She’s just turned 25, and now people are dying all around her.
This is all according to the Deacon’s plan. He believes that Abby is the key to a ritual that will unleash an ancient evil on the world, and he will stop at nothing to make sure that ritual succeeds.
Now, Abby is in the fight of her life against an enemy that defies all reason. Together with her pious girlfriend, her magic-slinging ex-teacher, and a hotheaded Amazon with a machete, Abby will have to use every trick in the book to outlast the Deacon. Because if she can’t, her next birthday is going to be Hell.
Samuel Thomas Fraser is a writer and actor
from the rainy mountains of Vancouver, BC, Canada. A lover of medieval
literature and truly weird fiction, Sam holds a BA in English and a Certificate
in Creative Writing from Simon Fraser University. His short fiction and poetry
has appeared in outlets including The Macabre Museum and Unleashed: Monsters
Vs. Zombies Vol. 1. As a performer, he has inhabited such memorable stage roles
as Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest and Charlie Cowell in
The Music Man. Abby Normal is his first novel.
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What made you want to be a writer?
When I was 19, I was diagnosed with autism
spectrum disorder. That’s a very broad term for a whole host of developmental
disorders from low-functioning autism to Asperger’s syndrome (which is what I have).
Day-to-day, having Asperger’s isn’t as much of a hindrance for me as it is for
some people, but social interaction can be very difficult sometimes.
In conversation, I often fixate on one topic
for too long, and if it’s a topic I’m passionate about, I’ll just start
monologuing and I won’t stop. On the other hand, if I don’t have as much
interest in a topic, I may not say anything for ages, because I’ll feel like I
have nothing I can sensibly contribute. If I do try to contribute, I’ll trip
over my words and ramble while my brain screams at me that I’m not making sense
and the best time to shut up was about fifteen seconds ago. Sometimes I can be
too blunt, and because I can’t pick up on nonverbal cues, I won’t realize it if
I offend someone until they tell me they’re offended.
This is a long way of saying that writing
gives me a sense of control. When I can dictate both sides of a conversation
and steer it toward a conclusion of my choosing, I feel so much more relaxed
than if I have to go to a job interview or (heaven forbid) on a date. As a kid,
I was always making up stories and losing myself in imaginary worlds even at
times when I really shouldn’t have been. I played soccer for a bit when I was
about eight or nine, but when I was on the field, I always spent more time
fighting imaginary pirates or secret agents than I did chasing the ball and
paying attention to the game. When I reflect on that time now, I realize that I
was always trying to escape into a world that was more predictable than my own.
There’s a 50% shot at victory in a soccer game, but in a battle with imaginary
pirates, I would always win. I write because it gives me a clear goal to work
toward, and I always know how the beginning and the middle will beget the end.
That’s the same reason I enjoy acting and building LEGO sets: I always know
from the first page what will happen on the last page. As for real life? Yeah,
not so much.
What made you want to write this book?
Abby Normal is what happens when you take a
nerdy theatre kid, stick an English degree in his hands, and pump his brain
full of Beowulf, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and HP Lovecraft. As a result of my
education and my general geekery, I have a very wide range of literary and
cultural interests that don’t always jibe with one another. The writing of Abby
Normal was a process of taking all those interests and stuffing them into one
box, then trying to craft a narrative that would at least make them all look
like they belonged together. In this book, the astute reader may find bits and
pieces of Buffy, The Dresden Files, Doctor Who, BioShock Infinite, Alice in
Wonderland, Alan Wake, and much more besides. Ultimately, I wanted to write a
story that would entertain me, and if that meant ripping off (or as we say in the
business, “paying homage to”) other stories that have entertained me over the
years, that was a price I was willing to pay.
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