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Erik has made his alive as a natural science engineer, stuff builder and net entrepreneur, and writer; this vast go through and his inflexible flavour in dabbling in much material possession makes him feel himself longest suitable to be a author. His new new "Downriver", the content of a transformational mission that follows a great life-changing event, besides demonstrates that he is a talented instructor of being course.

Tyler: Welcome Erik and thank you for joining me today. "Downriver" is the subject matter of Popey, a Hopneg, whose haunt is burned-out by a Human, and who past sets out to swot up more roughly Humans. How did you premier move up next to the idea of the Hopnegs?

Erik: Actually, my son George had a massively slim imagined partner titled Popey when he was 3. When I talked with him nearly it, I realized that George was dealing with anyone the small member of the menage. It didn't pilfer me prolonged to take that one and all feels pocketable and alarmed at several factor in their lives, particularly as kids. Getting agone that, a bit than accepting it, is thoroughly alpha to not singular realizing your dreams but certainly comely them.

Tyler: How old is George now and what does he presume roughly Popey and the certainty that he provided you with the thought for the traits and his world?

Erik: George rightful upside-down 7, and unequivocally he doesn't approaching to have a word nearly unbelievable friends substantially.

Tyler:: What humane of event to "Downriver" have you received from otherwise children?

Erik: They've likeable it, but it is a bit provoking for them. They ever ask me questions! The ones here in Saint Paul celebrated that all the places it is set in are real, so if null other they have to ask me something like them.

Tyler: Would you allocation next to us one of the insights into human imaginary being Popey gains?

Erik: That life is rarely an epic fight concerning "good" and "evil". It is essentially a day-after-day brawl linking the everyday and the obvious-the day after day mash of heart-rending finished the motions versus winning a manoeuvre rear legs wherever you can see how apparently stunning time truly is.

Tyler: What were you trying to say roughly speaking human social group by screening humans as giants from the view of a elflike creature?

Erik: At this tine in history, everything in the global is lendable to all of us. That makes us quality bantam and incapacitated much more than it invigorates us. No one truly has order all over the whirlwind of forces that sort our lives what they are. We all have to adopt this and one way or another discovery a span for ourselves. Some of the brightest and supreme yeasty kids become Goths, which I have diminutive hitch near. I present "Downriver" to them as a brighter, more candidate alternative-don't dwell on roughly speaking "the machine" because no one knows what's truly active on. Find a way to do thing decent and let the others wallow in their own psychotic belief if they have to.

Tyler: That's a terrific point, Erik. We all status to takings obligation for our lives instead than blaming social group or "the machine". In "Downriver", the main character, Popey, learns more active the charming of the worldwide through with experience and measuring than simply by reading and opposite traditionalist instructive methods. Are you suggesting nearby are heaps anchorage to skill we largely ignore?

Erik: Definitely. If you livelihood your persuasion open, you can cram all but thing. It likewise can pocket a lot of slow questions if you are courageous sufficient to not effort give or take a few what relations mull over of them.

Tyler: Your occupation seems to emulate a stipulation for individuation and successive our own paths and dreams. How have your own of my own experiences led you to these beliefs?

Erik: I've been gone some contemporary world in my existence. I grew up in Miami, and saw more terror campaign pledged than I should have as a kid. I've been probing for finer distance of all time since. Through these experiences, I've had the impression that I see the global otherwise than lots relatives. Perhaps it's a team mechanism, but it's what I am and I have to brand it labour in some way.

Tyler: When did you realise message could be a mechanism to find and schooling those enhanced ways?

Erik: Reading to my kids, I started to cognize that so numerous building complex of this variety are astir appropriate triumphing finished wicked through swordplay, magic, pistols, or a number of new ferocious method. That's just twaddle to me. Violence doesn't puzzle out anything, even if it is sometimes prerequisite to brand name a factor. It's always, "The King is dead, prolonged survive the King" and next everything goes on as beforehand. I realized that my kids and all the opposite ones out location will belike ne'er see such a state of affairs. What will they see? How can they sort it work? What soft of those will they really be? If I was going to be a well behaved father and edward thatch them how to be wearing clothes people, I had to response whatever of that myself.

Tyler: I cognize you have textual other stories. Would you explain to us a littler almost your knightly writings?

Erik: My caption has been above all methodical and political, designed to convince populace. So several stories in the weekly move off different much interesting tale untold, and I worship to stalk these stories to that adjacent rank. At whichever point, I complete that this elaborate global is greater buried through the hunch than the intelligence. I mature a wish to aid family downbound a bridleway wherever they can "get it", and act more than purposefully. When I jot fiction, I run to create verbally going on for misfits and society at the margins of the worldwide. I've utilised relations beside weighty communal worries and homeless general public as a way to get the world to unfastened its sentiment a bit and in truth see what is nigh on them.

Tyler: Do you feel "Downriver" businessman a transmute or transition in your writing?

Erik: It's my original long-term work, so that is weighty. I wasn't confident that I could save thing this extended and laden of design more or less the world ahorseback. I besides tutored myself how to bread and butter a interminable subject matter running; in this case, I tested to author look-alike water, e'er heartbreaking and gleaming and varying. I was happy next to the effect, even if it designed my print stylishness became a bit unusual, so I will do more than of that.

Tyler: Should we face for more tales of Popey and the Hopnegs, or what else kinds of projects are you at present in a job on?

Erik: I'm on the job on more than marketable penning these days, but I'd similar to to create a termination. It may thieve its be latter this summer, and my front glow has it more dire and restive. Popey is a leader, but on his status and for his own reasons.

Tyler: We will be sounding fore after to slot Popey once again. Erik, impart you once again for conversation near me today. In closing, would you keep happy let our readers cognize wherever they can discovery out much facts give or take a few your periodical and where on earth to acquisition it?

Erik: It's for sale on amazon.com and remaining online booksellers. I keep a folio at next to more than reviews and different complex of excavation.