more books comingo ut soon??
The answer is... yes? There should be two more books out of mine before the end of the summer. One of them will be a collection of short stories and essays, and the other one will be the second Vendettic book. So, if you're interested, now would be the time to pickup Spahn. If you've got Kindle Unlimited, it's free on there; otherwise, it's .99 for Kindle, 8.00 for paperback. I still have to contact my cover guy for the Vendettic books and format the damn thing, but it is done.
So, in the interest of interest, here's the first couple pages of Sacrifice, book two:
CHAPTER ONE
Danny doesn’t even give Niko time to put his shit away before he says, “It’s a good thing that you’re back, because we start our tour with XXXmass next weekend.”
Niko’s so shocked by this that he nearly drops his guitar. “What the fuck, Danny.”
“They saw some bootlegged footage from Spahn and want us to open for them, at least for the like, West Coast-ish, maybe edging into like, almost Midwest part of their tour, and that starts next weekend. I thought we’d probably have to go and physically drag you out of your mom’s house.”
“Dude,” Niko says. “I just got out of the hospital. I just got stabbed in the kidney.”
“Like, a year ago.”
“Like four months ago?” Niko says. “Do the other guys know about this?”
“Yeah,” Danny says.
“And nobody cares that XXXmass is like, the complete opposite kind of metal from us,” Niko says. He really thinks he’s got a point with this one.
Because, see, XXXmass is the kind of heavy metal that can barely be considered heavy metal. They get tons of radio play, they dress like hookers, and their lead singer was chosen more because he was hot and blond than because he could sing. MTV loves their videos, even though they really play up the Satanic imagery (their name is XXX-mass, for Christ’s sake, which really makes the Catholic upbringing in Niko cringe), and their crowds are always at least sixty percent women. Not saying that chicks can’t dig heavy metal—but you see more chicks at an XXXmass show than a Vendettic show.
“No, nobody cares,” Danny says.
Niko shakes his head. “I thought we were gonna work on our album,” he says. “I thought we were gonna do an album before we did a tour.”
“We’ve got the songs off our demo,” Danny says. “And like, we can work on stuff on the road.”
“On the road,” Niko mutters. “It’s kind of psychotic to go on the road so soon after Spahn.”
“Hey, Ben and TJ are already on the road. With that kid they met at Spahn, the kid who fixed your hand. And Dean King,” Danny says. “And they have an album. We’re gonna fall behind. With them on the road, and Flayer never even got mixed up in the dumb shit that we did, we gotta do something or we’ll drop off the face of the earth.”
“Okay, but Ben and TJ are insane,” Niko says. He did get a letter from TJ, as well as a tape of their first album as Tetradotoxin, which is a misspelling of the poison that puffer-fish use to paralyze people. It’s a good album. But Ben and TJ are insane, and it turns out that Pete Rosenthall and Dean King, formerly of CWKP, are too. “And like you said, Flayer never got mixed up with any of this shit.”
“Vic and KC are cool with it,” Danny says.
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