Countdown to Cthulhu: What Would Kurt Russell Do?
It's July 1, 2011. Canada Day, or so I've gathered from the Internets. Today also marks the "two months to go" point until the September 1 release of The Book of Cthulhu, which means we're very busy putting the finishing touches on the book and getting our final files ready to go to the printer.
"But I can't wait two months for my tentacle fix," I hear you say. And to that, I have a solution...
Because today, Jonathan Wood's debut novel, No Hero, hits the streets. No Hero, the one novel that dares to ask the question no other piece of Cthulhu Mythos fiction has ever had the stones to ask...
"What would Kurt Russell do?"
Early reviews are in, calling No Hero "one hell of fun ride" and an "overload of awesome".
In the interest of giving you a glimpse behind the veil, here's the letter we sent out to booksellers a few months ago to introduce them to No Hero:
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Dear Bookseller:
Night Shade books is proud to present the debut novel from Jonathan Wood: No Hero, an action-packed comic urban fantasy that dares to ask the eternal question: "What would Kurt Russell do?"
Set in sleepy Oxford, the "city of dreaming spires," No Hero follows Arthur Wallace, a middle-age British homicide detective more accustomed to paperwork and dull stakeouts than over-the-top heroics. Arthur's a good cop, a proper British bobby, and while he's a lifelong fan of American action movies, particularly those starring Kurt Russell, he prefers that the high-stakes action remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals.
But shortly after Arthur is injured in the line of duty by a mysterious swordswoman, secretive government agency MI37 comes calling, hoping to recruit Arthur in their struggle against a race of tentacled horrors from another dimension known as the Progeny. Tasked with the leadership of the team of misfits that stands between the Progeny and Earth's certain destruction, Arthur must move beyond his vicarious cinematic worldview and find the hero within. But Arthur is No Hero; can an everyman stand against sanity-ripping cosmic horrors?
With its comic tone and blend of strange magic, invading aliens, Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and references to action movies of the 1980s, No Hero is sure to appeal to fans of Mike Mignola's Hellboy and B.P.R.D. graphic novels and films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Big Trouble in Little China.
Jonathan Wood is an Englishman in New York. He has published short fiction in Chizine, Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Farrago's Wainscot. No Hero is his first novel.
Sincerely,
Ross E. Lockhart
Managing Editor,
Night Shade Books
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More Monday. Unless I go and get a wild tentacle over the weekend...
"But I can't wait two months for my tentacle fix," I hear you say. And to that, I have a solution...
Because today, Jonathan Wood's debut novel, No Hero, hits the streets. No Hero, the one novel that dares to ask the question no other piece of Cthulhu Mythos fiction has ever had the stones to ask...
"What would Kurt Russell do?"
Early reviews are in, calling No Hero "one hell of fun ride" and an "overload of awesome".
In the interest of giving you a glimpse behind the veil, here's the letter we sent out to booksellers a few months ago to introduce them to No Hero:
---
Dear Bookseller:
Night Shade books is proud to present the debut novel from Jonathan Wood: No Hero, an action-packed comic urban fantasy that dares to ask the eternal question: "What would Kurt Russell do?"
Set in sleepy Oxford, the "city of dreaming spires," No Hero follows Arthur Wallace, a middle-age British homicide detective more accustomed to paperwork and dull stakeouts than over-the-top heroics. Arthur's a good cop, a proper British bobby, and while he's a lifelong fan of American action movies, particularly those starring Kurt Russell, he prefers that the high-stakes action remain on the screen, safely performed by professionals.
But shortly after Arthur is injured in the line of duty by a mysterious swordswoman, secretive government agency MI37 comes calling, hoping to recruit Arthur in their struggle against a race of tentacled horrors from another dimension known as the Progeny. Tasked with the leadership of the team of misfits that stands between the Progeny and Earth's certain destruction, Arthur must move beyond his vicarious cinematic worldview and find the hero within. But Arthur is No Hero; can an everyman stand against sanity-ripping cosmic horrors?
With its comic tone and blend of strange magic, invading aliens, Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and references to action movies of the 1980s, No Hero is sure to appeal to fans of Mike Mignola's Hellboy and B.P.R.D. graphic novels and films like Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and Big Trouble in Little China.
Jonathan Wood is an Englishman in New York. He has published short fiction in Chizine, Fantasy Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Farrago's Wainscot. No Hero is his first novel.
Sincerely,
Ross E. Lockhart
Managing Editor,
Night Shade Books
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More Monday. Unless I go and get a wild tentacle over the weekend...
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