Ask the Author: Rick Cochran
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Rick Cochran
Hi Cheryl, yes you can. Email me at rmc1948@hotmail.com or message me through Facebook
Rick Cochran
I discovered two excellent murder mystery writers this summer. Paul Doiron has written an outstanding series set in the woods of Maine. His protagonist is a Maine State Game Warden with an interesting and conflicted backstory. Maine Game Wardens are fully empowered law enforcement officers which allows him to investigate crimes. The Poachers Son, the first book in the series hints at the issues in his past. The other series is written by Harry Dolan. Dolan is an excellent writer with twisting, complex plots, sometimes a little too complex. However, he is worth following the winding path. As a writer I try to read authors who can really write. Doiron and Dolan meet the criteria.
Rick Cochran
I could post some "wise guy" comments, but I am only two years into serious writing so I think I'll wait.
Rick Cochran
Write - You can't be a writer if you don't write. Also lose the fear of embarrassment. I sent the draft of the first thing I ever wrote to a few well educated contacts in Wellfleet. I didn't proof read and it was full of terrible grammar, stupid mistakes, typos, etc. They patiently made corrections and encouraged me to keep writing. I learned a lesson that the writing process is 25% writing and 75% editing and proofing.
Rick Cochran
Write something - anything.
Rick Cochran
I am writing the sequel to Murder at Bound Brook: Cape Cod Mystery. The tentative working title is Bound Brook Pond: Cape Cod Murder Mystery. It opens on the the July 4th weekend in 1952, a few months after the first book. Jimmy Curtis, a wounded Korean War hero, returns to Bound Brook. Jim doesn't feel like a hero, he needs to deal with his divorce from Rachel and atone for his betrayal of his former best-friend, Rob Caldwell. When his nemesis from Korea turns up dead, Jim is the main suspect. It is up to Rob and Rachel to find the killer and prove Jim's innocence. But first Rachel must cope with her own danger - an obsessed stalker who views Rachel as a "damsel-in-distress" who he needs to be saved.
Rick Cochran
I have always been a story teller - just ask my family and they will roll their eyes - so it wasn't much of a leap to write the stories down on paper. My mother died in 2006 at the age of 95 and I started as a way of documenting my family history. I started remembering all the anecdotes that they told and wrote them as short stories, published them online, and next thing I knew I had enough for my first book - Wellfleet Tales.
Rick Cochran
I was reading a history of South Wellfleet, Cape Cod and came across a 1938 fire in a blizzard that killed an elderly Mr. Paine. Paine is a very common name in Wellfleet, a large clan. My suspicious mind thought, ah what if it wasn't an accident. A year later I started "Murder at Bound Brook" and updated it to 1952, the year of a famous Coast Guard rescue and the year my family moved back to Wellfleet after a nine year absence.
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