Praise for Flowers for the Sea “Rocklyn is angry, lyrical, honest, and heartbreaking, riding the line between fantasy and true horror.” --Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times bestselling author “This novella will whet the appetite of fans of classics like Ira Levin’s Rosemary’s Baby, P. D. James’ The Children ofMen, and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild.” --Booklist “A lush, mesmerizing novella about survival and the hope of righteous anger. An auspicious debut baring beauty and razorfangs.” --Paul Tremblay “A gorgeous, powerful debut...You don't want to miss it.” --Cassandra Khaw In this lush horror-fantasy an ostracized and pregnant refugee’s fate is darker than she can imagine. From Ignyte Award finalist and Bram Stoker-nominated author Zin E. Rocklyn comes a dazzling, gothic-horror debut novella that reads like Rosemary’s Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler, FLOWERS FOR THE SEA (10/19/21). OfTrinidadian descent and hailing from Jersey City, Rocklyn began writing because they did not see themselves in the horror content they loved, and they have seamlessly evolved from Fear Street fanfic by incorporating the haunting stories they were told growing up, with real fears, timely themes, and raw talent. In FLOWERS FOR THE SEA, survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle...and their fangs are sharp. Rocklyn centers the story on Iraxi, a refugee that is ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince. Iraxi is also pregnant with a child that might be more than human, and her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine. Zin E. Rocklyn’s extraordinary debut is a story about choice in a world where all the choices have been taken away. Rocklyn has created an epic gothic-fantasy that is unafraid to challenge the legacies that came before it. Brimming with incredible prose, rage, and fear, Rocklyn has penned an alluring debut in which a Black woman does not save the world--she devours it.
Zin E. Rocklyn Zin E. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. 7 zine. Their story “Summer Skin” in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax’s Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny Magazine’s Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their short story “Night Sun” was published on Tor.com. Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2021 Clarion West candidate. You can find them on Twitter @intelligentwat. TODAY ON THE GINGER NUTS OF HORROR WEBSITE[BOOK REVIEW] |
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