Concocted from journal entries, interviews, chat transcripts and other entries, the book tells the story of a terrible day when not just one plane crashes, but three, all with one survivor. The novel is something of an epistolary construction, seemingly a nonfiction book called Black Thursday, written by a journalist named Elspeth Martins. It’s a real rollercoaster-maybe it’s a cheap thrill, but I like it.”įor The Three, Lotz tapped into one of her own very real fears: flying. Living here, where there is a real, visceral fear, I can see why I was attracted to them. It was kind of a safe fear, where you know there’s no real boogeyman who’s going to come snatch you up. Dick and Stephen King at a very young age, and I absolutely loved them. “When I was a kid-and I mean a really young kid-he gave me a whole bunch of books that I probably shouldn’t have been reading. “I honestly think that it’s my dad’s fault,” says a giggling Lotz from her home in Cape Town. Grey, and an over-the-top young adult series with her daughter Savannah, writing as Lily Herne. Elsewhere, she works with various collaborators in writing erotica as Helena S. She followed those up with the crime novels Exhibit A and Tooth and Nailed. She first broke out in 2008 with her autobiographical novel Pompidou Posse, which drew on her year living as a street performer in Paris. It sounds like a major departure but it’s really just the culmination of the long, strange road for this talented writer.
With 15 years of writing experience under her belt and a host of pseudonyms and alter egos, the South African author graduates to the big leagues this summer with The Three, a creepy novel about a major disaster and its impacts worldwide on politics, religion and the very social fabric of Earth. You have to love a writer who describes herself as a “genre-crossing pulp fiction writer with a fondness for the macabre and fake names.” That’s Sarah Lotz, to a T.
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