Here are a couple of bits of promotional material coming up for a multi-author campaign that will begin on June 15 and run for a few weeks.
James Robert Smith was surrounded by comics as a kid. His
dad owned several bookstores that sold used and rare books. So, from the 1960s
onward he had access to his father's warehouse of comics filled with over
250,000 back issue Silver Age and Golden Age comic books.
Influenced by the works of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko and
their creation, the Marvel Universe, WORKING CLASS HERO: The Autobiography of a
Superhuman is the novel that Smith has been itching to write for decades.
Smith’s latest novels are THE EMISSARY and WORKING CLASS
HERO. His short story collection A CONFEDERACY OF HORRORS appeared from
Hippocampus Press in 2015. Among his other novels have been DEADLOCKED, THE
COALITION, THE NEW ECOLOGY OF DEATH, FOUR FROM MANGROVE, and others. He has
written comic scripts for publishers as diverse as Marvel Comics, Kitchen Sink,
New Comics, Basement Comics, and others. His short fiction (well over 80 sales
the last time he bothered to count) has appeared in dozens of markets from Fear
Magazine, Weird Tales, Deathrealm, and others; to various anthologies in both
hardback and paperback. He optioned his first novel, THE FLOCK, to Warner
Brothers.
Mr. Smith recently retired from his day job as a laborer for
the United States Postal Service and he lives with his wife in North Carolina.
When he’s not at home writing he can generally be found hiking, backpacking,
kayaking, or camping in various mountain areas in either the eastern
Appalachians or the western Rocky Mountains. He’s an accomplished amateur
photographer with landscapes and wildlife as his primary subjects.
His next novel will be BILLY B VERSUS THE TROUBLE BOYS, his
second novel in the Working Class Hero series.
When people exhibit superhuman abilities after being
afflicted with a new condition called Adult Onset Hyper-Development Disorder
(AOHD), Uncle Sam steps in to take control of them. You either become a Fed, or
an enemy of the state. Upon contracting the disorder, Mike Evans finds himself
given the code name of Billy B, and tagged with the label of a Level Seven
superhuman. They don't get much tougher or more powerful in the world of
"Odds", as the public begins to refer to them.
With such power, Mike is given leadership of a team of other
Odds and they are based in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina to act as
defenders of their part of the east coast against all threats super-powered. He
and his teammates Gila, Shylock Holmes, Amber Ember, and Constrictor do well at
their jobs until exactly twelve people claiming to be the gods of Olympus appear.
Can they handle this dozen come back to claim Earth after 2,000 years? Or have
they met their match?
Find out in WORKING CLASS HERO: The Autobiography of a
Superhuman. First in a series!
