John A. Karr, writer
Stretching rigid limbs. Emerging. Rising. Ravenous ...
Eclectic writer. Nice phrase, if a bit stuffy. Basically, I write what strikes me as interesting. That encompasses thriller, general fiction, historical, heroic fantasy, horror, and now mystery. Goal is to make it entertaining for the reader as well, as the writing entertains me.
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The United States of America needs to renew its efforts in Space. There lies The Future, and we must meet it. Innovate. Invent. Achieve.
"We will go to the moon. We will go to the moon and do other things, NOT because they are easy but because they are HARD.” John F. Kennedy The Rice University Moon speech
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On the Writing Front:
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2/16/2010 -- Signed publishing contract with Wild Wolf Publishing http://wildwolfpublishing.com/default.aspx for my dark heroic fantasy novel, RHONE. The cover art they have shown me is awesome.
2/2/2010 -- Things heating up nicely on the publishing front for my heroic fantasy novel, RHONE (see image of sword through fracturing Mars below). Announcement forthcoming ....
About RHONE:
The story is a long-form blend (approx. 120,000 words) inspired by legendary writers Robert E. Howard, Michael Moorcock, Karl Edward Wagner and Edgar Rice Burroughs.
1/22/2010 -- Asylett Press soon to release trade paper edition of Hippocrates Shattered, possibly by January 31.
11/23/2009 -- Sam's Dot Publishing's Expressions editor has accepted my flash fiction piece, Storeroom Clerk, for Dec '09.
10/24/2009 -- Received the print galleys and print cover art for Hippocrates Shattered so now I need to go through and check for errors for an errata list. Trade-sized print copies available soon afterward. Asylett Press
10/02/09 -- Want to read some horror on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Dark Resurrection now available via App Shopper. Thanks to Samhain Publishing for exploring this e-realm.
6/21/09 -- Asylett Press has released my medical thriller, Hippocrates Shattered, in ebook format. Trade paper soon after I hand in the final edits. Ebook also available at Fictionwise.
About Hippocrates Shattered:
Andrew Raynorr M.D. was forced from his practice by a managed care corporation. When he loses his family, his vengeance turns deadly. He creates a virus, one that causes the body’s own genes to unleash an explosive leukemia, and targets managed care executives.
Bridget Devereaux, a young intern at Chambers Hospital, suspects something is strange about the strain of leukemia they are seeing in recent admissions...it kills the patient within days. Though she finds no support for her suspicions within the upper echelons of hospital management, she researches the blood cancer and traces the catalyst back to Raynorr.
But Raynorr is aware Bridget has found him out, and now not only her career, but her very life is in jeopardy.
7/15/09 -- Hol Art Books has listed my modern-day Vincent van Gogh novel, The Painter's Dream, as a viable project for a collaborative publishing effort. So far I've got a project manager (moi), an editor, and a designer. Now I need a publicist who will accept a percentage of sales as compensation, and an independent bookstore sponsor or museum gift shop sponsor for the rest of the team. I have a contact who may be willing to translate the work into French, as he and the protagonist are French-Canadian.
The Samhellion Newsletter published my dark fantasy short story, Bayou Life, in their November '08 edition.
JUST WRITE
DARK RESURRECTION
Available in trade paperback from Samhain Publishing and Amazon.
I designed the RHONE concept cover to (diagonal right) with GIMP, cool free image tool. RHONE is heroic fantasy, set on the planet Mars before all life is blown away during Rhone's final battle with a god gone mad. Apocalyptic, yes. But there's an upside that involves Earth...
RHONE has now found a publisher, Wild Wolf Publishing, and I'm looking forward to it coming to life.
Released as ebook: medical thriller novel, Hippocrates Shattered
