Good morning, everyone! Please welcome author Vyvyan Evans to Full Moon Dreaming today! He is here to talk to us about his new release, The Dark Court. Vyvyan will be awarding a paperback copies of both book 1 and book 2 of the series to a randomly drawn commenter via Rafflecopter during the tour. The more you comment, the better your chances of winning. To find the other stops on his tour, go here. Don't forget to look for the Rafflecopter at the end of this post!
THE DARK COURT
Vyvyan Evans
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GENRE: Science Fiction
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BLURB:
A
genre-blending dystopian, sci-fi mystery-thriller that will make you think
about communication in a whole new way.
Five
years after the Great Language Outage, lang-laws have been repealed, but world
affairs have only gotten worse. The new automation agenda has resulted in a
social caste system based on IQ. Manual employment is a thing of the past, and
the lowest soc-ed class, the Unskills, are forced into permanent unemployment.
In
a world on the brink of civil war, a deadly insomnia pandemic threatens to kill
billions. Lilith King, Interpol’s most celebrated detective, is assigned to the
case.
Together
with a sleep specialist, Dr. Kace Westwood, Lilith must figure out who or what
is behind this new threat. Could the pandemic be the result of the upskilling
vagus chips being offered to the lowest soc-ed class? Or are language chips
being hacked? And what of the viral conspiracy theories by the mysterious Dark Court,
sweeping the globe? Lilith must work every possible angle, and quickly: she is
running out of time!
While
attempting to stop a vast conspiracy on an intergalactic scale, Lilith also
faces shocking revelations about her origin, coming to terms with her own
destiny.
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EXCERPT:
The next morning, I awoke in my hotel bed in a black mood,
this time stirred up by the vestiges of the same goddamn nightmare. It was the
feeling of being sucked backward through churning water. That’s what it felt
like in the black dream, the one that imprisoned me, night after night. The
Stygian darkness of my backward traveling struck with a petrifying chill. A
malfunction of my body’s thermoreceptor system. I imagined death would feel
just like that. The only way I could describe it. But no white lights. The
blackness wasn’t like ordinary dark. It was the infinite purple blackness of a
night completely devoid of stars, a moonless sky. So inky that you were sure
you could see floating blotches of tarred nothingness, just like when you
closed your eyes.
I don’t think Clyde really ever got it, that the sensation
of drowning wasn’t just a feeling—in the sense of something imagined, a
phantasm, an amygdala hijack. It was the actual feeling of a lived experience,
something embodied at a deep level, emotionally rancid, cancerous, growing for
twenty years; the feeling of being sucked backward through water in silent
blackness. I always had this, these feelings. Intuitive, sensory, primordial.
That’s what I did. I knew that’s what made me exceptional.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Dr. Vyvyan Evans is a native of Chester, England. He holds a PhD
in linguistics from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., and is a Professor
of Linguistics. He has published numerous acclaimed popular science and
technical books on language and linguistics. His popular science essays and
articles have appeared in numerous venues including 'The Guardian', 'Psychology
Today', 'New York Post', 'New Scientist', 'Newsweek' and 'The New Republic'.
His award-winning writing focuses, in one way or another, on the nature of
language and mind, the impact of technology on language, and the future of
communication. His science fiction work explores the status of language and
digital communication technology as potential weapons of mass destruction.
Book website (including ‘Buy’ links): http://www.songs-of-the-sage.com
Author website: https://www.vyvevans.net/
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@vyvevans
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VyvEvans
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Vyvyan.Evans.Author
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nephilim_publishing/
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1) You’re marooned on a small island with one person and
one item of your choice—who is that person and what item do you have?
I would be marooned with my wife and my PlayStation 5
attached to solar-powered generator.
2) Which musical would you say best exemplifies your life – and which character
in that musical are you?
The Lion King would be the stage musical, and my character
would Simba.
3) What is your idea of how to spend romantic time with your significant other?
An evening candlelit dinner on a terrace overlooking St.
George’s Square, in Valetta, the capital of Malta, being entertained by a
troupe of jugglers throwing fire torches, while enjoying the warm Mediterranean
breeze.
4) When you start a new story, do you begin with a character, or a plot?
Plot and character are symbiotic: a detective story
requires a detective, and a cybercrime thriller, in the case of The Dark Court
requires a perpetrator of the crime, and a cybercrime investigator. And while
the plot invites the character, as the character develops and is developed,
they tend to then take on and drive the story, as their character emerges.
5) Who’s your favorite horror villain and why?
Freddy Krueger. He is the ultimate horror villain, as he can’t
be evaded or stopped as he attacks victims in their dreams. And he has a devastating
sense of humor, albeit of the macabre kind
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Great interview. This looks really interesting.
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