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Earl Javorsky is the kind of author who, despite having nearly always been in the writing game, has only begun seeing himself published recently. So far his works include Trust Me, Down Solo and Down to No Good, each of them earning a fair share of critical acclaim in literary circles.
In this email interview we’ve conducted with him we discuss the various paths his career as a writer has led him on and his perspective on various topics in the realms of literature.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon is the type of author whose imagination expands well beyond the conventions of normalcy and colours the world in shades we never knew existed.
His novels often pull us into the world’s underbelly, and in Marina we once again dive deep beneath Barcelona’s veneer as we follow the story of fifteen-year-old Oscar who vanished from his boarding school for seven days.
What he witnessed during that time wasn’t meant for his eyes, and his journey begins with a strange cemetery ritual and a rose at an unmarked grave.
Jack Hunt has quite a bit of experience in penning post-apocalyptic stories, often fantasizing about how people would react to different scenarios. In Days of Panic he takes us into the heart of New York as four strangers find themselves in need of each other in the wake of a devastating EMP blast, completely annihilating the country’s electric grid.
A bike messenger, a support representative, a homeless man and a convict; the clock is ticking for all of them as the city that never sleeps falls into chaos and disarray.
Tony Riches has evidently taken it upon himself to not only chronicle the many fates which befell the members of the Tudor dynasty, but to relate their lives through detailed and fact-based narratives, shedding light on some of the lesser-known actors on that stage.
In Mary – Tudor Princess he presents us with the titular Mary Tudor, daughter to King Henry VII and sister to King Henry VIII. While her brother plans to use his sister as a gateway towards building a powerful alliance based on marriage, Mary herself has some other plans: a marriage of love rather than interests.
H.P. Lovecraft was undoubtedly a genius when it came to finding new angles from which to approach the horror genre. Shifting themes and focuses from one story to the next he left a great collection of works strewn across the genre’s entire spectrum.
Today, we’re going to take a look at “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”, “Polaris” and “From Beyond”, short stories where we dive deep into overlapping and transcending realities beyond the waking world of awareness.
