It is also in homage to the books and movies of the first half of the 20th Century, and a blatant attempt to recreate the feeling one gets from watching old black & white films on Turner Movie Classics. Those works, like the common folks of the American West, were not nearly so paralyzed as those of today are by the need to be ironic and removed, jaded and streetwise. Cooksin intends to reveal itself in ways that are pretty straight forward, like a Frank Capra film, piling on as much corn as may be needed to make the emotions really work.
- RAR
About the Author
Rick Alan Rice is a San Francisco Bay Area writer who for many years has published the Creative Culture Journal at RARWRITER.com and other websites under his RARWRITER Publishing Group banner. He is the owner of Rick Alan Rice Consulting, which has a long history of providing technical communications services to a wide range of high profile companies in the Information Technology and environmental engineering sectors (including Cisco Systems and Bechtel), along with numerous California state agencies. He has extensive experience with international projects, including developing proposals for U.S. Department of Defense and State Department programs in Iraq and Afghanistan, oil and gas developments in Iraq and Alaska’s North Slope, large transportation projects (Doja International Airport) in Qatar, manufacturing projects in Afghanistan, and mining/refining/shipping projects in Saudi Arabia. He was the principal author of the feasibility study that led to the creation of California’s landmark carbon emissions (Cap & Trade) trading program, which was done in association with KPMG.
Besides Cooksin, Rick is also the author of ATWOOD: A Toiler’s Weird Odyssey of Deliverance, the first in a trilogy of long fiction that explores the development of the United States and the impact of immigrant cultures and their mythologies on the country’s national character.
Rick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two kids. Visit www.rarwriter.com and www.revolutionculturejournal.com and www.rickarice.com. for libraries of his written works.
About the Illustrator
Richard W. Padilla is a New Mexico artist with whom Rick has had the pleasure of collaborating with to produce artwork for his novels. From his website: “Richard W. Padilla has been drawing all his life. His father was an artist, and having inherited that sensibility, art has always been his natural form of expression. While the nature of the artworks have changed overtime, Richard’s sincerity to try to relate his feelings has remained throughout. The environment around him has had an influence, but it does not dictate any particular genre or style. It is his intuition that leads to each new work, and that comes from ever changing sources.” See his work at http://richardwpadilla.com.
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