HERETIC FINALLY ALMOST READY, CHECK OUT THE COVER
After over a decade and over 10,000 people waiting, the sequel to The Queen of Darkness/Stargazer is almost ready for publication. Although I named it The Prince of Shadows for years, the second installment of The Dark Instinct Series had to be called Heretic. The reason for the title are sundry, especially for those who know my other works in the Esoterica. But the reality is that like Stargazer the sequel deals with incendiary issues relevant to our times, as well as universal ones. We are all being turned into heretics, outcasts even as the establishment makes our very thoughts blasphemous. And like the protagonist, Byron Solsbury, it's time to fight back even if the battle seems hopeless. I think you'll fully understand once you read Heretic.
Stargazer was also about how we can regain the best part of humanity, even if we have walked in darkness and ignorance for most of our existences. Heretic is about recalling our divinity, and the great reward yet great price we must pay to touch the face of the gods. The cover says it all, but the story says even more. I had always envisioned this cover. The trope of Jesus being a vampire has been floating around for a while in the hipster community; I took it the ultimate conclusion...and that's just to start of the plot.
Melinda McCullen did an outstanding job on the cover, capturing that psychedelic look fantasy and science fiction books had in their philosophical heydays of the sixties and seventies. She also brandished it with that Graphic Novel DNA we both saw in the saga of these unique, infernal gods. She worked very hard, always keeping every option on the table. I am eternally grateful to Lin for the cover, as well as the cover for Stargazer that she worked on with my mercurial friend Jordan Stratford. And who says Gnostics only sit around arguing about the nature of reality and being human!
Here it is. Here is the next challenge to Byron Solsbury, our dark messiah, antihero, and champion of a thousand paradises lost.
Here is the black burb, and I'll shut up. Oh, Heretic will be available in hard copy or e-book:
A DAMNED KNIGHT RIDES TO MEET THE BLOOD MESSIAH
The Stargazer capital Xanadu has been destroyed. The immortal ruler of vampires, The MoonQueen, has been vanquished. Humanity has been liberated after a brutal revolution. The source of all of this is the dark heroism of Byron Solsbury, prophesized Liberator and Stargazer Heretic.
Now comes the difficult part.
Accompanied by his ally Proxos and soul mate Medea, Byron will risk radioactive wastelands and its horrors in a quest to infiltrate New Atlantis, the last remaining Stargazer city. The reasons are twofold: to find the cure for the Killer of Giants—the only disease harmful to vampires—that has mortally infected Medea; and to oversee the destruction of the metropolis and end the Stargazer Empire once and for all.
Within this high-tech structure, Byron will encounter the dreaded Forgotten—vampires that were never human to begin with, as well as their godly allies. It will take all of his skills to counter their razor agendas. Eventually he must face the ruler of New Atlantis—the greatest Stargazer who ever walked Heaven and Earth—and realize that their grim destinies have been intertwined since before the rise of the vampires.
He is known as The Prince of Shadows or simply The Centurion. And he once drank the blood of a god incarnate on Earth, and gained the powers of infinity.
As fate unravels before him like a bloody tapestry, Byron Solsbury will realize that not only Earth hangs in the balance…but reality itself.
DON'T FORGET YOU CAN READ PLENTY OF EXCERPTS OF STARGAZER OR DOWNLOAD THE FIRST FOUR CHAPTERS AT NOT COST
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