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All Is Set Anew
I got the idea for this book at a rest stop on Monteagle Mountain which is half-way between Nashville and Chattanooga. A dingy little rest stop in the rain, and BAM, the idea came to me as if a bolt of lightning had come out of the cloud cover enveloping the mountain and rattled my car, idling in the vacant parking lot. I started writing that night, and a few thousand words later, I knew I had something worth pursuing.
The novel is multi-generational, following the path of two brothers who are running from something terrible that they don’t understand, but is relentless in its malevolent purpose. There is some personal aspects in here, but for the most part it’s horror fiction, tinged with what I hope is literary merit. I tried hard to get into the head of these men and women, seeking an understanding for why these people acted the way that they did, and the more I wrote, the more they spoke to me, urging me on with their need for violence and vindication, counterbalanced with their need for redemption and enlightenment. It’s both vast and singular in its scope, but I also tried to balance it by making the story move quickly to keep the reader’s attention. I think I succeeded in doing that, but you judge for yourself. I’ve been told that reading All Is Set Anew in the daylight is a better choice than late in the evening when things lurking beyond the porch light are hidden and glaring back.
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One Black Day
In many ways, I wrote my first novel to make way for One Black Day. I say that because I don’t think I had the writing maturity for this novel were it to be my first.
This is a story about young men, and their struggles to become adults. They are flawed boys who began as all children do — decent in their view of the world around them, but easily dismayed at the turns that life throws them, whether that be the adults in their lives, or the circumstances that they stumble their way into, sometimes to there demise and sometimes to their recovery.
In addition, this novel deals with some personal things that occurred as I was growing up. Particularly as it relates to the Charlie Winter character. I mention this because it returns me back to my earlier point about maturity as a novel writer. It took me a long time to come to grips with some of these themes, and now that I have committed myself to paper, I feel that I have said what I needed to say on matters of great importance to me. I hope you enjoy the journey.