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Rich Leder Interview
Can you describe your dream home?
I have a modern esthetic, which is somewhat odd since I lived in house near the beach built in 1903 for 20 very happy years. I like to have an outdoor space for reading and grilling and dining. I like to have an office with windows and bookshelves. I like to have an extra bedroom or two for guests. I like to have a cook’s kitchen because my wife is a phenomenal cook and baker. Not kidding. Phenomenal. I like to have a room with a big TV because movies have been such a fundamental part of my life. I like to have a room with comfortable furniture where people can imbibe a bit of tequila and talk all night about the world and the stars and the movies and books that changed their lives. Lots of wall space and shelving for our artwork and pottery. I’ve been collecting for 40 years and have plenty of both. I like lakes, so, yeah, make it lakefront with a dock. And one level. Ranch house, please. No need for stairs. How’s that? Anyone want to come visit?
If we were to come to your house for a meal, what would you give us to eat?
Oh brother, are you in luck or what? My wife will blow your mind. First, we’ll ask what you like best. Mexican, Italian, Asian? No problem, we love it all, and she kills it in every category. Everything fresh. Most everything made from scratch. Music playing. A bit of booze in the mix. There will be dessert like you can’t believe. I know you don’t do sugar anymore, but you will tonight. Trust me. You will not regret it. A little sugar is in your future if you’re eating at my house.
Tell us about the absolute BEST fan letter you have received.
Someone once told me I moved them to tears and made them laugh in the same sentence. I must be okay at this writing thing, I thought.
Say your publisher has offered to fly you anywhere in the world to do research on an upcoming book, where would you most likely want to go?
I’ve been wanting to go to Spain. But my next book is set in rural North Carolina, so I’m afraid that’s where I’m headed. Also, it’s set in 1920s and the 1950s, so I’ll be time traveling on my publisher’s dime.
Who designed the book cover for the book you are touring?
Rafael at Custom Kitchen did the “Extraterrestrial Noir” cover. They are a fabulous company and Rafael was a pleasure to work with: professional, kind, patient. I should add, he’s incredibly talented, which is not a bad character trait for a cover designer.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL NOIR
Rich Leder
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GENRE: SciFi
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BLURB:
A PSYCHO-CRIMINAL EXTRATERRESTRIAL ON A SUBURBAN CUL-DE-SAC
A FAMILY ON THE BRINK OF ALL-ENCOMPASSING INSOLVENCY
A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD UBER-GENIUS DAUGHTER IN THE LINE OF FIRE
CAN SHE SAVE THE FAMILY, NOT TO MENTION THE PLANET?
An extraterrestrial crashes into a suburban cul-de-sac Colonial, absorbs every binary bit of information ever chronicled in all of human history, rearranges its molecules and presents itself as a couple of late and legendary film noir superstars, then immediately displays an appetite for debauchery, depravity, decadence, and destruction, seducing the family into its psychopathic criminal orbit with irresistible Hollywood panache, alluring sexual charisma, and inconceivable intergalactic powers.…all in the name of saving the family from their emotional, marital, and financial ruin?
But uber-genius-daughter Mike Devine figures out fast that the extraterrestrial’s principal plan is to employ its unfathomable interplanetary muscle and implode the planet. Which leaves the fate of her family, not to mention the world, in her twelve-year-old hands.
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Excerpt:
“That’s almost six trillion miles per year—a single light-year,” Mike said.
“So, if they travel at light speed, they should be here pretty soon,” Maggie said.
“Better make extra pancakes,” Connie said.
“That’s lame, Dad,” Danny said.
“It’s witty, son,” Connie said. “You’ll understand when you get older.”
“I hope not,” Danny said.
“Not too soon,” Mike said. “The distance from Earth to the edge of the universe in any direction takes forty-six point five gigalight-years.”
“How many light years in a gigalight-year?” Connie said.
“A billion,” Mike said.
“What does that mean in Earth years?” Maggie said.
“Voyager 1, our most distant space probe, traveled fourteen light-hours, not even one light-day, and that took thirty Earth years. So, it would take about twenty-two thousand Earth years to travel the same distance light travels in one light-year. About one quadrillion and one hundred two trillion Earth years to reach the edge of the universe.”
If that’s a question on the genius test, I wonder which part of the light-speed equation Mike will only get ninety-two percent right, Maggie thought.
“What if they were coming from the closest galaxy?” Maggie said.
“Andromeda,” Mike said. “Twenty-five hundred Earth years.”
“Long time,” Maggie said, and she turned off her flashlight.
“The meteors should have been here by now,” Connie said.
“I saw something up there,” Maggie said.
But something up there had seen her and made a sharp turn toward Earth.
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Rich Leder Bio and Links:
Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than three decades. His credits include eight novels for Laugh Riot Press and 19 produced movies—television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark and feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films.
He’s been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding consultant (it’s true), a PTA board member, a HOA president, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the UNCW Film Studies Department, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill.
WEBSITE: https://www.richleder.com
BUY LINKS
https://bookshop.org/p/books/extraterrestrial-noir-rich-leder/22774708
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