Featured Interview With Forest Blackwood
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
My journey into writing and books in general started quite early! Already when I was in elementary school, I started to take books stealthily from the city library, and it was in a small Polish town! It was our parents who have infected us, that is my siblings, with reading books, it is such an unwritten tradition in our home that we love books and have practically been always reading them. Then I started to write myself, as if by the touch of an angel! Initially, they were short stories and poems, which after many, many years were transferred to the War of Light and Darkness, this is a trilogy by a decision of the royalhawaiianpress.com publishing house. To whom I am very grateful for giving me the chance to appear on so many international markets. It is impossible not to mention my brother Robert Przybylski and his Order of Ahava, which is currently a bestseller on the Spanish Amazon!
The idea for the book was born after keeping my writing in a sock drawer for many years, one day I decided to organize my poems and short stories and turn them into a book! This is how the War of Light and Darkness came into being, which really has been taking shape in my head all these years! One day I sat down at my desk and never stopped writing which after a few pages produced War of Light and Darkness! I did not think about the literary genre in which I would set the story of the book, and it turned out spontaneously that this is a fantasy with a bit of high fantasy, horror and dark, ending with heroic fantasy! I was also inspired by the environment I live in, the farm our family runs is located among the woods, and the angels who have always accompanied us, their figurines and paintings inspired me to pay special attention to them, because they have always been at our home, now I don’t remember exactly if they were watching us or I was watching them! One of my first poems was dedicated to them and it sounds like this:
A city the angels fly over them!
Powerless is their singing. A city without a soul, shadows without clear shapes flow monotonously along the street.
And so lies a city – a rock. The last cry of despair of the fallen angels!
This poem was written in the years of my youth, when I attended the first grade of high school in Poznan an old and beautiful Polish city! I hope that with my short story on how and when I started a beautiful journey with a book I will be able to attract the interest of the future readers at least a bit. I am thankful to Mrs. Vanessa Oloughlin for giving me the opportunity to join the writing Ireland. It is impossible not to mention Mrs. Maria Cowen from the Royal Hawaiian Press publishing house, who transformed the War of Light and Darkness from Polish into English, translating the entire book, which in the future will also be released on international markets in Spanish.
Yours faithfully
Forest Blackwood
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At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
In age 14
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
So many for example Steven King or Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende Never ending story 🙂
Tell us a little about your latest book?
Story begins in whone of 7 magical lands in Draxban! Count Artis discover some magical artefact…….
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