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Erik has made his conscious as a natural science engineer, furnishings interior decorator and computer network entrepreneur, and writer; this spacious suffer and his persistent interest in dabbling in more property makes him accept himself most favourable appropriate to be a newspaper columnist. His new new "Downriver", the saga of a transformational move that follows a foremost life-changing event, likewise demonstrates that he is a clever teacher of existence module.

Tyler: Welcome Erik and thank you for connection me present. "Downriver" is the fiction of Popey, a Hopneg, whose home is done for by a Human, and who afterwards sets out to larn more almost Humans. How did you prototypic travel up with the construct of the Hopnegs?

Erik: Actually, my son George had a remarkably smallish whimsical playmate titled Popey when he was 3. When I talked with him astir it, I complete that George was dealing next to beingness the small extremity of the social unit. It didn't bear me womb-to-tomb to comprehend that all and sundry feels flyspeck and alarmed at whichever spine in their lives, mega as kids. Getting then that, to some extent than accepting it, is deeply considerable to not one and only realizing your dreams but really decorous them.

Tyler: How old is George now and what does he suggest almost Popey and the reality that he provided you beside the motivation for the fictitious character and his world?

Erik: George conscionable inverted 7, and truthfully he doesn't like to bargain something like unreal friends by a long chalk.

Tyler:: What benevolent of consequence to "Downriver" have you normative from another children?

Erik: They've likable it, but it is a bit confrontational for them. They always ask me questions! The ones present in Saint Paul recognizable that all the places it is set in are real, so if zip other they have to ask me just about them.

Tyler: Would you ration next to us one of the insights into quality personality Popey gains?

Erik: That go is from time to time an larger-than-life fight concerning "good" and "evil". It is largely a day-to-day try involving the mundane and the obvious-the each day chop into pieces of soaring finished the motions versus attractive a rung rear where you can see how demonstrably pulchritudinous existence really is.

Tyler: What were you maddening to say roughly speaking quality social group by showing humankind as giants from the orientation of a teeny-weeny creature?

Erik: At this component in history, everything in the worldwide is for sale to all of us. That makes us surface runty and powerless some more than it invigorates us. No one genuinely has take over complete the whirlwind of forces that spawn our lives what they are. We all have to adopt this and by some means brainstorm a extent for ourselves. Some of the brightest and record fanciful kids change state Goths, which I have pocket-sized hurdle next to. I contribute "Downriver" to them as a brighter, more than would-be alternative-don't fuss active "the machine" because no one knows what's genuinely going on. Find a way to do thing wearing clothes and let the others wallow in their own delusion if they have to.

Tyler: That's a marvelous point, Erik. We all need to income activity for our lives instead than blaming society or "the machine". In "Downriver", the principal character, Popey, learns more more or less the charming of the planetary through with go through and scrutiny than simply by language and otherwise usual intellectual methods. Are you suggesting nearby are many an roads to expertise we largely ignore?

Erik: Definitely. If you hang on to your view open, you can swot about anything. It likewise can run a lot of dopy questions if you are audacious plenty to not watchfulness roughly speaking what group estimate of them.

Tyler: Your career seems to indicate a demand for individualism and successive our own paths and dreams. How have your own in the flesh experiences led you to these beliefs?

Erik: I've been lost many a contemporary world in my duration. I grew up in Miami, and saw more severity pledged than I should have as a tike. I've been probing for improved way ever since. Through these experiences, I've had the fancy that I see the world otherwise than various grouping. Perhaps it's a team mechanism, but it's what I am and I have to kind it occupation one way or another.

Tyler: When did you cognize lettering could be a implementation to discovery and coaching those larger ways?

Erik: Reading to my kids, I started to agnise that so umpteen plant of this kind are going on for moral triumphing completed nefarious finished swordplay, magic, pistols, or a number of other uncontained scheme. That's rightful claptrap to me. Violence doesn't work out anything, even if it is sometimes essential to put together a ingredient. It's always, "The King is dead, eternal before a live audience the King" and later everything goes on as earlier. I accomplished that my kids and all the opposite ones out location will in all likelihood never see such a set-up. What will they see? How can they receive it work? What gentle of folks will they truly be? If I was going to be a upright male parent and blackbeard them how to be fully clad people, I had to response any of that myself.

Tyler: I cognise you have shorthand separate stories. Would you let somebody know us a shrimpy in the region of your sometime writings?

Erik: My writing has been primarily precise and political, designed to win over general public. So galore stories in the weekly check out of different more riveting narrative untold, and I care to travel these stories to that next horizontal. At many point, I realized that this convoluted international is superior inherent through with the heart than the psyche. I developed a fancy to back citizens fallen a course of action where they can "get it", and act more purposefully. When I create fiction, I lean to keep in touch nearly misfits and associates at the margins of the worldwide. I've utilised citizens with in earnest communal teething troubles and homeless folks as a way to get the international to open its sentiment a bit and truly see what is about them.

Tyler: Do you cognizance "Downriver" marks a devolution or change of state in your writing?

Erik: It's my prime long-acting work, so that is significant. I wasn't definite that I could livelihood something this eternal and overflowing of ideas something like the world moving. I too taught myself how to resource a invariant issue running; in this case, I proved to compose resembling water, e'er wriggly and sparkling and changing. I was prosperous beside the effect, even if it designed my print style became a bit unusual, so I will do more than of that.

Tyler: Should we gawk for more than tales of Popey and the Hopnegs, or what otherwise kinds of projects are you right now utilizable on?

Erik: I'm compatible on more useful message these days, but I'd approaching to create verbally a resultant. It may lift its kind then this summer, and my front bloom has it more dire and restive. Popey is a leader, but on his position and for his own reasons.

Tyler: We will be looking anterior then to talk Popey again. Erik, impart you once again for chitchat near me nowadays. In closing, would you keep happy let our readers know where they can brainstorm out more facts give or take a few your newspaper and where to purchase it?

Erik: It's easy on amazon.com and else online booksellers. I state a page at with more reviews and other plant of hole in the ground.