OT - Five Star buys BLUE DEVIL ISLAND

It ain't DARK SHADOWS, but I was mighty pleased to come home from the office this afternoon and find a contract from Five Star for my novel, BLUE DEVIL ISLAND, which is my rip-roarin' WWII historical drama/Lovecraftian monster yarn from Hell.

I don't suppose this one will go over well in the Romance market, like DREAMS OF THE DARK or THE LEBO COVEN, but one can't have everything.

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

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Go Boyfriend...you deserve it!!

Patti

So wait....I'm a bit slow these days....does this mean there's going to be a movie made from one of your books??      This is BIG time stuff, yes?
Any more details you can share??

Whoa!

(When you get to Hollywood and are sitting around your mansion....lounging in the sun.....with a cigar in your mouth, etc., will you still visit around here once in awhile?)  

love
CLC

Connie, alas, this isn't a movie deal; it'll be a hardback book, same publisher as my previous novel, The Lebo Coven.

As for movies, my novelette "Fugue Devil" is being considered by a studio (I'm not at liberty to divulge which one), but it's hardly a done deal, and in fact, things are moving -so- slowly on that front, I'm not exactly holding my breath.

 :-

--M
http://home.triad.rr.com/smrainey

PS: True to my usual form, Blue Devil Island contains a character named Collins. In fact, here's his intro. He might sound a little familiar.

>>As the noise died down, one more hand went up. It belonged to Lieutenant Max Collins, a bright young fellow with longer-than-regulation brown hair and stark blue eyes who came from a small fishing village on the Maine coast; his distinctive accent had prompted our southern Colonel Rooker to good-naturedly call him a "f**kin' yankee wharf rat"--not quite far enough behind Collins's back to go unnoticed.<<

it'll be a hardback book, same publisher as my previous novel, The Lebo Coven.

Congratulations, Mark!

They did a fantastic job with the cover illustration for "Lebo Coven," but no way am I going to read any more blurbs on their dust jackets after they revealed something that doesn't happen until halfway through the book.  Do you know what I'm referring to?

As for movies, my novelette "Fugue Devil" is being considered by a studio (I'm not at liberty to divulge which one), but it's hardly a done deal, and in fact, things are moving -so- slowly on that front, I'm not exactly holding my breath.

OMG, that story freaked me out !  "If you know about it, it knows about you."  Brrr!

Love the intro for Lt. Collins, heh heh.

CONGRATS!!!


Wonderful news! 

Congratulations!  That is very good news Mark.

Congratulations on the new contract. Hope you make the best seller list.

 

Jeff