Florian Rochat

Florian Rochat is a French mother tongued journalist and writer living in Switzerland. He is fond of nature and loves hiking and cross country skiing. He also likes trekking on different continents, notably North America. He went several times to Montana to research his two novels, "Cougar Corridor" and "La légende de Little Eagle", translated in English under the title of "The Legend of Little Eagle". He has a flatcoated retriever, Kidoo, and wrote a book about her and his former dog Droopy, "Un printemps sans chien".

Journaliste et écrivain,Florian Rochat vit au pied des montagnes du Jura suisse, où il pratique de manière assidue la randonnée et le ski de fond. Il aime également "trekker" dans des contrées plus lointaines et est amoureux de l'Ouest américain, notamment du Montana, "terre d'ancrage" de ses deux romans.

Les auteurs de ces régions (Jim Harrison, Rick Bass, William Kittredge, Ivan Doig, James Welch, Jim Fergus, Norman McLean, Louise Erdrich, Dan O'Brien) nourrissent ses lectures depuis plusieurs années, mais il admire aussi Philip Roth, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Michael Connelly et John Irving.

Florian Rochat a publié deux ouvrages chez des éditeurs traditionnels: un document sur la vie au travail en France, La Saga du boulot, et Cougar corridor, roman écologique sur les lions de montagne. Convaincu des nombreux avantages - pour les auteurs comme pour leurs lecteurs - offerts par les développements de l'édition numérique, il a choisi d'autopublier son nouveau roman, La légende de Little Eagle, sous cette forme dématérialisée. Celles et ceux qui restent réfractaires aux liseuses électroniques, ou qui auraient des difficultés à les maîtriser, en trouveront cependant une version papier sur le site d'Amazon.com.

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Website: http://www.florianrochat.com/
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• Boob Tube (A Soap Opera Novel) on Feb. 18, 2012
  
  I read "Boob Tube" after I got connected to Mark Coker through an interview he granted me. Out of curiosity, sort of.It was not until I had read about 30% of the story that I got hooked. The characters may seem caricatural, but how could it be otherwise with a story rooted in the soap opera world ? And this world is certainly rightly and accurately described here. We can sense through many details that Mark and Lesleyann did a serious research there.The funny thing is it's because the authors could not find a print publisher for their work that Mark decided to create Smashword. Looking backward (and forward !) this failure turns into a blessing. But considering the size of soap operas audiences, I can't understand how "old style" publishers could decide the book was not marketable.