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David Niall Wilson
Mashing up "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norell "with "It's A Wonderful Life"
The angel Aliel glanced over his shoulder, then turned and handed a squirming package to the fairy king, Mallack. Mallack took the child, rang it up on the register with a "ding," and another angel got his wings...
The angel Aliel glanced over his shoulder, then turned and handed a squirming package to the fairy king, Mallack. Mallack took the child, rang it up on the register with a "ding," and another angel got his wings...
David Niall Wilson
My most recently published book, Gideon's Curse, is a novel of bigotry, history, North Carolina, and America, in general, around the time of the Reconstruction. It tells the story of generations of a racist plantation owning family, and of the family of a lone preacher who walked all the way from Illinois to preach to the freedmen - it is a supernatural thriller with swamp magic, zombies, rednecks... and a lot of brutal honesty. The book was born of a long ago Nanowrimo - I started to write it, stole the first part and turned it into the novella "The Preacher's Marsh," then finished it and realized the time-line for the family and history was off... and it sat. I rewrote this book in 2017 - fixing the problems as I went along, and tightening it. If the reviews are to be believed, it's one of my best.
https://www.amazon.com/Gideons-Curse-...
https://www.amazon.com/Gideons-Curse-...
David Niall Wilson
I can write any time, but there are those times when something clicks, and it has to be written then and there. I love that. Recently I wrote a novel with the love of my life, Patricia Lee Macomber. We wrote the book very quickly, and it was born from the phrase "Remember Bowling Green," and the fact that I was (at the time) reading a biography of Frederick Douglass. What we got was "Remember Bowling Green - The Adventures of Frederick Douglass - Time Traveler" - and we have given 80% of everything earned on the book to the ACLU. It's available - by the way - in audio, print, and all eBook formats - find out how Frederick, a stoner, a doctor, a reporter, and an assorted Scooby-Gang of others protect the town of Bowling Green, Ohio from the unscrupulous invasion of Ronald Krump.
David Niall Wilson
Write. Write a lot. Don't spend much time creating a Facebook page or a Twitter account, don't let people tell you you have to go on blog tours and hand out bookmarks. Write, and then write some more. Write different things, and read. Don't just read popular things by independent authors, but established authors as well, and non-fiction. Don't be dragged into "being" a writer actively - let that part come naturally, as you actually create things that matter to you. If that is not the focus, you don't really want to be a writer - you just want to be able to say you are...
David Niall Wilson
Currently I have three main projects in the works. I'm writing the next Donovan DeChance novel, "A Midnight Dreary," a book that ties threads from many of my novels and several series into a single storyline, involving Donovan, his lover Amethyst, Cletus J. Diggs of Old Mill, NC, members of the O.C.L.T. team, and characters from my novel "Nevermore - A Novel of Love, Loss and Edgar Allan Poe".
I also have a long-term project - Tattered Remnants - that is a serial killer thriller of a very different kind. The first part of this will be published any time now by Cemetery Dance Publishing in their newest SHIVERS anthology - alongside a long-awaited Stephen King story.
Last, I'm writing a short story featuring Cletus for an anthology titled "Freedom of Screech"... it's getting a little long. It is (as was my novel Gideon's Curse) about racial tension, history, and trying to be better.
I also have a long-term project - Tattered Remnants - that is a serial killer thriller of a very different kind. The first part of this will be published any time now by Cemetery Dance Publishing in their newest SHIVERS anthology - alongside a long-awaited Stephen King story.
Last, I'm writing a short story featuring Cletus for an anthology titled "Freedom of Screech"... it's getting a little long. It is (as was my novel Gideon's Curse) about racial tension, history, and trying to be better.
David Niall Wilson
Just write through it. If what I create comes out badly, or doesn't go in the right direction, I usually find that at some point things turn back to "true" and I can always edit out the problems. What you can't edit out is blank space.
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