Featured Interview With R. J. Eastwood
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
Over my career, I have written, produced, and directed both feature films and television programming and everything in between and have been honored with over 75 industry awards along the way. To date, I have published six books, four of which are nonfiction. My first novel (as Robert J. Emery) was chosen as one of the top five finalists in the Next Generation Indie Books Awards. I now write under the pen name R.J. Eastwood. My last novel, “The Autopsy of Planet Earth”, received the 2017 Authors Circle Novel of Excellence Award for Fiction, and the 2018 Readers’ Favorite Gold Award for Science Fiction. New released “Midnight Black”, a thriller with dark overtones. I invite everyone to visit my author web site… www.robertjemeryauthor.com to learn more or to communicate with me.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
At around 13-14 years old I began writing short stories. In my early 20’s I wrote TV commercials and documentary films, then moved on the screenplays (eight produced into movies) and TV productions (over 140 hours produced). After retiring from active production, I turned to writing novels. Currently available is the award-winning science fiction novel “The Autopsy of Planet Earth,” and soon to be published “Midnight Black”, a thriller.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy authors Steven King, Cormac McCarthy and Lee Child. They all inspire me. I’ll read any good novel, no special genre, just good stories.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
The best way to tell about my upcoming release is to post the synopsis here. The title is “Midnight Black” and it’s one heck of a thriller if I say so myself.
At age 27, Billy Russell’s promising career as a narcotic officer abruptly ended when he cold-bloodedly and violently executed the man who committed a heinous crime against him. He is sentenced to 20 years hard labor in total isolation from the outside world. With no explanation as to why, he is suddenly released on parole 5 years short of his full sentence.
Returning to a world foreign to him, he finds a one-world government of autocratic billionaire’s control of the planet. A merciless, but isolated nuclear attack has spread primal fear among the populace. Fearing a nuclear holocaust, an international economic meltdown follows. Millions have succumbed to drug addiction to escape rampant poverty, crime, and disease.
As a condition of his parole, Billy is assigned to a government drug enforcement unit in Boston, but soon makes a gruesome discovery of the unit’s true mission. If he refuses to participate he will be returned to prison and isolation. Within two-weeks of his return, he is approached by a secret underground dissident group calling itself Volte-face (Reversal in Policy) that plans to overthrow the authoritarian government, implement worldwide democracy, and a return to the rule of law. Reluctant at first, Billy eventually joins the movement to end the demonic reign of tyranny, only to discover there is more going on than meets the eye.
Midnight Black is a fast-paced, action packed thriller in the tradition of Lee Child.
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