Tony’s a pretty awesome guy. I discovered him when I was trolling through Twitter back in the day and decided to check out who George Romero followed. Turns out that Tony was at the top of his list, so I was like, Hell Bells, I’ll follow him too.

A little detour – I’m not a big fan of Twitter. It tends to get awfully noisy, awfully fast. There’s a crap load of self promotion mixed with daily inanities that can be a little nauseating. Mind you, I’m not opposed to self promotion – when you gotta get the word out, you gotta get the word out – it’s the d-bag self promotion that drives me to drink. Describing it is kind of like describing the smell of dog poop. You can’t really describe it, but you know it when you smell it. Couple that with the asinine behavior of a twelve year being recorded by a television camera and you can see why I have little stomach for it. Thankfully, there are some good pockets of Twitter and I’m happy to say Tony’s right in the center of one, hanging out with other zombie writers and bloggers.

Tony’s a pretty down to earth guy who started writing on National Novel Writing Month and ended up with a published book out of it. Before Permuted Press picked it up, he self published it and did fine good job of it, attracting the attention of zombie heavyweight Jonathan Mayberry .

Five years ago – hell, three years ago – presses would not approach the self published writer, but now authors are getting deals out of them. It’s a pretty exciting time. Well, Tony pushed his book and caught a very nice head wind.

Still, it didn’t sound like all roses. Here’s what Tony had to say about it:

I have to admit, being a self-published writer was an incredibly huge roller coaster of an experience. I had such high ups and incredibly low downs. Writers and readers can be incredibly nasty at times just because your book is self-published. I even had one group of people that because they hated my book so much, mostly because of it being self-published, that they called my wife a name that I shall not repeat. Let me just say it is THE word a man should not ever call a woman. If not for the kind words of writers like Jonathan Maberry and David Dunwoody, I would have probably quit writing that day. I write for the fun of it and if my writing gets my wife insulted like that, then it is obviously no fun. With that being said, the majority of the people I have dealt with over the past year have been intelligent enough to recognize that the industry is changing and like it or not, there will be significantly more self-published authors out there in the years to come.

It’s disheartening to hear about other writers acting like that, but I guess there’s nothing like success to breed contempt. I’m glad Tony didn’t quit which to me is the mark of a successful writer.

Tony’s doing a giveaway over here, but I think I’m going to head over to Amazon and pick myself up a copy. You should too. :)

More to come.

Eric S. Brown chats with Tony Faville, author of “Kings of the Dead” (nakedsnakepress.net <- new window)

When I first heard of this book I thought it sounded like a pretty good homage to a classic Star Trek episode titled Miri. In that episode, the adults died from a plague, leaving the children to rule from themselves which as we know from Lord of the Flies is never a good thing. The kids in this story are hard and there is barely any room for sugar coating anything. In fact, the only reason they don’t tear themselves apart is because they need each other to survive.

The story starts a year after the apocalypse. A small group of kids are holed up in a deserted supermarket. The day is like any other. Aaron, the leader of the band, takes a small band of kids to scavenge for some food while his second in command, Maxie, keeps the home base safe. Unfortunately, things go bad right from the start. A nine year old – Small Sam – is taken by a pack of adults who manage to breach the supermarket’s defenses while Aaron’s party is ambushed, resulting in the death of another kid.

Aaron realizes they can’t continue with their meager existence and when a smart looking kid in a patchwork jacket shows up at the door, Aaron learns of a new way out. The boy’s name is Jester and he claims to be an emissary from a group of kids holed up in Buckingham Palace. He shows pictures of their posh living and invites Aaron’s group to the palace so they can all live in comfort and safety. Aaron smells something wrong but knows he has no options. He packs up his group and begins an epic journey across the rage infected wasteland in hopes of finding a better life.

Reading this book can difficult. Each of the characters are wonderfully defined and before long, I started to get attached to them. Alas, the world in this book is a harsh one and when the street fights started, kids of all ages were getting mowed down. In short, there is no safe character in this story. At times, it felt like a war story except I couldn’t tell who was gonna get it. No one was spared, for even main characters were struck down, making me hate the “grownups” with an intensity that rivaled the surviving children.

There is a great part of the book where one of the main characters – Achilleus gets into a fight and it was a brutal read for there was no result etched in stone. There was no grand score. It was kill or be killed and told in a way that made me want to stop reading and close my eyes with the rest of the kids.

The ending of the book is an actual ending to the adventure, but not the ending to the story as a whole. I didn’t realize that it was the first book in a series and I could see that Higson had put a lot of thought into it. I’m not sure where Higson plans to take this tale, but I tell you this, I’ll be with him each step of the way. If you’re a fan of zombie stories, do yourself a favor and read this book. You won’t be disappointed.

The Enemy by Charlie Higson (youtube.com <- new window)
The Enemy (amazon.com <- new window)

I was a good fifty pages into the book when I noticed I kept checking my pages and soon found myself making reading goals … “gotta make it to page 115 tonight”. Ultimately, I found myself avoiding the book like an unwelcome guest at party who, at the end of the night, doesn’t want to go home.

The book, in a word, was bad. While it was technically well written, the plot, the characters, the situations all managed to be boring and for a prequel that was titled “Dawn of the Dreadfuls”, we never learn about the start of the outbreak rather, it is a story on how the Bennet sisters learn to fight. I stopped reading halfway through when we meet a limbless major who has soldiers act as surrogates for each of his missing limbs. I felt like the writer had lifted that gag straight out of a Arrested Development episode starring Martin Short with the difference being the television show was actually funny. I felt bad about having to write a negative review, and ultimately punted on it. Quirk noticed and rightfully dropped me from their reviewer pool.

Come this past September, Quirk released another zombie book titled, Night of the Living Trekkies about a zombie outbreak during a Star Trek convention. It sounded like a fun read so this time, I bought the audiobook. With a six hour runtime, I figured I could get through it in a week plus change. In reality, I finished it two days. It is a damn fine read that had me laughing in delight throughout the entire book.

The story focuses on Jim Pike, a veteran back from Afghanistan who still harbors deep pain from his multiple tours of duty. He works at a Houston motel which hosts a yearly Star Trek convention. His sister and some friends visit just in time as hell literally falls on the hotel. A normal evening goes bad as the zombies storm the convention, eating both man and Klingon alike whereby Jim must fight his way through the horde to rescue his sister, and escape Houston.

By all accounts, it sounds like a typical zombie story, but the writers – Kevin David Anderson and Sam Stall – did a wonderful job combining their love of Star Trek into this tale. Each chapter is named after a Star Trek episode, and the title does an excellent job at capturing the thematic heart of the upcoming chapter. Those chapters, of course, channel the themes of those episodes so if you’re a fan of trek, you’ll find it a joy to read. The Star Trek references don’t stop there. For example, the main character is named Jim Pike – a combination of Jim Kirk (no introduction necessary) and Chris Pike (the first captain of the Enterprise). The hotel is called the Botany Bay in reference to the failed colony helmed by none other than Khan as seen in Star Trek 2. Each bit of the story is filled with all these winks until the characters find themselves embodying the elements of Trek in order to survive.

What makes this book so good is that the writers never lose sight of the story. Star Trek never overpowers it. The characters are very real who make hard choices. It was painful to see some of the characters fall to the zombies. By the end of the book, I realized that not everyone was going to make it out alive and I was a ball of tension wondering who it would be because I liked all of them. That to me is the essence of a good zombie story. I cared about all the characters and when the book ended, I found myself thinking about them for several days.

The book is also pretty funny with a sub-plot of a Klingon regaining his honor to a Star Wars fan wondering about all the hype. And yes, even Babylon Five gets thrown under the bus.

So if you love zombies and you like Star Trek, this book is a must read. You’ll fly through it and wonder where the time went. As for the audiobook version, it was pretty good as well.

I’ve linked up the trailer for the book (yes, books now have trailers) but the video really misses the mark. While it captures some of the feel of the book, it misses the characters by a very wide margin.

Night of the Living Trekkies Book Trailer (youtube.com <- new window)

Glenn pretty much covers everything even remotely zombie related such as movies that aren’t even technically “zombie movies” but might contain walking dead people. Well, thumbing through the book, I pulled up a review of a classic that I missed while in highschool. Had I known about this tour-de-force, I imagine I would be quoting this movie today.

Here’s what Glenn has to say:

Of all of the low-budget, direct-to-video, cheeseball efforts from Troma Entertainment, this one at least delivered what it promised audiences: some gore, midgets, and a lot of jokes in poor taste. The acting is bad, but everyone involved seems to be in on the joke, and as a result Chopper Chicks in Zombietown is easily Troma’s best effort in the zombie subgenre. At times, it even looks like a real movie.

The story follows the Cycle Sluts, a group of wild, sex-starved, free-living female bikers (one memeber eloquently describes their life: “We ride around … and ride around …”) who end up stranded in Zariah, a small desert town located near a radioactive, zombie-filled mine. The undead escape and head for town, but the citizens have plenty of time to react as the zombies slowly stimble across the desert and down the highway toward Zariah. Meanwhile, the biker chicks’ enormously permed lead Dede (Jamie Rose) must deal with the consequences of running into her estranged husband, played by a very unenthusiastic Billy Bob Thornton in an early role (he’s quickly offed). The film amusingly cuts back to the zombies every so often to remind audiences just how long a walk they have. Don’t worry zombie fans – they do eventually make it.

Naturally, the townspeople decide that they won’t shoot the zombies because many of them are deceased family members. One character even tells his elderly undead father, “Maybe if you don’t eat anybody, nobody will notice.” So its up to Rose and the other bikers to fight off the flesh-eaters and save a broken-down busload of sarcastic, blind orphans. (The kids are also tuneless vocalists, as musical number later proves.) There are decapitations, some action with chain saws, a decent explosion, and some zombies on fire. And Thorton isn’t the only recognizable face; others include Don Calfa (as a mad scientist), onetime MTV host Martha Quinn, and Lewis Arquette. All in all, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown is a surprisingly decent effort from Troma, one of its only titles worth seeing.

So what do you think? Was it in any good? For those of you not wanting to rent it, I found that a copy was uploaded on YouTube in parts. Watch at your own risk.

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide (amazon.com <- new window)
Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (youtube.com <- new window)

Reading the blurb on it, Kay mentions how the MPAA forced the creators of the film to trim back some of the more obnoxious special effects else the movie would earn itself an X rating. Having recently watched Angels & Demons – a PG-13 film which features an assassin cutting open an investigators throat, a hanging priest being burned alive, and several officers being shot in the head – it seems rather quaint that a Joe Piscopo move could be slapped with such a warning,

A most excellent documentary aptly titled, This Film is not Rated actually breaks down the MPAA’s rating system with some rather interesting conclusions, noting that the process of rating a film is both opaque and entirely subjective. The films proceeds to compares the difference between an R rating and an NC-17 rating which usually boils down to a few seconds or even less. This Film is Not Rated is currently available on Netflix streaming and I highly suggest you watch it.

In any case, this is what Glenn Kay thought of Dead Heat (note, this entry contains a lot of spoilers):

After entering the subgenre with a segment of Creepshow 2 the previous year, New World Pictures released its first full-length zombie title, this unusual $5 million hybrid of undead horror and buddy action/comedy. The emphasis is on laughs as Treat Williams and Joe Piscopo play L.A. cops who find themselves investigating walking, talking, deceased criminals. After the two discover what can only be described as a large stainless-steel resurrection machine operated by the villainous Vincent Price and Darrin McGavin, \Williams is offed in a decidedly unheroic manner (he accidentally locks himself in an “Asphyxiation Room” and is “decompressed”).

Thankfully, Piscopo places Williams on the wacky resurrection machine, and our hero returns as a zombie supercop, ready to help his partner hunt down the responsible parties — before he decomposes. (They would have been wiser to simply sit by the resurrection machine and wait for the villains to return). “They can’t kill me,” Williams claims, only moments after completely obliterating a fellow zombie without much trouble. More nonsense follows, although the outlandish premise leads to some nifty action scenes. In the most memorable sequence, the resurrection technology is unleashed on a Chinese butcher shop’s wares, and the cops are attacked by angry ducks, pigs, and a gutted cow hanging in a meat locker. As for the comedic elements, the viewer’s appreciation will depend on what he or she thinks of the comedy styling of Joe Piscopo.

The film suffers in the makeup department due to the interference by the increasingly stringent MPAA. By now, the ratings board was threatening to brand many horror titles with X ratings, forcing filmmakers to chop their most outrageous effects to earn a more publicity friendly R rating (NOTE FROM BRIAN: movies will not be shown in 99% of theaters with X or NC-17 ratings). While some films like Day of the Dead (1985) chose to open unrated instead, Dead Heat buckled under the pressure and clipped the gory highlights. Filmmaker retained eye-catching footage of William’s punkish, charred, metal-embedded visage after a traffic accident, but they trimmed the other effects in obvious and jarring ways. For instance, an elaborate gag in which a character melts away on camera was almost entirely excised.

Dead Heat is also hampered by an awful musical score, and it can’t compete with the flashy action of the big-budget cop movies of the period. With a little more money, the concept of a zombie cop could have been more successful, but this feels like a missed opportunity. The film was yet another box office failure, and its soon-to-be defunct distributor, New World Pictures, suffered a costly blow.

Has anyone seen this and what do you think?

Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide (amazon.com <- new window)
Dead Heat amazon.com <- new window)

The follow-up film, Conan the Destroyer, became more of a comic book adventure. Instead of the brooding melancholy of the first story, we were subjected to bumbling wisecracks of his thief companion and his merry gang of thieves. The tale of the savage Cimmerian was lost under a drunken plot whereby actors spent more time posing with their weapons as opposed to telling a convincing story. The most ironic thing about that movie is that the closest character resembling Howard’s Conan was played by Grace Jones.

Now we have a third film that apes the first set for release next year. In this new film, Conan’s father is killed and the savage Cimmerian quests the landscape to avenge his father’s death. I have yet to read the later stories or Howard’s novellas, but nowhere does he mention the dead of his parents. I’m thinking the writers have always taken the avenging route because it helps explains Conan’s savage nature. One might not be too empathic with a person who loves the feel of his steel cutting through flesh as opposed to a person trying address a great wrong in his life. Mind you, I’m not saying it won’t work. I’m just saying this doesn’t sound like Conan.

Well … time will tell. I’ve already seen one of the stills and the barbarian looks to be using hair products. Needless to say, my enthusiasm is muted. In any case, if you haven’t read Conan, do yourself a favor and do it. Mind you, they were written in the thirties so some of the stories can get pretty racist and the depiction of women is a little barbaric itself, but for the most part, they are pretty entertaining.

So what the hell does this have to do with zombies? Awhile back I was reading one of Howard’s stories title The Scarlet Citadel where Conan runs into a genuine modern zombie when none such existed back in the day. Granted, the zombie is created by a wizard’s spell and the creature doesn’t long to eat human flesh, but the creature appears a good fifty years before Romero planted them in the public mindset. Here’s the section from the story:

Pelias laughed, and his laugh was not pleasant to hear.

“By the ivory hips of Ishtar, who is our doorman? Lo, it is no less than the noble Shukeli, who hanged my young men by their feet and skinned them with squeals of laughter! Do you sleep, Shukeli? Why do you lie so stiffly, with your fat belly sunk in like a dressed pig’s?”

“He is dead,” muttered Conan, ill at ease to hear these wild words.

“Dead or alive,” laughed Pelias, “he shall open the door for us.”

He clapped his hands sharply and cried, “Rise, Shukeli! Rise from hell and rise from the bloody floor and open the door for your masters! Rise, I say!”

An awful groan reverberated through the vaults. Conan’s hair stood on end and he felt clammy sweat bead his hide. For the body of Shukeli stirred and moved, with infantile gropings of the fat hands. The laughter of Pelias was merciless as a flint hatchet, as the form of the eunuch reeled upright, clutching at the bars of the grille. Conan, glaring at him, felt his blood turn to ice, and the marrow of his bones to water; for Shukeli’s wide-open eyes were glassy and empty, and from the great gash in his belly his entrails hung limply to the floor. The eunuch’s feet stumbled among his entrails as he worked the bolt, moving like a brainless automaton. When he had first stirred, Conan had thought that by some incredible chance the eunuch was alive; but the man was dead–had been dead for hours.

Pelias sauntered through the opened grille, and Conan crowded through behind him, sweat pouring from his body, shrinking away from the awful shape that slumped on sagging legs against the grate it held open. Pelias passed on without a backward glance, and Conan followed him, in the grip of nightmare and nausea. He had not taken half a dozen strides when a sodden thud brought him round. Shukeli’s corpse lay limply at the foot of the grille.

“His task is done, and hell gapes for him again,” remarked Pelias pleasantly; politely affecting not to notice the strong shudder which shook Conan’s mighty frame.

Pretty ‘effing cool.

The Scarlet Citadel (gutenberg.net.au <- new window)

That said, I’m not a big fan of zombie comedies. It feels like an easy laugh for me like putting a guy in a dress so when a new zombie comedy surfaces, it’s gotta do a lot to sell me on it. Alas, this project does not.

Titled Paul is Undead, this book follows the Beatles as if the band started a zombie apocalypse. I really can’t explain it any further but here’s a little blurb from the article:

“Paul is Undead” is written as an oral history, similar in style to “World War Z” or “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter”. It tells the story of how the zombified Beatles took over the world, literally, while battling Eighth Level Ninja Lord Yoko Ono and England’s greatest zombie hunter Mick Jagger.

This sounds like it could be a fun beach read, but I’m not holding my breath. Or putting on the suntan lotion. I’ll link up the reviews when some comes out. In the interim, pick yourself up a copy of David Wellington’s Monster Island.

Zombie book about the Beatles optioned for movie (examiner.com <- new window)

It will still be some time before the final version of the book is out. I’ll pretty much keep rewriting until I don’t feel the need to vomit when reading it. My original goal was to complete it by June of 2010 but that’s pure fantasy at this point. If I finish the second draft by then, I’d consider myself blessed.

Until it is complete, I’d thought I’d give you another taste of the dead with this short story I wrote sometime back. The plan was for me to write an anthology of zombie stories loosely connected with this story being the middle one. I have a small treatment for the book, but I never got around to writing it or any other zombie stories since A World on Fire has my complete attention. This story was never published, so it’s a web feature only. Give it a read and enjoy.

Walking Dead

About the trailer … it looks fabulous. If this were a real movie instead of book trailer, I would be reserving my ticket right now. As it stands, this two minute clip gives you a brief glimpse of horrors of lurking beneath the surface in this prequel.

Which is my problem with it.

I won’t get into my review as of yet. It’s coming down the pipe, but my issue with the trailer is that of tone. The trailer shows a world where warriors must be trained and the conditions are deadly serious. The stakes have never been higher … yet, the book is light and airy. It dances with its topic, playful and irreverent. When the book approaches dramatic moments as portrayed in this film, it waves unsure of itself. In short, this is really trailer for a different book.

I think the filmmakers tried to inject some quirkiness with the butterfly net dude, but it’s more of a passing thought as opposed to the story that it is trying to represent. Still, enjoy the trailer. It is extremely well done. It’s just too bad the filmmakers filmed a different story than what was contained in the pages of the upcoming book.

Dawn of the Dreadfuls Trailer (youtube.com <- new window)

The story is pitched as a Galaxy Quest meets Dawn of the Dead mashup with plenty of Star Trek references to make your head spin.

The story sounds like an interesting one but I got to say, I would have loved to have seen zombies in a Star Trek universe. Granted, I can imagine if Quirk even thought of doing this idea, the lawyers over at Paramount would reign from the heavens, filling the Manhattan skyline with reams of paper that would block out the sun. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already been in contact with Quirk, salivating over the lawsuit potential. I’m guessing every word in the Star Trek dictionary is trademarked.

In any case, this sounds like a fun and I look forward to reading it.

Pride and Prejudice And Zombies Publisher To Release Undead Trekkies Novel (io9.com <- new window)

As for The The Dragon Factory itself, here’s the inside scoop:

oe Ledger and the DMS (Department of Military Sciences) go up against two competing groups of geneticists. One side is creating exotic transgenic monsters and genetically enhanced mercenary armies; the other is using 21st century technology to continue the Nazi Master Race program begun by Josef Mengele. Both sides want to see the DMS destroyed, and they’ve drawn first blood. Neither side is prepared for Joe Ledger as he leads Echo Team to war under a black flag. The Dragon Factor is the follow-up to Patient Zero.

Pretty ‘effing cool.

Join me for the launch of THE DRAGON FACTORY, Friday, March 5th (jonathanmaberry.com <- new window)

I gotta say, Grahame-Smith is a rather astute marketer and part of me wonders if it will show in his work. Check out how he came to conceive of this book:

Grahame-Smith said he likes hanging around bookstores, wherever he travels, to see what people are reading. About a year and a half ago, he observed that bookstore shelves were crammed with books about Lincoln, during his bicentennial year, and that vampire books were vanishing off the shelves. (Let us add, in haste, that readers were devouring, oh dear, another unfortunate term, that is to say, buying them quickly, especially after the “Twilight” series launched.)

“I noticed this trend and thought: ‘What if I combined them?’” Grahame-Smith asked himself. Thus, his second novel was born.

Pure balls and dynamite. You’re a genius if it works. You’re washed up if it doesn’t. It’s a dangerous game to chase after a market, especially in an industry which isn’t known for its speedy pace. In the publishing world, an idea might be all the rage when an book is bought by a publisher but there’s a good chance that the rage might have turned into cool apathy by the time the book hits the stores one year later.

Has Grahame-Smith caught lightning in a bottle on his second outing? Time will tell, but speaking as a former vampire lover, I am sick to death of them unless we’re talking Richard Matheson. I do wish him the best.

On an aside, Dawn of the Dreadfuls, the prequel to Seth Grahame-Smith, is being released later this month. My review is coming shortly so hang on.

Honest! Abe stars in vampire novel (dailyfreeman.com <- new window)

What’s the book about? Here’s the description:

“Kill them or convert them – either way we win.”

A team of mercenaries race to an abandoned mining village to rescue two children held hostage by rogue ex-soldiers. But the kidnappers are a ruse, the real threat more terrifying than any of them could imagine.

Aided by a couple of unsuspecting eco-warriors, mercenary team leader Amber Redgrave must fight to survive against foes that don’t sleep and don’t feel pain.

Now as the body count rises, so do the stakes, and when the dead won’t stay dead, there’s going to be hell to pay.

Sounds pretty cool indeed.

Deadfall Preorder on Amazon.com (amazon.com <- new window)

Well, if you like your dead pressed between the pages of a good book, you might want to check out the new anthology, The New Dead. Here’s what the futuristic minded folks over at io9 have to say about it:

The New Dead is both a product of this undead fascination and a response to our culture’s monolithic take on the zombie story. The authors serve up an array of reasons for postmortem resurrection (outbreak, voodoo, divine intervention, military meddling), and the characteristics of the zombies change from tale to tale. We get sentient zombies, brainless zombies, rotting zombies, indestructible zombies, hungry zombies, sated zombies, and – in David Liss’ “What Maisie Knew” – fuckable zombies.

Indeed, the book’s main appeal is this cornucopia of fetid literary tropes, and The New Dead contains some fantastic experiments in worldbuilding. Jonathan Maberry’s “Family Business” hilariously details the job market post-zombie apocalypse (the crummiest gig is “Fence Tester”), and Mike Carey of Lucifer fame describes an undead Gordon Gekko type who preserves his body so he can work the global economy 24/7. What’s even more astounding is that Carey’s tale manages to be touching, despite the fact that it’s about a stockbroking zombie who lives in a freezer to prevent putrefaction.

This sounds really cool with a lot of accomplished authors contributing their views to the world of our undead friends. I believe this is in bookstores now so if you are hungering for some undead fiction, swing on over to your local bookseller, or hit up the library then tell me what you think.

The New Dead Offers 20+ Variations On An Undead Theme (io9.com <- new window)

I gotta say as a writer and soon to be podcaster, I find this hugely inspirational. It’s great to see that the internet provides a ladder over the walled garden of the publishing industry. Ten years ago, most publishers wouldn’t look at your work without an agent. These days, with the distance between an author and his or her audience being only a mouse click away, it’s nice to see the publisher/writer relationship adapting to the role of technology.

More to come as I get the official skinny, and also, listen to the book. Who knows … in a year or so, maybe we’ll get a Toothless promotion happening here. In any case, congratulations JP!

Here’s a synopsis of the book:

The podcast audiobook sensation! J. P. Moore’s thrilling tale takes the zombie apocalypse to the 12th century, and adds heaping doses of history and fantasy.

Martin, a failed Templar Knight, is medieval Europe’s last hope against an ancient evil. The dice are cast against the living. Martin perishes on the battlefield, only to wake as an undead soldier serving the very demon he had hoped to vanquish. He is a gifted servant to his new master, but life is not done with him yet.

The world sits on the edge of ruin. Kingdoms crumble. A fallen church splinters. The last judgment is coming, and both the living and the dead must map a dark and brutal landscape. Truth, memory, even virtue–they are all up for grabs.

Toothless to be published by Dragon Moon Press! (jpmooreonline.com <- new window)
Toothless Audiobook (podiobooks.com <- new window)