NECROPOLIS a novel by Michael Dempsey
Sincere thanks to all of you who participated in the NECROPOLIS Kindle Fire Giveaway! We had over 6500 entries! KINDLE FIRE GIVEAWAY WINNERS: 1ST PRIZE: Kindle Fire James Broadley 2nd PRIZE: Kindle Susan H. Lily Sanders 3rd PRIZE: $40 Amazon gift card Richard Thomas Pamela Lines Moran Blome Amy Wakins Brett George Winners will be [...]
The awesome Fantasy Book Critic site (http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com) was kind enough to let me do this guest blog: Tropes are tricky ingredients to handle. Even master literary chefs sometimes have problems with them. We’ve all experienced a meal of fiction where the trope was tough, or left a bitter aftertaste, or just plain seemed inappropriate to [...]
Jessica Strider, a bookseller at the World’s Biggest Bookstore in Toronto, Canada, grills me about NECROPOLIS and the writing life, as posted on her SCI-FI FAN LETTER blog: In the past you’ve written TV episodes and plays, and are an award-winning stage actor and director. What made you try your hand at writing novels? Does [...]
EXCERPT: Welcome to Booked! a feature where we ask an author to share their favorite books with our readers. Today’s guest is Michael Dempsey, author of Necropolis: I’ll admit it. I’m a closet lowbrow. I love pulp fiction. Growing up, when all the other kids were reading The Catcher In The Rye, I had my head buried [...]
Don’t snort with derision, but when I wrote my novel Necropolis, I didn’t know what genre it was. Not because I couldn’t decide-because I wasn’t even aware that the genre existed. Growing up, I loved crime stories; film noir, with its darkness and desperation, its cynical detectives and seedy swindlers. Necropolis initially involved a premise that I thought [...]
October 9, 2011 Check out NECROPOLIS author Michael Dempsey’s guest blog on The Night Bazaar, a group blog for science fiction, fantasy, and horror authors with books releasing from Night Shade Books in 2011: IF YOU SEE THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD, KILL HIM Thanks to Courtney Schafer and all the folks at Night Bazaar!
Even in boom times, the deck’s stacked against a first-time novelist. So, considering the challenges presently facing our industry, I wrote NECROPOLIS with little expectation of publication. Yes, I suspected that I’d stumbled across something new and exciting in my tech noir crime thriller, but a book with a fresh angle needs a bold champion. [...]
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