AuthorsWiki team thanks author Marjorie Kaye Noble from California USA for giving his valuable time for the interview. Let us tell you that recently a book written by the author ‘The Demon Rift’ has been published. Let us tell you that apart from this book, many books of the author have been published. The author shared his experiences and some special moments with our team in the interview. We hope readers will enjoy this exclusive interview with the author.
AuthorsWiki : Do you briefly introduce yourself in your own words?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : I was born and raised in California. After graduating from UCLA, i became an actress, and later worked as a location casting director on feature films. When I became an English teacher, there was little time for anything creative, so I used my free time to write my first novel, The Demon Rift. After that, I wrote another novel, Babylon Dreams, a speculative science fiction set in an “after-death” mind upload VR community. Currently I am finishing the sequel, The Dark Side of Dreams
AuthorsWiki : Apart from writing, what is your occupation for livelihood?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : I was an LAUSD secondary English teacher. Now, I write novels.
AuthorsWiki : Tell us something about the your first book?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : The Demon Rift is a horror novel. The idea for the story began with my grandfather’s recollections of a Cleveland orphanage where he and his brother Arthur were charity kids (their mother couldn’t support them and their father was dead). Arthur was thirty when he ended his days in an Ohio prison. It burned. I decided to write a prison ghost story which kept changing as I kept asking questions and chasing answers. Instead of a ghost story, it became The Demon Rift, a story spanning 120 years. No ghosts, but you’ll find dreams, parallel universes, third eyes and lots of Christmas shopping. And of course, demons.
AuthorsWiki : Would you like to tell us about your published books?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : Babylon Dreams is a what-if science fiction novel (Citizen Kane in VR). I had read an article by Ray Kurzweil on mind-uploading and VR. He painted a utopia where you could copy your mind and be anyone you wanted to be. Meeting a friend in VR, you could have “raspberry eyes” and a custom digital body. But just how glorious would it be? Babylon Dreams is one man’s designer Eden, where everything is perfect but the past.
My published short stories are The Seventh Folding of Willow Sprite and The Why of Denise. They were published and are available on Strange Fictionize. My published non-fiction articles regarding the nature of dreams can be found in HuffPost.
AuthorsWiki : Where did you get inspiration for book publishing?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : We are all born storytellers. A child, as she plays, assigns dialogue to dolls and action figures, the actors in her play. Some people seem born to write. They keep journals, write essays, stories, plays and screenplays. I worked with many writers when I studied theater at UCLA and later, professionally, when I worked in film. I am a book lover, but it never occurred to me that I could write one. When I became an English teacher, I had little free time. There was a script I had co-written about mall rats battling demons on Christmas Eve. I decided to expand it into a novel. As a former actor, I look for motivation. What made the bad guy evil? What happened? I gave him a past that resulted in more characters and questions.
AuthorsWiki : How do you manage time to write a book?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : I wrestle with attention deficit and am easily distracted. Although I work best in a quiet room, I need frequent breaks to stay focused. I keep a notebook and pen and at the end of each day, I note where I ended and where I need to go next.
AuthorsWiki : What is your favorite writing method, in which you do the most writing?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : It begins with research. There will be a detail that I want to make specific, to base it on a real event or place. For example, a scene I’m writing begins with a late autumn sun. I’m interested in how it contrasts with what’s happening below. When I began to write, I researched settings, history, customs, etc. Very slowly, fifteen minutes to an hour a day, the result was my first novel, The Demon Rift.
AuthorsWiki : When did you start writing and how did your interest in writing begin?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : When I was an English teacher in East LA, I saw donated boxes of YA novel. I decided to give writing a try. How hard can it be? Incredibly hard. Still, a family story sparked my curiosity. Arthur, my great uncle had been an inmate at an Ohio State Penitentiary. There was a prison fire, the cell doors wouldn’t open. Almost everyone was killed. I wondered who or what caused it? The site is now a parking lot, But what if it was a mall? Would it happen again?
AuthorsWiki : Special achievement in your life, which you would like to share with us and your readers too?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : When I was nine, I read The Black Stallion. I loved it and read all its sequels. In my imagination, I was on the island where the boy and the wild stallion survived by trusting each other. When the stallion flew around on the track, Alec gripped the “Black’s” mane and I rode with him, the flush of adventure on my little girl face as I read. Walter Farley’s The Black Stallion took me someplace else. Although I never did learn to ride a horse, I have read and loved countless novels.
Decades later while living in Los Angeles and working as a casting director, I was asked to find a young girl who could ride well for the lead in the movie, The Young Black Stallion. We auditioned actresses in LA and contacted riding schools across the country. A casting company in Europe did the same. I created a simple audition process for anyone to record and submit and we sent out flyers. Sometimes your life becomes a movie and part of your childhood pays you a visit. It was bittersweet. A little girl in Texas sent us her audition tape and soon she was in Namibia, and she was riding the Black Stallion.
AuthorsWiki : Are you planning to write or publish a book in the present or future?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : The Dark Side of Dreams is almost done. It is the sequel to Babylon Dreams. The Dark Side of Dreams connects us to the “bio” world as it is in the 23rd century. When she finds a hidden mind-upload copy of her grandfather, Gunter Holden, Mira Patel risks everything to take back Gunter’s company and restore his legacy
AuthorsWiki : Want to give a message to your readers and fans?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : I hope to hear from you.
AuthorsWiki : Every writer has his own Ideal, do you also have an Ideal writer? And your favorite books that you will always want to read?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : As a child, I read constantly. There was a small-town library, and I checked out books every week. I had no idea what I liked, so I read whatever books looked interesting. Some were teen romances and others were best sellers. When I was twelve, I decided to read books that were more grownup. I read two novels by Charles Dickens: Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities. Because I was so young, much of what Dickens wrote escaped my understanding and appreciation. Still, I identified with Pip, his loyalties and his romantic yearning.
Although the guillotine scenes made me squeamish, I was impressed by the way Dickens laced dark humor into the Reign of Terror and his observation that Old Bailey’s hangings were entertainment for the locals. Dickens created characters—portraits of people I imagined I knew. Like Dickens, I often use dark humor and social commentary in my work.
When I was fifteen, we moved to Glendale, California. In the new house, someone left behind a cardboard box full of science fiction novels and short stores. It might as well have been gold bullion. There were books by Theodore Sturgeon, Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and several short story collections by Ray Bradbury. There were at least thirty paperbacks. I read all summer. Since then, I have loved science fiction.
AuthorsWiki : Apart from writing, what are your other hobbies, which you like to do in your free time?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : Besides bingeing on assorted UFO/UPO series, caring for two chihuahuas and an old tuxedo cat, I have four gardenia plants. I’ve kept them alive for three years. I’m hoping for a fourth.
AuthorsWiki : Would you like to remain in the writing world even in future?
Marjorie Kaye Noble : Yes.
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