Michael Libling

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. 🇨🇦

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

Kinda sexy. Kinda dark. Kinda funny. Kinda violent. Kinda romantic. Kinda thrilling. Kinda nuts. Kinda exciting. Yeah, it's one of those kinda #books. #thrillers #crime #readerscommunity #CrimeFiction #horror #romancenovels #horror #humor

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“...easily one of the best small-town crime thrillers I’ve read in a very long time…. It’s the Coen Brothers meet Thomas Harris…and I can’t recommend it enough.” - Lawrence C. Connolly, author, Minute-Men: Execute & Run #books #AmReading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“Take Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.” - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books #AmReading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"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

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"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

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

Inspired by the bizarre history of an actual small town. Where hunting, fishing, arson, and drowning are the favored pastimes. Where dogs maim, trains derail, and people vanish. #books #Canada #hollywood #writerslift #readers #booklovers #bookrecommendations

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“Take Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.” - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books #AmReading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“Take Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.” - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books #AmReading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"His prose is deceptively simple and smooth. It slips between your ribs like a stiletto. Before you know what’s happening, you’re laughing or bleeding or both." -William Shunn, Main Wish Null #booktwt #amreading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“Take Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Woody Allen, and Stranger Things, sprinkle in the spice of a subtle Canadian sensibility...and this is the eerie result.” - Claude Lalumiere, author, Venera Dreams #books #AmReading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"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

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"His prose is deceptively simple and smooth. It slips between your ribs like a stiletto. Before you know what’s happening, you’re laughing or bleeding or both." -William Shunn, Main Wish Null #booktwt #amreading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"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." -Dan Laxer, The Suburban Newspaper #book #reading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“...easily one of the best small-town crime thrillers I’ve read in a very long time…. It’s the Coen Brothers meet Thomas Harris…and I can’t recommend it enough.” - Lawrence C. Connolly, author, Minute-Men: Execute & Run #books #AmReading

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

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

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

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

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“Libling doesn’t 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.” —Ian Rogers, author of Every House Is Haunted @WordFirePress

#books #thrillers #romance

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

Inspired by the bizarre history of an actual small town. Where hunting, fishing, arson, and drowning are the favored pastimes. Where dogs maim, trains derail, and people vanish. #books #Canada #hollywood #writerslift #readers #booklovers #bookrecommendations

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

Kinda sexy. Kinda dark. Kinda funny. Kinda violent. Kinda romantic. Kinda thrilling. Kinda nuts. Kinda unputdownable. Yeah, it's one of those kinda #books. #crime #readers #reading #wives #brides #writerslift #writerslift #Thriller #romance #mystery #kindle

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

"Hollywood North is a terrific novel about growing up in mid-century Trenton, Ont., but it’s also a great deal more than that. 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. That probably sounds rather downbeat, but while Hollywood North is a dark fantasy, it’s presented in such a lively way, right down to the book’s delightful interior design elements, that you don’t 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. The psychological and emotional business of growing up is a familiar theme in fiction, but it’s 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

#BooksWorthReading #bookrecommendations #Canada

[Michael Libling @MichaelLibling]

“Libling doesn’t 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.” —Ian Rogers, author of Every House Is Haunted @WordFirePress

#books #thrillers #romance