Author THE SERIAL KILLER'S SON TAKES A WIFE (WordFire Press) & HOLLYWOOD NORTH (CZP/Open Road Media). World Fantasy Award finalist. No book marketing DMs. šØš¦
ā...easily one of the best small-town crime thrillers Iāve read in a very long timeā¦. Itās the Coen Brothers meet Thomas Harrisā¦and I canāt recommend it enough.ā - Lawrence C. Connolly, author, Minute-Men: Execute & Run #books#AmReading
āTake Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.ā - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books#AmReading
"Hollywood North is a coming-of-age story like no other, masterfully using the guise of supernatural horror to wrap its poison pill." - Alex Good, Toronto Star #books#booktwt@OpenRoadMedia
"Hollywood North is a coming-of-age story like no other, masterfully using the guise of supernatural horror to wrap its poison pill." - Alex Good, Toronto Star #books#booktwt@OpenRoadMedia
āTake Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.ā - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books#AmReading
āTake Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.ā - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books#AmReading
"His prose is deceptively simple and smooth. It slips between your ribs like a stiletto. Before you know whatās happening, youāre laughing or bleeding or both." -William Shunn, Main Wish Null #booktwt#amreading
āTake Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.ā - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books#AmReading
"I loved every page of this book. It took me to an unexpected place and left me little time to catch my bearings, before something else floored me with a left hook." -Timothy S. Johnston, author, Blanket of Steel #books#AmReading
"His prose is deceptively simple and smooth. It slips between your ribs like a stiletto. Before you know whatās happening, youāre laughing or bleeding or both." -William Shunn, Main Wish Null #booktwt#amreading
"The reader is yanked from one chapter to the next, cliff-hanger to cliff-hanger, until reader and protagonist meet in the dark, one as blind as the other as to what happens next." -DanĀ Laxer, The Suburban Newspaper #book#reading
ā...easily one of the best small-town crime thrillers Iāve read in a very long timeā¦. Itās the Coen Brothers meet Thomas Harrisā¦and I canāt recommend it enough.ā - Lawrence C. Connolly, author, Minute-Men: Execute & Run #books#AmReading
More than just an entertaining novel, this valuable resource is loaded with tips and advice for kids of killers. Hey! You never know when you might need a little help. #BookTwt#BookTok#Bookstagram#books#reading
More than just an entertaining novel, this valuable resource is loaded with tips and advice for kids of killers. Hey! You never know when you might need a little help. #BookTwt#BookTok#Bookstagram#books#reading
āLibling doesnāt just go for the jugular, he goes for your entire throat, then reaches all the way down and grabs onto your heart. Full of feeling and freakish delights, this is a wild, unpredictable story that will amaze and startle readers by turns. What if Patrick Bateman from American Psycho had been a family man? What would his son be like? Libling answers that question in this terrifying and darkly humorous tale of hereditary horror.ā āIan Rogers, author of Every House Is Haunted @WordFirePress
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"Hollywood North is a terrific novel about growing up in mid-century Trenton, Ont., but itās also a great deal more than that.Ā Michael Libling proceeds by way of subtlety and misdirection. ... Hollywood North is a coming-of-age story like no other, masterfully using the guise of supernatural horror to wrap its poison pill. Childhood idealism gives way to deceit. We give up the freedom of youth for weary resignation to the inscrutable and mostly grim workings of fate. Cold revenge is not a dish to be enjoyed but only a petty and bitter satisfaction. Childhood dreams are a source of regret and their loss a welcome oblivion.Ā That probably sounds rather downbeat, but while Hollywood North is a dark fantasy, itās presented in such a lively way, right down to the bookās delightful interior design elements, that you donāt notice the darkness falling until the curtain is pulled on The End. The writing has an immediacy and power of observation that tears the reader through the story like a dangerous set of rapids leading into a whirlpool of horror.Ā The psychological and emotional business of growing up is a familiar theme in fiction, but itās rarely been handled with this much sophistication while being so entertaining in the bargain. The balancing of pop, or even pulp, fiction with profundity is hard to maintain, but Libling makes it seem easy. As a novel containing history, real and imagined, we might even say the epic of Trenton has arrived."
- Alex Good, The Toronto Star
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āLibling doesnāt just go for the jugular, he goes for your entire throat, then reaches all the way down and grabs onto your heart. Full of feeling and freakish delights, this is a wild, unpredictable story that will amaze and startle readers by turns. What if Patrick Bateman from American Psycho had been a family man? What would his son be like? Libling answers that question in this terrifying and darkly humorous tale of hereditary horror.ā āIan Rogers, author of Every House Is Haunted @WordFirePress
#books #thrillers #romance