Inside the Book:
Title: A World Between
Author: Robert Herzog
Publisher: Story Plant
Genre: Literary Fiction
Format: Ecopy/Paperback
Q: Please tell us about A World Between, and what
inspired you to write it.
A: I’ve always been fascinated by physics, and was reading a
book about quantum physics, which got me thinking (it was late at night) about
how matter could be particles or waves, and what might happened if the solid
version converted to the intangible.
That led to both how bureaucracies and politicians would react to it and
to the kinds of people who could create such a strange phenomenon and those who
could fight it. And the synthesis that
could occur between them.
Q: What themes do you explore in A World Between?
A: How consciousness can shape reality, for good or
bad. How organizations and their
functionaries react to the new and unknown, more worried about their funding
and maintaining power than what could be an existential threat – much like they
do around climate change. How love can
be found in the midst of chaos, and how hatred can corrupt the human spirit.
Q: Why do you write?
A: why do I eat?
Q: How picky are you with language?
A: VERY. From
Shakespeare to Dylan, I find great phrasings inspiring, and demand as good as I
can give.
Q: When you write, do you sometimes feel as though you
were being manipulated from afar?
A: Never.
Q: What is your worst time as a writer?
A: Those rejection slips.
I hate rejection. Really. Must be a childhood thing.
Q: Your best?
A: The exhilaration of a perfect phrase (at least to my
ear!).
Q: Is there anything that would stop you from writing?
A: There are times when the occupations and obligations of
the world interfere. Which I always look
back on with regret.
Q: What’s the happiest moment you’ve lived as an author?
A: This week.
Publication day!
Q: Is writing an obsession to you?
A: I’d have to say yes, it’s been a driving element in my
life for all my life.
Q: Are the stories you create connected with you in some
way?
A: of course. Some
relate to experience, and those that don’t are resonating with my passions and
what imagination I have.
Q: Ray Bradbury once said, “You must stay drunk on
writing so reality cannot destroy you.” Do you agree?
A: No. I’d rather experience “reality” and use it to create
new realities.
Q: Where is your book available?
A: Amazon, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobu, Indigo, etc.
Q: Do you have a website or blog where readers can find
out more about you and your work?
Meet the Author
Robert M. Herzog has had his stories and poems published in Solstice Literary Magazine, Toasted Cheese, Downstate Story Magazine, Straylight Literary Arts Magazine, and South Jersey Underground. He was a physics major until he read Nietzsche, a political philosopher turned entrepreneur dealing with the major issues of our time, from energy and environment to technology and health care, a Brooklyn boy who’s climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and remembers the taste of the first (and subsequent) great wine he drank.