New news = I just got the first peek at the cover for the Italian edition of VALLEY OF THE DEAD and it looks pretty cool. Not all "Leisure" like (and you know what I mean - skulls with red lettering). Really looking forward to this!
Maybe everyone took the time over the holidays to read it?
Here's a really nice review that actually quotes from about my favorite scene in the book - it's the Circle of the Heretics (whom Dante equates with Epicureans, which he uses as a synonym for Atheists) and it's the tightest, most succinct theological exchange in the whole book - just one simple question and four simple answers that I think encapsulates pretty much all of Christian ( heck - Human) thought on the problem of theodicy.
I'm wondering if VALLEY will end up being like HISTORY IS DEAD - a consistent, slow but steady wins the race, kind of seller.
Location: Cornwall on Hudson, New York, United States
I am a professor of religious studies, and the author of several books on the Bible and theology. I grew up in New York, Virginia, and New Mexico. I attended St. John's College, Annapolis, MD (BA, 1988), Harvard Divinity School (MTS, 1990), and the University of Notre Dame (PhD, 1995). I live in upstate New York with my wife and two wonderful kids.
Starting in 2006, I had one of those strange midlife things, and turned my analysis towards horror films and literature. I have written
Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth (Baylor, 2006) - WINNER, 2006 Bram Stoker Award;
Dying to Live: A Novel of Life among the Undead (Permuted Press, 2007);
Orpheus and the Pearl(Magus Press, 2008); and
Dying to Live: Life Sentence(Permuted Press, 2008).