Earth’s Veil
by J.F. Bloomfield
Synopsis (from Amazon):
In this harrowing tale of humanity well past the brink of insanity, Canadian author J. F. Bloomfield takes the reader on a dangerous adventure through the corpse of a world that went horribly wrong. Starting off unprepared and deathly afraid, the main character, Will, just barely makes it underground with some hiking and camping gear and has to plan his journey south into the remnants of the coastal United States to find his wife, who was on a company sales trip to Florida when the bombs fell.
What awaits him down the coast is nothing short of soul-rending. The freaks of nature and anomalies of physics take their toll and change both his body and his mind in disturbing ways. Who is he now? Will his wife recognize him anymore?
It becomes obvious to him that every part of the country was hit by a different experimental bomb that pushed the boundaries of what was possible to predict. What else would he find?
The author invites you to join him on this complex mission to discover who we really are when no concept goes unspoiled by the wildest impossibilities.
Author Interview:
How did you do research for your book?
Google Maps, believe it or not. When my characters were making their way through the streets and subways of New York City, I plotted their route incrementally down to the street names.
In your book you make a reference to nuclear war. How did you come up with this idea? What made you write a book about it?
It was the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Suddenly we were watching a war in Europe for the first time since 1945. Usually, wars in Europe tend to draw in participants from all sides, so I was fearful of that happening again and scaling out of control. The book started out as a post nuclear survival horror, but then I thought more about how little we know of the harshness of the universe outside of us and that’s what brought me to sci-fi.
There are many post-apocalypse books out there. What makes yours different?
It has to be the overt craziness of the story. Just about every other post apocalypse story is entirely devoted to its own grittiness and realism. I wanted something else. I wanted to build an end of the world that didn’t result in a predictable wasteland. I wanted an end to the ability to understand reality itself and separate fact from fiction.
What advice would you give budding writers?
Write the story that’s in your heart. Don’t write to a market and don’t subscribe to one genre. Write that story and then decide what genre and market it falls into later.
Your book is set along the Eastern US coast. Have you ever been there?
Yes! Despite being a Canadian author, I actually grew up in North Carolina. I’ve been all up and down the East Coast throughout those years.
How long have you been writing?
I started out by writing non-fiction. I wrote two books, neither of which I was confident to publish. I was just flexing my writing muscles back then. That was five years ago. At some point I realized that what I really wanted to do was create and write stories.
Do you ever get writer’s block? What helps you overcome it?
The beginning of a story is always the most challenging because there are a million ways that a story idea can go when it’s just a few sentences. Major choices have to be made very early. Personally, I start every book on a farm in Kansas. I know that sounds insane, but since none of my stories have anything to do with a farm, I can correct all the details of the story until I have my first few pages done. For instance, it wasn’t actually a farm in Kansas, it was a shipyard for spaceships on mars. It wasn’t actually corn he was gathering it was spare parts that looked valuable so he could re-sell them, etc.
What were the biggest rewards and challenges with writing your book?
The biggest reward was seeing the world and the character grow from just random thoughts in my imagination into a structured novel. The challenges were largely schedule based. Once you stop writing for a few days, it’s very tough to get back into it. I had to make sure I was writing at least something every weekday.
Author bio:
Author of mind-bending Sci-fi, Dystopia and other genres that beg thrilling questions. J.F. Bloomfield has over 35 books he needs to write including themes like Cyberpunk, Alternate History, Space Exploration, Planetary Expedition, Lost Biomes on Earth, Transhumanism, Futurism and many more!
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