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Rod Kackley

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I quit my job to write. That’s how much love writing. It’s also an indication of how utterly frustrated I was with my life as a middle manager in a national corporation. Mid-life crisis? No, I don’t think so. It’s more that I saw the finish line approaching more rapidly than I expected thirty years before.

What I am is what I write.

The characters in the St. Isidore Collection, the people who live in this town I have created in my mind, all contain some thread of me. Let’s be honest. I write what I know. And I know the frustration of listening to the millennials at work talk about their plans for the next thirty years, and suddenly realizing I don’t have thirty years left.

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Rod Kackley I am putting together Stories of St.Isidore as a paperback as well as finishing the third book in the St. Isidore Collection, The Suicide Forest, a fo…moreI am putting together Stories of St.Isidore as a paperback as well as finishing the third book in the St. Isidore Collection, The Suicide Forest, a follow up to Sometimes Things Break.(less)
Rod Kackley The Stories of St. Isidore is almost a tutorial for the St. Isidore Collection. I wanted to introduce readers to the people of this city I created in …moreThe Stories of St. Isidore is almost a tutorial for the St. Isidore Collection. I wanted to introduce readers to the people of this city I created in my mind. All of the characters are fictional of course. But I would be lying if I didn't say they were also a product of my experiences.
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