I am thrilled to be hosting a spot
on the THE ELECTRIC GOD AND OTHER SHORTS by Michael Thomas Perone Blog Tour
hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.
Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About The Book:
Author: Michael Thomas Perone
Pub. Date: October 14, 2024
Publisher: Wheatmark
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 251
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N
A small town becomes obsessed with
television—to the point of madness.
A cheerful innocent confronts the harsh reality of the world and is forever
changed by the experience.
A struggling author begins receiving strange messages on the paper he uses to
write.
A bullied, brilliant teen is put through the wringer of his high school and
comes out the other side insane.
A detective of the future discovers he may be investigating his own untimely
demise—and that of the world’s.
These and one more dark fable await
you from the imaginative mind of the award-winning author Michael Thomas
Perone. Part fractured fairy tales, part nightmare fuel, The Electric
God and Other Shorts follows characters who struggle to
remain sane in an insane world and features stories that will keep you up at
night, wondering what might be lurking in the shadows.
Excerpt from The Electric God and Other Shorts
The drops of blood plopping onto Bill’s steering wheel were so large, they made a sound upon impact. Bill tried fruitlessly to divert his mind from the searing agony that heightened with each pump of his heart. Picturing his destination, Park City Memorial Hospital, he ignored the pain that wrestled for his attention as more blood leaked from his broken body. At once, Bill felt a booming crash directly behind him, and his car popped a wheelie, the front two wheels spinning in the air. When they met the street again with a resounding screech, Bill’s fears were confirmed after he looked over his ailing shoulder. A Model-Z purposefully rammed his bumper, and another muscle car was close behind.
“What is this, the karma police?” Bill asked himself. Two shots, one from each speeding car, alerted Bill of their intentions, and he shot back through the open driver’s side window, his ammo filling the sky but not striking any targets. An enemy bullet ricocheted off his trunk with a cartoonish Ping! sound, and another connected with one of Bill’s back tires. He continued driving, considering the flat a triumph since they were short one more bullet and it didn’t kill him. Another round burst his rear window in a spectacular splash of glass. Now Bill was a sitting duck. To avoid the incoming shots, he swerved erratically across the road, with bullets whistling by and one almost grazing his ear.
“How many freakin’
guns do they have?” Bill asked. He checked his own supply: his barrel was empty.
“This just keeps getting better,” he muttered between gritted teeth. Resorting to
Plan B, Bill slammed his brakes as the twin pursuing cars rushed past, one on
each side. He then pulled a sharp left against traffic, the oncoming cars
blasting their horns and veering out of the way. Bill was forced to take the
longer, scenic route to the hospital. When he finally arrived, he hid his car
behind a nearby stationery and stumbled into the emergency ward, half unconscious.
About Michael Thomas Perone:
Michael Thomas Perone is an award-winning author who has
written for The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, Long
Island Voice (a spinoff of The Village Voice), and The Island Ear
(now titled Long Island Press), among others. Online, he has written for
Yahoo!, WhatCulture!, and other websites that don’t end with an exclamation
mark. His debut novel, the action-adventure Danger Peak, was the
recipient of multiple awards, including The Fall 2022 BookFest Award in the
category of Young Adult – Action and Adventure. His follow-up, the
coming-of-age/sci-fi mindbender Déjà View, won First Place at the Spring
2024 BookFest Awards in the category of Young Adult – Literary and Coming of
Age. It was also a finalist of The Eric Hoffer Book Award. He currently works
as a Senior Editor and lives on Long Island with his wife and two daughters.
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Giveaway Details:
10 winners
will receive a finished copy of THE ELECTRIC GOD AND OTHER SHORTS, US Only.
Ends November 19th, midnight EST.
a Rafflecopter giveawayTour Schedule:
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11/5/2024 |
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11/5/2024 |
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11/6/2024 |
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11/7/2024 |
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11/7/2024 |
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11/8/2024 |
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11/8/2024 |
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