Congratulations to Deirdre Swinden on her new nightmare inducing book about nightmares… Somnium. This book kept me awake turning pages this last week and I’ll be including it in my end of the month round up of June reading for sure. Read my personal review in Authortunities #66.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A successful writer/editor in the corporate world for more than two decades, Deirdre Swinden is currently living and writing in North Carolina. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Arcadia University and has published short stories in Griffel Literary Magazine and Grim & Gilded. Early in her writing career, she won the Popular Short Story Contest at the 2000 Philadelphia Writers’ Conference with her short work, “Shooting Televisions.”
TRIGGER WARNINGS:
This novel includes a brief depiction of sexual violence, gore and nightmare imagery.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Immerse yourself in a terrifying blend of psychological horror and high-tech science fiction in this riveting novel where dreams can kill. Gillian Hardie experiences nightmares so intense they threaten her very existence, thanks to a glitch in Somnium Corporation’s groundbreaking dream advertising technology. Every night, her sleep unleashes monsters that her body reacts to as if they were real, pushing her to the edge of despair.
Armed with her lucid dreaming skills, Gillian battles these horrors, but when an accident traps her in a perpetual dream state, she must rely on Nathan Keller, a nightmare warrior, and Dex Cooper, an Operator, to navigate this nightmarish reality. With her darkest fears manifesting like never before, Gillian faces a race against time to survive a threat that could unleash unimaginable horrors from the depths of her mind. Find Somnium by Deirdre Swinden on Amazon here.
Finally, enjoy this interview from AF Stewart interviewing Deirdre Swinden