Just read a couple Jennifer Thorne books back to back. I really like her writing style. She does amazing dialog and interpersonal conflict.

Lute was especially great. So good that I immediately decided to see what else she'd written.

Diavola got off to a fantastic start, but petered out a bit after the midpoint. Still worth a read, but I personally connected with Lute more.

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Travelling companions on the train to dad today: Philip Fracassi's quite excellent The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre, and some Dave Brubeck on the headphones.

There was a brownie too, but it has been munched already.

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“Reads like the pre-NEAR DARK, 1970s vampire novel you always wanted” (Paul Tremblay)

Coffin Moon is simply amazing. You don’t have to take my word for it, though — people like Joe Hill, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Tremblay, Nathan Ballingrud, Patton Oswalt, and others think so, too.

It’s the winter of 1975, and Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Duane Minor is back home after a tour in Vietnam, a bartender just trying to stay sober; save his marriage with his wife, Heidi; and connect with his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, now that he’s responsible for raising her. Things aren’t easy, but Minor is scraping by.

Then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life.

When Minor crosses John Varley, a killer who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon, Varley brutally retaliates by murdering Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. What’s left of their splintered family is united by only one desire: vengeance.

So begins a furious, frenzied pursuit across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. From grimy alleyways to desolate highways to snow-lashed plains, Minor and Julia are cast into the dark orbit of undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men transfixed by Varley’s ferocity.

Coffin Moon by Keith Rosson came out yesterday. I receive a lot of advance review copies of books, and sometimes they can blur together — but when I read Paul’s Near Dark comparison, I was immediately intrigued.

And boy, does this book ever deliver.

A few blurbs:

“Epic, horrific, heartbreaking, and written with a punk poet’s soul, Coffin Moon reads like the pre-Near Dark, 1970s vampire novel you always wanted. Be careful what you wish for, though, because this book will leave its mark.”—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

“Just when I thought I’d read every kind of vampire novel, here comes Keith Rosson with a story that shocks and surprises.”—Jason Rekulak, New York Times bestselling author of The Last One at the Wedding

“Keith Rosson is slowly, surely, unstoppably carving his claim on modern horror, and this bleak and bloody ‘vampire vengeance’ spook show is another gut-gouge in his growing oeuvre. Do NOT miss this one.”—Patton Oswalt, New York Times bestselling author of Zombie Spaceship Wasteland and Silver Screen Fiend

“Grabs you by the throat and doesn’t relent till the end.”—Cassandra Khaw, bestselling author of Nothing but Blackened Teeth

“Keith Rosson is at the peak of his considerable talents in this sinewy, fierce tale of vengeance, vampires, and the 1970s.”—Joe Hill, author of King Sorrow

Coffin Moon is available in print, for Kindle, and on Audible! Get it here.

~Mike

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