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Roderick Vincent is the author of The Cause about a dystopian America set in the not-too-distant future published by Roundfire Books on November, 28th 2014.

His nonfiction and reviews have been published in Writer’s Digest and Ploughshares blog, and his fiction has appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, The Baltimore Post Examiner, StrayLight and The Satarist.

A good part of his childhood and young-adult years were spent living on the island of Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.

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I love your cover art for The Cause, it is very professional and right on target with the "heart" of the book. Yeah, that pun was intentional. Normally I am ambivalent about covers, but yours was particularly striking. Did you come up with the idea of the cover yourself, or was it the designer?

Roderick Vincent Thanks for your question. The cover was a big journey! It was my concept, but it took a while to find an artist who could pull it off. I spent way too…moreThanks for your question. The cover was a big journey! It was my concept, but it took a while to find an artist who could pull it off. I spent way too much on it. I had to fire the first artist because their company just kept producing these ridiculously cartoonish versions. Then I found someone who did what you see today, but I still wasn't convinced. So I hired someone else to do another cover from a concept I had. I did an online poll on Wattpad and on my publisher's website to see which cover everyone preferred. Hands down, it was the one you see today. If I wouldn't have done that, I probably would have gone for the other one. So the cover was a democratic decision, and I've grown to love it after all.(less)

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Hi Roderick!! Where did your idea to write The Cause come from?

Roderick Vincent Thanks Holly for your question. You're the very first since I turned this widget on so I appreciate that :-)

Without peeking here http://roderickvincen …moreThanks Holly for your question. You're the very first since I turned this widget on so I appreciate that :-)

Without peeking here http://roderickvincent.wordpress.com/..., as that would be cheating, I'll tell you. The idea really came after my first novel titled, "Blueprints from the Beginning" which is still on the shelf waiting for the sunlight to hit it once again. One of the critiques of this book (which was a valid one) was that it had a slow-moving plot. So I knew for my second book, first and foremost I wanted to write something plot-driven. I was toying with the idea of how to write a pseudo-spy novel that would have more of a literary, dystopian slant. At the time, Greece was having riots and the EU was debating kicking it out of the European Union. Having great concern of the direction the U.S. was heading, I asked myself the question, what if the U.S. was in such a situation where the economy had collapsed, where the government had become even more nefarious. At that time, the Edward Snowden revelations on the NSA hadn't hit, but I was well aware of what was going on in the NSA. Finally, I asked myself what one event could change everything. The answer led me to the plot, where the CIA is infiltrated by the CIA themselves, field operatives being turned to "The Cause" at The Abattoir, a fictional Blackwater type of off-the-grid blackops camp. Whether these Minutemen are patriots or traitors, I hopefully leave for the reader to decide. I hope this helps answer your question a bit. Now I'll peek at what I wrote before :-) Thanks again for your question.

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D.H. Lawrence’s short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” has to be one of the best ever written. This public domain story is presented below with my footnotes added and a discussion at the end. The footnotes allow one to switch back and forth without losing your place and should work well on a tablet, phone, or eReader. This is simple admiration for a story that shines brighter than others and ex

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