Rookie Cop, Cold Case: Secrets Linger in the Catskills with Author RL Carpentier III

Online For Authors Podcast · Oct 28, 2025 · 32m

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is RL Carpentier III, author of the book Our Lady of the Overlook. Rodney is a lifelong writer of stories and poems and songs and now, novels. As a kid he and his mom would try to plot whodunits on Sunday afternoons; in middle school he and his friends tried to develop their own superhero comic book; and in college he wrote song lyrics for his pop-punk band Gone Ashley. But he’s had a novel stuck in his head for the last 20 years and it’s about time for him to let it all out.

Professionally, he has been a storyteller throughout his long law…