Rick Heiman recently published and released Time Traveler's Rock: Flaming Eagle, which is beginning to soar in sales. It's no wonder as it's full of exciting plot twists and turns. It takes you back in time into a Native American setting through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy and progresses with his life spanning over five years. There is an element from a futuristic perspective as the story begins in 2065, taking you back almost 500 years. Incorporating and blending the two eras appears to be seamless and no challenge to this author, but as any writer would agree it was not effortless.
Starting out in life, Mr. Heiman went into law enforcement then quickly moved to patrol officer. He began thinking about keeping a journal of his tours, missions, duties, and day's events for someday to develop into crime fiction upon retirement. However, that idea was short lived, not impossible, though life goes on.
In 2014 after working the midnight shift for over six years as a major crimes detective for a large police department he finally started getting normal sleep. He woke from a dream that he shared with his youngest son since the dream was about him. The next thing he knew the short story turned into Time Traveler’s Rock: Flaming Eagle. He doesn't consider himself to be a writer, but more of a storyteller. He feels the people who do the editing should hold the title of writer.
When Rick Heiman is not working or writing, he is, "reading something, listening to an audio book, watching a movie, cooking, or spending time with his family doing things like camping and hunting."
What makes a good story? Rick Heiman thinks, "A good story is one that has good flow and easy to read. I don’t like it when a story jumps around a lot. I like the story to have some excitement and unexpected twists. And of course it has to have a great ending. I would much rather have a cliffhanger ending than an anticlimactic ending. I just finished an 18-hour long audio book that was a very interesting story, but ended with a flop. I enjoyed the story as it went along, but at the end I was disappointed and felt like I had wasted the entire 18 hours.
Growing up Rick Heiman recalls his home in Florida where it was located only 70 miles from Cape Canaveral. In the 60’s and early 70’s he was able to watch the Apollo missions from his backyard. Of course at that time he wanted nothing other than to be an astronaut. He states, "I remember watching Apollo 11 take off. I would watch for a few minutes inside on TV then run outside and watch it in the sky. It wasn't until high school when I decided I wanted to be a police officer instead. I joined the Army first and worked on helicopters for three years. When I got out of the Army I went into law enforcement and I’ve spent the majority of the past 27 years as a police officer. I was an adult when I decided I wanted to write."
The only habit Rick Heiman has as an author is setting the scene for a comfortable space to write. He admits, " I was working the midnight shift when I wrote Time Traveler’s Rock and when I got home, after working all night, I would make sure everyone was out of the house and on their way to work or school, then I would crawl into bed with my iPad and write until I fell asleep. On my nights off I would try to stay on my normal schedule by watching ScyFy movies and writing all night long."
The advice he has for aspiring writers is, "To find a topic that means something to you that you really enjoy writing about. Also if you don’t keep a notepad handy all the time you need a program on your phone, because it never fails that something will happen during a day at work that could end up finding its way into a story somehow.
It took six months to complete writing Time Traveler's Rock: Flaming Eagle, and that was writing only in his spare time. So what's next for this first time debut novelist? "My next in series novel is Time Traveler's Rock: White Buffalo, which is already in the works. It begins with the main character, James, taking another trip back in time where he goes back to the same general time frame, but a little earlier and as someone new. It will be an adult he met during his first trip, but will be in their childhood, and he will have to figure out which person he is along the way.
The novel's message is, "I hope my message is really obvious in the story that bullying is wrong and that children need to stand up and ask adults for help when they are being bullied." And Mr. Heiman's expectations for his first novel are that, "the book other than to teach children to stand up for themselves if they are being bullied; and if they are the bully that they need to stop and be more considerate of others."
Time Traveler's Rock: Flaming Eagle is available for purchase at: http://www.timetravelersrock.com/buy/
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To learn more about the Time Traveler Rock: Flaming Eagle book or Author Rick Heiman, visit his website at: www.Timetravelersrock.com, social media at: Facebook.com/timetravelersrock. Twitter at: #timetravelersro, email at timetravelersrock@gmail.com.
To experience a chapter of the book, you may read it at: http://www.book2look.com/book/QGqE2VCnsl&clickedby=QR
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