Author Spotlight: Jonathan Maberry

JONATHAN MABERRY is a New York Times best-selling and multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, playwright, content creator and writing teacher/lecturer. His books have been sold to more than twenty countries.

His novels include:

The Pine Deep Trilogy:

GHOST ROAD BLUES (Pinnacle books; winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel in 2006)

DEAD MAN'S SONG (2007)

BAD MOON RISING (2008)

The Joe Ledger series of action thrillers from St. Martins Griffin:

PATIENT ZERO (2009, voted one Best Zombie Novel of 2009; winner of the Black Quill Award and a Bram Stoker Award finalist)

THE DRAGON FACTORY (2010)

THE KING OF PLAGUES (2011)

ASSASSIN'S CODE (2012)

EXTINCTION MACHINE (2013)

THE WOLFMAN (NY Times bestseller from Tor and winner of the Scribe Award for Best Adaptation, based on the Universal Pictures film starring Benecio Del Toro, Emily Blunt and Sir Anthony Hopkins)

The Benny Imura series of Young Adult dystopian zombie thrillers from Simon & Schuster:

ROT & RUIN (2010)

DUST & DECAY (2011)

FLESH & BONE (2012)

FIRE & ASH (2013)

DEAD OF NIGHT (2010)

Jonathan was featured in a History Channel special, Zombies: A Living History, which aired October 25, 2011. He has also has co-authored and worked on several non-fiction books that that explore vampires and zombies.

He writes a variety of projects for Marvel Comics involving BLACK PANTHER, DOOMWAR, WOLVERINE, DEADPOOL, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE X-MEN, FANTASTIC FOUR and the NY Times bestselling MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, MARVEL UNIVERSE VS THE PUNISHER, and MARVEL UNIVERSE VS WOLVERINE. All of Jonathan's comic book collections will be released as Graphic Novel collections.< /span>

Jonathan is also the author of several short stories, and the Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill (the newsletter of the International Thriller Writers). He is a founding member of The Liars Club, a group of networking publishing professionals that includes celebrated authors. The Liars Club works to support booksellers, raise awareness and support for public libraries, and cultivate a joy of reading and books.

On the last Sunday of every month Jonathan hosts the Writers Coffeehouse, a free three-hour open-agenda networking and discussion session for writers of all genres and levels of skill.

Jonathan has been a popular writing teacher and career counselor for writers for the last two decades. He teaches a highly regard series of classes and workshops including Write Your Novel in Nine Months, Revise & Sell, Experimental Writing for Teens, and others.

To find out more about Jonathan check out his site, www.jonathanmaberry.com

Excerpt of Jonathan Mayberry's Dead Of Night

Book Review: Hellwatch: Mephistopheles by Larime Taylor

5 out of 5

Ester Vasquez, 25, was born with arthrogryposis. As a child she showed a natural aptitude with computers that eventually led to the online underworld of hacking, where she became a star. Though she was never caught, she decided to turn her skills to more legal endeavors, attending Arizona State University and offering her services as an online security specialist. A successful early career followed. Roughly four years ago, however, something happened within her family that shook her to the core and brought on some drastic changes over time. She still refuses to talk about it.

After several years as the ‘It Girl’ of online security, she all but gave up the profession and took up a more peculiar one: hunting demons and monsters. She continues to live on the money that her company makes, though she has very little to do with its day-to-day functions and dealings, leaving that to a business manager and several other young hackers hired on to take her place after she walked away just over two years ago. A former Catholic priest-turned-demon hunter in Boston named Jacob Bridges took her on as a student and became her long-distance mentor.

Ester met Samuel ‘Sammy’ Lutui, a registered nurse, soon after when his grandmother hired her because she was convinced that he was possessed by a demon. Grandma was old and old fashioned, and being gay was something she just couldn’t come to accept. Funny enough, it turned out that there was a demon in Sammy, but it had nothing to do with his being gay, and Ester easily got rid of it. In his gratitude, Sammy became Ester’s live-in care provider as well as her demon-hunting assistant, and in the two years that followed they’ve become best friends. Together they protect the unaware masses from the monsters and demons that lurk in the shadows and prey upon them.

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ABOUT EPISODE 2:

The enigmatic Demon in Black, an independent agent and Ester’s occasional contact, surfaces with some important information. As he looks to be playing both sides of the fence, whose side is he really on? Can he make Ester an offer she can’t refuse?

REVIEW:

Mephistopheles is the second episode of Larime Taylor’s Hellwatch series, and I highly recommend it to anyone that loved the movie Constantine. You can read the pilot episode on Larime’s site, along with each new episode, which will be appearing on a monthly basis until Halloween 2012.

In the second episode we get to see Ester and Samuel at their best. They are recuperating after capturing a nasty demon in Mexico, but Ester tries to hide some emotional wounds that run deeper than her healing laceration.

There are things about Ester’s past that Samuel doesn’t know. Ester struggles with her own inner demons. Ester had seen things that caused her to pursue a life as a demon hunter, but what Samuel doesn’t realize, is that what she saw came from her home.

In steps Mephistopheles. He’s not too fond of making deals with the devil’s spawn, but he is concerned about one person – himself. Mephistopheles is a fallen angel that not only turned his back on god, but the devil too. He has no desire to help in the war between good and evil, he only wants to be left alone. If that means making a deal with the one of the princes of hell – so be it.

The devil’s children are looking for a way to gain Mephistopheles cooperation, because he knows one thing that they can’t figure out. Mephistopheles has possessed the body of a human without there being a physical conflict between human and the demon’s soul. This is valuable information that all the demons would like to know, but Mephistopheles only wants one thing – to be omitted from the war.

Pacts are signed in blood and deals are made. You can break a deal with a demon, but there will be hell to pay afterward.


I read Mephistopheles before it was completely through the editing process, and have to admit that Larime Taylor has a great talent for story building. The author has created a complex world of greed; with an unfolding deeper plot that I’m sure will take us on a ride through the series. His characters well thought out and dimensional. Larime tells a story from the view most of never see, and has a great lure to keep you captivated. 

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An interview of me.

It's not often that I'm the one in the hot seat. Brent Michael Kelley, author of Chuggie And The Desecration Of Stagwater, decided to ask me some hard hitting questions about writing, Harrison Ford, and space rays. You can read my answers on his site by click here: http://www.catbat.com/bmk/?p=494 


And if you haven't read Brent's book, check out my review of it by clicking here: http://www.authorcvhunt.com/2012/01/book-review-chuggie-and-desecration-of.html




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