Young Author Writes 3rd Book by Age 13

Amobi Miracle Moses Eche wants to be an engineer when he grows up. But right now, he's a prolific author at age 13, having written his third novel, The Busted Tire. With the solid support of his mother, Moses is a middle school honor student with lots of ideas to write about. He's written two short children's books followed by The Busted Tire, a story about a man who loses his way in life, finds drugs and violence, then turns to God for redemption. Moses counts as his first inspiration his pastor. His church is a big part of his life.

I spoke with Moses and his mom in this episode of Type. Tune. Tint. because I admire his commitment to writing and self-publishing. Let's keep an eye on this young man!

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Welcome to Type Tune Tint. I'm Tom Kranz. Today we meet the youngest creator ever featured on Type Tune Tint.

Amobi Miracle Moses Eche is a young man of 13 living in Irvington, New Jersey. He told his mom a couple of years ago he wanted to write. She said fine, thinking it was just a fleeting notion.

Two years later Moses has now written his third book, an inspirational story that creates a metaphor for redemption from a flat tire. Let's find out what's next for this young author. 

And I'm joined by my special guests today, Moses Eche and his mom, Happiness Eche.

There they are left and right, live from their palatial estate in Irvington, New Jersey. Moses, the

reason we're doing this is because last year in 2024 we were all at this book festival together

and Moses was 12 at the time and he came up to my table because I guess it had been

advertised that I did a podcast. He came up to a table and he showed me this book that he just

had just written.

It's a children's book called Jacob and Larry in Middle School. And he said, Hey, interview me for

your podcast. Will you? I mean, he didn't say it like that, but he came up to like a, you know, a

total stranger.

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And I said, I was impressed by that. So I then went over to their table and Moses was over there

with his mom. And I just thought that was really cool.

And, you know, here you are today, young entrepreneur and, uh, you know, your bodyguard

slash mom. And I just, I just love the fact that you guys are kind of a team there. Okay.

Tell us about school. Where do you go to school and what grade are you in and what kind of

stuff are you interested in? Uh, I go to school in Irving, um, 14th Avenue, Newark. Um, the

school name is Great Oaks Legacy, uh, Fairmount Heights middle school.

Okay. It's a charter school and I'm interested in basketball and American football and writing.

And let's not forget that.

That is the reason we're here today. So, um, you wrote the first book that I saw was, was this

one. And then you wrote, I guess a second book, um, Jacob and Larry in middle school book

too.

There it is. And then you recently wrote a third book called the busted tire. This is a more

ambitious book.

It's like 60 some pages long. Uh, tell me a little bit about how you, why you decided to write and

what, what inspired you to write? I started my first, um, encounter. Uh, my first started writing

was when I was in church and the pastor asked anyone wanting to write a book that they will

support them all the way.

So I just looked over to my mom and I asked her, can I write, can I write a book? And she said,

yes. And that's when Jacob Larry in middle school one started and the rest of the book started.

And so you were inspired by your pastor basically.

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Yes. So, um, I'm guessing church is a big part of your life. Yes.

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And happiness. You seem very happy to support him. Uh, when he said, I want to write a book,

you pretty much right away said yes.

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Yes. Uh, you know, I've always told him that, um, I will always support him. You know, I've

always given him that room to express himself.

So when he came up and said, you know, that he wanted to write, I initially thought, you know,

he was joking. So I said, sure, go ahead. So, and, um, I support that him.

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Well, now he's written three different books. So I guess we can pretty much say he's on the

road, you know, to be in a writer by this by now. Right.

Do you see that Moses is something that you'd like to do, like as a full-time thing, you know,

when you get older, I'll keep writing like as a part-time thing for full time, I want to be a

petroleum engineer, a petroleum engineer. Wow. Where did you, where did that come from?

Uh, honestly, I like engineering, but I just think before I wanted to be an aeronautic engineer.

And now when I looked at the pay of a petroleum engineer, I was like, Oh mom, I want to be a

petroleum. Because it pays more. Eh? Yes.

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But as you know, I'm sure because you're a smart guy, you know, the, the kind of world energy

model is going, is trying to get away from oil based and from carbon based, which would be

petroleum, trying to go more towards electric and batteries like that. You're not worried about

that going forward. Oh, it's not a full, it's not like a established thing, but I just want to be in the

engineering field.

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Kids interested in science are especially being sought after now because here in America, we

need homegrown people to become scientists and mathematicians so that, you know, all that

talent doesn't come from other countries. Um, so I'm guessing that he's doing pretty good in

school. Happiness.

Would you say that's true? Yeah. He's um, he's a very brilliant chap. Wow.

Brilliant. It's nice to hear your mom say that, huh? Yeah. He's, he's an honor student.

I mean, he's been an honor student since he was in kindergarten till date. Wow. Well, that's

really cool.

What do you do when you're not playing sports and writing? I do activities. I play piano. Really?

Yes.

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Wow. How long have you done that? For two years now. Good for you.

So, wow. You're a writer and you're a sports dude and you play the pan, you play the piano.

That's, that's pretty awesome.

You got a good start in life. Where do you see yourself going to high school? So what's the next

grade for you? Is it eighth grade where you'll go? Yes. Then where would high school be for

you? Seton Hall Prep.

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Seton Hall Prep. Okay. I got you.

So, um, the book, The Busted Tire, um, there seems to be a heavy, uh, influence, heavily

religious influence in this book. You talk a lot about, about God and about how God can save.

The main character is this guy named Mike, who seems like he goes down all these paths of

temptation.

You know, you talk a lot about him, you know, he gets attracted to smoking cigarettes and then

there's alcohol. At one point he buys a, you said a Glock 19 with a silencer. Where'd you get that

from anyway? You look, look that up or? No, from a video game.

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Oh, really? Of course I should have known. Anyway, your character, Mike, he seems like he's

fighting off a lot of negative influences, but he keeps, I guess he keeps finding God. And then

there's angels that, that she kind of pull him back over to the, I guess, to the light as it were.

Talk a little bit about that. How, how did that, what inspired you to write about that? Honestly, I

was just writing in the car with my mom and I had up ahead, I saw someone who had a, whose

car had a bus, like their tire busted in the middle of the road. We're on the side of the road.

And I, and I just said, mom, that just gave me an idea. So that idea was that that busted tire

could represent the life of a man, Mike, and the busted tire. It could represent his life and how

his life is like a busted tire because of his addictions.

But it also could talk about how God, who's the mechanic could fix him up into a new tire. I

finally put two and two together that the busted tire was a metaphor for Mike and his, I guess

his broken spirit, maybe his morality that kind of got derailed as it were. So do you, do you

depend on God a lot in your life? Yes.

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So I guess, I'm guessing you believe that God is an important force in your life. Yes. How long

did it take you to write the busted tire? Three to four months.

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Wow. And you did that while you were going to school? Yes. So how did you do, you went to

school and then you did homework and then you just wrote at your desk at night or when did

you do that? Like over the weekends.

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Okay. And you also mentioned that you were in the car, you rode in the car sometimes too? Uh,

no, sometimes I get ideas when I'm writing with my mom. I got you.

And how do you save those? Do you just remember them or do you yell into your iPhone and

ideas? A lot of writers do that. You know, I've talked to people who like they'll stop at a red light

and suddenly they'll get an idea and they'll bark it into their iPhone so they don't forget it. But

you didn't do that? No, I just remember it.

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Okay. Happiness, what do you, what's your story? I work outside the home. Of course I'm a

mom, but I work.

I am a respiratory therapist. Oh really? Yes. You do that at a hospital or at a private practice?

Okay.

So I, um, prior to be becoming a respiratory therapist, um, though I am still working as a retina

image tech, I, I do home calls. I go to, you know, people's homes to check. Really? You know, to

check their eyes, um, to know the effect of diabetes in their eyes.

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Oh really? Oh yeah. So while doing that, I went to school, you know, I just recently got my

license for respiratory. So I had graduated last year, but I took my time in getting my license.

So I became certified and then I became registered. So next month, um, I'm going to be

quitting my job the 29th of this month. And then next month I'm going to be starting with

Cooperman-Bannevas, RWJ as a respiratory therapist.

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But you said you go, you do home care for people, right? Yeah. I do, you know, home checkups.

Yeah.

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I check, you know, um, diabetic patients. I check their eyes. Yeah.

Well, I was a volunteer EMT for a number of years. And so I was in a lot of people's homes and

that can be an interesting experience, right? Quite. I bet you've got some stories, right? I should

write a book about it.

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Yeah, you should. Just some of the things you see, I'm sure are just, you know. It's a lot.

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Yeah. I bet a lot. So, um, Moses, you never had the opt of the, uh, never thought of going into a

medical, a medical field like your mom? I did, but then I changed my mind.

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Well, because you're only 13, you have the luxury of being able to change your mind again, if

you want to, to do anything you want. I'm, I'm, I'm establishing. I want to be some kind of

engineer.

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Okay. Well, that's cool. It sounds like you got a good start doing well in school and being able to

write.

Are you writing anything else now? Are you writing another book? Do you plan on writing some

more or what's that? What's the story there? Oh yeah. I'm writing another book. Uh, do you

want me to tell you the book or? You can talk to you.

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Uh, the book is about the, the book title is about the no one to someone. And the book is about

a man named Ambrose and the meaning of the name. And like the book has a lot of meanings

to it.

Like when you read the book, the character's names, you would also have to search up the

meaning of their names. The, uh, main character named Ambrose, whose name, the meaning

of his name means immortal. Uh, it talks about how he gets a very fatal wound and like a night,

like a night, uh, description, he gets a fatal wound.

And while he's in the hospital, he meets nice people who help him have rehabilitation. Um, we'll

give him medical support. We'll help him speak because he lost that as he was shot.

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And it talks about how he also reminisce, like how he also thinks on his life and how God led

him to be who he is. Well, I imagine it to be an engineer. You probably are thinking maybe both

you and your mom thinking about college maybe down the road, huh? Yes.

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Yeah. And how to pay for that. Yeah.

I had two. Yeah. Student loans, parent loans.

It happened, but you know, it's a, it's a thing. Do you have a job? Do you work? Do you have a

job of any kind, uh, Moses? No, but like when I'm 15, uh, I already have like a preset job. Oh,

that's right.

You're only 13. You really can't work legally, right? Yes. Yeah.

So what, what's, what do you have waiting for you at 15? Uh, I get like, um, to help, um, um, a

financial consultant in his office, you know, like clerical stuff. Oh, really someplace near home.

Yeah.

Someplace near home. Good. So you don't have to get on a train and go to work.

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Yeah. That's when he, he turns 15. Oh, cool.

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Yeah. Good for you. Well, listen, uh, I wish you all the best.

Uh, I, I am, I, you're the youngest person I've ever interviewed on this podcast, but you're also

got tons of talent. Uh, you know, you've got the more you write and I know this from my own

experience, the more you write, the better you get. And it's a lot, it's, it's really good to have

people read your work as you go along.

Like at some point you'll want to have somebody as like an editor to actually edit your work

because no matter how big your ego is and how good you think you are, you're never as good

as, as you really think you are. And when somebody reads your work and says, you know, this

might've worked better, that might've worked better. That's actually a huge help.

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So you just kind of have to get over the fact that you're not the perfect writer because none of

us is, you know, but, uh, again, uh, for the folks out there, uh, Jacob Larry in middle school, one

and two, and then the busted tire, they're all on Amazon. And, uh, purchasing one of these

books supports, uh, this incredible young gentleman and his incredible young mom. And I

appreciate you both being with me very much today.

Uh, Moses and happiness at J uh, you guys be well, thanks for joining me and, uh, you know, I'll

see you on the bestseller list. Thank you so much. Okay.

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