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Murder on 15/501 Gets Good Review
7/12/2009 8:04:45 AM


“Chatham author com-pletes 21st book”
The Chatham Record
June 18, 2009
by Bill Wilcox

Chatham author Larry Rochelle has just com-pleted his 21st book, a thriller titled “Murder on 15/501,” that is set in the bucolic, rolling hills north of Pittsboro.

The fictional setting for his book is Highway 15/501, which, provides entrances into the villages of Fearrington and Deering-ton, two communities with opposing viewpoints on life.

Fearrington is a quiet, up-scale older community of forests, deer and croquet, but Deerington presents a huge contrast with condos built in the style of Route 66 motels with garish col-ors, neon lights and loud music during the daylight hours.

And, at night, Deerington becomes one big party scene with dancing, ro-mancing and a Las Vegas spirit.

“Out of these contrasts evolves an intricate murder scheme to bring Deerington Village down,” Rochelle said. “And in its place, the Old Testament God will rule, and Chapel Hill folks will learn to love America again.”
Rochelle has had a pro-lific writing career and a successful one. He has won many awards for his writing, including the 2009 EPPIE National Award for his collection of poetry “Burnt Coffee.”

And he has written all of his books using just one finger.
“Yep, I’m a one-finger typ-ist,” he said. “I started that way in high school. We had a very old Underwood type-writer and there was no way I could type normally on it. The keys took too much power to push down.”
With each book averaging 50,000 words, that’s at least 250,000 keystrokes per book.

“It takes a long time,” he said. “Until this book, I tried to get 2000 words a week, or as many as 5000, so that after nine months I have a book almost ready.”
But the latest book “Mur-der on 15-501” took much longer because of the real-life killing that happened down the road.

“I couldn’t type much at all,” he said. I could only type a couple of sentences. I couldn’t get into it. It just really inhibited me. I write murder for fun. Here was a real murder, a tragedy.”

He said the murder of UNC Student Body Presi-dent Eve Carson also hin-dered his ability to write.
But now the novel is fin-ished. He will have a read-ing at McIntyre’s next year. In the meantime the book can be ordered from www.lulu.com.

Rochelle’s career as an author follows decades of work as an educator.

He taught junior high and high school for 15 years in Ohio. In 1978 he earned his masters’ degree and took a job in Overland Park, Kansas, as a writing center director at Johnson County Community Col-lege. After two years he went back into the class-room and spent 28 years teaching English Composi-tion, Film and Science Fic-tion.
After moving to Fearring-ton Village he taught Study Skills for two years at Cen-tral Carolina Community College before retiring this spring.

He was a member of the writers group at Fearrington for awhile, especially with the poetry group but hasn’t written a poem in a year, which he says is another aftereffect of the murder.

But his writers’ block is lifting and he has high hopes for the success of his new book, which will be entered in the 2010 EPPIES in July.



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