Roderick D. Turner

Roderick D. Turner has been writing fiction for over thirty years. He has created more than 150 short stories, twelve novels, as well as four full-length audio plays. 22 of his stories are available as web postings through Aphelion Webzine. A number of his stories have also been entered in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. His stories have received fifteen Honorable Mentions (top 2%), one Silver Honorable Mention (top 50), and one Semi-Finalist ranking (top 16), out of several thousand entries in this contest over the years. His first novel, The Snow is Black (recently re-released as Escaping Tomorrow), reached the third round of the WeBook Novel contest in 2010 (the first 50 pages of the book). It also reached the quarter finals (last 250 books) in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest for 2012.

Here is what he has to say about writing:

“I like writing stories, and get really fired up when I enjoy what I’ve written. That’s the best part of writing – you are, after all, most often your only audience. What’s really inspiring is when you start writing about a character and they take over, almost literally writing the story themselves. Then you read it through and the characters and events surprise even you.”