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AREA NOVELIST CONTINUES HIS VOYAGES TO BERMUDA

WRITTEN BY JANE BOKUN | PUBLISHED IN THE SHREVEPORT TIMES, LOUISIANA

What happens in Bermuda stays in Bermuda. Well not always, especially if you happen to be Bossier City writer, Rod Farrington. That's because Farrington is adept at taking readers beyond Bermuda and into the paranormal locale known as the "Bermuda Triangle." "It's a Bermuda of 500 years ago when it was a pristine beautiful environment teeming with fish and animals long extinct," said Farrington, now on his fourth novel. "It's full of ghost ships and people trapped in the triangle, pirates lost there for hundreds of years, pilots, and Nazi submarines." Such is the stuff of Farrington's imagination and his Bermuda Triangle Spinners trilogy: The Lost Treasure of Bermuda; Protectors of the Bermuda Triangle, and Curse of the Bermuda Abyss. "When I started this, I laid my hands on every book I could find, watched the History Channel for stories about the Bermuda Triangle and afterward came up with my own theory," said Farrington, a software programmer by trade and novelist by avocation. Farrington, 55, has lived in Bossier City for the past 16 years with his wife Susan. Their sons, Greg, 31, Jason, 28 and Michael, 23, all are graphic artists. Jason designed the graphics for Farrington's novels. Bermuda, though, is as much home to Farrington as Bossier City. That's because most of his software clients are in Bermuda. It also is where he finds the free time to give his thoughts free rein. "Growing up I always had a big imagination, playing pirates, super hero," Farrington said. "When I had to earn a living, I discovered that the world of programming was only limited by your imagination." There appears to be few limits to Farrington's imagination. His fourth novel, while set in Bermuda, is not part of his "Spinners" series. Instead, he has taken a minor character from the series and crafted what he calls a "James Bond-type thriller" involving the Middle East. Farrington, who self-publishes his books, said they are distributed in Bermuda as well as on Amazon.com and Target.com. They also can be found at the Book Rack in Bossier City. "It's great that a bookstore in my own hometown would handle them," Farrington said.