Thrillers, Dark Fantasy, Crime, Horror
This 1 of 1 NFT, Fiendish Angel Wings with Vasculature, was inspired by my short story trilogy, A Thousand Fiendish Angels, which in turn was inspired by Dante's Inferno.
“I saw more than a thousand fiendish angels perching above the gates, enraged and screaming: ‘Who is this one who comes, and without death, dares walk into the kingdom of the dead?’” Inferno Canto VIII, Dante Alighieri
I created this #1 of 1 NFT image, Names etched into history, using AI generative art tool, Conjure.art. I used a line from my thriller novel, Valley of Dry Bones, about St Louis No 1 Cemetery in New Orleans, combined with one of my images from a research trip to the city.
I created this #1 of 1 NFT image, The glory of La Serenissima, using AI generative art tool, Conjure.art. I used a line from my thriller novel, Stone of Fire, about Venice combined with one of my images from a research trip to the city.
I created this #1 of 1 NFT image, Gondolas glinting in the dark water, using AI generative art tool, Conjure.art. I used a line from my thriller novel, Stone of Fire, about Venice combined with one of my images from a research trip to the city.
I created this #1 of 1 NFT image, Inscribed in an ancient hand, using AI generative art tool, Conjure.art. I used a line from my thriller novel, Stone of Fire, about the Bodleian Library, Oxford, combined with one of my images of the Radcliffe Camera, where I used to study.
This is my first #1 of 1 NFT, minted 11 March 2022 on Opensea. It's an image made by combining the first line of my first novel with a photo I took in Varanasi, India, in 2006 which inspired the opening scene.
In this video, I explain how I get my story ideas from travel — from how I decide to go to a place, and where I go when I get there, as well as how some of my thrillers have evolved from different trips.
You can watch the video below or here on YouTube.
Hello from Bath in the Southwest of England. I'm Jo Frances Penn and I write thrillers as J.F.Penn. In this video, I'm going to talk about the number one question that I get asked and all authors get asked which is, “Where do you get your ideas from?”
There are a number of ways I get ideas, but probably my number one is traveling. And I wanted to record this video because as I record it in mid-May 2020 I'm in lockdown. Bath is a lovely place to be locked down, but still, I can't travel. So in this video, I'll be talking a bit about how I usually travel.
In many ways, San Francisco is a high-tech city, with Silicon Valley just down the road, Twitter on Market Street and Ubers on every corner.
But it also has a rich religious history and some unusual places to visit if you want to venture further than the Golden Gate Bridge.
Here are some of the places that I found interesting when I visited on a book research trip for my thriller, Valley of Dry Bones.
The city banned burial and cremation in the early 1900s when bodies and graves were moved out to Colma, where the dead outnumber the living. The Columbarium is one of the few places left for human remains within the city limits.
It's a Neo-classical building with a copper-domed roof surrounded by red and white sculpted rose bushes in well-kept grounds. Inside, the circular space opens out into a spacious central hall with three gallery levels filled with glass-fronted niches, each with an urn or casket inside holding the remains of a life.
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