The Digital Age Has Only Helped Storytellers

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Today's Q&A is with author Eric Rickstad,
a novelist and screenwriter living in Vermont. His unnerving novels, stories, and
scripts strip back the bucolic veneer of rural America and root around in its tragic
and blackly comic underbelly. Big thanks to Darrelyn
Saloom for bringing my attention to Eric and his work.




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Your first novel Reap was
published by Viking/Penguin, and was a New York Times Notable Book. Tell us about
the journey in getting that traditionally published.