Honeymoon From Hell, the Kickstarter

Here we go.

It’s finally here. Almost, anyway.

August 28 (this coming Wednesday) I begin my Kickstarter for Honeymoon from Hell, books 1-5.

What is Honeymoon from Hell? Well, do you remember my Love at First Bite series? It featured a vampire who goes to confession, and a college student who had certain bloodthirsty proclivities? I sold it largely as my “Catholic vampire” novels. I took some microbiology, some metaphysics, and some theology, threw them into a blender, and came out with a vampire world that (I’m told) is on par with Vampire the Masquerade. (No. I never played Vampire the Masquerade, but my wife was a GM / DM for a Vampire the Masquerade LARP back in the day. She informs me there is some overlap.)

Anyway, if you don’t remember the books, They were:

The series ended with everyone walking off into the sunset … everyone who was still ambulatory, anyway. Since I was bringing the series to a close, I was fairly free with the character deaths.

What comes after happily ever after?

Until death do you part, obviously.

However, before my heroes, Marco Catalano and Amanda Colt, can get to the church on time, the have to survive the engagement. And there’s a running battle through a hospital, shootouts in New York and Area 51, fae armies, and a Panda with a machinegun…

Then the fun starts.

• A Chicago necromancer who literally gets the dead to vote

• Gangbangers with lasers

• Magic swords

• Elfs at Area 51.

• Wendigos rampaging through New York.

• A warlock who throws lightning

• Triad minions with magic meat cleavers that throw fire.

• An elven assassin.

• Mad science and magic.

• Guest-starring a police officer with the power of a saint who fights demons.

If you’ve followed the rest of my books, you know who some of those people are. Yes, there will be cameos from other people. Part of the joy of sub-publishing is that it’s all my IP, I can do what I like. Otherwise, there would have been a Saint Tommy Novel three years ago called Cross Over.

Now, there’s a Honeymoon from Hell novel of the same name. Funny that.

Again, the Kickstarter will begin on Wednesday. My wife has worked on the covers (and is still working on one more as I write this) so there will be more on this in the coming days. I’ll be doing cover reveals throughout the week.

My plan is to have the Kickstarter through September. Once that happens, I’ll be releasing a book every 8-6 weeks throughout the rest of the next 12 months. If you want to read all of them in one swell foop, you can come on to the Kickstarter, buy them in a bundle, and you’ll get them as soon as I’m “done.”

“Done” is in quotes like that because one of my ranks is to buy your way into becoming a character. Yes, a character with dialogue. It’ll take some time to make certain that the name(s) is plugged in, and is consistently placed throughout the novel.

Then comes using the Draft2Digital system, because I want to go wide, and I don’t trust Amazon as far as I can throw my house. But I also want to make certain that D2D will work as intended. So I’m going to have some wiggle room between the end of the Kickstarter and the publication date.