I am very pleased to announce that after taking a month off, the Urbantasm production team has made arrangements for additional touring in support of Urbantasm, Book Two: The Empty Room, scheduled for publication this September. Tour dates in 2019 and 2020 will include stops in: ILLINOIS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA OHIO PENNSYLVANIA TENNESSEE WISCONSIN And hopefully …
Cover Reveal, Urbantasm, Book 2: The Empty Room
The cover was designed by Sam Perkins-Harbin of Forge22 Design, and is an evolution of the themes and styles revealed in the cover for Urbantasm, Book 1: The Dying City (http://tinyurl.com/urbantasmamazon). The Empty Room will be published this May and follows the continuing adventures and struggles of John, his friends, and his family in the struggling auto town …
About Maps…
When I first started to read novels as a kid, many of my favorites were big, quest-driven, fantasy stories like The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Dragonlance Saga. One of my favorite things about these stories were their use of maps. As a young reader, nothing quite kindled a sense …
Tenth Town and the Vehicle City
Although Urbantasm is inspired by Flint, Michigan the story takes place in the fictitious city of Akawe. Over the years, I’ve been asked a few times why not simply set the story in Flint. After all, the choice to go with a fictional setting automatically imposes an additional barrier. When I tell a reader that …
Urbantasm: A Romance of Industrial America. Book Cover (Late 1996)
Another item from the 1996 file (and probably about the last thing I’ll share from it). I drew this “cover” for Urbantasm in my Pre-Calculus class sometime in late ’96. At this point, a lot had changed since I had drafted the play An Urbantasm. Now it was going a novel divided into eight parts featuring a …