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Newspaper and magazine writer and editor R.S. (Rod) Belcher won the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds contest in 2006. His debut novel, The Six-Gun Tarot (Tor, January 22, 2013), has been described as "High Noon meets H.P. Lovecraft." He is finishing his second novel, The Greenway--which the author describes as "Harry Dresden mashed up with Raymond Chandler, The Story of O and Trainspotting"--and is working on a sequel to The Six-Gun Tarot. He lives in Roanoke, Va., where he runs the Cosmic Castle comics shop.
On your nightstand now:
Flesh and Blood: A History of the Cannibal Complex by Reay Tannahill, From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, Supergods by Grant Morrison, Smack by Melvin Burgess, a roll of pink duct tape.
Favorite book when you were a child:
Two of my earliest memories are of my dad reading me the encyclopedia (Mom says he did it every night) and my mom reading me an Avengers comic book. I loved the Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald J. Sobol.
Your top five authors:
Roger Zelazny, Grant Morrison, Thomas Harris, Robert Parker, Ernest Hemingway.
Book you've faked reading:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Pretty much everything by J.R.R. Tolkien ("and then they stopped and had lunch and this is what they had..."), but I haven't given up on reading them yet!
Book you're an evangelist for:
Read anything/everything by Rumi. Please. Same goes for Paulo Coelho (especially The Alchemist).
Book you've bought for the cover:
She by H. Rider Haggard. It had the painting The Sin by Franz von Stuck on the cover. It is one of the most powerful sexual images I have ever encountered. Good book, too, by the way.
Books that changed your life:
The Princess Bride by William Goldman. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
Favorite line from a book:
"Life's not fair; it's just fairer than death." --William Goldman, The Princess Bride.
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
Neuromancer by William Gibson. Blew my mind! His style was a huge influence on me as a writer.