Friday G.L Rockey is Visiting today and talking about Who He Was Before #BWLPublishing #MFRWAuthor

. What were you in your life before you became a writer? Did this influence your writing?

Wore many hats - By way of Carnegie Mellon Drama Department, G. L. Rockey earned a B.A. from Michigan State University and pursued a career in the television industry. From Providence to Phoenix and cities in between, produced and directed a variety of television programs and managed TV station programming. While program manager at KTSP-TV in Phoenix,  represented NATPE (National Association of Television Program Executives) to Germany. Have a master's degree from Cleveland State University and taught a broadcasting course there. Once (circa 1970) directed David Letterman when he was a part time TV weather man at WLWI-TV in Indianapolis. I was a TV director. In addition to weekend weather man Letterman was also a booth announcer (did voice tags for commercials, etc.) I told him over headsets when to "announce", "stand by," etc. Before all that sold cars, worked highway construction. Most recently managed a restaurant-Jim’s Steak House (memoir/nonfiction book about it From the Back of the House: Memories of a Steak House Clan)

2.   Are you genre specific or general? Why? I don't mean genres like romance, mystery, fantasy etc. There are many subgenres of the above.

General fiction (thriller/romance), nonfiction (memoir), anthology...like a lady reporter/reviewer once wrote, "He writes in all genres." I like to read first person stuff like Nelson DeMille's Plum Island . . .

3. Did your reading choices have anything to do with your choice of a genre or genres?

I didn't read as a child or young adult, managed to get a B.A. by going to class, listening to lectures . . . started reading books around 23 when I woke up one rainy night in Sullivan Indiana and thought about writing one. It turned out to be the novel, Time & Chance.

4. What's your latest release? 

Five Star Review -- Cloistered walls not for her, twenty-six year old dropout nun, Heather Lynn Lucas, is following her passion as an aspiring novelist. Pen name H. L. Lucas, a first novel written, having no luck finding a publisher, Satan shows up with an offer for publishing fame and fortune. Pondering Satan=s offer, Heather has her novel published as an e-book. Certain a review in the local newspaper will boost sales, she attempts to contact the prestigious book editor of the top local newspaper, Joseph Hartman.

5. Why did you choose the genre you write in? Is it your favorite to read, or another reason?

I didn’t choose it, I think it chose me????

6. What are you working on now?

Boolean Traveler (futuristic), Makes the World Go >round (literary)

7. Where can we find you? www.glrockey.com - samples, reviews, blog