Funny I should make you ask . . . .
Yeah, it’s been a while since I spilled pixels here, but that’s been because I’ve focused all my free writing time on one project, which after 2.5+ years (wow, that flew by!) is now finally ready to be unleashed on both the suspecting and unsuspecting masses. I hadn’t really intended on going so long or all-in on one endeavor, but sometimes that’s just the way writing life works out when you fall in love with what you’re creating. Which, as I type out loud, sounds like a special “Roll Tide” version of Frankenstein. Or maybe just the plot of Weird Science.
So after I was done writing Satan and the Adventure of the Blue-Eyed Freak—which I fully intended to be a standalone, one-time book—I started working on a somewhat unrelated story I had started a few years ago. That was going very well for a few months, but I found myself still randomly thinking about, and even missing, the characters from B-EF. And one day, while I was out running on my local Melonhead Road, I had a Terry Pratchett-like epiphany: I knew what happened next!
So …
Now available at Amazon, in paperback and Kindle. Cover art once again from the amazing Poltergeist Soup.
What’s it about, you ask? Once again, 300 pages or so … oh wait!
From the back cover:
You can’t keep a bad guy down! Nick Brooks, aka Satan, is being dragged hornlong into a timely new adventure, with only the literal fate of the Universe hanging in the balance. Along with former FBI agent Tonya Daived and everyone’s favorite Blue-Eyed Freak (yeah, she’s back too!), your beloved Lord of Darkness has to navigate tall buildings, speeding locomotives, South African terrorists, a compelling Zulu badass, and a sociopathic cult leader known as The White Rhino—all as ultimate doom looms. [*Cue: “The Final Countdown!”*]
Oh, and to add an extra degree of difficulty (for style points, of course), at the center of Everything is a perfectly divine orphan teenage girl who, like the first Avril Lavigne, can’t help but make things so complicated. Lies, laughs, and love—it’s all here, plus action, adventure, and enough random and inane pop culture references to even make Tina Fey dizzy.
Yes, Beelzebub is back, and you might say, it’s just in the Nick of Time! (Or not, because that’s cornier than Iowa during a dad jokes convention hosted by the jolly Green Giant. But hey, you do you!)
So yeah, that’s happened. And the even worse part? I again know what happens next, so yeah, there will be yet another adventure forthcoming. (Spoiler: I also already know the title of that adventure, which I’ve slipped in at the end of this one, and it’s a spoiler in itself! It’s spoilers all the way down!)
As always, I really hope everyone who takes the time to check this out to has as much fun reading it as I had writing it. I love, love, LOVE this story, and think it might be better than the last one! Although the last one recently got some wonderfully kind reviews on Good Reads and Amazon from my hero, the truly funny and supportive Ashley Ottesen. And yes, she’s holding my first book at the start of this post, so please give her a follow or two since I can’t name my next child after her, what with the vasectomy and all.
Of course, I’m a little worried about living up to that hype and praise, but then again, as my son reminded me: I wrote the book I wanted to read last time, and have done so again this time. So, what could possibly go wrong?