Shake hands again with another alumni of An Honest Lie, Eric Trant from the cattle trails of the southwest! Eric showed us the temptation of it all with “The Apple Tree” in An Honest Lie, Volume 1 Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child. Eric now explores the recognition of claim with “One Small Step” available October 31, 2010 in An Honest Lie, Volume 2: Delusions of Insignificance. Get to know more about Eric in his exclusive interview with the Junior Editor from Open Heart Publishing by clicking his picture below!

An excerpt from “One Small Step” by Eric Trant:

Percy stared from inside his sleeping bag. He imagined he could touch the moon, that it was here, on his fingertips, beneath him and not above him, and that he was falling toward outer space. Percy felt himself fall a few feet, and then he bolted upright on the trampoline.

He looked around. He hadn’t moved, but the sensation of falling had certainly registered in Percy’s eight year-old brain. He had felt the fall.

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Eric Trant earned a BS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994, and is the son of a librarian and English teacher, who shared with him her love of reading, writing, and above all, storytelling. Each morning he rises well before the Texas dawn, and in the quiet writes thousands of words. He is self-taught.

Raised during his formative years in the East Texas Piney Woods, and then later in a small town on the Texas Gulf Coast, Eric maintains an avid fascination with outdoor living. Eric’s blended perspective of rural, small-town, and city lifestyles is at the heart of his stories, often leading the reader deep into the woods where as a child, he and his brother discovered so many wonders. He now lives near Dallas, Texas, where he continues to explore the world around him.

He holds a U.S. patent for a statistical outlier algorithm, and has received numerous technical recognitions as a semiconductor engineer. His most-prized award is a simple plaque reading Anyone can be a Father, but it takes someone special to be a Daddy. This plaque sits on his desk, in front of the embossed US patent.

Eric’s professional career covers a broad range of experience, including over twenty years of writing. As a freelance writer, he has dozens of short stories and five novels to his credit.