Thanks to Erik at Orange Torpedo for including a short piece on “The Middle Fork” in its online newsletter: http://www.orangetorpedo.com/blog/blog/2010/04/middle-fork-political-novel.html.
Posts Tagged ‘The Middle Fork’
Orange Torpedo River Trips
Thursday, April 15th, 2010Tags: Fiction, Kayak, Kayaking, Middle Fork, outdoor adventure story, Political Dialogue, Rick Glaze, The Middle Fork
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Why I Wrote “The Middle Fork”
Friday, March 19th, 2010I wrote this story to share my profound love of the wilderness and the great excitement of steering my own kayak down a wild river with a group of both friends and strangers. I admit I got carried away with flash floods, snake attacks and exciting romance, but what the heck, it’s fiction. When people travel to disparate environments, they almost always bring everything they are caught up with at home with them. So it is on the Middle Fork. The passions of Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” are religion, and the same intense feelings float down a swollen river in my story as politics. And, politics is the new religion for many people. Hot button topics are aired out in regular “speak” by normal Americans hell bent on championing their cause. Yes, the debate is interrupted by vicious rapids and pesky snakes, but it all weaves together to entertain and provide food for thought. Finally, this is an American story. No “old country” shtick or quaint references—just people like us in real-time thinking, talking and running the river.
Tags: advnture Fiction, Dan Brown, Kayak, Kayaking, Middle Fork, outdoor adventure story, Political Dialogue, Politics, Rafting, Republicans, Rick Glaze, The Da Vinci Code, The Middle Fork
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Short Talk on The Middle Fork
Monday, March 8th, 2010I am speaking to a prominant group of Republican leaders in San Jose Thursday on The Middle Fork and the topic of idea stratification and how that chokes off constructive dialogue. While these topics are not directly dealt with in the novel, the kayakers in the story do have to put differences and heated debate aside to combat nature’s rage and get off the river alive.
Tags: Political Dialogue, Politics, Republicans, The Middle Fork
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San Francisco Writer’s Conference
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010I met a lot of good writers and a bunch of fast lane literary agents in San Francisco last weekend at the Mark Hopkins Hotel. Best selling author, Steve Barry, gave a dynamite talk on plot development–very cool. There was quite a bit of interest in The Middle Fork and some were taking a look at the new book in the works working titled, “Spanish Pieces of Eight.”
Tags: Mark Hopkins Hotel, outdoor adventure story, Rick Glaze, San Francisco, The Middle Fork
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Response to Basil and Spice Review
Thursday, August 13th, 2009My response to the above review is below.
Thank you for your thoughtful review of my novel, “The Middle Fork.” Many people have agreed with you about the vivid descriptions of the wilderness scenery. I agree with you that the characters’ political dialogue may come across as flat or one dimensional at times and resemble partisan talking points. It’s a quaint thought that regular people have a well rounded since of issues and how they relate to the big picture, but I have not found many of those people either on swollen wilderness rivers or at coffee shops around town. Instead details, facts, and reflection are replaced by sound bites and personal slurs. My attempt was to make these characters talk like regular Americans, people like us in real time thinking, talking, and running the river.
Remember, just like real life, all characters in fiction are not loveable.
Tags: Add new tag, advnture Fiction, Kayaking, Politics, Rick Glaze, The Middle Fork
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