Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Dick Croy is an award-winning screenwriter, novelist and playwright. He was writer and director of The Fourth Dimension, a documentary series of seven 60-minute television specials on the paranormal. His novel The River Jordan, co-authored with Henry Burke, was a book-of-the-year nominee in 2001. Fugitive Slave, their contemporary drama portraying the historical spirit of the Underground Railroad, is both an award-winning screenplay and a stage play which has received readings by the Classical Theatre of Harlem and other theater companies.
He is Screenwriter of the following feature films:
UNKNOWN POWERS*
ALIENS FROM SPACESHIP EARTH*
THE SHASTA GATE
THE SILENCE OF ANNALEE
THE PYRAMID PROPHECY**
WHERE THERE’S A WILL**
THE KRONGOLD INCIDENT**
WOLF TIME
THE BIKES FROM MOMBASA
AGAINST THE GRAIN
THE RIVER JORDAN**
FUGITIVE SLAVE**
THE TALL DARK MAN**
WATER FROM A DEEPER WELL
TERRA INCOGNITA
PORT BOU
HEADHUNTERS
FALSE FLAG
UNKNOWN RIDER**
(*already produced) (**shared credit)
Television Programs:
MAN OF MIRACLES*
THE MIRACLE HEALERS*
WORLD BEYOND DEATH*
AGE OF THE PSYCHICS*
UNDERGROUND DOCTORS*
THE UNKNOWN FORCE*
Author of the following novels:
THE SHASTA GATE
THE SILENCE OF ANNALEE
THE KRONGOLD INCIDENT**
WOLF TIME
DOWSING FOR LOVE
THE RIVER JORDAN**
Playwright of the following plays:
THE JUDGE AND ME**
BEDTIME STORIES
WATER FROM A DEEPER WELL
FUGITIVE SLAVE**
MORONS
EXPIATION
NAMASTÉ
Awards Won:
Gold Medal – MIRACLE HEALERS
Greater Miami International Film Festival
Golden Eagle – MIRACLE HEALERS and UNKNOWN POWERS
12th Annual Festival of the Americas
Houston International Film Festival
Silver Medal – WORLD BEYOND DEATH
12th Annual Festival of the Americas
Houston International Film Festival
Award of Excellence – UNKNOWN POWERS
Film Advisory Board
Blue Ribbon – UNKNOWN POWERS
Fifth Film Renaissance
First Runner-Up – FUGITIVE SLAVE
Ohio Independent Film Festival
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
THE SHASTA GATE: A Novel of Ascension. TSG was my first screenplay, some 40+ years ago, and although I couldn’t have told you this then, the story’s deus ex maxima ending is in a sense an elaborate metaphor for “ascension,” which is a concept all over the Internet these days on websites dealing with spiritual issues. I’m not sure exactly what it means and I’m sure as hell not sure how it’s supposed to take place, although it might possibly be similar to what happens to my two protagonists.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
Not really, but have you ever had the experience, no matter the blood and toil that went into writing your major projects, of looking back at your body of work and wondering where it all came from? When and how it all got written? Or read whole pages you don’t remember writing, that seem in fact to have written by someone else? So much of creative writing takes place outside of time in a sense.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
This would require too long an answer if I didn’t restrict it to The Shasta Gate, which I see as a sort of mashup of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance with Joseph Chilton Pearce’s The Crack in the Cosmic Egg except that, in addition to action and intrigue, TSG is peopled with fictional characters embodying much of the essence of the philosophical rumination in those books.”
What are you working on now?
Primarily promoting all of my novels on Amazon, now that they’re all there; and, on scribd.com, my novella False Flag, fiction based on fact about the 9/11 cover-up: well over 20K reads so far.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Just learning now as I go.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t ever give up (unless it’s for good) but consider an alternative career(s) or face the prospect of a resume filled w/day jobs.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
My Dad’s when I played high school football as a fullback: “Just keep digging.”
What are you reading now?
Two books by Graham Hancock: America Before, and Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
What’s next for you as a writer?
As the mother of my twin daughters used to say, “Much will be revealed.” Or not.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
Perhaps the Bible, Ulysses, Catch 22, and Gravity’s Rainbow – none of which I’ve read completely.
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