Rowan Massey's Blog

I'm REALLY into tragedy, and poor Wally has not escaped my obsession. But don't think it wasn't hard to put this kid through the ringer. Writing the ending made me cry! Editing it made me cry again! In a tragic story arc, the main character starts out with a status quo, goes downhill, and stays down. It's the kind of story people love, but they don't know that unless they think about it enough. Romeo and Juliet, Game of Thrones, The Time Traveler's Wife, Never Let Me Go, Breaking Bad; all wit...

This entire series started with a nightmare I had in my teens. My doctor had put me on a strong antidepressant that gave me dreams complete with full color, complex stories complete with soaring soundtracks. They were epic dreams. I sometimes woke up and wrote down what I'd seen and heard. One such dream was much simpler than the rest, but it packed a punch. An anchorwoman on TV stood talking into a microphone about the madness occurring right behind her. Teenagers were dancing wildly in the...

Reading romance novels about kink of all sorts, some of which I didn't finish because it wasn't my kind of thing and I couldn't get through it, led me to writing this monstrous novel. I didn't like the fact that there was anything I couldn't get myself to read. Why did I have to be so sensitive? I started looking for books about taboo in general, diving into transgressive fiction, most of it written in the 90s. I read torture porn horror, Lolita, hilariously kinky stuff in the romance genre,...