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Hollis Jay

Hollis Jay on The Ever:
"I began writing again when I was in my teens. It was different than before; before when I was younger and I didn’t know the consequence of words. I wrote for hours. I never stopped until I was forced. One day my stepmother found my writing and flushed it down the toilet, but I didn’t stop. I just found a better hiding place for my stories. I started to read all of the time. I read everything that I could get my hands on, and as I grew older I began to take notes on my favorite authors. I wrote down their styles of writing. I wrote down their genres. I wrote down what I thought I should write, and what I thought good writing should be. I copied Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Ira Levin, and many others. I drew from their experiences because I wasn’t aware of how to draw from my own."

"During my first year in college, I met Professor Jones. My first reaction to his appearance was that he looked like Mark Twain. He always wore a three piece suit to class and a pocket watch. Some of my fellow students laughed at his passion about literature and his studious attention to our writing, but I felt right at home. I watched him lecture about literary symbolism, metaphors and writing. I listened as he continued about finding our inner voice as writers and allowing ourselves the freedom to tell our own stories. I sat and nodded quite a bit in that class and in his several classes after that. He was the first person I had ever met who had told me that it was alright to speak in my voice and who acted as if my voice was worthy of being heard. In his classes, I learned to be brave."

"For the next several years, I decided to write everything that I possibly could without an outline or a plan. I wasted quite a bit of effort in those years, but I gained my inner voice and I knew what I had to do."

"I wanted to construct a novel based not only on my own experiences, but based on the collected experiences of others which ventured into my favorite genre of horror. This novel would not only be reminiscent of my childhood, but an expression of the fears of others. Fear, my own and others, would be the underlining element of the story. "

"I became a collector. I watched and listened and learned. I took notes, and assessed the happenings of my own life. I researched and read. But mostly, I lived and in doing so gathered not only my own fresh collections but the words and deeds of others through my own eyes."

" My thesis, The Ever, is an exploration of both personal and private events that occurred both to me and to those that I have loved. It is my representation of the essential haunted house story. It is my answer to the question of the horrors of home and to the displacement of ourselves when we are left alone in the dark with the lights off. What are we afraid of?"

--Author of The Ever, Hollis Jay