Get to know Junior Sokolov
• Tell us
your latest news.
I just completed my
first solo novella in the Honeycomb series. Honeycomb: Boljelam
• What
inspired you to pen your first novel?
Wren Cavanagh, good friend,
knows me well.
• Who or
what has influenced your writing, and in what way?
William Gibson and
working in the technology environment
• What genre
are you most comfortable writing?
Sci-fi Horror
• How did
you come up with the title for your book(s)?
It was supposed to be
Honeycomb: Dock Lizards, a reference to lot lizards, the sex workers in the
trucking industry. As the story grew so did my appreciation for the characters and
the term Dock/Lot lizard started to feel disrespectful. Also Boljelam, the huge
space station where the action takes places grew in presence as I kept writing.
• Is there a
message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
Everyone should be
treated humanely and with respect. Unless they are the bad guy. Then you shot them
into space.
• What are
your current projects?
The sci/fi-horror scify/horror-colonization full length novel in
the Honeycomb series. Quint, the chief
lawman for the town of Revaltion will have to deal with native monster, an
incoming religious faction crash landing nearby and human turned monsters.
It’ll be great!
• What is
the hardest part of writing?
Making the event
timelines work, and doing your best to entertain the reader.
• What was
one of the most surprising things you learned in writing your books?
Recognizing that some
of my characters defects, were in fact my own. It helped me address those flaws
in myself.
• Is there
anything additional you would like to share with your readers?
Be excellent to each other.
• What are
you reading now?
Radium Girls,
Endurance and of course I just finished Midnight in Chernobyl
• What
scares you?
Serious illness,
poverty the loss of loved ones. The current condition of the planet. Letting
people down.
• Beyond
your own work (of course), what is your all-time favorite horror book and why?
And what is your favorite book outside of the horror genre?
Ghost Story by Peter
Straub is one of my favorites. The Stand of course. House of Leaves is not
quite horror but I enjoyed thoroughly. There are just so many.
After
a life lived for parties, sex and drugs spiraled into grief, she
went to selling herself and fighting for survival.
Now
one Boljelam's angry rebels, she leads a cheapened life on one
of the most unjust space station in the universe. Then, she finds an
unexpected way out.
An
escape from a life of abuse and hardship in the form of a ticket on a
ship set for Honeycomb. Taken from a dead woman's purse, it's a one
way ticket to a new pristine planet, to heaven.
Will
she be able to pull it off and get out alive?
Or
will two rabid cops, a zombie AI and a level full of monsters in
her way keep her escaping?
And
what about that bio-engineered murderer dogging her steps. He wants out
as bad as she does!
Reclusive
writer from the Pacific Northwest. Hates peanut butter loves Mojitos
(sin alcohol, por favor). Sometimes found around 60 feet (ca. 18 m)
underwater in the Puget Sound or at about the same depth in the blue
and clear waters of Cozumel hovering over a coral reef and hoping to
see a shark or a large majestic green turtle."I
love thinking of the intersection of new science and horror, the
future haunted houses could be space stations or our own
scientifically enhanced and hacked bodies,"
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