Three new paperbacks
Bruno Gmünder have signed up for three more books under the Zack name.
With Boys of Disco City out now and the third, Boys of Two Cities out this November, the fourth in the series is scheduled for Fall 2013, titled Boys of the Fast Lane.
Separately from the Boys of… series comes Raw Recruits, a wild tale of horny mercenaries set lose in the Caribbean, and Blood and Lust, death, escape, and love in a modern arena. Both due Spring 2013 in paperback and ebook.
With Boys of Disco City out now and the third, Boys of Two Cities out this November, the fourth in the series is scheduled for Fall 2013, titled Boys of the Fast Lane.
Separately from the Boys of… series comes Raw Recruits, a wild tale of horny mercenaries set lose in the Caribbean, and Blood and Lust, death, escape, and love in a modern arena. Both due Spring 2013 in paperback and ebook.
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Rick
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Oct 06, 2012 10:27AM
These sound good. I'll start saving my pennies. ;)
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Thanks, Rick! Blood and Lust is a big rewrite of a 1980 original, so it predates Stephen King's Running Man, the movie Battle Royal and by decades any Hunger Games !:-))
OK, now I've even MORE excited. I love the book Battle Royale, the movie was OK, and while King's (Bachman's) The Running Man is good, The Long Walk is even better (although less violent and it is more psychological). I haven't read Hunger Games although the film was enjoyable the obvious similarities to Battle Royale left me wanting to re-read the original. Although it did spur to create my Death Games shelf so I suppose I should give Hunger Games a chance. Would it be fair to say Blood and Lust would fall into a Death Games sub-genre (i.e. some sort of televisied blood sport)? I really should be working on my paper for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice but right now contemplating what you've got cooked up is far more interesting. Consider my appetite whetted.
The Long Walk… simply brilliant in spite of being a touch didactic. Blood and Lust is definitely about televised blood sport to an elite who can afford it. Originally, lumbering great broadcast cameras rolled about on studio dollies and editing took place on $50,000 Ampex tape machines. Now it's highly mobile digital cameras on remotely operated Louma cranes and Final Cut Pro on Apple Macs. It also had a superb edit by Charles Edward—and Lucas Lyons, who had a beta read (sans illustrations, pronounced it fabulous. So there we are…
The Long Walk was an early book for King, so I can forgive that. All your talk of this book though is driving me nuts. I'd love to read both versions, but then I don't even have time to finish Felixitations with all I'm doing right now. So I just have to wait, as frustrating as that is.
Sorry, Rick! I'd hate to frustrate anyone…
But frustration makes the anticipation so much more tantalizing, and thus so much more rewarding in the end. ;)
Roger wrote: "It also had a superb edit by Charles Edward—and Lucas Lyons, who had a beta read (sans illustrations, pronounced it fabulous.."
I never said it was fabulous. I said "I loved it! Blood and Lust is a testosterone filled, intelligent gay romance with an exciting plot." But it was fabulous!
Great cover too by the maestro himself, Oliver Frey
Lucas
