It was just a Worker's Comp case...
It wasn't supposed to end in murder.
The job: catch a redneck survival-nut cheating the system. Scary work for a city-boy recovering from a nervous breakdown, but nothing Joe can't handle. Except for the black helicopters, flying saucers, and haunted forests, of course...
Suddenly, Joe's missing several days. It turns out he's been working all along for The Company – a sinister shadow at the heart of every global conspiracy. Bizarre characters appear, evoking strange new memories. Did Joe forget that he learned Gun Fu from former CIA assassins? Or did the Sinister Men In Black (SMIB) program him to remember? And who called the FBI into the mix? As if that wasn't bad enough, Joe's fallen in love with Cindi. The heir to an extraordinary birthright, she's gifted with great powers – and cursed with a supernatural stalker. Is Joe supposed to defend her from a dark past, or has he been turned into the perfect patsy in the ultimate contest of good and evil?... Joe's stumbled into a twilight world of contradictions – a place where angels and demons gamble for human souls, where the very land is haunted by its history. Where you can meet the Devil at a moonlit crossroads, or raise a ghost just by speaking of the past. A place that's South of Strange... Inspired by the southern gothic humor of Flannery O'Connor, the eclectic supernatural of Neil Gaiman, and the magical surrealism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, South of Strange is where old and new worlds collide, complicating our sense of self...threatening to drive us into the depths of despair and paranoia.
I'd like to meet:
READERS. Lots and lots of readers. Also, an AGENT looking to take a chance on a very, very quirky sci-fi/mystery novel set in the American south. Also, I'd love to meet these people:
GOD THE DEVIL JESUS BATBOY
ANGELS DEMONS BIGFOOT NESSIE
ELVIS DRACULA ALIENS GHOSTS
WEREWOLF MUMMY WITCH GOBLINS
Basically, I'd gladly meet anyone who has ever posed for the world's most informative publication.
Music:
is the soundtrack of my life. Some really incredible bands and artists have kept my courage up in the ongoing war against my daemon. Here are some samples:
Movies:
Yeah, I did a movie once.
Television:
is the tool of Satan. That brain-box is the New World Order's main weapon against freedom. KILL YOUR TELEVISION!
Books:
I've only written one...
On a hot June evening in Alabama, a man dressed for a funeral entered a State Police station with evidence of a gruesome murder... His own.
Joe Abraham is just a Worker's Compensation investigator, a city-boy recovering from the destruction of his entire family on 9/11. The case is simple enough: a redneck survival-nut living out in the woods. But then the forest starts talking, black helicopters appear overhead, and Joe falls out of the real world forever.
Suddenly, Joe is missing several days. He learns that he's been working all along for The Company™ – the sinister shadow at the heart of every global conspiracy. Bizarre characters appear, evoking strange new memories. Did Joe forget that he learned Gun Fu from former CIA assassins? Or did the Sinister Men In Black (SMIB) program him to remember? And is his boss working with, or against, the FBI?
As if that wasn't bad enough, Joe's fallen in love with his suspect's neice – the heir to an extraordinary birthright, gifted with great powers and cursed with a supernatural stalker. Is Joe supposed to defend her from a dark past, or has he been turned into the perfect patsy in the ultimate contest of good and evil?...
Joe has stumbled into a twilight world of contradictions – a place where angels and demons gamble for human souls, where the very land is haunted by its history. Where you can meet the Devil at a moonlit crossroads, or raise a ghost just by speaking of the past.
A place that's South of Strange...
Inspired by the southern gothic tradition, South of Strange is where old and new worlds collide, complicating our sense of self...threatening to drive us into the depths of despair and paranoia.
You can read it as soon as it's published...
Heroes:
T.S. Stribling. Neil Gaiman. Ray Bradbury. William Faulkner. Terry Pratchett. Charles Williams. Flannery O'Connor. Charles Bukowski. Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Isaac Asimov. Naghuib Mahfouz. J.R.R. Tolkien. Robert Heinlein. Margaret Atwood. David Weber. Arturo Perez Reverte. Rumi. David Lynch. Homer. Umberto Eco. Stephen King. David Mamet. Alan Dean Foster. Omar Khayyam. Eric Flint. H.P. Lovecraft. Too many to list...
