Otherworld Publications

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Louisville, Kentucky, February 1, 2010

Otherworld Publications of Louisville, KY is thrilled to announce the signing of Arlington, TX author Greg McCarthy for the release of The Price of Life in September of 2010.

ABOUT GREG

Greg McCarthy is an author and attorney. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and Texas Tech University School of Law. For twenty-four years, he has practiced law in Dallas and all over Texas, with a primary focus on personal injury cases. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving medical malpractice, transportation, oil and gas, premises liability, and commercial litigation, and has tried dozens of cases to juries as lead counsel. For the first eighteen years of his practice, he devoted the majority of his time to representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice actions. Currently, he works as a mediator to help parties resolve their disputes and focuses his law practice on cases involving catastrophic injury or death.

He lives in Arlington, Texas, where he is working on his next novel.

ABOUT THE PRICE OF LIFE

Eight-year-old Jennifer Haller’s brain tumor is killing her. A timely CT scan would likely have saved her, and a new surgery offers hope for a cure, but Julie Haller is crushed when their insurance company refuses to pay for her daughter’s operation.

Shortly after Jennifer’s diagnosis, Marine Captain Ed Haller loses his leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq. He comes home to rehabilitate while Jennifer wages her own losing battle with cancer and its treatment. Jennifer’s death leads the family to Fort Worth lawyer Grant Mercer, whom they hire to sue Jennifer’s neurologist.

As Mercer works the case, Julie Haller learns the results of recent tort reform efforts, including a $250,000 limit in medical malpractice cases. She and her husband realize that a quarter-million dollar price tag on a beloved eight-year-old girl is simply inconceivable. They have no interest in the money, focusing instead on their responsibility to honor their daughter by seeking justice for her death.

The murders of a lobbyist in Austin, a state senator on a remote country road, and an insurance executive in New York seem unrelated until Jennifer’s doctor is kidnapped. Mercer makes the disturbing connection between the victims and his case, and discovers how far some people will go when the usual avenues of justice are too sharply curtailed.

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Otherworld Publications of Louisville, KY is thrilled to announce the signing of Lexington, KY author Richard Waterman for the release of The Oracle in November of 2010.

ABOUT RICHARD

Richard W. Waterman is a Political Scientist with specialties in the American Presidency, the Bureaucracy, the courts, and the Environment. He currently is a professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington where he has taught for nine years.  He has a PhD from the University of Houston, has published widely in the field of Political Science, has served as President of the Southwest Political Science Association, won the Laverne Burchfield Award from the journal Public Administration Review, testified before the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and was interviewed for CNN, including its prime time special "Fit To Lead."

He also has published eight books as well as articles in such academic journals as the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Law and Society Review, Electoral Studies, Public Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and the Social Science Quarterly. He has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation, served as chair of the University of Kentucky Department of Political Science, and presently lives in Kentucky with his partner and  two dogs.  Most important of all he is a life long Boston Red Sox fan.

ABOUT THE ORACLE

What price would you be willing to pay for an instrument of absolute power? Would you be willing to betray your friends and family, to even kill your own father?  Or would you be willing to commit even more heinous acts of mass murder, including genocide?

Guided by the spirit of a dark and powerful villain, the demented Count Belicki, various vibrantly articulated characters discover that they must sacrifice something they treasure more than life itself in order to acquire the transcendent power of the mysterious Oracle. Driven by an insatiable ambition, these individuals seek unlimited power, for if they are strong enough to bend the Oracle to their own will; it is capable of translating mere thoughts into stark reality.

But these mere humans are not the only ones who seek to control the Oracle.  For the battle for omnipotence also occurs within the Oracle itself.

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Otherworld Publications of Louisville, KY is thrilled to announce the signing of Layton, UT author David Rosenstein for the release of The Silk Worm in October of 2010.

ABOUT DAVID

David Rosenstein started writing for two reasons. His family always told him he was a great storyteller and he was always running out of thriller/suspense novels to read.

David writes approximately 70% of his time at his day job as a Senior Estimator and Deputy Asset Manager for a worldwide engineering and construction firm, Parsons Corporation, headquartered in Pasadena California. These writing projects consist of lengthy detailed and technical proposals to the Air Force, Army, Marines, CIA, Federal Government, City and State agencies for engineering and construction projects. These proposals, although not published for public use, are composed using the same literary standards authors use for fiction and nonfiction publication. 

David often interfaces with Federal and Military technical employees who design and manage high security level computer centers for construction purposes. This is where David learned about how computer security systems function that are used in his fiction writing. Although no national security secrets are divulged in his novel, his work experience gave him the knowledge to write interesting and believable fiction scenarios regarding computers and how the government uses them.

As an avid reader, David has learned how to craft a novel from the best thriller/suspense writers by studying their methods of character development, building of tension, multiple story lines, minds eye story descriptions and unexpected twists and turns. Writers such as Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Steven Coontz, Dale Brown, John Grisham, Lincoln Childs, David Baldacci and others were read and studied as David’s teachers.

David lives in Layton, Utah, a community 23 miles north of Salt Lake City with his wife and three children.

ABOUT THE SILK WORM

CIA agent, Richard Gibson, is sent to Hong Kong where he is to meet with a known informant to assess the possibility that a major assault of cyber terrorism, the next terrorism, is about to be unleashed on the free world by brilliant Chinese graduate student, Lee Yong, in an attempt to remove the evil influence of western values imposed upon his country by the capitalist countries of the world.                

Richard assembles a team of America’s top computer experts to try and thwart the attack. Within days of Richard’s team starting to work out possible scenarios, the first attack of the Silk Worm hits an airport control tower in northern Taiwan, which results in the crash of two airliners and the death of over three hundred and fifty passengers. The American Ambassador in China is instructed by the President of the United States to lobby the Chinese government in an attempt to allow this team to set up shop in Hong Kong to lead and work with Chinese agents in an effort to kill the attacking computer program and capture its creator.

Richard and his group of field agents hit the streets of Hong Kong with telemetry coordinates in hand to search for the physical locations of the ones responsible for the attack and soon discover that they are the ones being hunted.

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Otherworld Publications of Louisville, KY is thrilled to announce the signing of author Nik Korpon for the release of Stay God in December of 2010.

ABOUT NIK

Nik has been published in numerous magazines and journals, including 3:AM, Out of the Gutter Cause and Effect, Gold Dust, Colored Chalk, Troubadour21, Sex and Murder, The Mechanics Institute Review, short-story.me and Sideshow Fables, as well as the upcoming Shadow Kindred Anthology from Living Dead Press. His novella Old Ghosts is currently being serialized on Troubadour 21.com. He also has a chapbook forthcoming in late 2010. He reviews books for the Outsider Writers Collective, co-hosts Last Sunday, Last Rites, a monthly reading series in Baltimore, and is a Fiction Editor for Rotten Leaves Magazine. Somewhere between all of that, he is writing his second novel.

ABOUT STAY GOD

Damon lives a content life, playing video games and dealing drugs from his second-hand store while his girlfriend, Mary, drops constant hints about marriage. If only he could tell her his name isn’t really Damon. If only he could tell her who he really is. But after he witnesses a friend’s murder, a scarlet woman glides into his life, offering the solution to all of his problems. His carefully constructed existence soon shatters like crystal teardrops and he must determine which ghosts won’t stay buried—and which ones are trying to kill him—if he wants to learn why Mary has disappeared.

Otherworld Publications of Louisville, KY is excited to announce the signing of Chicago author, Richard Thomas for his debut novel, Transubstantiate, for release in June of 2010.

With this being the debut novel for both Otherworld Publications and Richard Thomas, they are thrilled to reveal that they will offer a signed, limited, hard cover edition with special features as well as a paperback version at its release.

About Richard:

He was the winner of the ChiZine Publications2009 “Enter the World of Filaria” contest.  His short story "Maker of Flight" was chosen by Filaria author Brent Hayward and Bram Stoker Award-Winning editor Brett Alexander Savory.  Some of his publishing credits include Cemetery Dance (Shivers VI, early 2010), Living DeadPress (Eternal Night: A Vampire Anthology), 3:AM Magazine, Word Riot,Dogmatika, The Oddville Press, Colored Chalk, Cause & Effect, Gold Dust,Vain, Nefarious Muse, Troubadour 21, Cherry Bleeds  and Opium. 

In his spare time he edits and designs for ColoredChalk and Sideshow Fables and is a workshop moderator at The Cult (chuckpalahniuk.net).

He is currently writing his second novel, a neo-noir, transgressive thriller entitled Disintegration.  Richard is also a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Richard lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago where he has worked as an art director for the past 14 years.  He was born in St. Louis, MO, attended Webster Groves High School, and did his undergraduate studies at Bradley University in Peoria, IL. He is currently pursuing an MFA at Murray State University in Murray, KY.

About Transubstantiate:

 “They say Jimmy made it out.  But the postcards we get, well, they don’t seem...real."

When an experiment with population control works too well, and the planet is decimated, seven broken people are united by a supernatural bond in a modern day Eden.  Most on the island are fully aware of this prison disguised as an oasis.  Unfortunately, Jimmy is on the mainland, desperate to get back, in a post-apocalyptic stand-off, fighting for his survival and that of his unborn child.  Back on the island, Jacob stares at the ocean through his telescope and plots his escape, reluctant to aid the cause.  Marcy tries to hide from her past, sexual escapades that may be her saving grace.  X sits in his compound, a quiet, massive presence, trapped in his body by ancient whispers and yet free in spirit to visit other places and times.  Roland, the angry, bitter son of Marcy is determined to leave, and sets out on his own.  Watching over it all is Assigned, the ghost in the machine.  And coming for them, to exact revenge, and finish the job that the virus started, is Gordon.  He just landed on the island and he has help.

Transubstantiate is a neo-noir thriller, filled with uncertainty at every portal, and jungles infiltrated with The Darkness. Vivid settings, lyrical language, and a slow reveal of plot, motivation, past crimes and future hope collide in a showdown that keeps you guessing untilthe final haunting words.

Transubstantiate: to change from onesubstance into another.

Otherworld Publications, LLC of Louisville, Kentucky is thrilled to annouce that Laura Griffith has signed on for the publication of Remember, a new crime thriller, to be released in July of 2010.

Laura Griffith is a native of the Chicagoland area and has lived there her whole life. She developed a love for all types of writing at an early age and wrote for local newspapers and newsletters before turning her aspirations to fiction. She has written a few screenplays and stage plays, and finally finished her first novel, Remember, in 2009.

Laura is a huge supporter of fine arts - music, theater, and writing have played a part in her life since elementary school. Being a member of the band and theater in school helped develop her love of stories and performance. And when time allows, she can now be found getting involved with her local community theater. She is also very excited to see her first children's play being performed in February of 2010.

Her inspiration can be found in the writings of her favorite authors who span a number of genres - James Rollins, Matthew Reilly, Danielle Steel, and Lisa Gardner top her list of writers to model. Of course, her biggest inspiration and support come from her friends and family - without whom her sanity would be lost. Everyone from her amazing daughter, husband, and parents to her inspirational grandmother to her supportive close friends and family - all of her writing is dedicated to them.

About Remember...

After a freak car accident, Professor Robert Madigan begins to suffer impairment of his short-term memory. Suddenly, moments that have just occurred are impossible for him to recall. His family and friends struggle to help him, but, as time goes by, it starts to appear to be more than a temporary condition. His job, his marriage, and his life begin to suffer, but nothing he tries to do works.

On his way home from work one evening, Robert finds himself standing over a battered, dead body. His hands are covered in blood. He has no recollection of what transpired before that very moment. The police arrive on the scene and take the professor in for questioning as their lead suspect.

As the police investigate the murder and sort out the details, Robert and his family begin to question the professor's lost memory. Had he been under enough stress to have snapped? Or did he witness a crime that he cannot remember the details of? And if he was a witness, what would a murderer do to keep his only witness quiet?

To uncover the truth, Robert must work with the detectives to piece together what happened that evening, no matter what the cost. But will he remember anything, and will it be too late?

Why is the date December 2, 2009 important? It's the date the Otherworld Publications came to exist legally!

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