I have two full-length books ready to launch in the first half of 2014, The Last Playground, and Children of Extinction. Both are horror/science fiction, and both are YA. The Last Playground was written for a younger audience, but has a lot going for it that older folks will enjoy as well. Children of Extinction is harder hitting, more gruesome, and is aimed at that 'older' YA crowd.

I'll be giving out a signed copy of each book at release (random draw) for somebody out there - all you have to do is join my mailing list no later than April 30 to be eligible to win! The Last Playground comes out during April, Children of Extinction will be released shortly after, so there's plenty of time to join up. And if I see a lot of interest, I may even up the number of copies in the draw!

I'll be posting more news and excerpts from the books over the following weeks, but here's a brief overview of what they're all about.

                                         
         The Last Playground

When Brinn Adamm’s mother passed away from cancer, the fifteen-year old girl said to her imaginary friends. Two years later her best friend begins receiving messages from Brinn’s mother. The imaginary friends return—and they aren’t pleased.

Brinn always possessed the ability to bring make-believe characters to life. So did her uncle, Neal Stauch. The little boy died accidently three and a half decades before, but the world he created carried on. It’s a dying land populated with troubled characters desperately searching for a new creator—a modern-day keeper with the same incredible genes capable to start their world over again.

From Neal’s forgotten world comes a rag-tag bunch of washed up figures a generation out of time—rusted robots consumed with guilt, disillusioned super-heroes too far gone and far too fat to fit their spandex costumes, a bitter, homicidal lawman out of the Old West, and a Bible-quoting scientist abandoned in a distant galaxy. Brinn begrudgingly sets out to help, aided by her own band of imaginary twenty-first century friends—a sword-wielding barbarian woman, a sex-starved wizard boy, and his pregnant, vampire girlfriend. But Neal’s imaginary world is populated with other survivors. They have changed even more drastically. And they want what the little boy had—what his present-day niece still has—and they’ll kill to get it.

                               Children of Extinction

What’s first contact really like? In 2009 four teenagers discover something wounded in the wooded farmlands of western Canada. Forget extra-terrestrial invasion and conquest by a superior force—our ultimate demise lies eighty-thousand years in the past. All it will take to wipe out the last few thousand humans left on prehistoric Earth is a virus—a disease the alien intended to deliver—now unknowingly carried by two of the teenagers.

Abraham Feerce and Becky Turnbull are sent back in time to fulfill the alien’s mission, their bodies enhanced to survive the harshest of conditions. And to make matters worse, a super volcano is set to erupt in the South Pacific, plunging an already cooling world into an even darker Ice Age.

Sheila Feerce and Allan Bagara remain in the present, forced to guard over the injured being. They’re given extraordinary mental abilities—the power to manipulate and command everyone around them. A reign of psychological terror begins in their hometown as the teenagers take control—teachers and bullies go missing, abusive parents take their own lives...and the thing in the woods watches.