A Soul to Steal is
currently burning up the charts, thanks in part to a free give away I held
earlier this week. If you downloaded it for free already, fantastic! I hope
you’ll take the time to read it and enjoy it. If you do, please leave a review on Amazon. If you didn’t catch the free day, don’t worry. The novel is only
$2.99—well worth the price of admission. How can I say that? Why do I think you
would like the book? Let me count the ways.
5. You won’t guess the killer
I never set out to write a mystery, instead thinking I was
writing a thriller. But a key question overhangs the book: who is Lord
Halloween, the elusive serial killer who targets Leesburg , Virginia ?
When I wrote the novel, I worried everyone would figure it out. But I’ve been
told by virtually every person who read the book that they had no idea who it
was. Yet I didn’t pull a cop-out, either. The novel does not end with me
suddenly introducing a random new character who turns out to be the killer.
Think of this as a challenge: if you figure out who did it, you will be in the
top echelon of elite readers.
4. Instant indie cred
If I become a mega best-selling novelist one day, you can
tell all your friends you read my book before I made it big. “I discovered him
first,” you’ll say. Then you’ll go on to detail all the ways in which I’m no
longer as good as I once was and I’ve become too commercial. “He sold out,”
you’ll say, with your friends nodding sagely. “It used to be about the stories.
Now it’s just about the money, you know?”
3. It’s surprisingly funny
I am not a terribly serious person. So despite the fact that
the novel involves a serial killer, the Headless Horseman, an ancient Celtic
myth and a bunch of innocent people dying, it also has a fair amount of humor.
One consistent feedback I’ve received is that my characters are well-developed
and likeable. For example, Janus, who provides much of the comic relief, has
proven to be one of the most popular characters in the book.
2. It’s scary, but not gory
The novel is a mix of mystery, suspense and the paranormal,
and technically falls under the Horror category on Amazon. If you like thrills
and chills, the novel has plenty. But it’s not a gory book. If you are scared
of words like entrails, spewing and mangled, you’re in luck! None of those
words appear in the novel (although they do appear in this blog post, for which
I now must apologize). I don’t like gore. It’s not that it bothers me, I just
don’t find it interesting and it can ruin a perfectly good scary scene.
Accordingly, you won’t find gore in A
Soul to Steal.
1. The ending is “amazing.”
I could tell you a lot of things
here, including that the book is an addictive page-turner or the first in a trilogy
that promises to get even better as it goes on. But probably the novel’s best
selling point is its ending. When I started writing A Soul to Steal, the ending is what I had in mind. Everything
builds to that point. Yes, it’s part of a trilogy, but this is a complete book.
I’m not trying to hold back for the sequel. This novel is carefully structured
to lead to a satisfying conclusion—one you won’t see coming. But don’t take my
word for it, read the reviews.
Vanessa the Jeep Diva wrote: “When
everything came together and all the pieces finally fell into place I was
completely shocked. The ending was fantastic.”
So what are you waiting for? A Soul to Steal is a top-rated
mystery/thriller with a supernatural twist. Buy it now and see what all the
fuss is about.
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