My forthcoming vampires-on-a-submarine novel, 100 Fathoms Below, co-written with Steven L. Kent, isn’t coming out until October, but it’s available for pre-order now!
Or from your favorite bookseller! Order today!
Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery by Kurtis J. Wiebe
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Hilarious and delightful, Wiebe’s RAT QUEENS is a pleasant surprise. It’s got great characters and funny dialogue, and it’s about as addicting as Betty’s favorite meal of candy and drugs. I would happily follow these foul-mouthed warriors on many more alcohol-fueled adventures!
Now that Dread Central has broken the news with an exclusive cover reveal, I’m thrilled to finally be able to announce my new novel, co-written with the incomparable Steven L. Kent, 100 Fathoms Below!
100 fathoms below …
The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean.
1983. The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn’t alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent.
Trapped in enemy territory and hunted by Soviet submarines, tensions escalate and crew members turn on each other. When the lights go out and horror fills the corridors, it will take everything the crew has to survive the menace coming from outside and inside the submarine.
In the dark.
Combining Tom Clancy’s eye for international intrigue with Stephen King’s sense of the macabre, 100 Fathoms Below takes readers into depths from which there is no escape.
Pretty cool, huh? Steve and I have been working on this in secret for quite some time, so it’s nice to finally let the world know about it! As you can see from the publisher’s website, 100 Fathoms Below will be hitting physical and online bookstores on October 9th in hardcover, e-book, and audio formats. I’m really excited about this one and can’t wait for you to read it!
Victor LaValle’s Destroyer by Victor LaValle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
In just six issues, LaValle tells a captivating, unexpectedly emotional, self-contained story that mixes literature, science fiction, and the kind of family tragedy that’s all too real. (Also, you get to see Frankenstein’s monster battle a huge, heavily armed robot, which is pretty cool!) Occasionally, I wished the story were longer, even if only by one issue, because there are so many great plot threads that I would have loved to see explored further, including the monster’s own experiences and an intriguing bit about cloning that definitely could have developed into something more. What dwells at the heart of the story, though, isn’t the monster’s murderous rage at all life, but a mother’s righteous anger at the untimely, unnecessary, and unpunished death of her son. The series may be called DESTROYER, but LaValle’s message is about how important every life is, how full of promise and potential, and what a catastrophe it is for all of us when a life is cut short and that potential is never realized.
