ABOUT

Warren Hately lives with his children in Margaret River, Western Australia, where he works as a journalist and sub-editor. He has worked as a freelance travel writer, photographer, philosopher, musician, theatre roustabout, security detail, and academic. He holds a doctorate in English and Comparative Literature for his dissertation The Discourse of Conflict, which reworked post-Foucauldian semiotics to examine the bias towards language-like models in the resolution of conflict (with the case study of the 1981 prison conflict in Northern Ireland). He also has an English with First Class Honours in post-structuralist theory and cultural studies focused on the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Hately has always enjoyed languages and wanted to be a dark ages historian in a former life. He has studied French, Irish and Scots Gaelic, German and Icelandic and travelled extensively based on those interests. He has released music, including the album Indomitus, with death/black metal bands Sámain and The Silver Twilight. His ongoing doom metal project Daybreak can be found on Facebook. Daybreak’s debut album Philosophia I is now available from Bandcamp. 

Hately helped pioneer collaborative online fiction in the late 90s. Today he publishes books, most notably his semi-popular Zephyr series, which details the unreliably narrated adventures of a postmodern superhero, inspired by the world of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho and a very old Superworld RPG campaign. Zephyr is published in six volumes and counting. In his spare time Hately occasionally blogs and is/was/hopes to work on a graphic novel noir thriller set in 1970s South Armagh called Black Irish.

Hately’s writing is most strongly influenced by writers Bret Easton Ellis and Stieg Larsson: the former for his unique brand of transgressive fiction and satirical extended sentences and plausibility; Larsson for his belief narrative fiction should represent how many members of society contribute to outcomes and not just the one defining central character. Other favourite fiction writers include Tim Powers, Thomas Harris, Peter Temple, Peter Corris, AA Attanasio (who gave Zephyr 1 five stars on Amazon!!!), Cormac McCarthy, Greg Egan, Keith Taylor, Will Beall, Alan Moore and Grant Morrison.

To contact:
Warren Hately
PO Box 1810, 
Margaret River, WA 6285
Australia
(mb) 0413 733 357
(e) wereviking @ hotmail.com
@wereviking