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Michael Patrick Hicks
Thanks for giving it a read! And you are correct, it is but the first installment of a larger work. The second part will also be a novella of similar length, and the current draft of book 3 is a full-length novel, roughly the size of books 1 and 2 combined. As far as what's ahead...if you caught mention at the end of The Resurrectionists as to what book two is called, if you know your Lovecraft mythos you might be able to speculate a bit on what's coming up next. ;)
Michael Patrick Hicks
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Michael Patrick Hicks
Thanks Jennifer! Please check your messages. :)
Michael Patrick Hicks
So freaking many, Goodreads, thanks for asking!
GWENDY'S BUTTON BOX by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar at the tops (and out today!!!!!), and will most likely be my next read as soon as I finish the current ARC I'm reading. That ARC is, in fact, a summer title - Daniel Price's second epic Silver's novel, THE SONG OF ORPHANS. This sucker is freaking massive and I'll be spending a good while with it. It's a fun read, though, so I won't complain!
There's a new Charlie Parker title from John Connolly coming out, and that series is always a must read for me. HELL DIVERS II from Nicholas Sansbury Smith, THE PREY OF GODS by Nicky Drayden, and SHARK ISLAND by Chris Jameson (a new pseudonym for a well-known and very prolific author, who the publisher seems to want to keep secret as the author retracted the info he had shared about this release on Facebook), and THE REBELLION'S LAST TRAITOR by Nik Korpon.
I'm sure there's a shit-ton more than I'm forgetting...
GWENDY'S BUTTON BOX by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar at the tops (and out today!!!!!), and will most likely be my next read as soon as I finish the current ARC I'm reading. That ARC is, in fact, a summer title - Daniel Price's second epic Silver's novel, THE SONG OF ORPHANS. This sucker is freaking massive and I'll be spending a good while with it. It's a fun read, though, so I won't complain!
There's a new Charlie Parker title from John Connolly coming out, and that series is always a must read for me. HELL DIVERS II from Nicholas Sansbury Smith, THE PREY OF GODS by Nicky Drayden, and SHARK ISLAND by Chris Jameson (a new pseudonym for a well-known and very prolific author, who the publisher seems to want to keep secret as the author retracted the info he had shared about this release on Facebook), and THE REBELLION'S LAST TRAITOR by Nik Korpon.
I'm sure there's a shit-ton more than I'm forgetting...
Michael Patrick Hicks
Revolver was inspired by a few different things. It's a dystopian near-future story, and it came from a lot of my own personal frustrations with American politics and gender issues. It's very political nature in nature, which is a bit of a first for me (I don't think Convergence was particularly political, and certainly not to the extent of Revolver), and draws from present-day anti-women, anti-poor (not anti-poverty, mind you, but quite literally anti-poor people) politics as filtered through US media, like Fox News, far-right-wing politicians, and those who fund them.
Aside from being mired in election season at the time of writing Revolver, Stephen King's work as Richard Bachman was a huge inspiration. The Bachman faithful might sense particular shades of The Running Man and The Long Walk (two of my personal favorites) through the narrative of suicide as game show. How well all this works, well, I'll leave that up to the readers, but I am happy to see it's striking a positive chord with several early reviewers.
Aside from being mired in election season at the time of writing Revolver, Stephen King's work as Richard Bachman was a huge inspiration. The Bachman faithful might sense particular shades of The Running Man and The Long Walk (two of my personal favorites) through the narrative of suicide as game show. How well all this works, well, I'll leave that up to the readers, but I am happy to see it's striking a positive chord with several early reviewers.
Michael Patrick Hicks
I'm prepping for the release of a short horror story in the fall, and am currently working on the edits for the sequel to Convergence. Look for that one in the first half of 2015.
Michael Patrick Hicks
Back in 1999, I’d read a story off the BBC News site about a team of scientists who, with a series of wires and recording devices, were able to tap into a cat’s brain and create a live recording of what the feline was seeing. And that’s where the kernel of the idea for what grew into the DRMR technology I write about in Convergence came from. There have been a lot of other significant medical and technological breakthroughs in the fifteen years since, particularly through DARPA’s research, which really helped solidify the ideas I was having and writing about.
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