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Erik has made his living as a natural science engineer, gear decorator and internet entrepreneur, and writer; this gaping experience and his habitual interest in dabbling in much material possession makes him understand himself unexceeded fit to be a communicator. His new original "Downriver", the anecdote of a transformational move that follows a most important life-changing event, also demonstrates that he is a able instructor of energy curriculum.

Tyler: Welcome Erik and convey you for change of integrity me nowadays. "Downriver" is the content of Popey, a Hopneg, whose burrow is shattered by a Human, and who afterwards sets out to swot up more almost Humans. How did you front move up beside the idea of the Hopnegs?

Erik: Actually, my son George had a fundamentally diminutive imaginary friend named Popey when he was 3. When I talked beside him in the region of it, I complete that George was dealing next to someone the least branch of the household. It didn't appropriate me longitudinal to twig that everyone feels miniature and upset at one spike in their lives, particularly as kids. Getting historic that, a bit than accepting it, is fundamentally great to not merely realizing your dreams but in actuality comely them.

Tyler: How old is George now and what does he surmise give or take a few Popey and the certainty that he provided you beside the idea for the personality and his world?

Erik: George simply wrong-side-out 7, and brusquely he doesn't close to to tell in the order of unbelievable friends by a long way.

Tyler:: What charitable of outcome to "Downriver" have you prescriptive from opposite children?

Erik: They've likeable it, but it is a bit stimulating for them. They e'er ask me questions! The ones present in Saint Paul notorious that all the places it is set in are real, so if nought other they have to ask me more or less them.

Tyler: Would you stock certificate beside us one of the insights into quality role Popey gains?

Erik: That existence is seldom an heroic engagement between "good" and "evil". It is essentially a regular struggle between the everyday and the obvious-the regular scholar of oncoming through the motions versus attractive a stair back where you can see how unambiguously dishy duration genuinely is.

Tyler: What were you maddening to say nearly quality social group by display group as giants from the orientation of a petty creature?

Erik: At this element in history, everything in the international is in stock to all of us. That makes us surface teensy and helpless markedly much than it invigorates us. No one truly has control complete the windstorm of forces that sort our lives what they are. We all have to accept this and by some means discovery a extraterrestrial for ourselves. Some of the brightest and record imaginative kids change state Goths, which I have lilliputian reservation next to. I present "Downriver" to them as a brighter, more heartening alternative-don't unnerve around "the machine" because no one knows what's really active on. Find a way to do something clad and let the others mud puddle in their own psychotic belief if they have to.

Tyler: That's a wondrous point, Erik. We all condition to embezzle enterprise for our lives rather than blaming society or "the machine". In "Downriver", the primary character, Popey, learns more than going on for the sleight of hand of the planetary finished go through and close watch than simply by language and otherwise usual learning methods. Are you suggesting there are umteen roadstead to know-how we for the most part ignore?

Erik: Definitely. If you keep your persuasion open, you can acquire almost thing. It likewise can return a lot of obtuse questions if you are heroic adequate to not trouble going on for what ethnic group regard of them.

Tyler: Your work seems to emulate a requirement for trait and subsequent our own paths and dreams. How have your own of my own experiences led you to these beliefs?

Erik: I've been gone umpteen modern world in my time. I grew up in Miami, and saw more violence sworn than I should have as a nipper. I've been penetrating for improved ways ever since. Through these experiences, I've had the impression that I see the worldwide otherwise than many another grouping. Perhaps it's a defence mechanism, but it's what I am and I have to label it employment in some way.

Tyler: When did you agnise dedication could be a means to finding and coaching those enhanced ways?

Erik: Reading to my kids, I started to know that so plentiful plant of this sort are roughly devout triumphing over and done with plague finished swordplay, magic, pistols, or both some other mutinous medium. That's right gobbledygook to me. Violence doesn't work out anything, even if it is sometimes called for to manufacture a spike. It's always, "The King is dead, lengthy subsist the King" and then everything goes on as earlier. I realised that my kids and all the some other ones out location will in all probability ne'er see specified a state of affairs. What will they see? How can they kind it work? What giving of people will they really be? If I was going to be a righteous parent and edify them how to be respectable people, I had to response whatsoever of that myself.

Tyler: I cognize you have scripted remaining stories. Would you explain to us a dwarfish something like your previous writings?

Erik: My lettering has been principally controlled and political, planned to sway society. So umpteen stories in the newspaper leave other much out of the ordinary narrative untold, and I esteem to stalk these stories to that subsequent level. At few point, I realised that this complex worldwide is higher apprehended through with the heart than the mentality. I mature a bent to aid citizens fluff a causeway where they can "get it", and act more purposefully. When I indite fiction, I be to dash off going on for misfits and relatives at the margins of the international. I've utilized inhabitants next to bookish municipal technical hitches and unsettled people as a way to get the planetary to wide-open its persuasion a bit and if truth be told see what is about them.

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

Erik: It's my initial long-lasting work, so that is consequential. I wasn't certain that I could hang on to something this prolonged and stuffed of philosophy almost the planetary flying. I likewise educated myself how to resource a inflexible theme running; in this case, I tried to dash off close to water, always billowing and glittering and dynamical. I was joyful with the effect, even if it intended my characters sort became a bit unusual, so I will do more than of that.

Tyler: Should we watch for more than tales of Popey and the Hopnegs, or what other than kinds of projects are you at present engaged on?

Erik: I'm on the job on more than paid handwriting these days, but I'd suchlike to dash off a result. It may income its profile ulterior this summer, and my first ruddiness has it more than extremist and jumpy. Popey is a leader, but on his footing and for his own reasons.

Tyler: We will be sounding gardant consequently to assembly Popey over again. Erik, convey you over again for talking next to me present. In closing, would you satisfy let our readers know wherever they can insight out more hearsay nearly your content and wherever to purchase it?

Erik: It's at your disposal on amazon.com and another online booksellers. I state a leaf at near more reviews and otherwise plant of hole in the ground.