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New Cover! 4/13/2006 8:08:09 PM
There are those who claim I'm not all there as it is, well, since January, I've been even less here than usual. But, let's forget about that, for now. It's a gorgeous day--at last!! After months and months of rain. And, I have a new cover to celebrate!
This one's for Dream under the Hill coming soon from SynergEbooks.
And what better way to celebrate, than with a brief excerpt...
The sun was also shining on the far end of town, in the shadow of the mountain, at the very edge of the encroaching forest, for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil as well as the good. It dappled the ground beneath the trees and glistened on the strands of the spiders’ webs, that stretched between their branches. It shone its light on the man currently known as the Reverend Gregg Stevens, as he strolled the grounds of his church, breathing in the scents of redwood and cedar and admiring the electric fence he’d just had installed.
The fence was truly a thing of beauty, Gregg decided; of beauty and function combined. Designed to keep the curious out and the rebellious in, it brought his dreams of everything The Universal Church of Truth, Light and Vision could become that much closer to being fulfilled. Not that any of his little family were thinking about rebelling yet, but when they did, the fence would be there. Waiting for them. Ready to halt their flight, to guide them back to reason, to protect them from themselves.
The question was, did he want to tell them ahead of time when the fence was turned on? Or was it better to keep that fact a happy secret, a small mystery, a glorious surprise?
He watched as a song bird attempted to land on the whorls of barbed wire that wrapped along the top of the fence. Flames shot from the bird’s chest as it exploded, and dropped to the ground.
Despite the absolutely beautiful cover art, Dream under the Hill is the darkest of the Oberon books. So dark, in fact, that I've added a disclaimer:
"Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."
(Milton ~ Paradise Lost)
In every story there comes a dark moment, a point where all seems lost. For many of Oberon’s residents, that moment is now. During the writing of this book, I was sometimes disturbed by how dark it was all turning out, until I understood that point.
While it’s true that the tone of this book might seem different than the others in the Oberon saga, I hope that you will not be deterred by some of the more graphic violence that occurs, especially in the opening chapters of this book. It’s there only because I felt it was necessary for the telling of this story.
And remember, it’s always darkest just before the dawn.
