the interview

Marcher Lord Press: Tell folks a bit about yourself, Kirk.

Kirk Outerbridge: Firstly, I'm a Bermudian, which means I'm blessed to live on a beautiful island located 650 miles east of North Carolina that's only 21 square miles in size. I'm also blessed to be married to my wonderful wife, Ria, and blessed even further by our 18- month-old son, Miles—the joy of my life.

I'm an engineer by training and make my living by burning garbage. Seriously, but I won't bore you with the details. You can learn more about my wonderful job here.

I've had a passion for writing and storytelling from an early age. In college I decided to get serious about learning the craft and produced a 350,000-word monstrosity that shall never see the light of day, God willing, but that did teach me many of the fundamentals of writing.

I then took a break, which gave me some much needed clarity to make the most important decision of my life. In 2001 I devoted my life to God and became a Christian. Since then I've rekindled my passion for writing and have set it as my purpose to use my talent for God's glory. 

Marcher Lord Press: What is your novel, in a nutshell?

Kirk Outerbridge: Eternity Falls is a futuristic technothriller set about seventy years from now that explores the idea of immortality and what impact it would have on man's faith in God.

Marcher Lord Press: What's cool about your book? Why should I, a potential reader of your book, read it myself or buy a copy for someone I know?

Kirk Outerbridge: What's cool about it? Everything, of course! Well, that's if you're into cybernetics, fast cars, action-packed battles, and a sharp-witted detective with more than a few tricks up his sleeve.

Other than that, there's what makes all stories great: at it's core Eternity Falls is a love story—three of them, actually.

There's an Eros story of romance, a Philos tale of brotherly kindness, and an Agape portrait of God's Grace.

Hopefully readers will be entertained by the cyberpunk genre and fast paced action, while being fed spiritually by the Gospel truths layered within.

Marcher Lord Press: Why is Marcher Lord Press the ideal publisher for your novel?

Kirk Outerbridge: I write Christian cyberpunk—need I say more?

There simply exists no other publisher that so clearly fits my genre than Marcher Lord Press. I've been a fan of MLP since its inception and prayed that I'd someday be considered to join its ranks.

Now that God has blessed me to do just that, I can only reiterate that MLP is the premier choice when it comes to Christian speculative fiction.   

Marcher Lord Press: What do you hope to accomplish with this novel?

Kirk Outerbridge: I set out writing this novel to reach people who were just like me before I came to Christ—people who were raised in the Church but then left after having their minds "broadened" by intellectualism and their interests captivated by Hollywood entertainment and games.

For these people, I wanted to write a story that they would find both entertaining as well as encouraging in reestablishing their faith in Christ.

Marcher Lord Press: Are there more books in you? If so, what might some of them be?

Kirk Outerbridge: I wrote Eternity Falls as the first in what I hope to become a series involving the main character, Rick Macey. I have lots of ideas for future adventures.

I also have a deep interest in relativity and light-speed travel and have been toying with a story that involves time dilation, but we'll see where that goes. 

Marcher Lord Press: Have you written other Christian speculative fiction? If so, what?

Kirk Outerbridge: I'm about halfway through writing the sequel to Eternity Falls. God willing, you'll be able to read that someday too.

Marcher Lord Press: Where can folks go to read more of your stuff?

Kirk Outerbridge: You can catch me and some of my writing on my website.

Marcher Lord Press: Finally, and most importantly, if you could travel to any time period or alternate world, what would it be and why?

Kirk Outerbridge: The future, of course! I'd love to see how we advance as time goes on. Until then, I'll let my keyboard be my time machine.