Author Interview | Touching Spirits with Kevin R. Hill - Part 1

Kevin R. Hill, Author

I caught up with Indie Author Kevin R. Hill on Goodreads recently, and we discussed doing interview/blog exchanges.  Knowing that readers’ interests and book choices vary, we both readily agreed.  Thus said, our books couldn’t be more opposite.  A Rose for Sergei is Non-Fiction—it chronicles my real-life relationship with Soviet KGB defector Sergei Kourdakov.  Mr. Hill’s book, Touching Spirits, is Fiction—mystery, thriller, suspense.  Not only am I a fan of his books and blog…I’m looking forward to asking the questions that readers really want to know.  For some reason, I have a feeling that he will be shockingly honest and full of surprises in his responses.

First, a little background information—Kevin R. Hill began his writing career by selling travel articles during a decade he spent roaming Europe, Africa, and Mexico.  While completing his first novel he wrote a column for a national magazine.  All his work, from Action/Adventure novels to children's books and automotive how-to books, can be found on Amazon Kindle, and CreateSpace for hard cover editions.

What is the one thing you want readers to know about you?

I think the blog exchange is a great idea.  The one thing I want readers to know about me? Ah, um, well, that for many years I traveled Europe, Africa, and Mexico, and lived in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Yucatan, and Israel, until they asked me to leave. Travel, I believe, is a great teacher. It is from those experiences, from picking apples in Switzerland, to living in an abandoned house on the Caribbean, and spear fishing for meat, that I draw on for my fiction.

Kevin, you can’t leave us hanging with “I traveled…Israel…until they asked me to leave.”  Sooo…exactly why were you asked to leave? 

You would ask me that question. Please edit the following how you like.  I’m off to work and will have to get to you tomorrow.  (Note to Readers from K. Kidd – I did correct typos in his hastily written email, but this was so funny I couldn’t leave anything out!)

Well, there was a time when I was very wild.  I was working on a kibbutz (a community farm).  There I turned a potter’s shack into a bar that rocked The Police [English rock band) loud enough to be heard in Lebanon, four kilometers away!  Then I met a Danish woman with hair of spun silver and green eyes that touched my soul.  I mean she looked at me across the hopping dance floor and it felt like somebody dumped a wheel barrel of rocks on my chest.  I was so in love I could hardly stand up!

But when Christmas rolled around I wanted to throw a party for the volunteers.  We needed a tree, so I cut one down.  The Danes danced around it.  Someone pinched beer tops onto wire and strung it around the branches.  An Italian woman covered the base with a sheet, and we had quite a party before the gardener burst in like a madman, his face beet red with anger, and knocked the stereo to the ground.

Every dancer stood still as he dragged the tree outside.  I was told that the tree had been a diplomatic gift to Israel, and that it would be a good idea for me to leave the kibbutz.  So that blond and I left.  About a year later we were married.

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Part 2 of Interview with Kevin R. Hill next week!  After reading this book I want to know if he's had encounters with spirits or ghosts.

To be continued . . .

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Touching Spirits Synopsis:  Police Sergeant Cody Brannon has killers chasing him and a ghost that grabs him at night. What is going on?  Cody’s quest for answers drives him—one step ahead of the killers—to a crazy Grandmother in California, and to a Cancun village.  In the sandy village the Maya follow him everywhere.  A friend is murdered, and as Cody investigates he discovers the Maya are hiding a secret that will shake the world.  Now he just has to get out alive.

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The questions Mr. Hill asked me can be found on his July 14, 2016 blog post titled:

Young, Free, and in love with a Spy--a real life Romance!