Introducing
Where did the idea for the story come from?
The idea for the Dark Walker series originated from a short story contest prompt that simply said ‘There’s a locked door. Your character finds the key. What do they find behind the door?’
Book 1 Gulf explores the idea that the other side looks like a mirror image of his world, but it’s been wiped of human life and there’s something terrible and hungry trying to get through onto our main character David’s side that only comes out at night. He can’t seal the door once he’s opened it, and everything escalates from there. By the time we get to Seed, the story is cosmic in scale.
Give a quote from the books, one that says little but speaks volumes.
They think they’re rationing my joy, making me press a button like a lab rat hungry for a treat.
This is all a farce. And one of these times, I’m going to figure out how to ditch this place permanently. There’s a small satisfaction in that. Fooling my captors.
Give a short summary of what the book is about.
Dark walkers are annihilating civilizations in every world they breach, cutting us down like crops.
The Embassy is an interdimensional government agency tasked with breaking bridges, closing doors, and corralling the flow of ravenous aliens into our universe. Families who can afford it send
their children off to shelter in safe worlds that haven’t yet been breached.
I didn’t know any of this at the start because my dimension was a safe world. Until I accidentally opened a door to hell and nearly let the darkness through to swallow my family. That’s where Charlie found me. Alone. Orphaned on the wrong side of a door. She charged in on a motorcycle and saved me. Do I have a massively inappropriate crush on her? Absolutely.
Which is problematic because she works for the Embassy—and it turns out they’re crooked and profiting off the war. Their military wants to peel me apart to see how I tick. My world is in danger of being breached, and I can’t get back to save my family, not alone.
What genre is it?
It’s a horror/sci-fi. Book 1 starts out as a quiet, coming-of-age horror, but by book 3, Seed, it’s evolved to a larger-scale cosmic horror.
How many pages is it?
250 action-packed pages!
Why do you think the readers will want to read it?
I think Seed and the rest of the series will appeal to those who enjoyed Stranger Things or Stephen King’s 11/22/63. It’s got those kind of vibes.
Where are you located?
Near the beautiful Rocky Mountains in Canada!
Description
Glitching between dimensions wasn’t supposed to be my life, but sometimes you have to dance with the darkness.
I should be dead. Shot twice through the chest. But the Embassy saved me because I’m a one-of-a-kind freak who blips to worlds they can’t reach. Now I’m their personal mule, raiding collapsing planets to fatten their coffers. Lucky me.
And things have gone from bad to worse. My old team is being held hostage, my family’s in danger, and the darkness hunts me across realities. My one shot to end this living hell? Take down the Embassy, save Charlie, and torch the whole rotten system. Simple, right? One misstep though, and we’re toast. Alien breach. Apocalypse. End scene.
If I fail, the darkness won’t stop until it swallows us whole.
Excerpt
I used to be David.
David had a big family. Wanted to join the army. Always got stuck cleaning out the soft serve machine at his after-school job because everyone else despised the chore. But now he’s gone and I’m all that’s left. A dead animal under glass, gutted and hastily stitched together—you know the kind where the taxidermist didn’t get the eyes quite right? That’s me. Sad display in an Embassy trophy case.
But I’m not just for show. My captors use me well.
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