describe the problem. people were living back then and the reader would. i would make an example, so the reader with no -- and experience of what has happened. and captivate readers and brings them -- to be part of the experience. >> where did the title come from?

>> the title comes from somewhere in the book where there is a woman based on my grandmother who returns and strengthens the story to the young people and so really in the book, continually hope for it to go forward. >> you talk in your second book radiance of tomorrow about the war that never ends. the civil war, the ten year war, that has never -- >> yes. worse end. sort of physical work are the ones that are more visible than the ones that are in frequent. and psychological one -- so the war, things like that but other

things have continued to the under the table. and all these things. and while that is going on people trying to find a way to live together. you continue mending what was broken. it is very difficult and very careful and requires a lot of interest back into society and everyone willing to look at things differently because you see what is happening and don't let them be that. you have to find a way to reconcile. >> have you reconcile yourself from this? >> to some extent. there is nothing i can do to undo what happened. but never forget so you learn to live with it and you learn to

not react because you are not in charge of what happens. what triggers an emotion or nightmare i have no control. it can be the simplest thing. and thinking maybe i am standing in front of something in washington d.c.. that is all i can do. that is the difficulty of living that way. you are weakened for the rest of your life and when you are older you have to find ways to deal with things whether you are close to your family. >> what were the experiences of writing "a long way gone" and radiance of tomorrow? where did you write them? >> they are very different. when i was writing at 89 never intended to publish, just to

really find a way to fine tune my thinking in case -- because i started to speak 5 or 10 minutes in a succinct way so that was the point. and then i agreed to providence whereas this one the extension of promises, the difference between when i was an undergraduate six times so i wrote it in the united states and new york and central africa and sierra leone and every place everywhere. >> have you grown used to living in the state's? >> i am an american success and i have the opportunity for that

part and in the united states about ten years i lived in sierra leone so i found myself -- it was wonderful for my life and my thinking. >> how has a long way gone changed you, change your family? >> it gives my life completeness. a modernized study. because of the contents people are not really reading and like to perform. what i would expect. i really did not understand what it meant so i had a few mistakes i have made and i just -- when the book came out i moved into an apartment and this area all of a sudden regulating 30 or 40

and we were like what about that so realized just because of that -- to realize that and when the new york times magazine was on the front cover and i was in the sub world in new york one sunday morning and nearly everybody opened this thing so it was instant no matter what and i played around the ring but it changed my life immensely. >> from "radiance of tomorrow". it is in the end or the beginning of another story. every story begins and ends with a woman, a mother, grandmother, a girl, a child, every story. >> i believe that strongly.