The Found Diary of Avery Alexander Myer, an ontological mystery by M.A. Fink, featuring over 45 sketches by Gromyko Semper, is now available on Amazon.com. Learn more about it on the Tornado Skin Press website. Award-winning sci fi and fantasy author, Dean Francis Alfar, writes:
“M.A. Fink’s first novel deftly combines elements of the surreal with a fierce groundedness of character as he takes us along one man’s fantastic journey through strange worlds in pursuit of truth. A love letter to Myst, The Mysterious Island, and Lewis Carroll’s wonderland, ‘The Found Diary of Avery Alexander Myer’ has a voice all its own – inspired by the 19th century but rendered with today’s sensibilities – always well-observed and engaging in its sensuous attention to detail as each layer of story is revealed. Fink’s contribution to speculative fiction is a pleasure to read.”
Surrealist artist Gromyko Semper provides the “notebook sketches” within Avery Alexander Myer’s diary, as the character struggles to unlock the mystery of the strange world in which he has found himself. The sun illustration in the sidebar of this blog, and the sketch on the letter matrix, below, are by Gromyko Semper.
Here is a teaser and a “mystery” that perhaps you can unlock yourself: a letter matrix that reveals something about the novel. Anything on the card (the whole image below) may or may not be a clue to the solution. Can you solve it? You don’t need to read the book to figure out the matrix. Nevertheless, you may enjoy reading the book and finding out how the main character ends up figuring out some puzzles of his own…
Let us know if you solve the matrix!
