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Genoskwa Updates!
Good grief, I suck at maintaining this page. You’d never believe I was a ‘writer’ based off of what’s available here, would you?
Okay, enough griping, on to the news.
Genoskwa was what I would consider a success (thanks entirely to you, the readers). Genoskwa 2 is hot on its heels. G3 should be out any day now…and I guess I have to announce to the world that Genoskwa will no longer be a trilogy. It is officially a new series.
To be fair, I had no intention of making it a series. Heck, I originally just wanted to write the first one and be done with it, but the beta readers said no, you have to follow it up. Then my beautiful, charming, overly smart, and outrageously HAWT editor told me I needed to follow it up. Then my publisher said I had BETTER follow it up. So I decided I better listen to those who know best. But I can’t just write two…if there’s going to be more than one, then it has to be a trilogy at a minimum. (Yes, Bridger fans, that means there’s at least one more Bridger that I owe you!) And I really thought I did a good job of wrapping up the storyline with number 3.
But, after G3 went through proofing and beta, and after my editor…excuse me, my beautiful, intelligent, charming, and bodaciously hot editor told me that it should be carried on and made into a real series, who am I to argue?
So, to those of you who have followed the story this far, know that there is much more blood to be spilled, more acts of vengeance waiting in the wings, and (hopefully) even more nail-biting tension to be experienced. I just really, really, REALLY hope that I don’t disappoint.
In the meantime, know that G3 should drop just any day now and I hope you like the different spin I put on the story this time.
Here’s wishing you much love, luck, and bacon!
Heath
A Couple of Announcements
If you follow me on Facebook, you already know that I was privileged to work with Jack Wallen on a trilogy for DevilDog. Jack came up with the original idea and we ran with it. I’ll be honest, that first volume was rough. It took us a while to get our vibe on but once we did, the next two books flowed like warm honey.
Once we had finished with Congregation, I had the momentum going but nothing else to work on. I came up with another idea. It was just a fleeting idea, but it took root and began to grow.
In my earliest days of trying to become a writer, I was told that all monsters were fair game, EXCEPT, don’t write about Bigfoot. Sasquatch, Mountain Ape, Stone Monkey, Wood Booger, whatever you choose to call him, do not, under any circumstances, write about that particular elusive forest primate.
Ever.
EVER EVER.
Look at me now, being a rebel.
I just hope it doesn’t come back to bite me in the ass.
But I couldn’t help myself. I’ve always been a huge fan of Bigfoot and have planned for years to go camping in areas where they are supposed to be just to test my luck and hope to have an encounter.
For those who don’t know (I didn’t until I looked it up), Genoskwa is an Iroquois legend known as “ot ne yar hed” or “ot ne yar heh”, meaning “Stone Giant Man”. Genoskwa is Sasquatch’s larger, heavier, more aggressive cousin. They are known to twist the heads off people, decapitating them. Yeah, I had fun with that. I also pulled lore from other Sasquatch stories and compiled them together for this story.
Here’s the rough, unedited back blurb:
While tracking a potential terrorist cell, the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force sends a field team to investigate. Traveling deep into the Catskill Mountains, the Albany field office discovers something far more terrifying than a terrorist training camp.
With more questions than answers, the JTTF team gathers their evidence and prepares to leave the forest when all Hell breaks loose. What started as a routine investigation quickly turned into a fight for survival against a foe that knows every inch of the terrain they are fighting on.
Nobody fights harder than when they are defending their home. Add the burning desire for vengeance and the battle becomes a war!
Special thanks go out to Allen Gamboa, Peter Ostini, Sherry Gabaldon, Frank Riley, Jim Chrisco, Monty Smalls, Douglas Fertig, Chris Davis, Alex Montgomery, John Lawson, Ken Oberlin, and Nick Waldron for allowing me to use their names as characters/victims. Even bigger thanks go out to my cousin Terri Stalcup for speed-reading the manuscript and offering her honest feedback. As always, your efforts are very much appreciated! I really don’t know what I’d do without my support team.
Okay, so that catches you up. If you enjoy my stories, then you’ll have a few to chew on shortly. The Congregation is currently on pre-order at Amazon. I believe the trilogy drops on June 27th. Genoskwa is currently in the second round of editing and will be released whenever the preproduction work is concluded and DevilDog can get it set up for retail sales.
Until next time, dear readers here is wishing you much love, luck, and bacon!
Heath
Heath Stallcup Author 