Lawyer Rob Newsom III invited him to write Deadly Kin, a true crime book, which was published in 1989.
A research project Trotter started while at Davidson College about the Winter War eventually became the history book A Frozen Hell, published in 1991.
[4][5] A horror novelette, "Siren of Swanquarter", published in Deathrealm magazine, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award in 1994.
Trotter also has spent time in Filmography as an Assistant Director for Ghost Recon 2 in 2004 and as the musical consultant for one episode of Live from Lincoln Center in 1976.
Trotter was also a classical music expert and collector, owning one of the largest collections of vinyl and CD recordings in the Southeast.