Hi,
I’m Paul J. Kearns. I’m an indie author. I write horror and dark fiction.
I’ve been advised to start a substack as I know I need a news letter and a mailing list.
I’ll talk about writting, my personal writing process. I’ll also talk about my influences, my reasons for writing and where I plan to take my writing in the future.
I know I should start somewhere so I’ll start with my influences.
I started reading horror at a young age. However I skipped the like of Scary Stories To Tell Tell I The Dark and Goosebumps. I read a few YA horror but for the most part I went straight in to the adult horror. And like a lot of people I started with the man himself, Mr Stephen King.
I started reading Tommyknockers and can only remember getting about halfway through it. I read some Clive Barker and James Herbert, but then I found remembered watching Interview With The Vampire and hearing that it was based on a book. I watched the start of the film and saw the words “based on the novel by Anne Rice.”
I went out and bought these books and devoured them. Films like Blade and Underworld came out when I was in my late teens. These films and book made me realise that the rules of vampires were guidelines and not actually hard set rules. I could write whatever the hell I wanted to. So can you. Don’t let anyone tell you how to write your story.
I tried writting a few styles and couldn’t come up with anything that really took off in my mind. Then I read Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry and there it was. The style that I wanted to persue. Well described, but frenetic and kenetic writing.
My vampires didn’t have to be aristocrat gentlemen in castles wearing old suits.
Soon after I started writing a short story, that grew, and grew, and is now a trilogy named,
Beasts of Immortality.
Book 1: Blood and Purpose.
Book 2: Armed To The Teeth
Book 3 is still in the working process.
It should be out next year and has the working title of A Thunder Of Dragons.
My website is
Thanks for reading this far and I hope you will sigh up to my blog.
Paul J. Kearns 