Jeremy Robinson is fast making his mark in the action/adventure genre. Since achieving the almost unheard-of feat of having a bestselling self-published book with The Didymus Contingency, Robinson has continued his success with Raising the Past.

His newest novel, Antarktos Rising, is set for an August 1 release. A podcast and viral video campaign are just two of the ways Robinson is promoting his new release. Jeremy was kind enough to grant this brief interview.

Raising the Past is very different in plot from Didymus. Was the writing experience much different for you?

Raising the Past and The Didymus Contingency are about as different as two novels can get. Didymus has a Christian theme. Raising the Past embraces evolution and proposes a different concept for original sin. Didymus took place in the desert (Israel and Arizona). Raising the Past is an Arctic thriller. The list goes on and on.

But the biggest difference is the plots. With Didymus, I wanted to create something really original. With Raising the Past I wanted to create a non-stop thrill ride — what would be called, in movie terms, a popcorn movie. I think I achieved both goals with both books. With Didymus being based on Biblical events, taking place in ancient Israel and involving time travel, the novel required a lot of research. With Raising the Past, most of the elements, other than the arctic, are pure speculation. So research wasn’t as necessary. I was creating a world and the creatures in it, from scratch. It was very liberating and very fun.

This freedom created the biggest difference between the two novels, for me personally. Didymus took four months to write (which is pretty quick for a novel). But Raising the Past was written in a single month. As I approached the climax of the novel I was writing twenty-five  pages in a day (from 9am to 11pm). It had me hooked like I hope it hooks readers.

They do have one thing in common, and several fans of both books have noticed. Tom and David, our heroes from Didymus, are mentioned in Raising the Past. How’s that for a bit of trivia?

How is the re-release of The Didymus Contingency doing? The new cover is sharp! Any changes to the book itself?

The new release is doing fantastic. Sales of the first version had slowed and the new release really revitalized the book. I think the new look of the snazzier cover is attracting a whole new crowd. But the release of Raising the Past (which is selling even faster than Didymus) helped pick up sales and now, with promotion for Antarktos Rising starting, sales have received a boost once again. The only real changes to the book, other than some tighter edits, are the cover and a reformat of the interior, which reduced the page count. Otherwise it’s the exact same book.