Copyright 2010, Main street magazine. October issue Issn: 1920-4299, all rights reserved. Printed and published in Canada. This is not the complete interview, for the full interview visit www.mainstreetmagazine.net
FEATURING
Author Luke
Romyn
Tilly Rivers
Luke Romyn spent many years, fifteen in fact, working in the security industry. From working doors at some of Australia's roughest pubs and clubs to protecting Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew from the overzealous jaws of tenacious toddlers, Luke has worked throughout Australia and internationally in a vast array of roles.
He's done close protection for UK celebrities in Fiji and chased feral pigs and snakes out of the jungle film sets on Steven Spielberg's and Tom Hank's epic: The Pacific. There are few things Luke hasn't seen.
With all this experience behind him, it would be tempting to write a set of memoirs. Instead, Luke utilized it to fuel his own expansive imagination and began writing fiction. Initially starting with short stories, Luke rapidly progressed onto novels. His first book, THE DARK PATH, is now out and swiftly became a #1 best selling Horror and was also voted in the Top Ten Horror novels of 2009. His second novel, BLACKLISTED, is almost set to go and will blow the roof off action thriller novels.
MSM is happy to ‘feature’ Luke in this month’s issue. After you have read the interview be sure to grab your laptop and key in Luke's website, you will want to grab a copy or two of his novel “The Dark Path” for all the horror fans on your holiday shopping list!
Tilly: Please introduce yourself to the readers
I’m Luke Romyn, author of The Dark Path, the #1 best selling horror novel revolving around an assassin’s attempts to protect a young boy named Sebastian, who is destined to be a future oracle, from a demonic cult intent upon his demise.
Tilly: The statics for women reading horror/paranormal novels has grown over the last five years. Why do you think that is so?
I think the ambiguity of horror and paranormal has extended far beyond what it formerly was. Where once upon a time a horror novel was designed to scare the wits out of the reader or gross them out with vivid scenes of massacre, and paranormal dealt with things of a more ethereal nature, now the lines are much more blurred. Horror no longer limits itself to monsters or simple scares and paranormal doesn’t limit itself to Casper the unfriendly ghost. In today’s literary kaleidoscope the storylines need to be deeper and much richer in order to appeal to a broader audience against greater and larger competition.
The characters are much richer in today’s horror/paranormal novels – gone are the flimsy females screaming incessantly and the heroic male leads battling furiously but confidently against otherworldly creations. Nowadays the characters are much more human, with much more depth than a dude battling giant spiders in the eighties. As such, female readers are able to relate much easier with them, and as such the storyline in general. If you love the characters, half the battle is already won.
Tilly: How does the "The Dark Path" appeal to women readers?
There lies within Vain, the main character, such an intense conflict throughout the novel, that I believe readers of both genders seem to bond with him. What initially starts off as a man without remorse or conscience slowly begins to show a more human side, and fights back against the evil within himself. Contrasted against this is the purity of Sebastian, the young man Vain seeks to protect, and you have incredible chemistry which makes them believable and likeable throughout intense scenes of conflict. Vain’s true battle lies within himself as he grapples to find the good man he once was within an ocean of darkness.
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