NEW RELEASE: BLOOD CHILD, a paranormal thriller about a man
with a dark destiny and a parasite on his soul.
Blood Child is a prequel story in the
urban fantasy series The End of the World and Some Other Things. Earlier this
month I had released The Man with the Devil’s Tongue (which you can get for
FREE from Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and iTunes – it remains $0.99 on
Kindle). The Man with the Devil’s Tongue introduced you to the female lead of
the series, the young April Frausini. With Blood Child, you are introduced to
the male lead, the newly chosen Pale Rider, Trey Decarr.
Blood Child is a bit different from The Man with the Devil’s
Tongue—a bit nastier, more violent, and a tad darker in tone. This is partly
because it’s a book where Death himself is the hero. Decarr’s a bit of a
bastard, but he’s trying. He used to kill people for a living until he caught
the attention of the Powers That Be. They named him Death, the Fourth Horseman
of the Apocalypse. Instead of helping to bring about the end times, Decarr
rejects his role and does what he can to prevent the coming Apocalypse, making
him an enemy of demons everywhere. In Blood Child, his rebellious choices
enrage the long dead Ivan Tarkovsky, the man who was chosen to be Death during
World War II. Tarkovsky leaves the comforts of Hell so that he may possess
Decarr and set him on the ‘proper path’…
A bit of background info for those interested: Blood Child
was written during 2013’s NaNoWriMo. This was my first attempt at the
competition and I did rather well, completing my manuscript well before the end
of November. Lots of time on the shelf, followed by a few rounds of edits, and you
have the book you see now. I rather like it. It’s like a sort of American road
trip horror show mixed with paranormal/urban fantasy stuff. I dig it. I hope
you do, too.
A paperback copy will be available at some later date for around
$10. It was always my intention to make the paperback available at the same
time as the ebook, but when I decided to publish three books in six weeks I
knew that something was bound to go wrong. I’ll let you know when the paperback
becomes available.