With my first John Black book complete (my second overall novel), I am finally making a rather large transition in style as I write novel number 3. My latest project is called White Fire and is a continuation of the story began in my short story ‘Black Fire’ from the collection called The Fingers of the Colossus.

My first novel, The Oasis of Filth, is told in first person, mostly by an unnamed protagonist. He’s a sixty-something ex-doctor who finds himself amid hordes of “zombies” (not really...