PRESS RELEASE – DEBUT DARK FANTASY NOVELIST DAISY LYLE JOINS JJLA
PRESS RELEASE – DEBUT DARK FANTASY NOVELIST DAISY LYLE JOINS JJLA
Daisy Lyle is a British writer based in Normandy, though she spends a great deal of time in Devon. She is a technical translator and former aerospace engineer. For the past fifteen years she has written a fiction blog called Darkling Tales (www.livejournal.com/~darkling_tales), where she reviews both recent supernatural fiction and lesser-known weird tale authors of the past.
Her debut novel is THE VIRIDIAN MODE. Zenobia Waite was an Edwardian fairy painter who once vanished for several days and always refused to reveal her whereabouts during that time. Now jobbing New Age biographer Jay is on her trail, grudgingly assisted by Liz, a dishevelled, catty Goth who is also Zenobia’s last surviving relative. But what is the strange radio device they unearth in the wild gardens of Laurelshayes, the Waite family estate? And who, or what, was Zenobia using it to communicate with? Perhaps the answer lies in a portfolio of paintings for an unpublished children’s book, hinting at a green and secret world of beauty and terror ruled by the sinister Bramble King.
THE VIRIDIAN MODE seeks to blend the sensuous pagan fantasy of Elizabeth Hand’s fiction with Caitlin R. Kiernan’s explorations of alternative sexuality, belonging and transformation, combined with the accessible style and innovative use of folklore found in Phil Rickman’s Merrily Watkins novels.
John Jarrold said: “Sometimes I look at the first page of a six-chapter submission when it arrives. In this case I did that and didn’t stop reading until I’d finished. And I asked Daisy to send the entire book straight away. Her voice is immediate and easy, witty without straining for effect. The story and characters live, and there are wonderfully disturbing aspects throughout the book. It’s such a pleasure to read, and now Daisy and I will be working on it editorially before it is submitted to major publishers.’
John Jarrold: e-mail: j.jarrold@btinternet.com phone: 01797 227426.
14th October 2019