Deliciously Dark Tales Book Trailer

I'm excited to share the new trailer for my second book,

Take a look, see what you think, tell your friends.

It's All True...Except for the Parts I made Up

When readers find out my book Revelation, book one of my Almost Human series, contains Bigfoot encounters, someone will ask if I've seen one. A Bigfoot, that is. Many of them have Bigfoot encounter stories of their own.

Talking about Bigfoot is kind of like talking about UFO's or evolution. There are so many anecdotal accounts and personal experiences that sound convincing, and have certainly convinced the person involved, and although there is scant and questionable evidence for any of them, can we in all good conscience dismiss them all as fantasy?

In Revelation, Michelle not only has a brief brush with a Bigfoot, she actually...but, no that would spoil her story.

Fiction often has its roots in actual events. The locations in Revelation are really there, I've been there and wandered them. I've traipsed across the lava rocks at Yaquina Head and wandered the Interpretive Center. I've been snagged by countless blackberry brambles that grow among the forest undergrowth, followed a stream through the forest, and spent hours meandering deserted beaches discovering human and ocean-discarded creatures, flotsam, and jetsam. I've even run across apparently abandoned seal pups on the sand.

Bigfoot?

Yes, I took the photo, no, it's not Photoshopped, and yes, apparently he was having a bad hair day.

One sunny August afternoon near Rocky Creek Park, I maneuvered my way through the tangled brush on a steep incline. Off to my left, I heard a tremendous splintering crash followed by three thuds, as if something heavy broke through a tree trunk and rolled down the hill. The bushes were so closely grown, I couldn't see what made the noise, until I crawled under a Salal bush to the other side of the leafy screen. Right there, in a small clearing, jammed up against the border of coastal pines lay a huge boulder. What kind of creature had the strength to push a boulder that size down the hill? And where did it go after it pushed the boulder?

It might have been a Bigfoot.

Euro Super-Heroes?

Are there any Euro super-heroes?
Maybe there are, and I just have never heard of them. Have you?
We were discussing it at breakfast. Okay, we should have been deciding the menu for the week, but menu vs. super heroes, which do you think won?
We could only think of American super-heroes. No Captain Spain, or Belgian Iron Man. They may be out there fighting crime and injustice and just haven't made a splash across the pond. Odd. And the Avenger movies are apparently quite popular in Europe, but I can't recall a single Euro super-hero.
There is Godzilla, but he's Japanese. And not quite in the realm of hero, unless you count that Mothra encounter. Hmm.


Maybe, Euro Currency Man

Trailer for the Awesome new cover of Revelation

What is it about the dark forest that elicits fear in some, attracts others, and intrigues many? I think it is the promise of something unknown. Anything could be lurking in the depths. Once enveloped by the forest, the daylight turns a hollow shade of green as it filters through the canopy as if shining through stage lighting. The smell of life, and death, hovers heavily in the moist air. Here life abounds, and ends swiftly.
And the sounds.
A tree limb creaks, something scurries, or slithers, through the detritus at your feet, a crack followed by a grunt, a shrill squeal tapering off into a whimper--then silence.
Something is out there.
Invisible behind a maze of trunks so closely knit they form a virtual wall that shields it from view, but offers no impediment to the beast, if beast it is.
Bigfoot?
Enjoy this trailer to celebrate the new cover for REVELATION .