About a year ago, I was visited by my dream-giver in the form of a nightmare.
The terrible feeling I had in this particular nightmare stayed with me for a long time afterwards, and one big question arose to the top of my mind: what if it wasn’t a nightmare? What if it was someone’s story, whispered to me through this nightmare?
So I decided to write it down, to make it into a story, to breathe life into it. And soon, I hope to share it with you all.
Setting the stage before performing is just as important as the performance itself, in my opinion. So this time, I’ll try to do just that.
The story in the book revolves around Lafayette, Louisiana – USA and a small town right next to it, called Souk. Don’t worry if you’ve never heard of Souk town, it’s a product of the author’s imagination, along with all the characters and everything else in this book.
While the main events took place in 2011, a lot of things began in the 1990s. The main characters were about 30 years old in 2011, so that means in the 1990s they were teenagers.
Does that sound familiar to you? It should. Because, maybe, you will find bits and pieces of yourself in this book.
Have you seen the latest teaser? I asked this question to my husband earlier this year, and I think we both agreed that the latter is more frightening to us.
It was just the push that I needed to start writing this story, knowing that I was not the only one thinking how scary that would be. I thought, maybe, this was worth the shot.
During the process of writing the book, I kept the discussion going with him. It helps to get a second opinion, especially if the second opinion comes from a different gender.
I hope in the end I managed to make the story as good as I imagined it would be, and as scary as we discussed it to properly be, considering that this is still a psychological thriller, not some nail-biting horror book.
But you can be the judge of that.
Which one is more frightening: to experience something terrible in your life and have it recorded in your memory for life, or to find out one day that something terrible was done to you without you ever knowing it or remembering it?
They say that what you don’t know won’t hurt you. Would you still want to know the truth, even if it will hurt you and probably change everything you’ve perceived in life? Or would you rather not know, and thus not be hurt?
I know some of you might not care for teasers, so realistically, here are some plans for the book.
It will be published in late June, 2019. This is my own personal goal and I will do my best to stick to it.
It will be available in both digital and paperback format, if not simultaneously then at least very close to each other’s D-day. Both formats will be available worldwide.
It is in English language, and I would recommend the reader to be 18 years old or above, due to explicit language and overall content.
Congratulations, now you know the plan! So either you sit back and relax before getting your hands on the book, or enjoy the teasers that I will post here every week. Other than teasers, I will also be regularly adding notes. If you haven’t already, follow this blog so you won’t miss out on any updates.
Yes, it is happening.
When was the last time I did something crazy? Answer: too long ago.
About 12 years ago, when I told my family and friends that I was moving abroad to a country half a world away from my birthplace, I was told that I was either very brave or very crazy. But I did it anyway. I knew nothing about the language, very tiny bit about the culture, and I had no one else here but the person that I came here for.
And yet, here I am now, comfortably living and integrating with the people here, making new friends, working in a permanent position, and speaking the country’s language–may I say–fluently.
Sometimes you just need that craziness. Push yourself out of your own boundaries and go for it, do whatever it is you’ve always wanted to do (as long as it doesn’t hurt other people, in any sense, of course). Get yourself out of your comfort zone, to make another, new comfort zone elsewhere.
In about 24 hours from now, I am doing exactly that. Setting things in motion, before I change my mind. And once I do it, I can’t undo any of it anymore, there’s no looking back, and I will just have to go through it no matter what.
Listen to me, being overly dramatic over a few teasers for my new book.
But it is important to me. This is, after all, CRAZY for me, to think that after only writing for myself for years, I’m suddenly letting it out for public. I feel so exposed, yet I want to do it. I feel scared, yet I’m ready.
The time is now.
Have you ever felt so sure that you’re forgetting something, but no matter how hard you try to remember it, you can’t figure out what it is? All you remember is the bad feeling that follows and lingers in you afterwards ….
Author D. P. Haka 