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We made a spy movie!

Dead Park is a horror anthology, a collection of six books (and counting) filled with monsters, gore, and humor.

So why did we just make a spy movie?

As Bluto said when he gave Larry the nickname Pinto, “WHY NOT???”

Stop in my underground lair, where much of the writing happens, and you’ll get it. There are shelves full of wrestling books and videos (because I also write about wrestling), shelves full of Star Wars toys (my oldest obsession), and shelves full of spy books and movies.

Real spy stories. Fictional spies. Lots of Ian Fleming/James Bond but also Flint, Matt Helm, Maxwell Smart, Steed and Peele.

I even have a spy novel, Girl Most Likely to Kill You. And I’m working on two sequels. One of which connects Dead Park to my spy saga.

Because again… WHY NOT?”

Agent Janet was inspired by a movie on streaming. A secret agent recruits her blue collar ex-boyfriend to help her save the world. He gets a little training, some gadgets, and he’s off. No training, no orientation, and no…

Well, I won’t spoil the movie. You really need to watch it. So click play and enjoy.

Thanks to Christina Cannon, Heather Wilson, Serena Fister-Mesch, and especially Jason Crowe, who I finally got to collaborate with on this short!

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A Story 18 Years in the Writing

It’s kind of fitting the events of my new book Girl Most Likely to Kill You take place over twenty years. It took almost that long to get the story into print.

Girl Most Likely to Kill You didn’t start life as a novel, though. It began as a movie idea. Back in the early 2000s, my prime creative goal was to become a film maker or, at the very least, a screenwriter. I’ve still got a file on my laptop with nearly two dozen screenplays in various stages of completion. White Trash. The World According to Dallas. Must Do No Harm. Grade Expectations. Facade. Beachhead.

Girl Most Likely started out under the title of High School Sweetheart. It’s a love story about a guy who wanted to tell his best friend he was in love with her on prom night. The girl vanished on prom night, and he doesn’t hear a word from her for twenty years. When she comes back into his life, he’s a divorced dad with a teenage girl of her own, and all seems to finally be right in his world.

That is, until a conspiracy theorist student in his class warns him: your girlfriend might be the world’s most wanted assassin.

Girl Most Likely is not the first of my screenplays to transition to a novel. That honor belongs to the sci-fi adventure Martian Queen. It won’t be the last either. I have a second that will be released shortly, and a third is about to become the third book in the Dead Park series.

This is one of my all time favorite stories, combining humor, romance, intrigue, and something I’ve always loved but never written much about: spy stuff.

You can pre-order Girl Most Likely to Kill You now on paperback. All pre-orders include a free copy of the ebook version sent to your email address. And if you prefer to shop Amazon, well, you can buy it at this link.