What
is the title of your book?
Revenants:
Fallen Savior, the first in a series of a
complete reinvention of the undead, known as the revenant, that has the power and
insight of the human soul.
How
did you come by the idea?
I hadn’t seen a satisfactory,
“logical” or new look into how the undead could exist over the centuries and
their correlations with existing factions in history. I saw the gap between the
supernatural and human to be the soul, so I researched every approved and
forbidden religious and scientific text I could find to discover the culture of
the revenant, the soul and the interaction between them. In this book and
series I explore deeply into nanotechnology, angels & demons, zombies, the
soul, Samurai, science, religion, ghosts, morphogenetic field
theory, ethics, war and the vast human
experience - all from the sharpest vantage, the hindsight of the very end. And
there’s plenty of action, twists and new abilities too.
What genre does your book fall under?
Horror/fantasy/sci-fi
Which actors would you choose to play your characters if it were a movie?
I really haven’t pondered that. My
guess is visually fitting unknown actors – much of the production cost would be
spent on special effects!
What is the one-sentence synopsis of your book?
Revenants:
Fallen Savior follows Ezra, a new and lost
revenant, as he explores what he has become as well as the whole new undead
world that comes with it; an existence fully open to the purest and most
polluted power ever known, the human soul.
Will your book be self-published or traditional?
Revenants:
Fallen Savior is published through Synergebooks.
How long did it take you to write the first draft of your manuscript?
I wrote the novel in 7 months,
between jobs, after more than 5 years of research.
What other books would you compare this story to within your genre?
The closest comparison I have
discovered after completing Revenants:
Fallen Savior was reading Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn series, because of
the creation of a whole new world in which inhabitants struggle with amazing
internal powers, the familiar external struggles against regimes and an epic
battle of survival.
Who or What inspired you to write this book?
Writing this or any book helps me
understand what life I’m living. The more unreal the story, the more real the
understanding. Over time, the stories in my head got louder, bigger and more
insistent to be born so I committed them to paper so they could rattle around
in others heads too.
What else about your book might pique the reader’s interest
The same thing
that got me to write it - the whole new idea of the undead. A revenant is an
undead creature made by the soul that can Haunt and Harness all creation or devastation.
A revenant can see all the lives, power and knowledge contained within the soul
reanimating the corpse they share and that leads to a vast culture, society,
wars and powers that make up the centuries of history and tales explored in Revenants: Fallen Savior and the books
to follow.
I also designed the cover.
I also designed the cover.
