SHAMELESS PLUG!
The novel based on a screenplay I co-wrote and one featuring plenty of input from myself (I also wrote the afterword) is hitting stores all across the world this October [literally, we are closing deals with all sorts of other regions]. Grim Reaper: End of Days, the first in a news series from Steve Alten [of MEG and Domain fame] and myself. It features a cover from longtime friend of CHUD Erik Hollander in interiors from John Toledo, who provided the amazing interiors for my (currently in limbo) Day of the Devil comic.
Coming up we’re going to have some nice promotions and a really fun opportunity for you filmmakers out there to be a part of the project, but in the meantime we have gone live on Amazon and since it’s my first foray into the fiction world it’d be nice to see the CHUD readership show their power in helping make it a hit. Here’s the plot as shared in Steve’s most recent newsletter:
Patrick
“Shep” Shepherd was a promising major
league baseball
pitcher before September 11th, 2001. Shaken by the
terrorist
attacks, Shep left behind his soul mate and newborn daughter
to
enlist in the Armed Forces. Eleven years and four deployments
later,
Shep finds himself in Manhattan’s VA
hospital. His left arm is gone,
his wife and daughter are gone, and
his tarnished soul is haunted
by the nightmares of war.
December
21st 2012:
While world leaders meet at the U.N., Mary Klipot,
a scientist
working at a bio-hazard level-4 lab in Fort
Detrick, enters
Manhattan with Scythe,
a swift-acting version of the Black
Death, developed by the CIA
to annihilate America’s enemies
abroad. Believing
God has chosen her to bring forth the End of Days,
Mary infects
herself with Scythe, unleashing a pandemic.
Officials
rush to seal off Manhattan island, trapping three million
people
— the president among them — the only vaccine now in
Shep’s
possession.
Determined to use the vaccine to rescue his
wife
and child, Shep and his pschiatrist, Virgil Shechinah, trek
through the
plague-infested neighborhoods of Manhattan, which
mirror the “Nine
Circles of Hell” portrayed in Dante’s
Inferno. Plagued
by greed, corruption, and two endless wars, it is man’s ego
that has
brought about the End of Days, unleashing the Grim Reaper
upon the
earth…and the Angel of Death is stalking Patrick
Shepherd.
Please pre-order the book if interested from the link below!
15 comments
Congrats, Nick! Looking forward to it!
Pre-order complete. If it's sucks I'm taking it out of yo ass Nunziata.
sounds original…
Baseball, huh? Let me guess…. The book ends with "Shep" throwing something with his less dominant hand that he has had so much doubt in the ever since he was in the hospital…. until now!!!…. which stops a bomb, or a zombie escaping, or the "reaper" from killing someone… Am I getting close?
Very cool!
Too bad this isn't the plot-line for the final season of 24. Jack Bauer can kick the Grim Reaper's ass better than a one-armed pitcher. Unless that pitcher is the Kool-Aid guy. He kicks ass too.
Congratulations, Nick. Is it cool if I wait a week until a few copies hit Ebay for a buck?
First, love the cover art; really draws you in. Second, intriguing concept. Hmm. Might just give this one a look. Congrats, btw!
Two words: graphic novel.
Good luck Nick. That 9-boroughs-of-hell idea is a good 'un. I think the name "Shepard" needs a good long rest from genre use though – meaningfulness aside. @#6: Actually, that would have been a great idea! Just a total end of the world scenario with demons and zombies and ghosts of all the 24 Dead coming back.
Interesting strategy from Variance. I'm not sure that a $26 hardcover is really the way to go with a book like this. At least, it stopped me from ordering. The small press world is weird.
No.
Why would unleashing a virus turn New York into the nine circles of hell? Are the infected just really good at organizing? "OK, virus made you lusty? You're over in Times Square. You seem kind of sluggish, so I'm gonna put you with the sloth guys down by Battery Park. Now, where did all those gluttons go? I've got a bus here waiting to take 'em to Chinatown…"
Horse's name is Ronny. Clip Clop.
Good job.
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