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These are all books I have written, though only Xombies has so far been published. The rest are being held in check, locked in the vaults of my agent until such time as the literary world is ready to greet them. With their unpredictable, far-reaching satire, my novels do defy the strict categories of mass-market fiction (even Xombies is a bit quirky for the genre-horror crowd - kudos to Berkley for running with it). That’s my challenge, as I see it: I love good literature, but oftentimes reading literary fiction is like taking medicine - it’s not fun. Hey, I’m a reader too, and this is what I most want to read - that’s why I write it.
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My original title for Xombies was Dead Sea, which I still prefer because it references not only the George Romero zombie films, but also the extinct culture of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the inner sea of the human body - specifically, the tides of the menstrual cycle (the X in Xombies refers to the female chromosome). It is also more forthright about the submarine-voyage aspect of the story, which is the majority of the book. But Xombies is catchier, I guess. I’m presently finishing a sequel to Xombies - Xombie Rama - which continues the thrilling saga of Lulu and the crew of the U.S.S. No-Name as they return to post-apocalyptic America, seeking safe harbor and the cure to Agent X. Will they find it? Or will they be forever doomed to sail a dead sea? Buy now from Amazon >> |
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Coming Soon! The Leaf-Blower is a strange, pseudo-sci-fi novel I wrote immediately after Xombies. It’s my homage to the Japanese monster movies of my youth: Godzilla, War of the Gargantuas, etc. Basically it’s the story of an American living in Korea, a guy named Manny Lopes, who feels very small. Not only physically (in his own words, he’s a “Creole shrimp”), but his work, his marriage, his race, all conspire to make him feel puny and insignificant, the proverbial 98-pound weakling. Then one day an accident happens, a quantum explosion, and suddenly Manny is a giant - a really GIANT giant. And now there’s no stopping him: he’s a one-man weapon of mass destruction. Like all my work, The Leaf-Blower takes some odd turns, and features characters like a North Korean assassin who thinks she’s Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. There’s also sex, violence, and action galore, with the army throwing everything it has against the rampaging colossus that is Manny Lopes. But there’s only one weapon that has any chance at all of stopping him: His wife. |
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Coming Soon! Terminal Island is the next book that I wrote after Xombies and The Leaf-Blower. It's a psychological horror piece in the vein of The Wicker Man or The Magus, about a man investigating the disappearance of his elderly mother. Tracing her last know whereabouts, he travels with his wife and child to the sunny paradise of Catalina Island, a place he and his mother lived many years before...and where something terrible happened. Something so unspeakable he has blocked most of it out of his memory, and refuses to believe could have happened at all. But history is about to repeat itself... |