Announcing The Calydonian Boar Hunt

Thank you so much to everybody who has bought, read, reviewed, and shouted about Not Far from Eden. The response to my latest book has been so tremendous that I've decided to go back to the mythological well, but this time I'm adapting one of the great Greek myths, The Calydonian Boar Hunt. 

I first became interested in this myth after seeing the famous painting by Peter Paul Rubens at the Getty Center in Los Angeles well over ten years ago. I immediately got the idea to write an adventure story based on the hunt, but I was not a writer yet, and didn't have the skills necessary to tell such a simple yet complex story, or any kind of story for that matter. But now I feel that I am approaching the height of my abilities as an author, and me telling this tale is long overdue. 

In The Calydonian Boar Hunt, king Oeneus of Calydon forgets to place an offering in the shrine to Artemis, goddess of hunting. As revenge, Artemis sends a giant boar to terrorize the kingdom. The king gathers together the greatest heroes in Greece to hunt the boar, most of whom are former Argonauts, as the Argo has just returned from Jason's expedition to get the Golden Fleece. Artemis, wanting her punishment to continue, sends the huntress Atalanta to join the hunting party, knowing that the presence of a woman will create strife among the men and lead to more destruction. 

For fans of the horror element in my work, The Calydonian Boar Hunt also features one of the coolest monsters in all of Greek mythology, the Calydonian boar. This monstrous killer boar has bristles as sharp as spears and impales its foes with tusks as large as an elephant's. Trust me, this is a monster you don't want to mess with, and it leaves a trail of death and destruction in its wake. 

I hope to publish The Calydonian Boar Hunt in late April or early May.

So, that's about it. Thanks again for reading. I'll write again next month to let you know how The Calydonian Boar Hunt is coming along. As always, if you want to see all my books in one place, please visit my website!