Ask the Author: Hank Parker
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Hank Parker
I'd channel my inner Jules Verne, descend to the deepest ocean depths, and observe all the fantastic sea creatures living there.
Hank Parker
At first I thought I knew what he meant. “I can’t take it anymore,” he’d said to me. I figured it was the cancer. For years I’d been close to the man, now well into his 70’s with only months to live, just a husk of a man at this stage, who looked more like one of the withered crops in his fields than the robust farmer I used to know. I comforted him as best I could.
Then there was a noise from the adjacent kitchen, where the man’s wife was preparing dinner. I saw the old farmer’s face flinch. Was it more than just physical pain? His wife had always been hard on him, but lately it had gotten worse as her characteristic lack of sympathy had metastasized into a cold contempt for his complaints.
“I can’t take it anymore,” he’d said. Was it just the cancer? And what more could I have done? That’s the mystery that haunts me to this day.
Then there was a noise from the adjacent kitchen, where the man’s wife was preparing dinner. I saw the old farmer’s face flinch. Was it more than just physical pain? His wife had always been hard on him, but lately it had gotten worse as her characteristic lack of sympathy had metastasized into a cold contempt for his complaints.
“I can’t take it anymore,” he’d said. Was it just the cancer? And what more could I have done? That’s the mystery that haunts me to this day.
Hank Parker
"Favorite" isn't quite the right word, but, to me, the most compelling couple is Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes in THE SUN ALSO RISES. Theirs is a complex relationship between two damaged and disillusioned individuals who seem incapable of a commitment to another person yet fundamentally love each other.
Hank Parker
I just get to work. More often than not words will end up on the page. Some (but not all) will be garbage, but that's what revisions are for.
Hank Parker
The freedom to be creative.
Hank Parker
Write, rewrite, and rewrite again (and again!). Everyone has stories to tell and it's a shame that so many don't get told.
Hank Parker
I'm working on a sequel to CONTAINMENT, called SWARM.
Hank Parker
My earliest inspiration was a sixth grade teacher who encouraged her class to write poetry. While I never became a poet, I have been passionate about writing non-fiction and fiction ever since.
Hank Parker
While working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I became increasingly concerned about the potential for insect-vectored diseases to be transmitted from livestock and wildlife to humans, and the catastrophic medical, societal, and economic consequences that could result.
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