After 134 additions to our Free Book Alert yesterday, we weren’t sure what to expect today. But we’re pleased to report a very classy thriller by Rick Acker is brand new this morning. I’d say more, but I’m in a hurry to download this one to my Kindle so I can begin reading it as soon as I turn the last page of Sid Williams’ Dexterrific novel Blood Hunter!
Finally this popular monster thriller from the 1990s is reborn as a Kindle book.
Horror! Terror! Gore! Will Jag and Debra find her missing brother?
“If you’re a fan of Dexter and the X Files you will love this book.”
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Here’s the set-up…
It’s hard to believe Blood Hunter was written twenty years ago, and the unsold screenplay on which I based it even further back. That screenplay entailed what is now the latter portion of this story. I opened the tale up a little more when I turned it into a novel, my third published book. It was written while I was a young reporter, though not, by that point, as green as Jag, this book’s protagonist.
Recently, someone sent me a You Tube clip of an interview I did at a science fiction convention around the time of the original publication. I remember doing that sound bite, and it seems like yesterday. This new edition is much like the original edition. I’ve tightened the prose in places and touched up a few plot points, but I haven’t tried to update it or do major overhauls. This is a story set in the 1990s.
It’s interesting, in re-reading the text after some time, to note how the world has changed. Characters make a lot of pay phone calls and struggle with communication issues that are no longer a challenge. They also refer to a troubled economy and the impact of fluctuating oil prices. Some things don’t change at all.
There were certainly no e-books when this was first written. It’s exciting to see it gain new life in a new era. Happy reading.
I’m the author of eight novels all of which are becoming available as e-books from Crossroad Press. I’ve also written comic books, audio drama and much more.
I worked as a newspaper reporter for eleven years. In my early days as a general assignment reporter, my shift was 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., so I wrote fiction in the early morning hours, completing most of my work from midnight until 2 a.m., ironically an appropriate time for dark fiction.
I completed the book that would become my first published novel when I was 26.
My books writing as Michael August are for younger readers, though adults can certainly enjoy them as well.
I recently earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from Goddard College.
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