Bøger af A B Alvarez

Four authors. Twelve stories. Another writing session with only the unknown before them.In the pages of Beyond the Door Volume 2 can be found stories about: a dangerous beauty seeking revengethe power of wordsan alien invasionespionage during the Civil Warfraternity hazing with a dangerous edgeelection tampering from the futureThe authors from Beyond the Door Volume 1 have come together again to mine their imagination for more visions of time lines only they could discover. Clones, child detectives, first ladies, and missing pregnancies mask a reality only they could survive to tell the world.If an open door is an invitation then consider this a taste of what you'll find inside.They are halfway through the deck.Q: What was it like to write these stories without the others in the room with you?A.B. Alvarez: Who says I wasn't in the room with the others? Just because they couldn't see me. I mean, I wasn't in the room with them. At all. Not under the bed or in the closet which BTW needs a good cleaning. I was home sipping a fine Merlot while watching the ships travel down the Hudson. While I wrote about pits covered in sharp pointy pieces of glass. That takes a lot of concentration and focus. And a good Merlot.Serena B. Miller: After editing your stories, Alvarez, I think a little less Merlot might be in order? And please stay out of my closets. That last restraining order is still valid. Jesse R. Lyle: Bittersweet. Since I didn't have to listen to the droning-thunderous striking of keyboard keys from overzealous-caffeine driven digits, I could actually think straight, but I didn't get to trade attempted witty remarks with my fellow companions. Derek E. Miller: It was a dream. I was home enjoying a fine Craft Artisan Amish made Root Beer listening to the neighbor's dog bark way too much. But all that commotion was still better than listening to A.B. Alvarez constantly make laser sounds as he would write his futuristic sci fi stuff. You definitely need a good Root Beer to write.Q: Derek E. Miller, during your tour of duty in the military what was it like interacting with the aliens from Area 51?A: Turns out I was well prepared. Dealing with New Yorkers like A.B. Alvarez more than prepared me for interaction with an alien species. One of them even gave me two t-shirts. They have printed on them, "I Love Zork" and "The Big Abbsou." Q: Jesse R. Lyle, based on your fictitious medical degree from Johns Hopkins, did the details about genetics in your story help you make better breeding decisions about the multi-legged organisms you have running around your home?A: Oh, without a doubt my fictitious medical degree helped more than a legitimate medical degree. And yes, she might be a genetically created multi-legged organism, but she's my little multi-legged organism. MuHahaQ: Serena B. Miller, after reading Sunny I can see you owning multiple guns and not being afraid to use them. Have you ever sneaked into a foreign country with the express intent of overthrowing its government?A: That depends. Has California attained foreign country status yet? Q: A.B. Alvarez, the last time you went time traveling did you find your doppelganger?A: Is that question for me? I've never gone time traveling. If I did would I be here? Multiple time streams don't make any sense. That doesn't mean I haven't been visited by others who purport to be from a different time stream. Meet my doppelganger? Don't be silly. What would I do if I met myself? Kill him and take his place? Of course not! He might try to kill me and take my place. By the way: why did you call me A.B. Alvarez?

A mystified archeologist, an Amish ghost, and avenging angels are just a few of the stories found in Beyond the Door, Volume 1, a twelve-story supernatural anthology.When multi-published authors get together for a play date, and are presented with a writing challenge they can't resist, the results are not only surprising, they sometimes stretch the limits of their storytelling abilities.In the pages of Beyond the Door, the demons at play will not be what you expect.Where else can you find a robotic barista, a vengeful little girl, and a murderous goddess who wants to come out and play?What else may be lurking Beyond the Door?Interview with the WritersQ: What possessed four otherwise normal writers to write such dark and horrifying stories?A.B. Alvarez: It was the only way I could get them to unlock the basement door so I could get something to eat. Seriously.Serena B. Miller: Wait a minute. You got out? Jesse R. Lyle: The real answer is, A.B. didn't see the sign that said "Push To Open." Poor guy would have starved to death pulling on that door if we hadn't opened it for him... we had to come up with some sort of story to help save his dignity.Derek E. Miller: I was the last to say "Not It" when it came to there being a responsible adult watching these hooligans so I was stuck with them all weekend. I went to dark places in my mind to escape the reality I was stuck in so figured I might as well put the dark places on paper. Q: Serena B. Miller, what was it like writing a dark Amish story?A: It was freeing, actually. I love and admire my Amish friends, but there is a dark side to the Amish that romance writers are expected to ignore. It is inevitable that a culture as strict as theirs can take a toll on the psyche. Sometimes that toll presents itself in extreme depression.Q: Derek E. Miller, do you always wear a bulletproof vest when you write?A: True story. Grandpa always did the dishes for grandma. He would say, "Proven scientific fact. No man has been shot by his wife while doing dishes." Well seeing how I'm not helping do dishes, laundry, or mowing the lawn when writing, I can't be too careful. Q: Jesse R. Lyle, are the tattoos all over your body the inspiration for your story Ancient Runes?A: Yes and No. The inspiration comes from knowing that everyone has a story whether big or small. And some of those stories are just like tattoos, some are hilarious or regretful, some are meaningful or spiritual, and yet some, are private reminders of a struggle or addiction one is trying to overcome. I guess the take-away is, be willing to listen, and pay attention to the people around you. Q: A.B. Alvarez, what is it with you and having to chop off body parts in your stories? A: There was no hacking of body parts in the Kidnapping Anna Trilogy though there was a lot of computer hacking. I think I had pent up body-hacking impulses that came out in the abandoned farmhouse where we did our writing. It is also true that the farmhouse was not abandoned, not filled with cobwebs, and not dark and foreboding thereby keeping me up every night wondering if I was going to make it out alive. Except that it was.

Would you choose closure or revenge?Anna Wodehouse, a.k.a. Carpenter Poole, is on her way north. With the long shadow of HALON receding in the distance like a fading nightmare, she heads to Vancouver hoping to find the closure that has eluded her.At the Canadian border she realizes that the closure she needs is nothing compared to the feeling of revenge when she discovers the man who set her up for murder, General Malik Palma, is in New York for an event at the United Nations.The questions that plague Anna get the better of her. Her anger towards Palma, the man she knew as Benson, gets the better of her and she decides to change direction.Did Marshall Wodehouse really abandon Anna 7 years earlier? What really happened to him?What is the mysterious project known as HALON?The ever-quickening decent of the roller coaster of Anna's life is speeding to its inevitable conclusion as she finds the dark answers she seeks.Follow Anna across the United States to New York in the startling conclusion of The Kidnapping Anna Trilogy: The Montague Tubes.

Prisons are filled with innocent people.So says the warden of ADX Florence, the prison known also as the Supermax. Anna Wodehouse knows better. While she might be a victim she feels she is anything but innocent.In the impenetrable facility Anna's past is coming for her. The growing shadow of HALON invades her isolated existence bringing more danger to her already tortured life.In her tragic quest for the truth she finds herself longing for an end to which she is not destined.In this action-packed thriller Anna discovers that the physical reality of the forces out to kill her are nothing compared to the emotional prison she has built around herself.

Anna Wodehouse's father has been missing for 7 years. And now someone's found him.In 2005, 17-year old Anna Wodehouse was pulled out of her Brooklyn home by the NYC Police when they arrived to arrest her father.He never returned.Anna, sure that her father would never abandon her, spends years waiting for his return. Seven years later, Anna receives a package: a mysterious man has found him. The man also wants to grant her a wish: to track down, and kill, her father.In a fast-paced world-spanning thriller the truth stays barely ahead of Anna.In Kidnapping Anna, A.B. Alvarez creates a novel like no other, brings together a globe-spanning quest with a young woman's need for the answers to her past.In the tradition of Robert Ludlum and Frederick Forsyth, the Kidnapping Anna trilogy takes the reader on an incomparable thrill ride into the depths of a family tragedy.