Tag: Books
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V-Squad
Available as print and digital books on Amazon. Employing elements of classic Noir literature and contemporary action-adventures, V-Squad is the story of a small band of vampire-heroes recruited to take on the Nazis. In August, 1943, millionaire vampire John English informs President Roosevelt that Nazi-aligned vampires intend to assassinate Winston Churchill and the principal Allied generals before they can…
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Fiction, Literary Criticism, and the Writing Thereof
Some years ago I had a conversation with a literature professor about writing in which he maintained that literary criticism is every bit as “creative” as the crafting of fiction. I understood his point. To take a text and tease meaning from it that perhaps no one else has gleaned, and then shape a well-conceived argument…
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An Army of Angels
An Army of Angels: A Novel of Joan of Arc(St. Martin’s Press, 1997) From the original 1997 edition dust jacket: It is a story that everyone knows; the story of the French peasant maid who successfully led an army against England and was burned at the stake before she was twenty. Historians, playwrights, filmmakers have…
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“The best lack all conviction…”
Some of our clearest-seeing visionaries have been poets. I love Yeats for his mysticism and his lyric Irish soul. I know of no one like him today.
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V-Squad in the Media
In time for Halloween, UVA Today, an in-house publication from the University of Virginia News office, will publish an article about me and my vampire novel, V-Squad, on Friday, October 28. Although the novel doesn’t fall into the horror genre per se, its denouement does take place on Halloween, so in that sense the timing…
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