Featuring William Becker, Author Seventh Circle

William Becker was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and was adopted by an American family at a very young age and have lived most of his life in Boone, North Carolina.

What lead you to become an author?

I started writing when I was twelve years old, back when I was in sixth grade. This story might reveal how sappy I am underneath all of the doom and gloom that you find in my writing and probably should be more embarrassing than I make it sound, but basically, I was head over heels for this girl. This was my first really, true, deep crush.

I scribbled something random down on my phone that was based off of some lyrics from some edgy post-grunge band (I think Three Days Grace) and showed it to her.

She told me I was absolutely amazing at what I did and that I should keep going. Little did she know, I was aping lyrics from other people and calling it my own poetry; however, I suddenly had to keep going, so I continued using lyrics from pop-rock and metal to craft my own “poems.” I would send them to her, which gave me more confidence, then posted them on an app called “Poet’s Corner.”

Long story short, I asked her out, she said no, then she fell in love with an abusive, older dude, who smoked a lot of weed and seemed a lot cooler than me at the time.

I got called out on Poet’s Corner for stealing lyrics, I got embarrassed, then decided I needed to prove myself as someone who actually had the balls to write their own work.

I got mildly depressed as I watched my first love stay with some horrible psycho of a person, then I lost my feelings for her, we became best friends for a long time, she developed an eating disorder, and my poetry took on a much darker and sludgier form. This included an obvious horror influence, coupled with my own depression that grew and grew through my middle school years.

I wrote my first horror “novel” when I was 13 or so under a false name, “FurthermoreFiction.” I posted my poetry on an Instagram under the same name, before finally going back to my real name, leading to my first actual published novel when I was 15.

If you knew you’d die tomorrow, how would you spend your last day?

I would divide it between my family and my partner, Duke. They’ve made my life a very lovely place recently. Seventh Circle wasn’t inspired by them and I’m sure it made them a bit jealous, but they’ve been an amazing part of my life. I’d probably hang out with my parents, then go watch some of my favorite movies with Duke. Yeah, that would be nice.

Who is your hero and why?

David Lynch. Lost Highway and Eraserhead will be endless sources of inspiration to me. His work is just pure… art. You can see his influence on my more surrealist works, like New York Onions, which is available for free on my website. He’s a bit of a madman and I think this video that shows him cooking Quinoa illustrates that quite nicely.

About the Book

Seventh Circle by William Becker
Genre: Romance

Synopsis

Michael is an awkward university student. He is lonely, socially anxious, and has no experience talking to members of the opposite sex. Michael is introduced to Mia, who is everything he could ever want. She is energetic, exciting, passionate, and much unlike him, massively experienced. Michael’s life changes as he falls madly in love with Mia, feeling the passion burn within him; it threatens to swallow him whole, but as time goes on, Michael realizes things are not what they seem to be.

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About William Becker

William Becker is a young horror author with a mind for weirder sides of the universe. With an emphasis on complex and layered storylines that tug harshly on the reader to search for deeper meanings in the vein of Silent Hill and David Lynch, Becker is a force to be reckoned within the horror world. His works are constantly unfathomable, throwing terror into places never before seen, while also providing compelling storylines that transcend the predictable jumpscares of the popular modern horror.

His first novel, Weeping Of The Caverns, was written when he was 14. After eight months of writing, editing, and revising, the story arrived soon after his 15th birthday. During the writing sessions for his debut novel, he also wrote an ultra-controversial short story known as The White Shade that focused on the horrors of a shooting. Living in a modern climate, it was impossible for The White Shade to see the light of day. Following a psychedelic stint that consisted of bingeing David Lynch movies, weird art, and considering the depth of the allegory of the cave wall, he returned to writing with a second story, The Black Box, and soon after, his second novel, Grey Skies.

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