Big
Cranky: Fall Into Darkness
by
James Pyne
Genre:
Dark Mythological Fantasy, Action
Forget
everything you think you know about myths and legends, James Pyne’s
Big Cranky connects them all in an epic web of deceitful betrayal,
love, and loyalty. A capricious tale of gods, showing human quirks
are not only wasted on the mortals. A tale of many deities treading
lightly around a superior as the world begins.
James
Pyne hails from Nova Scotia, Canada, and has been a scribe for the
Universe much of his life. He's a firm believer in being able to
write in every genre, to make his world building and characters
hopefuly come out genuine. No matter what he writes it will have some
form of darkness, nothing is pure light in any worlds James creates
and rumor has it, his surviving characters are plotting his demise.
When it comes to his past time, much of it is spent learning the
craft, but he does enjoy gardening and playfully tormenting those he
loves. When he's not writing, or working his day job, he's traveling.
The Andalusia region of Spain the last place that tolerated him.
Favorite
authors: John Gardner (Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues). Fyodor
Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov). Clive Barker (Imajica,
Weaveworld, Books of Blood). Terry Pratchett (Good Omens, Bad Omens).
J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings). And all the scribes who carried
on the tradition of myths throughout the ages.
GUEST POST
What
is About Mythology that Speaks to Me?
I’ve
always enjoyed a good story. As a kid I reread Gulliver's Travels by
Jonathan Swift countless times. Fairy Tales of any sort are a given
influence. The Bible, too. A local god by the name of Glooscap, he
was the super god of the Mi'kmaq pantheon of gods and the stories I
heard of him fueled by imagination. He also appears throughout the
Big Cranky trilogy. Later years, the books of the man himself, Joseph
Campbell, painted in the mysteries of mythology for me. But if I
really think about who was the biggest influence during my childhood,
who got the ball rolling for my love of tales, that would be my old
man (that’s what we affectionately call our dad’s in my area). He
would tell me tales of him and his best friend Richie hunting down
Bigfoots in the backwoods to keep us kids safe in the neighborhood.
He spun different tales revolving the hairy Sasquatch, all with
lessons, doing his part, passing on wisdom passed down to him in his
own way. I believed his stories for a while and didn’t dare go into
the woods. I believed my dad and his best friend were worthy in
starring in an updated version of Grimms' Fairy Tales. It’s just
occurred to me it’s time I write those stories down before they
forever fade from memory.
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