Actually, I published two chapters today based on the feedback from my steadily increasing number of online readers, wishing (nay, demanding) to read more. I appreciate you appreciating my writing! After all, the only raison d’être for a writer is an expectant and satisfied reader base, isn’t it? To read the novel, go to jovancic.com/the-influence. Please do continue rating and reviewing what you read… Read More
Latest additions to the site: a new chapter from The Influence and a haiku
I felt that Sundays are good days for publishing new chapters from The Influence, thus here is the latest one. As for the haikus, I was distracted in July but the August haiku is now online. For my Swedish readers: Inspirationen för Blatteparadis flödar och lär fortsätta under åtminstone ett par veckor till. Zoran har lämnat sin “comfort zone” – kvarteren runt Stureplan och… Read More
Do you want to be the first to read my novels?
Within barely two months, my website has acquired a faithful following on four continents and some fifteen countries, with new visitors arriving daily! This kind of support surely must be awarded. As of today, all of you will gradually get full access to my novels online. I’m starting with the finished one, The Influence, and will add a new chapter each week. Later this… Read More
Being multilingual is an advantage, until it becomes a challenge
For those of you that have visited this site, you’ll know that I feel at home with multiple languages and am confident enough to use more than one to create my imaginary worlds. I’m itching to try out a third one in a literary context, hopefully sometime in the near future. I’m currently writing two novels, one in English, the other one in Swedish.… Read More
I used to think in the present, but I’m past that now
Just in case you didn’t get it from the title, this is about tenses in novels. And how readers perceive them while writers go on using or abusing them. Particularly any of the four present tenses in the English language. I don’t like books written in present tense. Regardless of its perceived immediacy, I seem to share this dislike with many readers. Maybe it’s… Read More
How (not) to become a writer… continued
Still with me? And curious to find out how and what I did? I started out with a simple premise: A nightmarish sequence set in darkness, in my neck of the woods as it were, an exotic and spooky enough place even in daylight. Present the reader with a strange character driving a Bentley, add a corpse in a trunk and a bunch of… Read More
How (not) to become a writer
In my case it started out of sheer desperation. No, it’s not what you’re thinking: I wasn’t overcome by a sudden desire for fame; nor did I find myself in dire straits financially and hoped to make a quick buck. An eternal optimist I may be, but I was (and still am) painfully aware of the long and winding road that every writer must… Read More