Latest News: March 2009:
I sold my short story, "Love & Magick" to a new anthology being edited by Jason Brock and William F. Nolan. Publication date is set for Summer 2009.
I just delivered THE LIVING END, a zombie novel to my agent. I'm currently at work on my next book, which I hope to complete in the next few weeks--a supernatural horror novel dealing with racism. Originally entitled BEAUTIFUL BOY, I'm retitling it due to the appearance last year of a non-fiction book by that title. Still working on a good name for the manuscript.
The Flock was optioned by a major studio as a feature length film. Details soon!
SALUTATIONS USA is the ideal town built by Berg Brothers, the studio that for generations produced family films. Constructed on a parcel of the decommissioned site of what was the Edmunds Bombing Range, it is the great Studio's intention to create a place that is what America once was, with room to expand.
But the land beyond Salutations is wilderness--450, 000 acres protected from development because of its former military status. Other forces struggle against the company for control of those acres. Vance Holcomb, billionaire ecologist wishes to construct a research center, saving the rare habitats. Winston Grisham, retired Marine colonel, wants all parties away, capitalist exploiters and meddlesome tree-huggers alike; he and his militia wish to be left alone. Ron Riggs, Fish & Wildlife officer wants to know what is lurking at the edges of Salutations. And the lawyers slug it out in the Florida courts.
Unknown to most, this backcountry is home to the last population of a creature believed extinct: Titanis walleri, a predatory ground bird of saurian form. The creatures, possessed of near-human intelligence, have hidden since the first Native Americans came from the north. With humans on the doorstep, knocking to come in, the Flock does not wish to be disturbed.
The Flock is the story of the conflicts between developers and protectors, between warriors and thinkers, between Mankind and a creature not unlike the theropod predators they so resemble in body and spirit; an adventure and suspense novel of epic proportion.
THE FLOCK can be purchased online from many internet sellers such as Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com.
The novel was very well received and got excellent reviews from both critics and casual readers. I'm looking forward to how it will be interpreted on the screen.
From Arkham House Books is the anthology Evermore which I created, sold, marketed and edited. This anthology contains stories that have Edgar Allan Poe as a character within the tale, or which are tales directly linked to a creation or theme from Poe himself. Every author in the collection contributed top-notch fiction, and there are some true gems contained within these covers.
My weird western short story, "Ice Bounty" is now available for download at Amazon.com. (Make sure to download it to your computer to verify it as a sale through Amazon.) You can purchase the story here.
My collaboration with Lawrence Roy Aiken, "For My Father's Brother's Children" is also now available at Amazon.com's Shorts program and can be purchased there.
