Welcome Athanasios ‘Author 2 Author’ Blog Chat. Thanks so much for stopping by, please make yourself at home and we’ll begin.
Currently Athanasios work as a graphic/video artist in a
dvd/film production house. He’s been interested in religion & faith since
childhood and this has led to studying a bewildering variety of beliefs from pagan,
wicca, judaism, christianity, islam, to hindu, buddhism, shinto, luciferianism
& much more. Wow, we already have so much in common!
And we’re here today to chat about your books; Mad Gods, Commitment and I am Eternal Cowboys & Vampires of the Predatory Ethics Series. First things first we’ll continue with the
questions, get a feel of you and your work and then I’ll master Pimp the hell
out of your books bwahahahahaha!! ;)
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Tell us a bit about yourself?
I’m a regular guy who has never been able to stop thinking
differently. Faced with most situations
I automatically think ‘what if’. I’ve
done many different jobs in my life from cook, bouncer to retail store manager
and have ended up working as a graphic/video artist in a dvd/film production
house.
I’ve also lived all over the world from Vancouver, to Europe,
Turkey and have settled in Montreal, Canada.
I’ve always been interested in religion and by extension
entertainment or distraction and I like to explore these themes in my work.
How would you describe 'your
book (s)'?
The larger storyline is
Predatory Ethics, a perversion of ‘Do Onto Others As You Would Have Them Do
Onto You’. It follows a man who decides to thwart destiny and change how the
world is set to destroy itself. He kidnaps the Antichrist of Revelation and
raises him to not follow what was written and decide for himself whether he’ll
do what Fate has decreed.
No sh&*!! Sounds like a goodread
What Genre is your work
mainly? Do you tend to stay in the same vein or are you hoping (if not already)
to explore new ventures?
I work in horror,
supernatural genres because that’s what I want to explore. I read primarily
pseudo-historical books; watch history, alternate-history and conspiracy
documentaries because I like to wonder if they were true. That what if is what
I like to show in my work, and because these ‘what ifs’ are pretty wild and
horrific my work reflects that. I do try and make these ‘what ifs’ plausible
and thereby they become even more frightening because they “could” be real.
What
inspired you to write your books?
There was no single inspiration for
the books. They evolved from watching the Omen when I was a child to immersing
myself in histories and conspiracy theories all over the web. I still get
inspired when I come across a particularly implausible website that cites a
connection between Alistair Crowley and former US president George W Bush, or
that his father was a CIA opperative that shot JFK. The idea is fantastic,
impossible but still sounds like wild fiction.
Who was the easiest
character to write and why? Hardest and why?
The easiest character was one of my main characters:
Kostadino because he was an amalgamation of myself and a lot of cousins and
uncles. He embodied my fascination with ancient knowledge, the arcane and lived
his life in an eccentric, nonconformist manner.
The most difficult was one of the main villains because he
embodies my worst qualities: brutality and disregard for others.
Are your characters based on
real people? People you may know or TV/Movie stars?
They are based on family,
friends, acquaintances and anyone or anything that I remember to make them feel
real. It’s weird what you remember but
there are details to how someone stood or walked or spoke that will make it to
characters in my work and I can disctinctly remember these details as a part of
specific people that they may not have even been aware of.
Without giving anything
away, what is/are your favorite scene(s) in any of your books?
One of my favorite scenes was
when Kostadino notices that the child he abducted is crying. The child is unaware of the tears and as
Kostadino wipes them away he presses his cheek into Kostadino’s palm relishing
human contact he had never known.
If your books had a theme
song, what would it be and why?
It would be the Rolling
Stones’ “Sympathy For the Devil” because in many ways all of Predatory Ethics
is an exploration of evil, the Devil and the Antichrist who is reputed to be
the Devil’s son.
Do you listen to music while
you write your book (s)? If so ... what songs?
I don’t listen to music when
I write, I find it distracting.
What’s up next for you?
I’ve taken Simeon Magus, a
secondary character of Predatory Ethics and have begun writing his story in I
Am Eternal. I wanted to explore the
supernatural through the eyes of a vampire who is trying to live out his existence
as quietly as possilble.
I’ve chosen to put down my
primary writing in Predatory Ethics because it is much more complex than I Am
Eternal and I needed to do something that would be more accessible and easier
to digest.
What inspired you to be a
writer? Is there anything in particular that
spurred you on?
No single inspiration except I
like seeing where the stories I like to imagine with my ‘what If’s’ will go. I
enjoy the story in the writing as much as someone would reading it.
Is there anyone else besides
you in your family who write?
As far as I know I’m the sole
creative person in my family.
I’m creative in many ways, I
can draw, put a graphic composition together very well and work with pixels in
a very pleasing manner. I work as a graphic artist in my day to day job and
also have been creating covers for indie writers as a side-line. My work can be seen at on my site
What’s came first the
chicken or the egg? Lol
The chicken. Oh no, the God
chicken who squated and plopped out the cosmic eggs that spawned our worlds
before she squaked out of existence.
Lol!! OMG I love it, thank you Athanasios, you’re a star!
A little background into
your writing: when did you start? What was your first piece? First published
piece, tell us about your general history…
Not much of a background, I’ve
only been self published on Amazon and through Smashwords the rest of the
online retailers.
My first piece was Predatory
Ethics: Mad Gods, followed by Commitment, then I Am Eternal: Cowboys and
Vampires and coming soon Predatory Ethics: In Whom To Trust and I Am Eternal:
Vampires and Indians.
Do you have any favorite books or authors?
I read quite a lot of Anne
Rice, Stephen King, Clive Barker and loved the classics of Bram Stoker, Oscar
Wilde but was more influenced by comic book writers such as Alan Moore, Grant
Morrison, Frank Miller, and Mike Mignola. I would also cite Guilermo del Torro as a current fave because of his
inventive vision and enthusiasm for the horror genre in general.
Are you working on anything
else besides this?
Yes I’m working on the next
installments in both Predatory Ethics and I Am Eternal.
The Predatory Ethics book 3 is
“In Whom To Trust” and it follows Adam as he grows older and still rejects his
believed destiny but discovers that this rejection has evolved him from
Antichrist and is slowly turning him into the Redeemer of other religions.
I Am Eternal book 2 is
“Vampires and Indians” and it continues Simeon’s recollection of the old west
and his facing his oldest enemies, the Vatican Slayers.
Here could you give us a few
words to people who haven’t yet read your book (s), sell your work ;)
Predatory
Ethics and I
Am Eternal are not just horror, or alternate history. They both show underlying motives to how we
live our lives, from love to ambition, and social acceptance to demanding
individuality. They’re both complex, Predatory Ethics more so than I Am Eternal
but they make you ponder deeper points than usually found in traditional or
indie literature.
Here are the books…
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| Book One |
Mad Gods
Print Length: 326 pages
Publisher: Raw-Faux Press; Second Edition edition
March 3, 2011
ASIN: B004QOA768
Book Blurb…
Powerful and secret organizations have manipulated fate,
influenced and corrupted humanity to steal their souls.
Just before the success of their centuries old plans they
were stopped. In 1962 one man and a lost soul were all that stood in their way.
They gave us a new hope in the face of oblivion laid out
in forgotten Gospels and the Bible. What could one person do against such
overwhelming opposition intent on enslaving the world? Mad Gods re-imagines
myth, history and gods.
Commitment
Print Length: 132 pages
Publisher: Raw-Faux Press; First Edition edition
October
26, 2011
ASIN: B006098CSC
Book Blurb…
Sequel to Mad Gods the book
that re-imagined myth and gods.
Adam watched Mad Gods drag his
father to Hell.
Melusine Rothschild, Grande
Dame of the Black Nobility wants to raise him by Predatory Ethics and guide him
in wielding the power and influence of his dark birthright.
Adam wants none of this. He
watches his TV shows in one of Danvers Mental Hospital's nice padded rooms,
snugly dressed in his own long sleeved, buckled, canvas jacket. He is safe,
away from a hostile, ravaging outside world.
He's horribly wrong.
I Am Eternal
Print Length: 28 pages
Publisher: Raw-Faux Press; First Edition edition
April 26, 2012
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc
ASIN: B007Y2SKHW
Book Blurb…
For
as long as there's been a Vatican the Church has hunted Simeon Magus.
He
is tired of running...
He
has watched the undead go from myth to adored celebrity and he exists hiding
from a lethal group of hunters who do not listen to reason and won't stop.
They've kept coming.
Eternity
gets lonely when you've seen your friends and those you love destroyed.
You
end up not being able to trust, or not wanting to feel because every smile or
kind word could lead to those who hunt you just because you exist.
Simeon
wants to live, wants to connect with someone again but he's afraid.
He
is wary of the only other constant he's known in his millennia long existence:
The Jesuits.
Beneath
the veneer of charity and compassion there exists a secret army of killers
whose sole task is the annihilation of any supernatural being their masters
order them to destroy.
The
Templars never went away they were re-purposed and renamed the Vatican Slayers.
For more information these books and Athanasios
here are his contacts;
- http://predatoryethics.com
- http://www.mad-gods.com
Stay
tuned because our next guest is Author Simon Okill…
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