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Matt Wanicur was born in Philadelphia, PA on October 31, 1978 to his awe-inspiring parents Eileen and Jules. He started writing short stories at the age of eight. His first short story was an award winner titled "A Dog's Kiss". After that he spent years reading and honing his writing technique.
He has hundreds of favorite novels, and to name some of the most influential is difficult, but here it goes..."The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester, "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke, "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P Lovecraft, "The Silence of the Lambs" by Thomas Harris, and "Demon Seed" by Dean Koontz.
After two years at Penn State University, he left to sharpen his skills at the New York Film Academy. There he learned the craft of screenwriting and directing.
Matt highly enjoys writing. He enjoys creating characters (mostly tortured ones) with problems that seem never-ending and insurmountable. Then getting lost in those worlds as he navigates them through all of the obstacles he sets in front of them.
He also enjoys his fur children he shares with his best friend Crystal. Midnight, Walter, Molly, Kiki, Boo, Oliver, and Elwin, just to name a few. They enjoy taking Walter and for Molly walks around the lake. He also enjoys jogging, often using that time to create new stories or work out where the current one is going in his head.
He is the author of the Born of the Night & Blood Harbor Book Series.
Reviewed by Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite
Born of the Night is Volume 1 of a murder mystery series by Matt Wanicur. Ethan Lewis is well-loved by his parents and everyone expects him to have a great and promising future. Tragedy turns his life around and sends him off in a direction he never expected. Twenty-two years on, Ethan is a fraction of the man everyone thought he was going to be. His home is a shabby apartment building and he does little to live his dreary sad life. Suddenly, the neighborhood is shaken by a series of savage, senseless murders but, for Ethan, it seems like something is familiar. Ethan has no choice. To find out the truth, he has to go back to the past and face his deepest and darkest fears, to try to save something of the man he should have been.
Born of the Night (Volume 1) by Matt Wanicur is a gripping read. It is a complex story that twists and turns and is full of surprises, one after the other. The plot is incredible, clearly very well thought out, and it throws up lots of questions as you move through the story. The fact that it is written in present tense makes it even more disturbing and brings a sense of reality to it. I loved the character development; it was as complex as the plot yet it brought the characters firmly to life and made them easier to identify with, especially the main protagonist. The ending was a real surprise, a cliffhanger than makes me want to read the next one now. I'm dearly looking forward to it.
