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KLANDESTINE MANEUVERS Cover Reveal!

Well, I wasn’t going to originally do a cover reveal for BOOK TWO of the Adventure Chronicles, as I was planning to use the cover from the 2005 release. However, I didn’t have a usable version of the file that had a high enough resolution for print. So TW Johnson drew a new cover for me from scratch. He even researched different color schemes for rankings in the KKK for the color of Jerry Norton’s robe. I love the effect!

So, here is the new cover for KLANDESTINE MANEUVERS: Book Two of the Adventure Chronicles

I’m waiting for some last minute edits and will (hopefully) go to press by next weekend.

Until next time, God Bless.

A Major Event in Indie Publishing

I’ve been busy getting things together for the convention in March and have been slacking in my blogging duties. But something has happened that just HAD to be mentioned. An event so shocking that it is sending ripples through groups of indie publishers. Especially those who write super hero fiction.

A.P. Fuchs is retiring from writing and publishing.

I was shocked at this. It almost seemed like an overnight thing. One day, he posted his daily blog entry, just like normal (a review of the lousy Catwoman movie). The next, he announced his retirement. He is going into full-time ministry, which is noble. But we’re going to miss him in publishing circles. I’m glad I got his publishing guide before he pulled it from sale. Most of his books are now listed as “Out of Print” on Amazon. Thankfully, I got many of them on my Kindle.

For those of you who are concerned about the continuation of the “Metahumans vs.” anthologies, Lion’s Share Press, the publisher of the incredible Nightcat stories, will be taking over their publication, with Metahumans vs. Robots coming sometime after May, 2014.

Good luck to you, A.P.. May Christ walk with you on your journey.

An Update on My Writing Schedule

Well, my table is paid for in the upcoming Cape Comic-con. Today, I purchased the tickets for my daughter and stepson to go with me. I have to find a reasonably priced hotel, but things are coming along on the preparation front.

The books? Whoa . . .. TW Johnson, who is formatting the covers for me, realized that the file that I have from the original BOOK TWO is not a high enough resolution to be reused for the re-releaase. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get ahold of the original artist, so Tim is currently drawing a whole new pic for the cover. My editor is currently sending me files of individual chapters with a final edit for the book and, hopefully, I can go to press as early as the end of next week.

BOOK THREE has been uploaded to the printer with a throw-away cover so that I can send a copy to my editor. I have an amazing new piece of art from the talented Andy Borders depicting the villain watching Yoshi fight one of his henchmen. I’m waiting for Tim to be finished with the cover layout before I do a cover reveal. I’m really excited about this story. We change genres and, when the story is finished, ADVENTURE will be two members short. The events of this book will affect the storyline throughout the series. The goal is to release the book at the Cape Comic-con.

I’m also excited to announce that my editor, Karen Griffiths, and her husband will be joining me at the convention. Though Karen doesn’t intend to stay at the table with her hubby and me constantly.

Please keep Karen and Tim in your prayers as they kindly rush to meet these deadlines. And, as always, keep me in your prayers.

Until next time, God Bless.

Review of THOR by Wayne Smith

In 1996, a unique horror movie came out about a single mother and her son who had taken in the mother’s brother, who was secretly a werewolf. The movie, Bad Moon, was intriguing because of its hero, the family German Shepherd. Though the movie, starring Mariel Hemingway and Michael Paré, was a box office flop and critical failure, I really enjoyed it. Granted, the gratuitous nudity at the beginning was a little overdone, but the plot was solid.

Years later, I found out that the movie was based off of a book. Thor is actually out of print in hardcopy form, but you can still get in on Amazon as a Kindle book for under three bucks. And the book is worth it.

***SPOILERS***

The story is told (mostly) from the point of view of the titular character. Thor sees his family as a pack, with the mated heads of the pack (Mom and Dad), the three children and, yes, even a kitten. Thor sees himself as the guardian of his pack whose job it is to defend them (even little kitty) against all threats. We see how devoted he is to this role when he is willing to make himself a “bad dog” in their eyes to protect them. You see, Mom’s brother, Uncle Ted, has come to stay with them and his clothes have the smell of the “Bad Thing,” an unnatural predator, on them. This, and the fact that Uncle Ted is an extended member of the pack, causes confusion in Thor.

Ted is a werewolf.

Smith skillfully made Thor a well-rounded character, not an easy task for a non-anthropomorphic dog. The scenes where Thor fights the werewolf had me fighting to keep from cheering out loud (not a good thing when I read at work). The emotion was perfectly placed and I was in tears when the story reached its heart-warming conclusion.

The story did have a large number of typos. Actually, I lost count of them. Considering the fact that this was NOT an indie novel, I was rather shocked. And, to be frank, this story is NOT for children. Language and sexual content keep it well in the realm of grown-up reading. But the plot was good and the storytelling was really ejoyable. For an adult reader who likes horror, I’d give it five stars.

Review of Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

I loved the first Ninja. Starring Scott Adkins, it was released to little fanfare when compared to the more mainstream Ninja Assassins. But it had more heart. It was based more in reality, with the ninja school being a mainstream martial arts school. Adkins is probably the greatest martial artist of his time and is a pretty good actor, to boot. Most importantly, we didn’t see gallons of fake blood, as in the former movie.

A.P. Fuchs mentioned to me that a sequel to the first Ninja was coming. And I was stoked. When I found a random ad on Facebook advertising its page, I followed it to find that it was already available. To my delight, it was available on Netflix.

I watched it that very night. And I was severely disappointed.

Ugh.

In the first movie, Casey fought to protect Namiko and the Yoroi Bitsu. He was a likeable, heroic character. In this movie, Namiko (to whom he is married and with whom he is expecting his first child), is murdered and Casey goes on a fit of revenge. The trail eventually leads to a drug crime-boss who also happens to be a ninja. Their fight is too short and the boss, as my buddy, Patrick, would say, “Goes out like a punk.” Then Casey realizes that he has been played and fights the real killer.

Arguably, the best thing about this movie is that we see Scott Adkins and Kane Kasugi (son of the legendary Sho Kasugi) have an epic martial arts battle. As with the other fights in the movie, it is well choreographed. Unlike the other fights in the movie, it is satisfying. But seeing Casey turn into the dark, brooding man that he becomes, taking lives without remorse, does something to my enjoyment of the character . . . and the movie.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

I haven’t been online much, as we’ve had houseguests for the past week. My mother is still here and will be until after the New Year. For Christmas, my wife’s ex-husband got their kids each a Kindle Fire, so I linked my stepson’s to my Amazon account so that I could download some of the books that I’d bought to his device. Among them are the “Metahumans vs.” books, the “Nightcat” books and (of course) INVASION OF THE NINJA.

We got my daughter a 2DS, which she seems to like. She got a new game from her mother for it, although it is a standard DS game, so it’s a good thing the system is backwards compatible. My wife wanted one of those pillows that has armrests on it, so I got her one. The kids got her some DVDs and candles.

I got a new portable table for my laptop. I’m writing on it in our room right now and it’s great. I can stay out of the living room area and avoid the television so that I can get my edit (from which I took a horrendous, week-long break) finished. She also bought me STREET FIGHTER ALPHA ANTHOLOGY for the PS2. Yes, I like the classics.

From the kids I also got:

-A new wallet (my old one was literally falling apart)

-A bottle of PREFERRED STOCK (one of the few colognes that I can wear without getting a migraine)

-MAN OF STEEL on DVD (Kaitlyn took me to see it on Father’s Day and I’ve watched it four times now)

-GREEN LANTERN on DVD (I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, but I like Ryan Reynolds)

-A chocolate candy gingerbread house that I shouldn’t have eaten

Most importantly, we tried to impart into the kids that the reason for the season is Jesus. Christmas always just gets me started thinking about Easter and Christ’s sacrifice for us.

I hope you all had a good Christmas. Until next time, God Bless.

Interview with Comic Artist, John Beatty

As an addendum to my “Superheroes Month,” I’m honored to have an interview with John Beatty! John has worked on a number of popular characters over the years, including Batman, Venom and the Punisher. He’s a recent father and a brother in Christ.

1. Thanks for taking the time join me on my blog. I know that being a dad with the type of work that you do can take a great deal of time. Has being a father changed the way that you work?

You’re welcome, and thanks for waiting until I could take some time to think over my answers! Being a dad and working at home is a challenge. I wanted to be home working for many reasons. First, I’ve worked at home for most of my life, so I’m used to being around my own surroundings and not having someone standing over me as I work. I’ve had a few outside the home jobs, but always missed being able to have the freedom to run an errand if needed in the middle of the day.

Having said that, working at home with a son, who just turned 1 year old recently, is a challenge. It’s tempting to go out of my studio to see him and play around for awhile. And while that is a reason I want to work at home, it can also become extended play times, which then can cause work to fall behind. So, I try to plan breaks to go see and play around with him thru the day. Sometimes it fails as he might be taking a ‘nap’ when I come out to see him and his mom.

He started walking around 10 months and is very curious now. Just last week I had taken a break to have lunch and was walking back into my studio … just before I could shut the door, I try to slip out so he won’t see me leave and give me the “look”, he shouted; “Daa-Daa!” “Daa-Daa!”

The weight of his little voice on me was to much, I turned around and picked him up, brought him into my studio and we sat on my chair together for a bit. A true loving time that touched me deeply.

So, there is no easy answer to your question. But in short the answer I guess would be the biggest change is trying to not feel guilty about being shut in a room when you can hear your son laughing, crying and making sounds if the room 30 feet away and wanting to go see what he and mom are doing.

But until the bills stop coming in, work is necessary to do.

2. I noticed that you have your own Wikipedia page . It mentions a character named Crime Smasher. Want to tell us a little about him?

Yes, my Wiki page used to be more “fun.” I’m not sure who revised it, but myself and friend Craig Zablo wrote the first draft, and then I allowed my online friends [ some I've met in person ] do some edits to it for fun. I used to do a weekly “Ustream.TV” show and got to know a lot of good people and our interaction was a lot of fun. We had some “in-jokes” and we played off that and added some of it in.

I’ve not looked at the page in awhile … I guess I should check it from time to time just to make sure nobody adds stuff I wouldn’t like.

3. It also mentions that you first got your interest in superheroes after a friend up the street sold you a box of comics. Can you remember any specific issues that were in that box that played so much a part of your destiny?

Yes, Conan #1!

Altho, those actually paid for the entire box, I did not know their value at that time, there were just a lot of Marvel super-hero comics in there. Other than the Conan, I can’t really remember any exact issues. I do think there were some Avengers and FF issues in it.

Until this time, I was more of a ‘comic strip’ fan; Dennis the Menace and Peanuts being my top fav’s and I would buy the digest books at whatever bookstore sold them in the early 70′s.

4. Do you have any favorite books that you’ve worked on? How about any specific favorite characters?

I have many favorite books, I try not to answer that question as I know I will forget some. As for characters, I’ve been blessed to work on my 3 favorite characters from when I was just a reader: Captain America, The Punisher and Batman.

5. What decade do you think produced the best comics? Why?

I believe each decade from the 80′s and before created the best comics. Altho their are exceptions into the 90′s, they are rare.

My feelings stem from seeing comics change so much over the period of time that I entered the field, 1980.

I miss the story of “good vs. evil” without the graphic violence shown in many of today’s comics.

You can show violence without being graphic, altho many don’t.

And you have to realize that I have worked on my share of books with violence. The Punisher stuff wasn’t exactly non-violent, but it was handled in such a way that it was not as graphic as it might be done today.

The ‘Nam work I did, horrible war and situations, but dealt with in a way that you understood the horror and pain, without having to show it drawn in every bloody detail.

I’m a fan of action, crime, history, war, etc, movies, but there are ways to show it without going over the top. I do need to sometimes stop and think if say a movie like “Saving Private Ryan” would have had the same impact if they had tamed down the graphic display of “war” and the showing of literal ‘blood and guts’ or not?

Same with a movie like “The Passion of the Christ”. The Bible tells us how Jesus was beat, whipped, mocked, spit upon, and abused, before he was put upon a cross to die. Without the graphic violence, which I know was controversial, would we really “feel” the pain? Even with the scenes in the movie, we understand that what he experienced was even more brutal.

So, it’s hard to draw a line and say; “We can’t show that because it’s unnecessary.” I think the story will dictate the need.

But to just put in graphic violence because computer graphics can do things now that they never could before, is senseless. It must be relevant to the “story.”

Same with comics.

6. Describe your work space.

Messy, very messy and needs to be cleaned up and re-thot! I need to make it more friendly for my son to be able to come into “dad’s” work room and be safe from stuff he might get hurt on.

7. Do you do any of your work digitally? Do you think that the ability to color and ink digitally is a good thing?

Yes, most of my work for companies is now digital. At least in it’s “final” form it is. I’ve not delivered a traditional piece of work to a bigger client in years. It all ends up in a digital stage in the end.

While I’m glad I grew up in a time where I learned using traditional tools … I also saw where I was going to need to learn digital tools to continue to get work and be an asset to other fields of being a creative.

I enjoy all media, traditional and digital, and feel they all have a proper place.

8. In the past year, how many conventions have you attended?

In 2013, I only did one, MegaCon. That was mainly because my son was born in December 2012 and I needed to be with my wife and him. I was scheduled to do the PittshburghComicon, but had to withdraw due to a schedule conflict. Hopefully, I can do it in 2014, I’ve not done the show and would love to!

Heroes Con in Charlotte is a show I love doing but I believe it’s been 2 years now since I’ve been. Hopefully 2014 I’ll be back.

9. Do you still collect comics personally?

No. Sadly I don’t see anything of interest. I know there must be something out there, but from Marvel and DC, I don’t see it.

10. Would you like to work on a comic of your own creation at some point?

I actually have one fleshed out a bit and a rough 6 page “intro” story that my friend and I came up with. He will be the writer of the books. It will be a series of books. Personally, I think it’s a really good idea and feel it will have a broad audience.

11. In the first conversation that I had with you, we discussed the Kindle. Do you read novels? What are your favorite genres?

I don’t. I like to read Biographies and History when I can. I also read the Bible and books on theology.

13. In January of 2011, I had the pleasure of congratulating you on your salvation. How has your faith in Jesus affected your work?

I think more about what I draw now, and how it’s going to be used. I actually accepted Jesus on 12/26/2010.

14. We sometimes hear horror stories about people who are in an entertainment field whose career is harmed when they come to faith in Christ. Without necessarily going into detail, have you had any experiences like that?

I don’t think so. But again, I’m not sure.

The decision to me was not easy at the time. Looking back, I can see how foolish I was in trying to “decide” what to do, when in fact, I know my heart was already with Him.

I had just not made a public comment and commitment to being a Christian.

We should do another interview on this topic, and I am willing if you have time.

I would definitely love to! Thanks for joining me on my blog today!

A Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1 says, “I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” (ESV)

I’ve often wondered about this. The obvious take-away from this would be to save you body for marriage, sexually speaking. One could argue that doing things that harm oneself . . . such as drugs, smoking or overeating (the latter of which I am guilty of) . . . could be disobeying this appeal from Paul. But what else can we do as a “living sacrifice?”

The year that I got saved, the youth group in our church did a human video. The song talked about making ourselves an offering. There were three people coming up to put their offerings in the plate. The first pulled out her change purse and pulled out a few coins and put them in. The second pulled a large handful of cash out and, after making sure that everyone saw her, piled it into the plate. Then the final person, dressed in rags, stepped up. He pulled out one pocket and then the other to show that he had no money. Then, he stepped into the plate and lifted his arms. It was a powerful message that’s affected me for years. It’s the reason that my stories have adopted a Christian worldview. In my mind, a Christian has a responsibility to use his gifts for the glory of Christ Jesus.

Watch the video at the link below. Aside from the fact that the music is awesome, it tells the story of one little lad who used his talent for Jesus.

Little Drummer Boy

A Belated Post

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone. The turkey was juicy. The ham was succulent. My amazing wife makes the most incredible candied yams that I’ve ever had. And I’ve been admonished, upon pain of death, that I am not to give away her secret ingredient.

I’ve posted in the past about my definition of “success”. What it boils down to is that people read my work. I have forty-six reviews of Lily’s Redemption on Amazon, although it’s always sold better on the Nook. I don’t have as many reviews of Invasion of the Ninja but it seems to be selling (slightly) better than the former book in paperback. People are reading them. I’m getting messages asking about BOOK TWO in the Adventure Chronicles series. That’s the reason that I’m taking this rewrite of BOOK TWO so seriously. My editor, Karen, was harsh . . . but fair.

It takes me back to two major events that jumpstarted my writing. In 1996, I’d completed my first manuscript, which was the ancestor of Invasion of the Ninja. But I’d lost interest in continuing after finishing the first chapter of the next book. Then, a friend from church, Anna Raymer, found my manuscript (which I’d printed off and put in a binder) at my house. When she asked to read it, I let her. To my shock, she had a third of it read by the time we met again at our Monday night youth meeting. She liked it. She gave me feedback. I blew the dust off of my computer and completed the next book. And the next.

Then I went off to college and studying took priority.

I did go back to writing in 2000, when I decided to rewrite my first story into what became my first published work. After the second book was published, I lost interest out of the frustration that I felt toward my publisher.

I did write again and, due to the influence of A.P. Fuchs, self-published my next book. But I didn’t light a fire under myself to republish Invasion until last year, when my stepson found my copy of Invasion of the Togakura and read it.

And enjoyed it.

Readers are important to me. Feedback is important to me. I read every review. Even the bad ones.

Thanks Anna and Jayson. You guys rock.

Guest Post by A.P. Fuchs, creator of Axiom-man

The biggest contribution to my decision to self-publish was a little book called Axiom-man published in 2006. A.P. Fuchs created a super hero that reminded me of the Golden Age of comics. Axiom-man is the kind of hero who is noble and self-sacrificing, a trait that comes out of the main three comic houses all too rarely these days.

So, it is with great honor that I wrap up this “Super Hero Month” with a guest post by A.P. Fuchs.

The Axiom-man Origin

and Why I Write Superhero Fiction

by

A.P. Fuchs

The Axiom-man Saga is an old story. A couple decades, in fact, as it was around then that I started to daydream about a similar hero while walking my paper route each morning. I’d get so lost in this story about a hero caught in a cosmic war between Good and Evil that I’d be done my route before I knew it and would often run house-to-house to double check and make sure I delivered the paper to the right places.

In that fantasy, of course, I played the hero. As the story grew and I got older, I ended up transferring the honor of being that character to someone else, a fictitious someone else who would one day go by the name of Gabriel Garrison.

Axiom-man began to take shape in concept throughout all my years of delivering the paper—and went by a different name, which was featured in my novel, April, written as Peter Fox (for that secret name, you’ll just have to read the book to find out). In 1995, Axiom-man received his new costume, the one he wears today. At the time, Axiom-man—originally called Trinity—and this concept character of mine were two different people. Trinity was more of a supernatural hero ala Spawn and fought demons, whereas my other hero was more down-to-Earth in nature and had very Superman-like powers. Yes, I know: Superman isn’t very down-to-Earth, but he does deal with things on this plane of existence 9 times out of 10. Anyway, as time went on, Trinity became Axiom—who was yet another character at the time—and as even more time went on and after being inspired by the likes of Frank Dirscherl and his Wraith character—who back in 2005 had one novel, a comic and a movie in the works—I decided it was time to put my long-thought-about superhero to paper. I merged my paper route fantasy character with Axiom because I always had an affinity for him, and after doing a quick web search on the Axiom name and finding a company out there with the same name, I went and made it my own by adding “man” to the end of it, hyphenated, of course, because that’s who Axiom-man really is: a self-evident truth embodied in a single person, in his case the self-evident truth of being one to do good rather than evil. From there it was an issue of scaling his powers waaaay back and settling upon three of them: strength, flight and eye beams. And when I say I scaled his powers way back, I mean way, way back. When Axiom-man debuted, he could only lift around 1000 pounds, could fly at about 60 kilometers an hour, and his energy beams only carried so much force. I didn’t want to make him too powerful thus making him always the winner and, because of his great strength, have no choice but to always pit him against ultra powerful foes. My story was to take place in our world under the idea of, “If this happened in our reality tomorrow, how would it most likely play out?” Making him with that kind of power set helped keep him grounded in reality and gave me plenty of options for enemies he could fight to sometimes win and sometimes lose against.

His backstory and mythology were left unaltered and kept the same as the character I thought about growing up, still the product of a nameless messenger having visited him and granting him his abilities without explanation. As the story goes on, Axiom-man finds out why he received his powers and how he iss caught in a cosmic war that has raged since time immemorial.

The reason Axiom-man made his debut in books rather than comics was because, at the time I brought him to market, I knew of superhero fiction but didn’t think to do it independently. Frank Dirscherl’s The Wraith and Knight Seeker by Eric Cooper showed me otherwise. Axiom-man was originally a comic book character and I even drew a 21- or 22-page comic with him when he was called Trinity back in high school. I still have it somewhere and might publish it one day as a kind of behind-the-scenes thing. Anyway . . .

By doing superheroes in prose, I was able to work alone, could tell the story exactly how I wanted it, and because I was already self-publishing other fiction at the time, had the system in place to get Axiom-man out there.

You know, even though Axiom-man was my first official superhero release, I look over my fiction and every book I’ve written is a superhero novel in some way. Take A Red Dark Night, for example. It’s about a summer camp under siege by blood creatures. One of the protagonists, Tarek, is superheroic in nature, wears an otherworldly outfit complete with a cape, and shoots blue fire from a gauntlet on his forearm.

My epic fantasy book, some quarter million words long, called The Way of the Fog, is about a group of people who get superpowers in a medieval/fantasy-style setting.

My zombie trilogy, Undead World, deals with the supernatural, time travel, and each character is superheroic in how they act, even archetypical in some cases, with comic book-like good vs evil action.

Zombie Fight Night—aside from an aged Axiom-man making an appearance in there, is full of comic book characters monster-wise, everything from werewolves to vampires; to robots to pirates; to ninjas to samurai; and beyond, all battling the undead.

The Metahumans vs anthology series is, obviously, about Metahumans aka superheroes fighting a themed foe throughout each book.

As mentioned, my love story, April, is about a comic book writer who’s fallen in love, and what does he write? Superhero comics.

Look, Up on the Screen! The Big Book of Superhero Movie Reviews is about . . . well, I guess I don’t have to explain that one.

The list goes on.

I think it’s only fitting that superhero fiction in its truest form—an actual superhero storyline—became a part of my repertoire. It seemed inevitable considering my love for the genre. Ever since I knew what a superhero was—at three years old, I think—I’ve been hooked, and not a day in my life has gone by where I haven’t thought about them, theorized about them, fantasized about them, pretended to be them and more. I even wear Superman and Batman onesies to bed for crying out loud!

Calling me a geek is an understatement, but I don’t care. Geeks make the world go round and fanboys are the ones providing people with entertainment. Superhero fiction just happens to be my main venue for doing so.

And where is Axiom-man going from here? Well, thus far, 7 prose books have been released along with a few comics and short stories. The whole saga is planned to be 50 books long, so I’m coming up on being 20 percent finished. The good part is the story is pretty much all mentally written. I had 9 years or so of delivering papers to get the story right, after all.

What I’m enjoying about the superhero fiction format is I’m able to do things with my characters that comic books don’t allow, at least, current superhero comics don’t allow. I’ve long advocated—and still do—that the comic book is the greatest storytelling medium to ever come down the pike, with books being a close second. Why? Because it’s the one-two punch of pictures combined with narration, whereas prose is a text-only medium. I still believe that, but being that at this stage in my career I’m primarily a writer versus a writer/artist, I’m sticking to books and the book medium is capable of telling superhero stories in a way comics haven’t as yet, namely getting inside a character’s head. Very few comic writers have succeeded in that in the past. Superhero comics are far too picture-heavy these days, with flashy computer coloring jobs, flimsy stories and scant dialogue. I miss the old days where there were almost equal amounts of text and pictures. At least with The Axiom-man Saga as it stands now, I can bring the reader dense characters where every thought and feeling is brought to the fore and, hopefully, pull the reader into the characters’ shoes in a way that superhero comics don’t. That’s my main goal with this: bring the reader in so that they feel they are experiencing my fiction versus just reading it. I’ve yet to read a superhero comic where this has happened. I have, however, read superhero books where this has occurred, Batman: Knightfall by Dennis O’Neil being a major favorite of mine and my first foray into the superhero fiction world.

What also sets The Axiom-man Saga apart from any of the current superhero offerings is that it’s a cross-medium superhero story that encompasses books, comics and short stories, all part of the same continuity. This has never been done before, and putting new spins on old things is one of the things I’ve always strived for in my fiction, especially in this industry where things are pretty copycat and cookie-cutter (we all know of certain authors that seem to turn out the same book over and over again just under a different title, right?).

Whether Axiom-man becomes this wild success or remains under the radar, for me it’s about writing the superhero story I always wanted to read, the one I’ve always thought about, and the one that, when my time on Earth is done, is the one I’ll be remembered by. It’s meant to be a career piece, a giant story with a beginning, middle and end, the story of a superhero, his life, and what that means to the world around us.

I invite you to come along for the ride.

Thank you so much for honoring me with this guest post, A.P.. God bless you and yours!