Today we are interviewing Lindy S. Hudis, author of the crime thriller, Crashers.
Lindy S. Hudis is an award winning filmmaker, author and actress. Lindy is a graduate of New York University, where she studied drama at Tisch School of the Arts. She also performed in a number of Off-Off Broadway theater productions while living in New York City.
She is the author of several titles, including her romance suspense novel, Weekends, her “Hollywood” story City of Toys, and her crime novel, Crashers. Her latest release, “Hollywood Underworld – A Hollywood Series” is the first installment of a crime, mystery series.
In addition, she has written several erotic short stories, including “The S&M Club”, “The Backstage Pass”, “Guitar God”, “The Guitarist”, and “The Mile High Club”.
Her short film “The Lesson”, which she wrote, produced and directed, has won numerous awards, including ‘Best Short Film’ at the Paris International Film Festival, The Beverly Hills Arthouse Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival.
She is also an actress, having appeared in the indie film Expressionism, the television daytime drama “Sunset Beach”, also “Married with Children” , “Beverly Hills 90210” and the feature film “Indecent Proposal” . She and her husband, Hollywood stuntman Stephen Hudis, have formed their own production company called Impact Motion Pictures, and have several projects and screenplays in development. She lives in California with her husband and two children.
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I was always a bookworm. You know, the teenage outcast who always had her nose in a book? That was me. I just loved to bury myself in the magical worlds of books. I grew up reading Judy Blume, Jackie Collins and Stephen King. I just fell in love with reading, and then one day I thought “I can do that” – so I did! My late father-in-law was the English comedy writer Norman Hudis. He wrote for BBC television writing the “Carry On” series. He also wrote for American television shows back in the 70’s. So, I showed him, nervously, my manuscript for my first ever book, WEEKENDS. I was expecting him to tell me in his distinguished English accent that I stank, lol. I was wrong, though. He told me I was a “good commercial writer” and I “had great potential.” That was all I needed to hear!
It’s also very interesting that I was a theater major at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Having studied drama and having been an actress has greatly helped me with character development. I find that background is most helpful when creating a character’s motive, arc and determination.
Your latest book, Crashers, is an exciting crime thriller that focuses on car insurance fraud and a seemingly innocent couple who is really down on their luck. How did you come up with this idea?
CRASHERS is a crime mystery about a trio of young people who get caught up in the seamy world of auto insurance fraud. They stage car accidents to get insurance blood money, and events spiral out of control, of course. I was a victim of auto insurance fraud, so I came up with that idea. I learned that there are criminals out there who do this kind of thing for a living. So, I wrote about those people, who must be horrible and desperate. I also have Crashers the screenplay. I entered it into the Sherman Oaks Screenplay Competition. The screenplay was an official selection and, although it didn’t win, we got great literary representation out of the contacts we made. Crashers is currently in development with Face 2 Face Productions, as our manager is also a producer. I am still very ambitious and have never given up on my Hollywood Dream. Many people have told me that it would make a great movie, so I acted on that advice.
Can you tell us more about this couple in your book?
They are a young couple planning a life together. They are good people who hope to become married one day. They literally fall on very hard times, though no fault of their own, and become desperate. Shari is a film student at USC and
Nathan is an ambitious, young accountant at a prestigious Beverly Hills firm. Both lost their jobs due to strange events and Shari winds up in a staged accident, unbeknownst to her at the time.
Who are the other main characters?
So many supporting characters but I will list the main villains.
The attorney John Nastic is the one who runs this underground crime ring. He’s super intelligent and charismatic but has a dark underbelly to his personality. His employee Bryce is his scout, so to speak. He finds vulnerable people and exploits them, trapping them in the downward spiral of crime and fraud by promising them lots of cash. It helps that he is mysterious and sexy, too! I wrote him like that on purpose!
What is the very first line of your book?
“She lay still...unable to move....”
What is the main reason people should read your book?
It’s a combination of cautionary tale, suspense, crime thriller and yet it is also a character study of what lengths people can and will go to when they are greedy and happen to get a taste of another life. If you are a fan of crime fiction, pulp-novels and redemption, I do have to recommend by story.
You are a person of enormous influence. If you could start a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be?
I believe that the world needs more kindness. There is so much hate an uncertainly in this hectic world of ours. You never know what somebody is going through, so always be kind. I believe that we as a species can heal, we all just must put our minds to it.
About the Book
How far would you go to get rich?
What if you were desperate? What if you were completely out of options? Would you cut in front of a sparkling, new Mercedes on the busy L.A. freeway and slam on the brakes? What if it were that easy?
Enter the world of Crashers…
The con is simple: Get in a car accident. Collect the insurance blood money. What could go wrong? That’s what Shari believed when she found herself in dire need of cash. When she meets the sexy and mysterious Bryce, the teaches her all about how to be a “capper.”
Soon, Shari realizes that by staging more of these accidents, she’ll have more money than she knows what to do with.
But as she becomes more and more obsessed with her strange new world, she discovers there’s no such thing as easy money. And what started out as a simple payout soon turns into a deadly game.
Read sample here.
Crashers is available at Amazon and is currently in film development with Face 2 Face productions.
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