Angels and Fallen Angels discussion

Hi Everyone,

You can ask questions here to Rick Farnsworth author of Succumbing to Gravity.

Thanks Colleen,
So long as you ask questions about this book, I think we're good. But I think I can field a large number of general questions as well (so long as ...uh...I don't know- is an acceptable answer).
Rick

One of the questions I am often asked is where the idea for this book came from. Where do any ideads really come from? You take in information from the world, you put it together with other peices of information, your subconcious chews on it and spits something out. Then with that maleable bit of an idea, your concious tries to shape, reashape, codify, polish, and repeat.

The nugget of STG came from reflections on my reading the Apocryphal Book of Enoch, an ancient Jewish text that popped up with the Dead Sea Scrolls, (http://esoterictexts.tripod.com/Apocr...), a book called the Year of our War, putting all that together with my college-days Milton and Blake that still rattled around in the back of my noggin, and asking myself; 'self, how bad would it suck to really be a fallen angel?' Not the paranormal romance bad boy, but the real deal.

I would guess pretty bad. I would guess a celestial being walking in God's light being cast out, that being would be about as low as possible.

In our society there are a few groups that would probably feel the same way, and I settled on raging drug addicts as my allegory. (I've often had the discussion with friends about the global legalization of drugs, now I usually don't debate the Mary Jane thing, but drugs writ large aren't harmless personal choices, and anyone who has interacted with a raging heroin junkie, knows it's much tougher and more complicated than that.)

So, put the two things together, and viola: Succumbing to Gravity.

Richard,

The book sounds really interesting. Is Succumbing to Gravity on CD?

Coleen,
Alas, no. STG is in Paper, Nook, Kindle, etc, but no CD.

Rick

Thanks Rick. I'm only aking because it's a lot easier for me to go through books if they are on CD because I listen to books in my car or when I'm doing work in the house (i.e., cooking, laundry etc). By the time I get home at night, I'm so tired I can ususally only get through a couple pages of a book so it takes me forever to read books in print.

Hello Everyone,

The short story that served as the basis for STG is now available with my other collected short stories as an epub at Smashwords. (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...)

In addition to fallen Angels,there are werewolve hyenas and bears, set in the postapocolyptic, contemporaneous and steampunk past. You'll love it. Did I mention it's absolutely free?

Enjoy!

Thanks Richard!

Anything for you, (and all my other goodreads pals))!