A.D. Koboah
Nominee for Outstanding Debut Author in Paranormal Romance 2014
Nomination Thanks
I was in quite a dark place in my life when I started writing Dark Genesis and my future looked incredibly bleak. I had just finished writing my first novel, Peace and there were a lot of films and books on vampires around at that time. I started thinking about writing my own vampire novel, but I did not see being a vampire as something to be desired, but saw it as something that would dehumanise and isolate a person, leaving them to exist on the peripherals of society.
The image I had in my mind whenever I thought of my vampire novel was of a man standing before the ruins of a burnt out chapel, the desolation of the chapel symbolising the slow decay of his soul by years spent in a wilderness despair. The only person that I could imagine being able to understand the soul of this man, and grow to love him, would be a young woman who had also suffered dehumanisation: a slave called Luna. That is where the novel began.
They say that the imagination is God and by losing myself in my imagination and writing this book, which so many people have responded to in such beautiful ways, I feel that I have been given a gift by God, a promise of a bright and wonderful future as a writer. And whenever I feel low or begin to doubt myself, I look at my books and remember that promise. This is why every review, good and bad, means so much to me and it gives me so much joy to know that people appreciate my work enough to nominate me for this award.
So thank you.
Nominee for Outstanding Debut Author in Paranormal Romance 2014
Nomination Thanks
I was in quite a dark place in my life when I started writing Dark Genesis and my future looked incredibly bleak. I had just finished writing my first novel, Peace and there were a lot of films and books on vampires around at that time. I started thinking about writing my own vampire novel, but I did not see being a vampire as something to be desired, but saw it as something that would dehumanise and isolate a person, leaving them to exist on the peripherals of society.
The image I had in my mind whenever I thought of my vampire novel was of a man standing before the ruins of a burnt out chapel, the desolation of the chapel symbolising the slow decay of his soul by years spent in a wilderness despair. The only person that I could imagine being able to understand the soul of this man, and grow to love him, would be a young woman who had also suffered dehumanisation: a slave called Luna. That is where the novel began.
They say that the imagination is God and by losing myself in my imagination and writing this book, which so many people have responded to in such beautiful ways, I feel that I have been given a gift by God, a promise of a bright and wonderful future as a writer. And whenever I feel low or begin to doubt myself, I look at my books and remember that promise. This is why every review, good and bad, means so much to me and it gives me so much joy to know that people appreciate my work enough to nominate me for this award.
So thank you.
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