We are now a month away from the official publication date of Christmas in Pandemonium: October 15, cynically placed to maximize both the Halloween and Christmas shopping seasons because we are shameless hypocrites here at the Book Nook. I just got confirmation from I Ain’t Your Marionette Press that we are still on schedule, and I should have physical copies for the West Virginia Book Festival on October 25 in Charleston, WV. Come meet me there.

I figure I should give a recap of what Christmas in Pandemonium is all about for the uninitiated. My story takes place in an imaginary town on the coast of South Carolina called Pandemonium. Pandemonium was founded in the year 1620 by a group of Satan-worshipping Witches who were ferried there by a group of disreputable pirates called the Strangers. The Strangers turn into religious zealots after seeing the Witches commit an act of human sacrifice and then kill a Witch after they land. However, the Witch turns out to be an Indian princess, and now the Stono want to wipe both of them out. The Strangers and Witches put aside their differences and work together to kill the Stono first and then build their town.

400 years later, the Witches have become the most lackadaisical Satanists you could imagine, replacing human sacrifice with the squishing of a bug. The Strangers have even sold their church off to a crooked televangelist, Miles Simon. Simon discovers Theophilus, a vampire, living in the church’s basement, and offers to pay Theo money to hypnotize his congregation into donating more money. When Theo turns Simon down, the preacher finds another vampire, Theo’s rival Scratch, and resurrects him from the dead to make the same deal. Scratch, however, doesn’t see eye to eye with Simon, and now Theo and the other locals of Pandemonium, have to put him down.

Please buy a copy. Inflate my ego.