Clan Destine Press Blog — Jason Franks

Jason Franks joins our Clamour and Mischief anthology with his short story "The Language of Birds," which you can enjoy him reading a snippet of on our YouTube channel. What is the most unexpected titbit you learned while researching your story? Well, there was a lot of stuff as I took a deep dive into the various King Solomon apocrypha, looking for some kind of coherent narrative (spoiler: there isn't) but probably the thing I enjoyed the most was reading about the Doll House (aka the Doll's House, aka The Dollhouse), a roadhouse that was around the corner from the...

For The Only One in the World Jason Franks shares "Sharakau Homura and the Heart of Iron." Jason talked with us about his story set in Japan and South Africa, and what he loved about writing it. What is the most unexpected tidbit you learned while researching your story? Something specific that I picked up researching this specific story was about the music popular in South Africa in the 1970s. I started out trying to learn whether Jimi Hendrix had much of a following there, and that led me down a bit of a rabbit hole about South African musicians...