About Death and the Maiden by Daan Katz
She was a grandmother. Now she’s young again. And she hates it.
Her last day at work ended in disaster, she missed her husband’s most important concert of the year, and if that wasn’t bad enough, now Alysia is stuck on a foreign world. A world where technology hasn’t evolved past the 19th century, and people still believe in magic.
Desperate to find her way back home, she ends up on a wild-goose chase to yet other worlds, where she discovers uncomfortable truths about herself and her past. Unable to cope with this new reality, Alysia loses herself in her efforts to help a young couple overcome a horrendous trauma.
Then people start dying and Alysia sees her hopes of ever making it back to Earth evaporate.
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Death and the Maiden is a dark portal fantasy that focuses heavily on the psychology of its characters.
Representation: Disability, Mental Health, LGBTQ+
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Author Bio:
Daan Katz was born in 1963 in The Hague, the Netherlands, where he also spent the first fifteen years of his life.
From a very young age, Katz has been enchanted by stories. When immersed in his books, Katz would forget everything else. The real world would cease to exist, and there was only the imaginary world, with his imaginary friends, who would continue to speak to him long after he’d finished reading the book.
Given his love for stories, it was only natural for him to start writing his own as soon as he realised that he could. From there, poetry was a logical next step.
Katz’s characters are real people. Not people who exist on Earth, but real all the same. They all have good and bad inside of them. They all face their own struggles in life. They come in all colours and sizes, with their own sexual preferences and gender identities. And several of them are disabled.
Katz is a wheelchair user, diagnosed with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Autism. This makes him the perfect guy to write disabled characters – and make them shine. Because who wants a pitiful wretch of a main character, when they can have a badass one?