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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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XOMBIES: APOCALYPSE BLUESMy 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. AVAILABLE NOW! ORDER FROM THE FOLLOWING BOOKSELLERS! AMAZON »
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XOMBIES: APOCALYPTICON
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MAD SKILLZComing Soon! MAD SKILLZ is the story of Madeline Grant, a teenage girl who suffers severe brain injuries in an accident, but who is saved by an experimental treatment: her brain is interfaced with a computer. This not only restores her ability to think, it makes her the smartest person on Earth. But there is a serious downside: How do you cope with a world in which everyone but you is shallow and stupid? And what if the shallow, stupid people who made your new brain are still in control of it? In fact, what if they can make you do anything they want? |
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THE LEAF BLOWER
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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TERMINAL ISLAND
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... |