Sunday, November 23, 2014

Book Cover Reveal Alert!

I'm thrilled to reveal my new book cover for THE HINTERLANDS, a reissue of my first published book in 2004.  Here you can see the old vs the brand spanking new.  

Old version circa 2004

Brand spanking new version, 2014
I love how the new version looks like a Tarzan poster, some pulp fiction adventure thing, which pretty much describes the book.  Here's the blurb.  I'll be reissuing it within a couple of weeks.

From a land you’ve never heard of
Comes a story you’ll never forget

1896.  In the vast network of the Niger Delta waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient Kingdom of Benin is under siege.  Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect his adopted homeland’s sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the British while balancing his commerce with the whiteman’s world.  Brendan’s reality is fractured by the arrival of…

…New York anthropologist Elle Bowie, drawn to the Guinea Coast by a dream.  Amazed to discover the domain holds vast happiness and delights, she cannot reveal her true ambition.  For against everything her mind and heart has trained her for, she has it bad for the “Coast Gentleman.”

Brendan cannot love a woman who is in cahoots with the British. Elle cannot love any man.  

Central in the scheming of the Oil Rivers citizens is the traitorous gnome Mateus, descended from Portuguese soldiers.  the happy-go-lucky Texan, Rip, who masquerades as Elle’s husband.  and the majestic and brutal General Ologboshere, in command of thousands of warriors.

As Brendan and Elle become mixed up in the political intrigues of the steamy jungle, the British forces bear down relentlessly upon them.  They face the extinction of a way of life, trading hulks anchored in the rivers, advanced bronze artwork, colossal war canoes, and the supremacy of the Oba, King of Benin, second in command to the gods.

The Kingdom of Benin, the land of ritualistic human sacrifice and juju  religion.  The lives and loves of many hang in the balance in…THE HINTERLANDS

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

REDEMPTION SONG is live on Amazon!

Redemption Song in the Midnight, New Orleans Style collection has gone live!  All the others in this great series are there too, so go crazy with 1-click! 




Friday, November 14, 2014

Having a Siren-themed Shindig...

...over on Facebook!  That's right, I invited some of my collaborators on the MIDNIGHT, NEW ORLEANS STYLE series to do a takeover party on November 25th, as well as some other Sirenistas who have recent releases.



We'll be playing games, holding contests, and giving away a boatload of swag, so stop on in!