Robert Devereaux

SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE HOMOPHOBES is now available at all the usual suspects online.

IN BRIEF
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Santa Claus and stepdaughter Wendy strive to remake the world in compassion and generosity, preventing one child's fated suicide by winning over his worst tormentors, then attempting, with the Easter Bunny's help, to eradicate homophobia worldwide in one magical night.

WHERE TO FIND IT
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Amazon.com, print edition
Amazon.com, Kindle edition
Barnes & Noble
Booklocker.com, both as a trade paperback and an eBook. The first five chapters can be read here.
Booklocker.com – wholesale order form for bookstores

Enjoy!

Robert

Just a quick note to tell you that yesterday’s mail contained the first copy of SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE HOMOPHOBES.

All’s well with it and I’ve told booklocker.com to proceed with the final steps for making it available online and through Ingram’s.

Stay tuned as it hits the streets.

It should be a matter of a few weeks!

Oh and here’s a link to the cover.

Robert

Folks, my new novel Santa Claus Conquers the Homophobes will be out in late August or early September as a trade paperback.

For those familiar with Santa Steps Out, this book is a sequel, but it isn’t necessary to have read the earlier book first.

To whet your appetite, here is the back cover text.

Enjoy!

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Santa Claus is back. And flying beside him is Wendy, his freshly minted stepdaughter, who can peer into the future of selected children and offer them glimpses of the wonders ahead.

But with that power come horrific visions of the turmoil and trouble the less fortunate among them seem destined to suffer.

Can Wendy and her stepfather prevent the suicide of Jamie Stratton in his teen years, as he grows up gay in a homophobic household and community? God the Father grants them three visits to Jamie’s tormentors, in hopes of bringing about a change of heart in them and eliminating their ingrained prejudices.

Beyond the challenge of rescuing one child lies the far more daunting task of expunging entirely this brand of bigotry from the human race, as Santa and Wendy seek to remake the world in compassion and generosity.

Along the way, they enlist the aid of the Easter Bunny, a highly persuasive fellow indeed.

But the Tooth Fairy and her loathsome imps are hell-bent on doing all they can to stop Santa and Wendy–nay, to *heighten* mortal fear and hatred against anyone whose orientation strays even the slightest from the norm.

In the end, Santa must make the ultimate sacrifice if he is to save humankind from complete chaos and self-destruction.
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Yep, been away from blogging for a while.

Got Deadweight back into print from great POD publisher booklocker.com.

Mulling political books & prepping a little for Pikes Peak Writers Conference.

Also on Facebook to communicate with my daughter in Switzerland.

And continuing the elusive pursuit of Argentine Tango.

Gotta run!

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Click HERE for info about Deadolescence:  A Tale of Love and Sacrifice, my new horror novel arriving in your in-box, once you sign up, in two-chapter installments once each week, gratis, beginning Halloween.
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My thanks to Brian Matus and Damian Smith for interviewing me about Deadolescence and much more.  You can find the podcast here.  Look for Episode 18.

Robert Devereaux

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Click HERE for info about Deadolescence:  A Tale of Love and Sacrifice, my new horror novel arriving in your in-box, once you sign up, in two-chapter installments once each week, gratis, beginning Halloween.
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Wonderful it is that Lisa Morton, my good friend from World Horror Convention days and a creator of film, plays, and award-winning fiction (Lisa recently won a Stoker in Short Fiction, no mean feat!), is treasurer of Horror Writers of America, which I’m in the process of re-joining.

For she went on Shocklines and spread the word about Deadolescence, starting a run on subscriptions.  Thank you, Lisa!

The 9-to-5 work day crooks its bony finger me-wards, else I’d linger longer.

Robert Devereaux

Yep, good ol’ Robert is back after long hiatus, with some grand news for those of you who’ve found merit in my previous work and/or who would like to sample something new.

That something new is Deadolescence: A Tale of Love and Sacrifice, a novel in 26 chapters that tells the story of a certain high school where things are going way awry.  High schools in the Demented States of America are built with secret passageways and are meant to be locked down during senior prom, where it’s accepted practice to slaughter one couple and tear off bits of their bodies as mementos of the prom.

But something’s gone amiss at Corundum High, where the unknown designated slasher is claiming a far higher body count than the normal two. 

Is it Futzy Buttweiler, the principal with a smoldering grudge against the system that once claimed his daughter? 

Is it school nurse Delia Gaskin, the butt of student pranks?

Or it is Gerber Waddell, the once-sociopathic head janitor whose lobotomy may not quite have done the trick?

And will Dex and Tweed, our love interest, survive the night that ought to have been their last?

Beginning Halloween 2007, each week for thirteen weeks, I’ll send you, gratis, two chapters of my latest horror novel, Deadolescence.  To try it out, just send an empty message here, or fill in the two boxes below and press Sign Me Up:

Robert Devereaux