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Press Coverage -'THE CODE' series is now available internationally on KINDLE!!
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-'THE CODE' won the Spirit of Moondance award for best TV Pilot at the Moondance International Film Festival. For additional information, please visit the Moondance site at: http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com/02_festival.winners.html
-Weird Sisters West Interview: (Taken from-August/September 2007 vol. 16, number 4). Copyright 2007 WSW. Boulder-based writer K. Thorpe is nothing if not ambitious. Interview by Madeleine Germaine. Doubtless, like other writers, K. Thorpe aspires to entertain, to encourage thought and discussion. But her ultimate goal, her creative end-point in terms of her current series or novels is to "scientifically prove the existence of God." (Okay -- she's not the first to try). Thorpe, 33, began writing poetry in grade school, and she has published poems here and there (including right here in Weird Sisters). Somewhere along the way, Thorpe transitioned from poetry to screen-writing, which she loves. A huge fan of "The X-Files," and of the Sci-Fi genre in general, Thorpe's newly released first novel, THE CODE, reads like a series of episodes that are ready to jump onto the screen. The novel is actually a transcription of a pilot screenplay Thorpe wrote about a subject that has come to fascinate her: the future. Specifically, Thorpe wonders if we have one. Will life, as we now know it, reach an end-point circa 2012? "I see things in the specifics of what is happening in the world right now," says Thorpe. "Things" that Thorpe thinks point in a curious direction, but she follows her instinct. "I can't talk a lot about that right now," she says, apologizing for her need to be vague. The time is not quite right. Before the skeptics dismiss Thorpe as a fervent religious fanatic or comet-bound wacko, consider her steady analytic mind. An entrepeneur, a Ph.D. candidate, a woman who holds a Masters degree in Psychology, Thorpe is not flaky pie-crust-material. She describes herself as "driven" and "goal-oriented," and very enamored of the "hard-sciences." But she also "loves spirituality and intuition and things that come from those places," she says. Thorpe seems to spend her life balancing intuitive hits with hyper-speed movement toward a high goal. She'd be the first person to bemoan the loss of her long-term to-do list if 2012 is the end - or is it only the end of something? Stay tuned. Thorpe's inspiration for THE CODE and its sequel (due out this winter), came during a brief trip to Mexico with an old friend. The two women visited the Mayan ruins at Tulum along the Yucatan Peninsula and Thorpe felt an intuitive punch to the gut as never before. "It took my breath away," she recalls. She jotted everything down and then one night, dreamed THE CODE. Already fascinated by "people arguing about codes in the Bible," Thorpe took her imaginings a step further. What if the Mayan calendar, the prediction of Armageddon in the Christian Bible (and other end-of-word predictions, from such disparate ancient sources as Chinese and Egyptian scripture) mesh? Indeed, what if multiple spiritual traditions agree-at least on this one point: a solar shift, a glactic cataclysm is coming to a cosmos near you in less than five years? Far from dreary, Thorpe finds the possibility tantilizing. "I think science and spirituality can go hand and hand," she says. In fact, they should never have been separated. Science teaches us to observe and to properly note our observations. Yet, too often, we ignore the observable because we don't know what to make of it. "I have experienced things in my life that are inexplicable," Thorpe marvels. Likewise, she fears that gays feel cut off from God, an entity Thorpe thinks is best left loosely defined. (For the record, she defines God as hope.) In THE CODE, her lesbian character explores this crisis of faith, questioning what the spiritual has to offer despite the narrow bigotry it often perpetuates. And so Thorpe, a writer who clearly loves to write, faithfully allows her story to lead her where it demands. She is enjoying the response to THE CODE. People like it, want to know more. In the following edited excerpt from chapter five of THE CODE, Agent Natan (imagine Annabeth Gish, The X-Files - Hey, that's how Thorpe wrote it) isn't convinced that she needs to sign up to save the world. With the calendar ticking, Agent Natan better change her mind sooner or later. [END] To read the excerpt attached to this interview, please pick up a copy of Weird Sisters West near you, visit their website www.weirdsister.org, or purchase the book right here through the BUY link listed above.
Contact: kthorpe@thecode2012.com
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