What is the favorite book you remember as a child?
-Where the Red Fern Grows
What is your favorite book today?
-The Bell Jar
Tell us about your current book in 10 words.
-Sapphic love interrupted, solved with violence, and the fourth dimension.
What are you reading right now?
-Blood Red Summer by Eyrk Pruitt
E-Reader or print? and why?
-Both. I like the feel of paper books, but they can be cumbersome to pack.
One book at a time or multiples?
-Only one fiction novel at a time. However, I often read plays or philosophy while reading fiction novels.
Dog-ear or bookmark? (don't worry—Librarian Judith won't hold it against you—much)
-Scrap paper between the pages.
Least favorite book you've read this year?
-The only author whose work I openly criticize is Nicholas Sparks’s. So, whatever that homophobe put out this year.
Favorite book you've read this year?
-A Meeting in the Devil’s House, by Richard Dansky
Favorite place to read?
-Outside
Favorite genre?
-Sci-fi, Horror, Thriller
Do you loan your books?
-Yes. My mother-in-law needs to return some of them, however.
Favorite book to recommend?
-Slaughter House Five, The Bell Jar, The Plague
How do you keep your books organized?
-On multiple bookshelves, as well as boxes because I’m out of room on my shelves.
Re-reader or not?
-Yes
Keep books or give them away?
-Would Gollum give up the ring?
To the dismay of Naomi’s family, she succumbed to the injuries Joseph dealt her during their final battle atop the abandoned Coast Guard station, Frying Pan Tower, thirty miles off the North Carolina coast.
Both of their bodies were lost at sea when the one-hundred-foot-tall structure crumbled during Tropical Storm Gabriel.
Naomi’s beloved companions escaped aboard her dive boat, along with Joseph’s final victim, who is on the verge of death.
In the aftermath, Naomi’s family has no choice but to rebuild their lives in hiding, fearing reprisal from the handful of remaining Apostle loyalists.
Soon, their secret, dormant conflict will be thrust onto the world stage by a wealthy benefactor who funnels his personal hatred and unfounded grievances into throngs of ignorant followers.
Is this the end of Naomi’s family? Without her, how will they survive?
He guides the boat between the two wooden bunks of the boat lift. Nate fights his way onto the dock through the sheets of rain blasting sideways into his face. He activates the hydraulics. The lift pulls the boat out of the water and level with the dock.
The three of them drag Malcolm off the boat before Nate lifts it higher to avoid the rising water.
Exhausted after moving Malcolm from the dock to the side door, the three can go no further and lie him on his side atop the sofa in front of the picture window.
“We have to call home,” Nate says.
“Telling someone that their spouse is dead isn’t something you do over the phone,” Herschel replies.
“More urgently,” Rebecca interjects, “we have to get electrolytes into Malcolm. He drank plenty of water before passing out, so he’s not in imminent danger of thirsting to death. To regain some level of consciousness, we need to get something like Pedialyte in him.
But, no stores will be open in this storm.” “Would powdered Gatorade work?” Nate asks.
“Yeah,” she responds.
Nate gets up and begins rummaging through Naomi’s kitchen junk drawer. He excavates an old plastic container, half-filled with clumpy orange Gatorade powder. Nate mixes up a batch inside a large plastic cup with a flexible straw. Malcolm mumbles and occasionally opens his eyes. When he does, they encourage him to drink. Within the hour, he’s holding the cup himself. His eyes begin to regain life. He looks around, saying, “Where is the other woman?” “She didn’t make it,” Rebecca answers.
A wave of melancholy washes across his exhausted face.
“The sooner we leave, the better,” Nate says.
“Will he make the week-long boat trip back to Northern Virginia?” Rebecca asks.
“No. That’s why I’m going to take Tiffany’s Corolla.”
“They’ll follow you,” Herschel says to Nate.
He attended North Carolina State where he studied psychology. While at university, he was active at the student radio station. There, he fell in love with punk rock and its ethos.
Robert acquired several teaching licenses in special education. He was an autism specialist in Raleigh for eight years. He then taught for four years in a small mountain community in western North Carolina.
During his time in the mountains, he lived with his wife Juliana in a remote primitive cabin built in 1875. While there, he grew most of his own food, raised chickens, worked on a cattle farm, as well as participated in subsistence hunting and fishing.
Eventually, the couple moved back to the small farming community where Robert was raised.
Annoyed with the stereotype of the southeastern United States as a monolith of ignorance and hatred, he wanted to bring forth characters from the region who are queer and autistic. They now hold up a disinfecting light to the hatred of the region’s past and to those who still yearn for a return to ways and ideas that should have long ago perished.
Robert’s first traditionally published novel, Prophet’s Debt, was a Manly Wade Wellman Literary Award Finalist.
His second, Prophet’s Lamentation, was a Lambda Literary recommendation for July 2023.
Website: https://www.robertcreekmore.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AuthorCreekmore
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Prophets-Death-Robert-Creekmore/dp/1962308162/ref=sr_1_1
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ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the interview. Sounds like a good read.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a very interesting book.
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