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Fighting Shadows
High school teacher Nathan discovers evil, supernatural Shadows exist when they attack his student, trailer park resident Skyler, in front of his senior English class. He saves her, but learns nobody can see the Shadows except himself, Skyler and her friends, rich girl Ashley and foster child Billie. Can these misfits save themselves and their town?
135 pages, Paperback
Published October 15, 2019
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October 27, 2019
‘We always sleep with the lights on’
Washington, DC author Martin Berman-Gorvine is a professional journalist, currently serving as a reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs newsletter Human Resources Report. He has published fifteen books to date, and has become a popular science fiction writer, winning awards in both Canada and the US.
Stepping away from his popular DAYS OF ASCENSION series, Martin offers a standalone novella in FIGHTING SHADOWS. His books fall into the Young Adult range and that is a receptive audience to science fiction and the occult and all things mysterious enough to defray the realities of our current time. His writing style punctuates the importance of involving characters with whom the YA audience can identify.
Capturing imagination in the opening pages, Martin writes, ‘It’s not that I wasn’t surprised when the Trio turned out to be crazy delusional teen girls and my classroom was invaded by a slimy, vaguely man-shaped darkness that had a blank triangular face and stank like decayed diarrhea. It’s just that I was numb to nightmares after the past year of my life. About the only thing that had gone right in that time was my brand-new career as a high school English teacher. Rachel had pushed me into applying, saying my fancy Dartmouth BA in the subject ought to be useful for something, since I had broken my word to her by not becoming a computer programmer…If I couldn’t raise my daughter. I could at least educate the youth of Masonburg [Ohio] on Shakespeare and Shelley and TS Eliot, all the Dead White Male greatest hits of an Ivy League curriculum in the literary classics…’
A distillation of the plot is provided – ‘High school teacher Nathan discovers evil, supernatural Shadows exist when they attack his student, trailer park resident Skyler, in front of his senior English class. He saves her, but learns nobody can see the Shadows except himself, Skyler and her friends, rich girl Ashley and foster child Billie. Can these misfits save themselves and their town?’
Solid concepts and skills and the ability to weave a story that captivates the reader from the start, Martin Berman-Gorvine has taken his place on the popular bench of YA Sci-Fi authors.
Washington, DC author Martin Berman-Gorvine is a professional journalist, currently serving as a reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs newsletter Human Resources Report. He has published fifteen books to date, and has become a popular science fiction writer, winning awards in both Canada and the US.
Stepping away from his popular DAYS OF ASCENSION series, Martin offers a standalone novella in FIGHTING SHADOWS. His books fall into the Young Adult range and that is a receptive audience to science fiction and the occult and all things mysterious enough to defray the realities of our current time. His writing style punctuates the importance of involving characters with whom the YA audience can identify.
Capturing imagination in the opening pages, Martin writes, ‘It’s not that I wasn’t surprised when the Trio turned out to be crazy delusional teen girls and my classroom was invaded by a slimy, vaguely man-shaped darkness that had a blank triangular face and stank like decayed diarrhea. It’s just that I was numb to nightmares after the past year of my life. About the only thing that had gone right in that time was my brand-new career as a high school English teacher. Rachel had pushed me into applying, saying my fancy Dartmouth BA in the subject ought to be useful for something, since I had broken my word to her by not becoming a computer programmer…If I couldn’t raise my daughter. I could at least educate the youth of Masonburg [Ohio] on Shakespeare and Shelley and TS Eliot, all the Dead White Male greatest hits of an Ivy League curriculum in the literary classics…’
A distillation of the plot is provided – ‘High school teacher Nathan discovers evil, supernatural Shadows exist when they attack his student, trailer park resident Skyler, in front of his senior English class. He saves her, but learns nobody can see the Shadows except himself, Skyler and her friends, rich girl Ashley and foster child Billie. Can these misfits save themselves and their town?’
Solid concepts and skills and the ability to weave a story that captivates the reader from the start, Martin Berman-Gorvine has taken his place on the popular bench of YA Sci-Fi authors.
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