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I must share some exciting news with all of you!
My new book, DERRICK, just won in 2018 New Apple Literary Awards Contest as Official Selection in Psychological Suspense. I am completely surprised, flattered and humbled by the honor!
Also to add, GAVIN (Part 1 of The Gavin Nolan Trilogy) won 2017 New Apple Literary Summer E-book Awards as Official Selection in Horror.
I could not resist choosing this one. While my list is extensively long, I think most of them are attainable. Yet, couple of them you might consider a stretch. You decide. I do admit much of it is just travelling the globe…
1) Live in London. After visiting the city many years ago, I remember all the details and nuances of the fantastic city. What makes it even more exciting—um duh, royal family—is the blending of the ancient, renaissance and modern structures that become a unique cityscape. Plus, it is the cosmopolitan melting pot of different cultures all messed into a sprawling metropolis.
2) See The Great Wall of China. Think that would be the highlight to my trip to visit Bangkok, China, and after I go to the Panda sanctuary. I cannot imagine what people thought when they first encountered the formidable structure 1000s of years ago.
3) Snorkel over the Great Barrier Reef. To be frank, snorkeling makes me nervous (for very different neurotic reasons that would require a martini). To admire the indigenous sea life up close would be unbelievable.
4) Experience Southeast Asia. I guess I generalized that statement too much. Visiting Vietnam, Laos and Thailand seem like an exotic and electrifying destinations. Indeed, I am a true gourmand and would relish in the endless savory dishes throughout these countries.
5) Visit Easter Island. I would love to see the Moai up close and personal. The mystery behind the structures and ancient civilization who created it just seems so intangibly tangible. Seeing so many documentaries and specials on the subject, I would like to visit it up close and draw my own conclusions. Echoing Mulder from the X-Files, I want to believe.
6) Go to Manchu Picchu. Since you have to go to Peru anyway to get to Easter Island, the ancient ruins of the city seem so intriguing. After visiting Incan ruins in Mexico and Central America, my growing interest for the ancient civilization increased. Then again, while I’m close by, I would like to take a plane and see the Nazca Lines.
7) Go to Space. Yep, I stated it! Now, I’m talking crazy, and space travel is still out of reach. However, developments for prototyped commercial aircraft are being produced in order to send passengers up to the highest point in the Earth’s atmosphere. Think that would be awe inspiring!
8) Write and produce a play for Broadway/ West End in London. Enough said. :-)
9) Ride a bullet train from Tokyo, Japan. I think that would be exhilarating.
10) Run 5 consecutive marathons in the following cities: Paris, France; Sydney, Australia; Dubai, UAE; Rome, Italy; and Victoria Falls, South Africa. I’m what you call an amateur athlete. I work out/train at least six days a week. I powerlift/lift weights three/four times a week, run at least four times a week, occasionally swim a mile once a week and do CrossFit three times a week. In fact, I did over 15 sprint triathlons, 3 Olympic triathlons and ran 2 marathons. Because I’m sitting behind a laptop so much, I like to remain active.
Well that’s about it…
Please check out my books, GAVIN (Part 1) and now DERRICK (Part 2)…both great dark, gritty, provocative thrillers.
What is yet to come? Currently I’m editing QUINN, which is the final part of the Gavin Nolan Trilogy. I hope to have it out next year Spring 2020. In between, I wrote another book, a sci-fi, horror thriller, called The Eradication Initiative. Because I just can’t stop writing, I’m penning another untitled piece, which is a ghost story set in Up State New York.
Thanks for spending time with me today!
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Read to Escape…
Russell
It seems like a job for the fire department, but under Captain Creighton’s direct orders, Detective Gavin Nolan and his partner, Derrick Williamson, must investigate. Arriving on the chaotic scene, they find multiple fatalities —but one of the victims is most peculiar…
Gavin soon discovers that this fire wasn’t the first of its kind. The arsonist has set ablaze other buildings around Chicago, and more female victims left in the same gruesome state have been discovered.
Gavin and Derrick determine that the arsonist is not an arsonist at all—but a sinister serial killer with an agenda.
Juggling the unexpected events in his personal life, Gavin digs into the locations of the explosions. At the same time, Derrick probes into the victims’ lives, searching for any possible connection.
However, when the next explosion occurs, the killer leaves behind a significant object, and Derrick becomes noticeably reserved. Gavin soon uncovers an enigmatic link, one that points to Derrick’s military past. A time that his partner had wished to forget. Yet, to catch the vicious maniac, Derrick must tell Gavin everything.
In a suspenseful, gripping ride to the end, it is up to Gavin to rescue his partner from the clutches of a killer. But will he make it in time?
WARNING: This book contains graphic scenes, explicit language, and violent sexual situations.
The Opus Theater was a gouged-out smoldering shell of a building, resembling a nefarious beast defeated at the hands of a mob of local villagers. Its massive first-floor entrance breathed out the last of the smoke, the toothy marquee scarred with black soot. Above, its blackened window-eyes stared down upon the people menacingly. As Gavin ambled closer, avoiding the other officers, a gripping scent of chemicals, fabric, and noxious gas filtered into his nostrils, then wafted away with the wind. Next to the theater, a pair of smaller sibling buildings, a shoe business and a comic magazine shop, were scarred and smoldering as well. Even from here, Gavin could make out the shattered glass sparkling grimly against the siren lights.
As he had seen on the news, the fire trucks clustered near the front of the buildings. The crews were already wrapping up their gear, and one was lowering its long ladder. Firemen dashed from the trucks into the dark façade of the building, being swallowed up by the dying beast. Other men tugged on the thick gray hoses that were haphazardly tossed around on the street. Already, pockets of ice were forming on the standing water and small icicles began to grow from the edges of the building. Gavin carefully stepped over the hoses, which reminded him of ripped-out intestines from the gut of the savage beast, and tried to get out of the firemen’s way.
Hastily, a fireman rushed past him and knocked him slightly. Grunting an apology, the man kept talking into his radio and rounded one of the trucks. The smell of smoke invaded Gavin’s nostrils once again.
From behind him, Derrick shouted, “About time you fucking got here.”
Russell has been writing for the majority of his life. Slipping into alternative universes allows him to enjoy the process of creativity from the novel’s conception to its final draft. Currently, he lives in South Texas with his wife, two kids and several cats.
DERRICK is a 2018 Winner in the New Apple Literary Awards, receiving Official Selection in Psychological Suspense.
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