Richard Polk
Crow is the first book in a three-book series. When I first set out to write Crow, I was enthralled on how the villain in my Healing Disease novels came to be. So, I began with a scene with a thief, who would later be known as Jocren, jumping out of a several story window in a desperate means of escape. This was a random scene, the kind of unpolished gem that you know is good, but you have no immediate use for it at the moment. It was written during a Just Write weekly meeting, a writing group that I was involved with when I live in PA for two years.
When I first writing out of college back in 2011, I knew that writing was a lot of work. Fifteen years later, I can officially say that it is a lot more work than I ever imagined. But well worth it. During those years, I have read numerous books, whether its classics like War and Peace or graphic novels like the Dark Nights: Metal the deluxe edition, by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathon Glapion and FCO Plascencia. Another work that helped with the shaping of the character Crow is WANTED by Mark Miller, JG Jones and Paul Mounts.
In short, these past fifteen years, outside of work, have been spent reading, writing and editing. Now that I’m halfway through the third book of Crow, I feel that its time that the first book be released to the readers. It’s cautionary tale of when obsession goes to far and the Hero slowly begins to slide down the slippery slope towards damnation. It asks the question, when does a noble cause turn evil?