Okay, so I was at a work lunch on Friday, and something momentous happened. Something astounding. Something wonderful. The office intern actually mentioned that she looked me up on the internet and ended up reading about Christmas in Pandemonium. Amazing. One person I know in real life actually knew about it and brought it up in a conversation. It would be amazing if we could get more of that. Yes. More word of mouth about Christmas in Pandemonium.

In the event you are new here, or you just need a reminder, Christmas in Pandemonium is my novel coming out in September from I Ain’t Your Marionette Press. It takes place in a town called Pandemonium founded 400 years ago by Satanists on the east coast of South Carolina. The Satanists, called the Witches, are ferried there by a group of disreputable pirates, called the Strangers, who become religious extremists after seeing the Witches perform an act of human sacrifice aboard their ship. Somehow, they found a town together, and four centuries later, it’s still there. Today, the Witches have replaced human sacrifice with the crushing of a bug and Pandemonium now has a sect of Jewish werewolves, an Irish vampire currently still under wraps, and a Catholic church no one attends but which exists at the pope’s insistence.

The story kicks off when a crooked televangelist, Miles Simon, buys the Stranger church so he can pose as the Witches’ enemy. He inadvertently discovers the aforementioned Irish Vampire, Theo, and offers to split the money with Theo if he hypnotizes Simon’s congregation into giving him money. Theo turns him down, so Simon does a little research and discovers Theo’s vampiric rival, Scratch. Simon decides to resurrect Scratch, who is a theocratic vampire who murders men, women, and children, and believes that God wants him to do this. Needless to say, Scratch isn’t much interested in doing what Simon wants him to, and now the locals have to put him down.

If you like my idea, please get the word out. Promoting a book is difficult, and there are a lot of scammers out there.