My job is imagining things
And then telling about what I’ve imagined. So I’ve written films, books and videogames for other people. They were crime thrillers, dramas, biopics, sci-fi…
But I had a secret. In my mind there always was this dark, beautiful place, like a black river running endlessly through a garden at night. And there was a voice calling me down there. And it was so much more interesting that the jobs that producers and agents kept giving me!
I was following that voice when I made my computer game, Donna: Avenger of Blood. I set out only to amaze myself! It is a bit clunky, but I love it to bits, and there were quite a few people who liked it, too!
After finishing Donna I’ve started working in the film industry as a screenwriter. Now, there’s something you can never have when you’re making movies in the professional industry, and that thing is artistic freedom. And when you have a dark river in your head, you sure miss that freedom sometimes!
BOOKS OF DARKNESS
Ten years have passed and I’ve realized Donna was the last time when I made something exactly like I wanted, without listening to anyone else. No directors, no producers telling me what to do. I discovered I was really longing for this feeling.
So when an idea for a story like no other in a new, exciting world appeared in my head during a bout of two-week-long cluster headache in the beginning of 2019 I knew I had something good — something I knew I had to do on my own, without caring for budgets, producers and directors.
It is dark thriller, it is horror, it is supernatural suspense… it is everything that made people and myself enjoy my first short stories or Donna: Avenger of Blood.
The name of the series is Books of Darkness.
And the only thing I was interested in when writing was to follow the voice coming from the dark river, whispering with the night wind among the shrubbery. I have decided to return to the dark garden and remain faithful. My aim is to live by exploring that place and to make it my mission in life. No more listening to directors and producers and level designers.
I’m doing my own stuff!
AMEN: AMERICAN EXORCISTS
Not many people bought Books of Darkness but what they said made me confident I was on the right path. I had an idea for another series… about two very different priests (I always loved the messy history of heresy and cults and religions!) fighting monsters and investigating demonic crimes across modern-day, troubled America.
Amen: American Exorcists were born. My current series about two unlikely holy partners in exorcists fare, Fathers Paul and Conrad!
MY LIFE
HERE IS the video game I’ve made:
https://donnathegame.wordpress.com
And that’s all for now! See you around. Somewhere by a black river, in a garden, late at night …