Happy Easter everyone, and Happy Passover to those Jewish readers I have. I wonder if I have any Jewish readers, or Christian readers, or any readers. Supposedly, I have some, according to these statistics WordPress sends me every month. I take this opportunity to remind the world that I have a novel coming out in Mid-September: “Christmas in Pandemonium.” That’s why we’re talking Christmas at Easter.

To give a brief recap, “Christmas in Pandemonium” is a novel that takes place in Pandemonium, South Carolina, a town founded in 1620, before the foundation of South Carolina as a colony. While Plymouth was founded by Pilgrims and Pennsylvania was founded by Quakers, Pandemonium was founded by Satan-worshipping witches. They are ferried to the New World by the Strangers, a group of disreputable pirates turned religious fanatics after they witness the Witches commit an act of human sacrifice aboard their ship, the Charon. The two sides learn to work together after being threatened by a local Indian Tribe, and they go one to found Pandemonium. Throw in some African slaves and an obscure sect of Jewish werewolves in the 1890s, and you’ve got Pandemonium, a community that has existed for 400 years.

The story begins at Christmas in the present day. The Witches have become the most lackadaisical Satanists in human history, replacing the sacrifice of a human being with the crushing of a bug. The Strangers have sold their church to prosperity gospel preacher Miles Simon. When Simons finds the Strangers have a vampire named Theo in their basement that can hypnotize people. Simon proposes to Theo that he hypnotize Simon’s congregation into giving him more money, offering to split the profits. Theo turns him down, leading Simon to resurrect Scratch, Theo’s vampiric rival. Scratch is a theocratic vampire, who kills men, women, and children, believing God wants him to do this. Scratch quickly dispatches Simon, and now Theo, along with his fellow Pandemonians, have to bring him down. The book is about 92,000 words.

“Christmas in Pandemonium” was supposed to come out last Christmas, but it is now set to come out in mid-September due to delays caused by the Canadian mail carriers strike. That’s why we’re talking about Christmas at Easter. I invite you to mark your calendars.