Rachel and Nikki Step Out

Interview With the Author

Kari: Robert, we are here to talk about your book, Rachel and Nikki Step Out. This unusual story seems to have elements of fact as well as fancy that leaves me wondering: Who are these people?

Robert: Which people are you referring to, Kari? There are the two young women who are the focus of the middle and third section. Then there are all the people who interact with them?

Kari: Well, I suppose that we should start with the two protagonists who form the basis of the "unusual night" as you have written.

Robert: Rachel and Nikki were two young women who happened to walk into the Red Fish Restaurant there in Gloucester and proceeded with reckless abandon to entertain themselves and everyone around them. They were acting in such a manner that it did not seem that they were human at all.

The people who were there when Rachel and Nikki first arrived and the ones who arrived later all were held in utter amazement that what they were seeing was really happening. When I spoke with several of them later they were in agreement that it was a strange night.

Kari: You are saying that you were one of the people there that night and you know the others there too. So you were, who, the Bob character, and the others were essentially the people and relationships that you described?

Robert: Yes, that is what I am saying. A few details and characters are composites otherwise there would have been too many people. But yes, essentially, all the people were, are real people. Rachel and Nikki were real people too but "who" they were that night is up to the reader to determine for themselves. As I suggested they were acting like two Boston Terriers who had been given the opportunity to have one day as humans. Anyone who knows a Boston as family knows that they really believe that they are people already, but they are wrapped in the body of the Terrier.

Kari: And what about the first Chapter? How real is that? It was really sad but it was a bittersweet feeling.

Robert: After waking up the next morning and realizing the night before at the Red Fish was not indeed a dream, I started speculating on how that night came to be. The girls were acting like Bostons to the max. They seemed to be the embodiment of two Terriers and so the story started writing itself in my mind. So to make it clear the pups, Rachel and Nikki, were probably a made up series of events.

Kari: Probably?

Robert: As far as I know the human Rachel and Nikki were only channeling the behaviors of Boston Terriers. Whatever became of the pups is only my speculation.

Kari: Speculation?

Robert: Yes speculation, but maybe I was channeling their story too. The entire framework of the story emerged fully formed at the tip of my pen. and yes I write a lot with pen and paper for first drafts.

Kari: That seems to be a throwback in this day and age.

Robert: That may very well be, but the instrument in my hand and the paper in front of me gives me the mood and the impetus to get going.

Kari: So you think that you were channeling the Boston Terriers' story too?

Robert: Well I don't know about that but who really knows from where stories come? All i know is that the events described in the first part seemed to be as real as thought they were factual.

Kari: What about the follow up part in the next few days after the "night"?

Robert: That part was completely made up. We never saw Rachel and Nikki again, although I suppose that someone did. At least they were not the "same" Rachel and Nikki that we interacted with on their night of "Stepping Out." As the book says, they returned to their ordinary lives and the spirits of the pups went where ever they go.

Kari: Well, thank you, Robert, for taking this time to talk about your book, "Rachel and Nikki Step Out." It was a strange story to say the least.

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