Featured Interview With Author Randy Dean Noble
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born and raised in Saskatchewan, Canada. My dad’s work required transfers from time to time, so I moved around from place to place as a kid. And, because I was a shy and quiet child, it was hard for me to make friends sometimes (movies were my first love and have always been a comfort–amazing stories giving me the escape I needed). After high school, most of my time was spent in a city called, Saskatoon (in Saskatchewan), which was about 250,000 people at the time.
After high school, I worked a lot of minimum wage jobs, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life. Originally, film school was the intent, but I let the money scare me away (it’s expensive). Instead, I opted for Computer Science and spent over two decades working various I.T. jobs I never loved. I got married in 2011, have no kids, lived in Calgary for 10 years (great city), and then moved to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to be close to my parents (Saskatoon) and my wife’s parents (Prince Albert), where we had a cat (we had to say goodbye recently – still guts me and probably always will – she lived to 19) and a dog (she’s 11 – Bluetick Coonhound).
I’ve always had a fascination with story telling, from a young age (it’s why film interested me, initially). My first love of stories came from movies, and developed to books after high school. I wrote and published my first novel in 2010 (Surviving the Theseus – an exciting sci-fi horror thriller), had it re-edited in 2015, and added an epilogue and audiobook version in 2021 (for anyone who happens to read this book, I am following it up). My writing languished for years (after 2010), while I thought about writing, had some ideas, but other than a couple short stories, and a couple attempts at a screenplay, I didn’t do much. In the last three years, I’ve gotten serious, and have started a series (two books so far), with the third and final coming out soon as of this writing (August 22, 2024). I also wrote another story (standalone), called, Spiral, which will also be out soon. And that’s my plan, writing daily and publishing more books, trying to make a career of doing what I love.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I started writing stories before I found my love of books. During grade school, being forced to read books that didn’t interest me, turned me off of books. But, after high school, my older brother had a bunch of Stephen King books and that got me going to where I couldn’t get enough of amazing stories that took me away on a journey. Since I can remember, I’ve always loved writing stories, and loved it when an English class had an assignment requiring me to write a story (and I wrote a few outside of school, whenever I had an idea that piqued my interest).
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
Some of my favorite authors from the past are Stephen King, Robert McCammon, and Dean Koontz. I still read these authors from time to time, but I tend to read other authors now as I like my stories fast-paced, laced with supernatural thrills and chills, and I find some of the big-time authors are wordier and sometimes dwell too much on character details that don’t interest me as a reader. Don’t get me wrong, I love a great character, and it’s important, but I don’t need to know the history of a character (and I don’t want to know). I like getting right into a story that twists and turns into a riveting tale, and that’s what I like to write (I write for myself first–what I like to read–and hope others will enjoy the stories as much as I do). Some authors I like are, RR Haywood, Jim Butcher, Blake Crouch, J.A. Konrath, and Michael McCloskey.
My writing inspirations definitely came from early Stephen King, Robert McCammon, and Dean Koontz. And anything can inspire me now, a book or a movie, even TV shows now as some of them have fantastic characters and story telling (Fargo TV series, as an example).
Tell us a little about your latest book?
I have two books coming up. The first, Spiral, is a horror thriller where the main character wakes up in a strange car that is sitting on the side of a dark highway in the middle of a dense forest. He has no idea who he is, how he got there, or what he’s doing there. What he finds out quickly is that something is watching him. He has to race for his life with a bunch of other people in the same boat, all of them trying to figure out what’s going on before they’re killed. I wrote the first draft of the book this past winter, over a period of about a month, and loved every moment of writing it. When I began my journey as a writer, I outlined my stories, but I found the process soul-sucking and have since stopped as it didn’t work for me. Instead, I come up with an idea, a situation, or some kind of event, and I just go from there. It makes the process of writing fantastic for me, because I discover it as I go (this is how a lot of authors, especially the prolific ones like Stephen King, write). I’m not saying it’s “the” way, but it’s just the way that works for me. With Spiral, my writing process helped create an exciting fast-paced thrill ride that I don’t think anyone will be able to predict, that will grip you from the first page to the last, exactly the kind of stories I love to read. It’s intense, and I think the characters really bring it to life. I can’t wait for everyone to read it.
The other book I have coming up, is the third and final book in my, Lords of Apocalypse, series. Book one is called, Nexus, book two, The Quisling, and this third book, The Forsaken. It’s a story of a loner named, Boston, who wants to believe that death is not the end. He wants to join a paranormal investigation group, and he gets more than he bargained for on his initiation night. It starts a series of events that lead the reader through a fast-paced supernatural ride in Nexus, right up to the end of The Forsaken. Boston is a gunslinger, something he took up after his father was brutally killed. It takes place in modern time. This story actually stemmed from a screenplay I wrote (didn’t go anywhere). It’s been in the works for years as I’ve had the idea for awhile. I published Nexus back in February 2023, The Quisling in October of 2023, and the plan is to have The Forsaken published in the fall of 2024. I’ve spent months working on it. Where Spiral took me a month to write the first draft, The Forsaken took me 4 months to write the first draft. Because it’s the conclusion to the series, I took great care to write a thrilling story, but one that also answers the big questions throughout the series and ties it all together. I think readers will really enjoy the final book as it takes them on an emotional rollercoaster of thrills and chills with some characters I truly love (I won’t say which, but there were two characters specifically that affected me emotionally for a couple days when I wrote their final scenes – one from The Quisling, and one from, The Forsaken). Again, I don’t think readers will be able to predict what’s coming. I hope everyone enjoys the ride.
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