KILL CITY is the first Sonja Blue novel in 10 years. But don't go looking for it at your local bookstore or Amazon. That's because the Big 6 Publishers have decided that it is ‘uncommercial’—largely due to a biting take on a
certain popular series of vampire novels aimed at the Young Adult market, therefore consigning it to limbo. So I have decided to forego drastically re-tooling the plot and appeal directly to the fans of the Sonja Blue series for financing to complete and publish KILL CITY.
While mainstream publishers might not feel
there’s enough demand to warrant the outlay for KILL CITY, I believe otherwise. I know there’s an audience out there for this novel. Every day I get
emails and posts on my Facebook page from different fans throughout the world, wanting
to know when Sonja Blue will be making her return. In today’s radically changing
publishing world, there is no longer any need for the author of a widely read
series—one that won awards and has been reprinted in ten different languages—to
simply accept the say-so of a publisher as to what is commercially viable and
worthy of production.
SUNGLASSES AFTER DARK, the debut novel in the Sonja Blue
series, won the Horror Writers
Association’s Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, the British Fantasy Society’s Icarus Award, and the Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award,
and was nominated for the James Tiptree
Award and the John W. Campbell
Memorial Award. It was also adapted into a comic book series by Glenn Danzig’s Verotik Publications.
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