So here are some of my non-famous writings. We’ve decided to get peppy and start posting stuff on here, the stuff that’s going to take me straight to the middle. Of course, all material is copyright Thacher E Cleveland, and remember: stealing is bad karma.
Shadow of the Past
This is the first novel, started in high school, revised, lost, restarted, revised, and redone. From the query letter: “In 1953 a madman who tortured and killed children in his basement, worshiping a god only he could see, kidnapped 10-year old Darren Cox from his suburban New Jersey home to witness his horrible crimes. Today, 17-year old Mark Watson is witnessing those killings in his dreams and experiencing everything in Darren’s place. It shouldn’t be a surprise to him. Everything has always been against Mark. Orphaned to an uncaring uncle, he’s poor, unpopular and he doesn’t have any prospects for his future. That begins to change when he literally runs into Christine Baker, a new girl at school who doesn’t know anything about Mark’s embarrassing past and actually begins showing interest in him. The dreams are the least of his worries. The killer has returned from the grave as a force of darkness and fire and he’s targeting the few loved ones Mark has with deadly supernatural power. Their deaths are a message for Mark: what happened in that basement is not over, and it’s not going to be until Mark learns what happened all those years ago. He’s falling in love for the first time, his bullying nemesis at school is out for blood, and his best friend is eyeing his new girlfriend. There’s no peace wherever he turns, and that looks to be exactly where the killer wants him: broken, alone, and facing his end in the house that saw the deaths of four children all those years ago and still holds a terrible evil.”
Currently being shopped around at various agents.
The Corner
The new novel, currently being in progress. These two little chapters are of course subject to change, but here they stand for now. After watching his daughter die in a car accident, our main character sets out on a path of drinking, drugs, revenge, crime and small town noir.
