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Michael West
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January 2010
The picture above is one of my all-time favorites! Author Brian Keene and I reading each other’s work. Brian is one of the reasons I am where I am today. He helped me prepare for my first pitch session with Don D’auria of Leisure, a major New York publisher at the time. The story I pitched? Cinema of Shadows. Based on that pitch, I was asked to write Cinema for Leisure. And who was the first...
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Poseidon’s Children (The Legacy of the Gods, #1)
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Cinema of Shadows (Harmony, Indiana, #2)
— published 2011 — 4 editions |
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Spook House (Harmony, Indiana, #3)
— published 2012 — 4 editions |
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The Wide Game (Harmony, Indiana, #1)
— published 2003 — 5 editions |
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Vampires Don't Sparkle!
by , — published 2013 — 3 editions |
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Hades' Disciples (The Legacy of the Gods, #2)
— published 2014 — 4 editions |
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Skull Full of Kisses
— published 2009 — 5 editions |
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For the River Is Wide and the Gods Are Hungry
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Zeus' Warriors (The Legacy of the Gods, #3)
— published 2015 — 3 editions |
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Good Night
— published 2012 |
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Poseidon's Children
(Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current—high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead.
And that’s just the beginning.
Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes….at least, he thinks it was a shark. And when one of these victims turns out to be the only son of Roger Hays, the most powerful man in the country, things go from bad to worse. Now, to stop the carnage, Larry and his new-found friends must work together to unravel a mystery as old as time, and face an enemy as dark as the ocean depths.
Cinema of Shadows
(Horror)
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updated May 13, 2015 06:33PM
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Welcome to the Woodfield Movie Palace.
The night the Titanic sank, it opened for business…and its builder died
in his chair. In the 1950s, there was a fire; a balcony full of people
burned to death. And years later, when it became the scene of one of
Harmony, Indiana’s most notorious murders, it closed for good. Abandoned,
sealed, locked up tight…until now.
Tonight, Professor Geoffrey Burke and his Parapsychology
students have come to the Woodfield in search of evidence, hoping to find
irrefutable proof of a haunting. Instead, they will discover that, in this
theater, the terrors are not confined to the screen.
Skull Full of Kisses
(Horror)
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Turn the page and enter a world of shadow, as Michael West brings together his most disturbing short stories–twisted tales of forbidden desires and ghoulish deeds, where nightmares manifest in the most mundane and unlikely of places…
The basement of a Japanese restaurant, where a seductive creature promises comfort to a lonely hitman, if only he will set her free…
A ruined city, where survivors of a natural disaster have become prey to something unnatural…
An Indiana farmhouse, where a frightened child attempts to fool the Angel of Death…
And the darkest regions of space, where a man fights to protect the woman he loves from invaders only he can see…
Ten reasons to lock your doors.
Ten reasons to keep the lights on.
Ten reasons why you may never sleep again.
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| The third chapter in my Legacy of the Gods series. Picks up right where Hades' Disciples left off. Took longer than anticipated to write, but I am very pleased with the results. Glad my faithful readers can now enjoy it! | |
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Kirsten 's review
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Poseidon’s Children (The Legacy of the Gods #1):
"Very enjoyable "monster movie" book. That's just what it felt like. I've always loved monster movies and this book didn't disappoint.
Sea creatures... shape shifting "people" ... an isolated coastal community... an ancient prophecy... Atlantis dis..." Read more of this review » |
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"This is a seriously good series that I wish more people knew about. I enjoyed book one which I read ages ago. The only problem I had with reading book two was that some things I had forgotten so reading the two books closer together would have bee..."
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"I've never wanted kids. At 35 I still have people ask me when I'll have some. Most don't like when I say never. I apparently have no clue what I want in life because they are all so sure I'll change my mind. Oddly the older I get the more I don't..."
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“Well, at least we know they can be killed. It always pisses me off when the monster won't die.”
― Michael West, Poseidon’s Children
― Michael West, Poseidon’s Children
“The flesh is the clay of the gods. Only the chosen can be sculptors.”
― Michael West, Poseidon’s Children
― Michael West, Poseidon’s Children
“We regret to inform you that your husband survived two tours in Hell, but was taken down by some pissed off crabs, jacked-up on steroids. Sorry for your loss.”
― Michael West, Spook House
― Michael West, Spook House
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