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While having two books released in one year is not all that uncommon for me, having two novels coming out in close proximity definitely is. With The Stratford Conspiracy still warm off the press (see below for details), my first horror novel, The Mural, has just been released by Borgo Press. The book is unlike anything I've ever done before (particularly for those who know me only through my kids writing); it's the darkly creepy story of the rediscovery of an old WPA public art mural, whose not-quite-human creator really put his soul into it. It also provides an explanation as to why so many people, particularly those in the public eye, do so many stupidly self-destructive things, acts that most normal would people know better than to commit.
If you've ever had that chilly sensation that the figures in a painting were following you with their eyes, The Mural is a book that will cater to your nightmares!
THE MURAL is available in both print and Kindle forms at amazon.com
AMELIA WATSON IS BACK!
The Stratford Conspiracy is the fourth volume in the ongoing Amelia Watson series, and the second novel. If you are familiar with Amelia, you know that my first novel had her tracking a killer in the lovely town of Bath, England. I have continued this theme by sending her to another one of Britain‚s most notable towns, Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare. The Bard himself figures prominently in the story, in which a Shakespearean scholar is murdered, presumably because he has evidence that Shakespeare was not really the man we know from Stratford, propelling Amelia and her trouble-prone Cockney friend Harry Benbow on the case, and out of the reach of the London police. If you‚ve seen that recent film Anonymous, you know that controversy over the true identity of the author of Hamlet and King Lear has raged for some time. In my opinion, though, the film should have been titled Erroneous.
The Stratford Conspiracy presents an entirely different fictional theory, and I leave it to readers to discover what it is (though the cover provides a pretty good hint). By the way, the ending of The Stratford Conspiracy offers Amelia a potentially life-changing choice, a development in her career that I hope will surprise and titillate her longtime fans (and love to you all).
On the short story front, "The Premature Murder" will appear in Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #7, and The Superhero and the Soldier will be published in the Jan/Feb/March issue of The Storyteller.
If you are into comic strips, check out http://mallorycomics.com. I'm not the Mallory in question, my son Brendan is. New adventures in the ongoing, very demented, lives of Hurley the Cat and Joe the Living Cactus are posted weekly. Check it out; they're pretty funny.
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