Darryl's Books Wiki

Welcome:
Welcome to the official wiki for Darryl M. Finch-Ellis's novels, here you will find additional information such as, trivia, character biographies and backgrounds, information on the books' locations and much, much more...

Bibliography:
Here is the complete list of works by Darryl M. Finch-Ellis:

Personal Information:
Darryl M. Finch-Ellis is an author who was born in Manchester, England, on the 18th of May, 1995. Growing up in the diverse and creative Northern English city, Darryl has always been a creatively minded individual from a young age. Struggling with general English Language for most of his life, it was not until he attended sixth form in 2012 that it was discovered that he had minor-to-moderate dyslexia.

Undeterred by this news, Finch-Ellis chose to see his dyslexia as more of a hurdle than a permanent crux, so that he could achieve his dreams of becoming an author and publishing his very own novels.

After discovering he had dyslexia, Darryl spent 2012-2015 devoted to researching how to write complete novels and read many genres from many different authors, finding his favourite to be amongst the likes of Kentaro Miura, J.R.R. Tolkien, Bret Easton Ellis, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, George R.R. Martin, Philip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.

With the right motivation after completing the first eleven chapter of Cataclysm, Darryl M. Finch-Ellis began to, and still does, devote much of his free time to his creative works, chief amongst these being his writing.

Finch-Ellis desires to write stories which he truly loves and not to be type-casted like other authors.

Writing Style:
Finch-Ellis' writing style varies with each of his novels. Cataclysm 's (2017) writing style was Darryl's initial writing style, using short paragraphs, single dialogue from a single character per paragraph (unless a passing piece of dialogue), and used by named and numbered chapters, which also had chapter breaks (ex: *** on a page) to separate several scenes within the chapters and make them more digestible to the reader.

In Dark Blaze (2020), Finch-Ellis' initial writing style from Cataclysm was expanded upon. The month and year when the chapters take place were added, and chapter breaks were continued to be used. The difference in the writing itself from his 1st and 2nd novel is entirely growth as a writer, improving on his grammar, pacing, dialogue, descriptions and structuring.

Darryl took an alternate approach when writing Bloody Monday To Guts Sunday (2021). There are only seven chapters in this novel, each one being a day of the week, which are split up into roman numeral parts. To add to the pulpy nature of the writing style in which Finch-Ellis attempted to emulate, there were no chapter breaks, nor were the parts named. The seven chapters also did not to have sub-headings, or any additional information (such as the month and year, like in Dark Blaze).

Finch-Ellis has stated that he likes to experiment with his writing from one novel to the next. Although his overall writing style is very similar, he may add small changes, for example; in Dark Blaze, the time is always in a digital twenty-four hour clock, such as 14:00 or 22:30 instead of two P.M. or half ten at night.

In his latest novella, The Lighthouse Horror, Darryl has stated that instead of planning out the story down to the finer details (known in the writing community as a gardener), he has wrote is as it went, chapter-to-chapter, page-to-page, allowing the story to guide him (known in the writing community as a grower).

Overall, Darryl M. Finch-Ellis' writing has been related to those of Peter Benchley, Bram Stoker, Bret Easton Ellis, George R.R. Martin and H.G. Wells, respectively. He has coined his own writing style as Neo-Britannic, or Nova (New) British.

Additional Links:
Darryl M. Finch-Ellis has a website as well as social media accounts you can visit and follow him on below:
 * Darryl's Official Website
 * Darryl's Official Patreon Account
 * Darryl's Official Facebook Page
 * Darryl's Official Twitter Page
 * Darryl's Official Amazon Page (U.K.)
 * Darryl's Official Amazon Page (U.S.)
 * Darryl's Official Soundcloud Channel
 * Darryl's Official YouTube Channel
 * Darryl's Official Instagram Account

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