Demon Dance by Brain Freyermuth Spotlight Tour & Giveaway
Demon
Dance
Sundancer
#1
Brian
Freyermuth
Coming
soon to: Barnes and Noble * Itunes * Kobo
Blurb
You can run
all you want, but the game's in your blood. And blood never
forgets…
Nick St. James was born different. His extraordinary gifts have saved him time and time again, but they couldn't save the one thing he loved most: his wife.
Now he just wants to forget his old life, but more importantly, he wants to forget the magical underworld that lives beneath the "real" world. A place where a man's faith can determine the very fabric of reality. Where ancient forgotten gods walk hidden among us, and angels and demons fight for our very souls.
But nothing stays hidden forever. Nick's peaceful world is ripped apart when a demon slaughters his ex-partner and marks him for death. Now he must use all his gifts to find the one who summoned the nightmarish creature, but more importantly, he needs to find the one thing he lost long ago.
Nick St. James was born different. His extraordinary gifts have saved him time and time again, but they couldn't save the one thing he loved most: his wife.
Now he just wants to forget his old life, but more importantly, he wants to forget the magical underworld that lives beneath the "real" world. A place where a man's faith can determine the very fabric of reality. Where ancient forgotten gods walk hidden among us, and angels and demons fight for our very souls.
But nothing stays hidden forever. Nick's peaceful world is ripped apart when a demon slaughters his ex-partner and marks him for death. Now he must use all his gifts to find the one who summoned the nightmarish creature, but more importantly, he needs to find the one thing he lost long ago.
Excerpt
“I came here,” I told
the cat, “to get away from my life. Why did it have to find me?”
The cat’s emerald eyes
sparkled with silent laughter. He seemed to know how stupid that
sounded, and a thin, brittle smile came to my lips.
“You think I’m an idiot,
huh?” I asked. The cat responded with a sharp meow. “Well, so do
I.”
I sat up and stretched my
neck. “I’m an idiot for throwing the glass,” I told him. “That
was some premium Tennessee whiskey.”
The cat meowed again. “As
for you,” I said, “you need a name.” The animal wore a dark
blue collar I had missed when he came in. There wasn’t an ID, but
the strip of cloth had a word printed on the front: Walker.
“OK,” I said, “Walker
it is.” I scratched the cat behind his ears, and a rumbling purr
vibrated my fingers.
Suddenly Walker’s ears
perked up and he sprang from the bed. The hairs on my arms stood to
attention, and I swung my legs over the side. My eyes searched the
room, seeking a sign in the afternoon gloom of what was crawling
across my senses.
That’s when the phone
rang. “The Hall of the Mountain King,” made up of singular
electronic notes, echoed through the apartment. I leaped out of bed
and stood at the edge of the protective circle. The melody repeated
itself three times and went silent.
I stood there at the edge of
the circle, my heart racing. I strained to hear any movement, and my
nose searched for a hint of sulfur. Nothing looked out of the
ordinary.
The song blasted the silence
again, the tones as simple as a child’s keyboard. With a deep
breath, I stepped out of the circle and crept toward the bedroom
door. Sensing nothing, I walked into the living room.
The cell phone became silent
again, but only for a moment. I managed to snag it on the last ring
with an annoyed, “Hello?” Away from the circle I was vulnerable,
and I turned to go back to the bed, but the fearful breathing on the
other end of the line stopped me.
“Nick?” Caitlin called,
as if from a long tunnel. Static overpowered her voice, like energy
on a high-voltage wire.
“Cate? I can barely hear
you.”
“Nick! Thank God. I need
your help!”
I sighed. I came away from
my protection for this? “Look, Cate,” I said as I walked back
into the bedroom and toward the circle, “we talked about this. You
know my—”
“Just shut up and listen!”
she yelled. I stopped again as a roaring filled the phone. Screams
pierced the background. “I’m in a penthouse at One-Fifty-Five
Second Street. Downtown. Get your ass down here!”
“Cate, I—”
“Please, Nick!” Gunshots
cracked the phone. “Jesus, the thing has no eyes, how can it see—”
Brian
Freyermuth, an 18 year veteran in the gaming industry, started his
career at Interplay Entertainment, serving as designer and writer on
a number of titles including the award-winning post-apocalyptic role
playing game Fallout, where he helped craft the story and create some
of its most recognizable settings.
Brian was also
granted the pleasure of writing the missions and dialog for the
best-selling game, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. Working alongside
William Shatner, George Takai and Walter Koenig gave Brian a new
perspective on voice acting and dialog that influences his renowned
style to this day.
In 2004, Brian
ventured to the Pacific Northwest where he spent two years honing his
design skills at Midway Games in Seattle. He then returned to
Southern California, where he spent five years working on various
influential brands under the THQ umbrella such as SpongeBob:
SquarePants and WWE.
Brian's passion
for storytelling would eventually lead to a wonderful opportunity to
get back to his writing roots by joining Disney and Junction Point in
2011. During his time there, he co-wrote the story and dialog for the
WGA Award Nominee Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, where he
worked with comic book writer Marv Wolfman and industry legend Warren
Spector to give Oswald the Lucky Rabbit a voice at Disney for the
first time in 80 years.
Born in the
quaint town of Manitou Spring, Colorado, where he grew up in the
shadow of Pikes Peak, Brian moved to California as a teenager,
eventually graduating from UC Irvine with a major in Comparative
Literature and a minor in Computer Science, both of which he uses in
his professional and personal careers. Brian is also a member of the
Horror Writer's Association, and loves to write and play video games
in his free time. He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife,
Juliet, and their son, Kyle.
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Schedule:
10/14/2013 -
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Book Obsession
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10/14/2013 - Not Everyone's Mama - Review/Spotlight
10/15/2013 - RhiReading - Spotlight
10/16/2013 - Mad Hatter Reads - Interview
10/17/2013 - Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews - Review
10/18/2013 - Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile - Review
10/21/2013 - Read Your Writes Book Reviews - Interview
10/23/2013 - Romancing the Readers - Spotlight
10/24/2013 - Urban Fantasy Investigations - Guest Post
10/25/2013 - Reading on the Rocks - Spotlight
10/26/2013 - JeanzBookReadNReview Interview/Spotlight
10/28/2013 - Chelle's Blue and Sparkly Corner - Review
10/29/2013 - Book-A-Holic Anon - Guest Post
10/30/2013 - Racing To Read - Review/Spotlight
10/31/2013 - Always YA at Heart - Spotlight
11/1/2013 - Bestsellerbound Recommends - Interview11/1/2013 - The Wormhole! - Spotlight
11/5/2013 - Reading Between the Wines - Guest Post
11/5/2013 - A_TiffyFit's Reading Corner - Review/Spotlight
11/6/2013 - Sapphyria's Book Reviews - Spotlight
11/7/2013 - Happy Tails and Tales - Review/Spotlight
11/8/2013 - Paranormal Haven - Interview
10/14/2013 - Not Everyone's Mama - Review/Spotlight
10/15/2013 - RhiReading - Spotlight
10/16/2013 - Mad Hatter Reads - Interview
10/17/2013 - Jeannie Zelos Book Reviews - Review
10/18/2013 - Hopelessly Devoted Bibliophile - Review
10/21/2013 - Read Your Writes Book Reviews - Interview
10/23/2013 - Romancing the Readers - Spotlight
10/24/2013 - Urban Fantasy Investigations - Guest Post
10/25/2013 - Reading on the Rocks - Spotlight
10/26/2013 - JeanzBookReadNReview Interview/Spotlight
10/28/2013 - Chelle's Blue and Sparkly Corner - Review
10/29/2013 - Book-A-Holic Anon - Guest Post
10/30/2013 - Racing To Read - Review/Spotlight
10/31/2013 - Always YA at Heart - Spotlight
11/1/2013 - Bestsellerbound Recommends - Interview11/1/2013 - The Wormhole! - Spotlight
11/5/2013 - Reading Between the Wines - Guest Post
11/5/2013 - A_TiffyFit's Reading Corner - Review/Spotlight
11/6/2013 - Sapphyria's Book Reviews - Spotlight
11/7/2013 - Happy Tails and Tales - Review/Spotlight
11/8/2013 - Paranormal Haven - Interview
What a great fun hop.. love the halloween fun times.
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ReplyDeleteI haven't read a Demon story yet
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