I am a fan of J. David Osborne’s work (Black Gum is a noir fever dream), and a fan of the JDO show and his publishing company, Broken River Books. He’s one of the smart guys (his feedback on an early draft of Aletheia made it better) and he’s one of the good guys (he hasn’t gloated about it yet). And he had me on his show to talk about spiders.
Here is part of what Peter Tennant, over at Black Static had to say about Aletheia. This is a densely written, complicated and ambitious novel, touching on themes of memory and betrayal. There are many things that stand out, not least of which is the superb characterisation. We get the back story of each character,…
Aletheia by J.S. Breukelaar is just edge-of-your-seat GRIPPING.
There are monsters that dress in the skin of men, and hauntings that go beyond your average apparitions, alive and threatening. Women turn to lizards, dead dogs can see, and the things that drive men mad can step from their imaginations into broad daylight or slink around by the light of the moon just beyond the…
Just saw this – couldn’t be more honored to be on this list. Very cool. Thanks so much to Adrian Shotbolt for reading and for digging. The Grim reader reviewed Aletheia way back when – here’s the full review.
Author Nick Kaufman has me on his blog to talk about the scariest part of writing Aletheia. It couldn’t end at that moment of total narrative collapse, but it was really difficult for me to see beneath its broken structure at that point. And there was another thing. It wasn’t just the story that had…
Revealing Ben Baldwin’s final cover art for Aletheia, out soon from Crystal Lake Publishing. Pretty much one of the most gorgeous covers I’ve seen, still can’t believe it’s mine. Thanks to Joe Mynhardt from Crystal lake for setting this up. In other news, just found out I’m on the Weird Fiction panel at World Fantasy…
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