1/8/2023 0 Comments Tor publishing tshirtThere is a line in Nightwise that Ballard says that all my beta readers and my editor didn’t like, and for good reason. It’s quite a dance to make a character an asshole and still want the reader to follow them in their story, and root for them. I wanted Laytham to be someone the reader would probably not like, but probably knew and probably understood. He had immense power, and he could have been this great world-changing person, but he fell to arrogance, selfishness, pride and self-aggrandizement. I wanted my protagonist, Laytham Ballard, to be a kind of occult “rock star” after the VH1 “Where Are They Now” episode. ![]() The Nightwise universe is built on the foundations of my favorite kind of fantasy, the contemporary genre, where the supernatural and the mythic rub shoulders with the world we live in, and the Noir genre of fatalistic, flawed heroes prowling worlds where the odds are stacked against them, criminals, and street hustlers working angles and plotting capers. My new novel, The Night Dahlia, being released by Tor Books on April 3 rd, is the second book in the Nightwise series, the first being 2015’s Nightwise. “The Knave’s Knigdom: Laytham Ballard and the world of the Night Dahlia” by R.S. I would like to thank Rod for stopping by The Horror Bookshelf and Anna at Tor Publicity for helping set everything up! Belcher decided to stop by and share his inspiration on creating the main protagonist of Laytham Ballard and some of the things that inspired him while crafting the world the series takes place in. The Night Dahlia continues the story of Laytham Ballard, a once member of the Nightwise, a group of mages tasked with protecting the world from evil supernatural forces. ![]() The Night Dahlia is an urban fantasy with noir elements and has been described as “ Supernatural meets L.A. Belcher, who just released the second book in the Nightwise series through Tor Books. Today’s post on The Horror Bookshelf comes from R.S. #TheJackintheGreen r… on Frazer Lee “The Jack in… Kristopher Triana “The Detained” Review. ![]()
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