Post-apocalyptic prepper fiction books are extremely popular these days. With the likes of James Rawles, William R. Forstchen, A. American and Glen Tate already on most peoples must read list, another author, Franklin Horton is quietly rising in the ranks to join this list of great prepper fiction authors.
This week Lisa and I had the pleasure of interviewing Franklin Horton, who is the author of the 3 book (so far) Borrowed World Series. This prepper fiction series also includes Ashes of the Unspeakable and Legion of Despair. His newest book, Locker NINE tells the story of a father sending his daughter off to college when the unthinkable happens.
The Borrowed World (and all of Franklin Horton’s books) are available at Amazon and available in audio book format at Audible as well. While I’m not opposed to actually reading a book, I am a fan of audio books because in today’s busy world, sometimes you just can’t stop.
Regardless whether you decide to get the kindle version, get the paperback version or listen to the audio book, you won’t be disappointed. So far I have only listened to The Borrowed World, but I can’t wait to listen to the next 2 books and see where this series goes.
SPP174 Interview: The Borrowed World by Franklin Horton
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As we did the interview today it became clear that Franklin knows his stuff. While he admits, he is no “survival expert” I think he is selling himself a little short. What he writes about and how he lives his daily life is just like most of us do. We learn as much as we can, we try to become as prepared as possible, and we hope we are prepared enough when that time comes.
A lot of prepper fiction books talk about either hard-core preppers, or completely unprepared people. Your book takes a different approach. It takes the same approach that we do with prepping, we talk about prepping with and about average everyday people.
While this interview was about his book The Borrowed World, it became much more than that as we broke down different characters and different situations. While Franklin says that his intention was not to create a prepping manual, there are situations in the book, and people we might be stuck with that are not part of our prepping “dream team” as he calls it.
Questions From the Show…
Here are some of the questions and subjects we covered in this week’s Survivalist Prepper podcast, and if you’re interested in getting your hands on any of his books, I will leave links to where you can get a hold of him or his books at the end of this post.
Q: The story begins like most of our daily lives begin; one parent heading out to work, and the other at home taking care of the kids. That quickly becomes the only thing normal about that day. In this book Jim has been preparing for some time, and his wife is neither on board or against prepping. Can you explain why you chose to do this? And how/why you created other characters the way you did?
Q: Has your bug out/in bag changed since writing The Borrowed World series? On this same point, how did your preparedness change in general?
Q: In the first run in with the “trailer park boys” as I call them, Jim pays close attention to what they have with them. They notice a backpack that is undoubtedly stolen. Can you talk about how important Situational Awareness is in a survival situation?
Q: The book shows how situations can escalate very quickly, and how sometimes we can be stuck with what we have. Can you expand on the importance of everyday carry items?
Q: In every survival situation, we are going to be stuck with the hand we are dealt and forced to deal with different people along the way. How do different personality’s play a role in a survival situation?
Q: We were introduced to you by a friend of ours Chin who you met a prepper camp; What is your takeaway from being part of Prepper Camp 2016? And what makes it different than the average Prepping Expo?
Q: You are an avid hiker, what pointers can he share on A. Getting started in hiking & B. Things he learned from hiking that help with prepping/survival?
This only scratches the surface of what we talked about in the show. Even if you don’t plan on reading the book, you will learn a lot about prepping and survival from Franklin… and you’ll probably want to get the book after that.
Where to Find Franklin
There are a few places you can find out more about Franklin and what he has planned in the future, the first being his website FranklinHorton.com
He also has a Facebook page you can visit here.
As I said earlier, all his books are available at Amazon and Audible. Have a look at all of Franklin Hortons prepper fiction books here.
