If you have never before delved into the Dead Hunger series, let me give you a little background. I wrote a book back in 1999 and self-published it long before it was easy. I laid the book out and had a friend, Stephen Tokai, design the cover for me. I found a printer and had 5,000 of them printed and shipped to me. At that print price, they cost me about $2.75 per book. I sold them for $19.95. Out of the Darkness: The Story of Mary Ellen Wilson is the creative nonfiction tale of a 9-year old girl who was severely abused, and was eventually rescued in 1874 by the ASPCA. THAT is why I had to write the book; after over 100 years, nobody had. After I sold out the first 5,000, I ordered another 3,000. Keep in mind, I boxed and shipped every book or case of books ordered. I marketed to social workers and child protection agencies. I ended up on CSPAN-2s Book TV and was a guest at the Museum of the City of New York. It was awesome. Wanting to get back to what I really wanted to write, I began a serial killer novel called A Reason To Kill. I ran this through a writers critique group I found as a result of the first book, and the process took me a hell of a long time. They ripped on me because they said the book had no protagonist - nobody they could really get behind. I lost confidence in A Reason To Kill and shelved it. I began writing a book first called A Faceless Evil, then Negative Lives, then finally, Generation Evil. This was about reincarnating witches who, with each reincarnation, forget who they are and what their ultimate mission is - to kill an evil warlock named Murdock Vickar. After 53,000 words, I got so confused I bailed on it. I did not write again for 12 years. Oddly enough, a zombie book called Dead Hunger would bring me back to life. I started to see a bunch of zombie buzz on Facebook, so I thought Id read one. I read Mark Tufos Zombie Fallout. I began to think hard about writing again, and began to analyze what makes a reader fall in love with a character - or at the very least - care about them. I decided the author need only have that character say or do ONE THING that everyone can relate to. Express or show their love for someone vulnerable. Help someone. I had Flex Sheridan make a phone call to his sisters house and discover that something was very wrong. He then made a 5-hour drive to save her and his nieces Any of you would do the same thing. The rest of this is kind of history; the series sales really blew up at book 3, because I guess people then felt they had a series to attack - and from what I know about you folks, you do loooovvveeeeeee your book series. (serieses?) So thats how it all started. Were now through book seven. I hope that when you dig into Dead Hunger, youre glad it all DID start. When youre done, if you want more of me, I suggest Shifting Fears (dark and crazy) and Generation Evil (fun and trippy) and A Reason to Kill (Nobody to love.) Thanks so much to the admins of this site, and I apologize for this long dissertation. I just figured you ought to know from whence I came. I am married to Linda, and have been since October of 1986. We are dogless now that both our Whippet brothers, Beau and Brody, passed away. This does give us a certain amount of freedom - which we fully expect to take advantage of over the next few years. Who knows? We may even stop by someplace near you. (Well warn you first.) Thanks again!
Posted on: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 13:09:05 +0000
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