he is also a screenwriter and has had his work featured in the annual Black List of best Hollywood screenplays of the year. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Cosmos applied the Page 69 Test to his new novel, Island of Ghosts and Dreams, and shared the following:
Page 69 of Island of Ghosts and Dreams features the main character, Maria, talking with her best friend as they sit in her apartment and look out at the iconic Chania Harbor, discussing both the activity that's happening there in the harbor (the British and remaining Greeks getting ready for a potential invasion of their island) as well as the British soldier that Maria has found, nursed back to health, then returned to the British Army.Visit Christopher Cosmos's website and follow him on Instagram.
This passage is a great representation of the novel visually, as it's the stunning harbor of Chania which the characters are looking out at from an amazing vantage that was one of the inspirations for this novel. The harbor is also actually even featured on the cover!
It's also a good representation of the story as a whole, as Maria's life soon becomes defined by the German invasion of her island, and the help she receives from this particular British soldier she saved and which becomes essential to both her and her family.
If you have a chance to check out Island of Ghosts and Dreams, I so very much hope you enjoy! I'm a Greek-American writer and moved to Chania while I researched and wrote this story, sitting in an apartment looking out over the harbor each morning and day, just like Maria does on page 69.
The Page 69 Test: Once We Were Here.
Q&A with Christopher Cosmos.
The Page 69 Test: Young Conquerors.
--Marshal Zeringue
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