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Missing Persons

G. L. Rockey Author Interview

HELP Wanted follows a private detective who takes on a variety of cases ranging from infidelities to murder, exploring the darker aspects of human nature. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?

Numerous News stories about missing persons.

Your novelette focuses on the darker side of human nature and what people are capable of. What are some things that you find interesting about the human condition that you think make for great fiction?

When you worm your way back to most things human, it comes down to MORE, as in money.

I felt that HELP Wanted delivers the drama so well that it flirts with the grimdark genre. Was it your intention to give the story a darker tone?

When you hear about all the missing people who are never found, you begin to wonder where they ended up.

What is the next book that you are working on, and when will it be available?

PHOENIX GUM SHOE is two more episodes (massage and high stakes) of private detective, Max Baer.

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Private Detective Max Baer uncovers a human trafficking body-parts-for-sale scheme.


30-Plus Years in Television Broadcasting

G. L. Rockey Author Interview

Vagabond Broadcaster Gypsy TV Guy gives readers an inside look at your life from childhood through your thirty-plus years in television broadcasting. Why was this an important book for you to write?

So many coulda shouda mistakes.

I appreciated the candid nature with which you told your story. What was the hardest thing for you to write about?

Marriage stuff…what to include and what to not…

What is one thing you hope readers take away from the experiences you share in your memoir?

Keep “what might have been” to barest minimum.

What is the next book you are working on, and when will it be published?

Rabbit Hole University is published at KDP…working on Bats in the Belfry; Bells in the Attic II…collection of off the wall short stories, flash fiction.

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Recalling a turbulent career in television broadcasting, questioning fate, chance, and coincidence; little did G L Rockey know when he switched majors at Michigan State University from Restaurant Management to Communication that it would be the beginning of a career in television broadcasting that would last some thirty plus years.