Self-publishing hasn’t just opened doors for authors. With both new voices and established authors making more of their work available through self-publishing, readers also find a wider selection to choose from. Now it’s even easier for readers to discover their new favorite author — whether or not that author is “new.” Meet the new-to-you author.
TM Wright has a hallowed publishing history as a horror writer and has brought out a wide array of his most acclaimed works as NOOK Books. Steven Savile, who guest posted here last week, has written a great blog piece about him here. As Steven so eloquently puts it:
“Stephen King describes him as a ‘Rare and blazing talent’ and selected Strange Seed as one of his Top 100 novels in Danse Macabre. Dean R Koontz said he has a ‘unique imagination’. In 1984, his novel A Manhattan Ghost Story, a paranormal love story, sold over 1,000,000 copies, and is one of the most seriously creepy, yet curiously tender love stories you’re ever likely to encounter. It’s a novel of unease and discomfort more apt today perhaps that it has ever been. Strange Seed is one of the great novels of quiet horror. Common in all of TM Wright’s novels is a feeling of disconnection, of loss of self, of identity. He is not a horror writer, more a writer of beautiful nightmares. A writer of the kinds of stories that keep you thinking about them long after you’ve turned the final page. He makes the common place and familiar both alien and frightening. He writes about powerful emotions, giving us monsters like Strange Seed’s Children of the Earth which scare us the most because they reflect our darkest selves. His monsters and ghosts wear our faces. ”
TM Wright’s work are now available as bundled NOOK Books, including his bestselling Manhattan Ghost Story Trilogy.
The Manhattan Ghost Story Trilogy
Includes:
A Manhattan Ghost Story: A photographer, Abner Cray, goes to NYC to work on a “coffee table photo book” about Manhattan and encounters, in the apartment he’s renting, a woman, Phyllis Pellaprat, with whom he falls in love. She has a dark secret, and so – it turns out – does the absent friend whose apartment he’s using. As he loses, and searches for the woman he loves, he wanders streets filled with ghosts, memories, and dangers he never imagined.
The Waiting Room: First-person narrator Sam Feary is one of Abner’s lifelong friends and he’s convinced that Abner, in his continuing quest for Phyllis Pellaprat–who’s all-but left him entirely–will be lost forever in the world of the dead: he goes in search of Abner, embarking on a journey that is as weird as Abner’s own.
A Spider on my Tongue: Abner, some twenty-five years older than when we previously heard from him–is living in a small house in the middle of dark woods somewhere in New York State. He’s trying to escape the hold that the spirits of the dead (whom he now refers to as “the passing misery”) have had on him for decades. He’s convinced that Phyllis has still not left the earth entirely, and Sam Feary, as well, who has since died. Abner’s first-person narration is very much a plea to be free of the clinging past and, at the same time, to continue to be part of it.
Have you discovered a new-to-you favorite author?
