Louise Blackwick

Louise Blackwick is a Dutch jungian-nietzschean writer, author of many thought-provoking stories themed on "surrealism", "subjective reality" and "states of altered consciousness".

Blackwick is particularly known as the writer of the international bestseller Vivian Amberville, a philosophical fantasy saga that follows the adventures of an orphan from Milton Keynes - England, who learns her imagination can actively reshape the fabric of reality. She is also recognized as the creator of a new niche subgenre of science-fiction: NEON SCIENCE-FICTION.

Blackwick primarily considers herself a "novelist", although the erudite complexity of her work has been appraised to exceed the fiction arena. She is a long-term pupil of the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, her writing digging deep roots into jungian concepts like: "individuation", "synchronicity", "archetypes", "shadow-work" and "the collective unconscious".

For philosophical views, she draws inspiration from the giants of old - among which Nietzsche, Wagner, Goethe and Schopenhauer may hold the most resemblance. Blackwick's evocative style and widely provocative ideas carry that "instant classic vibe", underneath which one often uncovers layers upon layers of meaning.

For short fiction, Blackwick attributes her greatest influence to the father of surrealism André Breton, the twisted storyteller Edgar A.Poe and the existentialist Kafka. At times, she unweaves the general conventions of space and of time, bending them at odd angles into a mesmerizing and surreal dream construct.

For epic large-scale fiction, Blackwick greatly looks up to the legendary Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. " Vivian Amberville - The W eaver of Odds ", the first novel in a series of five books, was released November 2016 on eBook and March, 2017 on paperback. It sold an estimate of 3.4  million copies worldwide  and was popularly acclaimed by a score of metacritics,  most of whom have compared her narrative style with  C. Paolini, J.K. Rowling and  E.R. Eddison.

Upcoming books from the author include: the humorous science fiction novel God is a Robot  and the much-awaited sequel '''" Vivian Amberville - The Book of Chaos". '''

Read this Fox News interview of Louise Blackwick, in which she talks about the writing of the 2017 Young Adult bestseller " Vivian Amberville - The Weaver of Odds ".