I even made changes to the first one while writing the second because it had to make sense. I actually wrote both books prior to the first being published.
I’m finishing up the final touches to The Sinner: Book II. I remember thinking to myself, “It worked!”Īll I will say is that each reader will be ‘tempted’ and it’s up to their individual thoughts on how they will react in the end. While the book was being judged in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, I received rubrics back from two different judges and they each had two different meanings for the book. You allow the reader to envision the main character on their own. There are a lot of hidden meanings to the story and what is interesting is that as reviews are coming back in, each one is different in what they took away from the book. He is isolated in a cave with only a candle, quill and parchment, and is burdened to awaken each day within a predetermined encounter with one of the seven deadly sins and their associated demons. The Sinner tells the dark story of a lone farmer chosen by God to test the boundaries of sin. Since the award, it was picked up by my publisher, Blood Bound Books and was published in February 2012. The manuscript won first place in the 2010 Royal Palm Literary Award within the Horror/Dark Fantasy Unpublished Novel category. I went back to my roots and wanted to give thanks to those who inspired me, so I sought out to write a horror novel in the narrative stanza format similar to Dante’s Inferno. My most notable work is my debut novel The Sinner. Then I discovered Edgar Allan Poe and the Tell-Tale Heart and I have been hooked ever since. I immediately sought out more works that were similar in style. The stanzas and the way the words flowed were something I had never seen before.
I had to read it for a school project and I remember not being too fond of the idea, but my teacher insisted and handed me this worn out copy of the book. Then I came across the classic tale of Dante’s Inferno. Additionally, I was glued to my television each week watching the series Tales from the Crypt and was amazed by the creativity behind each episode. We used to make haunted houses for all the other trick-or-treaters. I was that kid who really went all out during Halloween by making my own costumes and really becoming the part of whatever monster I was portraying at the time. I had always enjoyed the horror genre growing up. What first attracted you to horror writing? He is a member of the Horror Writers Association. With a strong inspiration from Dante Alighieri and Edgar Allan Poe, his stories involve topics and situations where very little is known.
His passion for folklore, classic literary fiction and obscure segments within society lead to his creative writing style of filling in the gaps and walking the line between reality and fiction. Trap Jones is an award-winning author of literary horror novels and short stories.
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