Since I'm a light sleeper, I bear witness to virtually all of her nocturnal activity. “She experiences night terrors and nightmares, she sleep talks, sleepwalks and often wakes up screaming or interacts with people I cannot see. “?‘Stolen Tongues,' at its core, was inspired by my fiancée's unusual sleep disorder,” Blackwell said. “We ended up raising double my funding goal,” Blackwell said, an amount that allowed him to produce and publish his novel, “Stolen Tongues.” The book hit bookshelves mid-June, and is already climbing the charts at online retailers. So Blackwell did, using Kickstarter to raise funds to publish the book and hire an artist. Rabid fans on NoSleep kept hounding Blackwell to publish the story as a book, and even urged him to crowdfund the project. Film production is still in process, and a release date isn't available yet.Įven while working with the film company, the story still wasn't a novel. They adapted the story into a screenplay, and allowed Blackwell a great amount of creative control - something that's rare when an author signs over film rights. “I eventually signed a film deal with South Wind Pictures, an independent production company whose artistic style I admired,” he said. Directors, producers and talent agents began contacting Blackwell, offering him deals in hopes he'd sign. The series became the most popular story on NoSleep, gaining so much traction that story and media outlets picked it up, some even reporting it as “true.” Even YouTubers got in on the series, narrating it to their audience and leading more readers to Blackwell's story on the Reddit forum. He continued to write more chapters for the story, and his audience continued to grow.
“The response was overwhelming,” Blackwell said. This first segment to his horror series quickly took off, attracting more attention than usual among Reddit users. However, there was something different about the story he was telling. With a wide range of writers telling stories on the forum, it would be easy for Blackwell to get lost in the crowd. He started a story that was fictionally based on his fiancée's sleep disorder, and posted the first chapter. After a while, Blackwell, 29, felt compelled to join in the fun. He was supposed to be working on research, but the stories demanded his attention. A year ago, Felix Blackwell, an Orange County native who now lives in Santa Rosa, was perusing the NoSleep forum on Reddit, a place for authors to share original horror stories with its 11 million readers.
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