engrossed by it I literally had to sit there and read the whole thing! So, anyways, I guess for my favourite horror author it would have to date back to late public school when each month was a different “Goosebumps” book by R.L. Stein for my book reports in English class... And even then, my sister usually ended up doing them for me. Where can your fans go to learn more about you? You can go to my website: www.KachinaDechert.com You can also find me on IMDB and Facebook under Kachina Dechert... The full interview is available in Scream Queens: The Final Chapter, free to read and download here: http://issuu.com/morpheustales/docs/screamqueenst hefinalchapterfull Or buy the printer version here: www.lulu.com/spotlight/morpheustales ANNO FRANKENSTEIN By Jonathan Green www.abaddonbooks.com Very much a book of two halves, the first half is a rip-roaring pulp-style Second World War action adventure as Hercules Quicksilver is sent to Nazi Germany with Dr Jekyll in an effort to stop Hitler’s Frankenstein Corp of undead soldiers by destroying the factory. Things don’t start well when the airship taking them to Frankenstein’s Castle is shot down, but the soldiers sent in to kill Jekyll are mysteriously dispatched before Hercules can get there. Throw in a group beautiful lady spies, vampires and werewolves, along with the usual clutch of evil Nazi’s and scientists, and you have a book unafraid of being over-the-top and having a load of fun doing it. Then everything comes a bit unstuck. The second half of the book introduces us to Patient Zero, Ulysses Quicksilver (Hercules’ father) who has followed his enemy Daniel Dashwood from the
future. (This must have all happened in a previous book because apart from a brief mention of Dashwood in the first chapter there’s no other mention of them.) This makes for an awkward and disjointed continuation. The fact that Hercules doesn’t know that Ulysses is his son and has to be referred to as Shelley, and that Hyde becomes a hero, saving the day far too often, just feels a little wrong. The second half of the book feels shoehorned into what was a perfectly adequate short novel, and turns it into something entirely different. It’s still fun, but not so much. The second half drags on, the plot becomes much weaker as events are led by the interloper and nothing is as organised or thought-out as previously. What could have been a fun and exciting book is almost ruined by a second half that takes things too far, becoming almost ridiculous. Green is a decent writer, and the first half of this ensemble piece is great fun to begin with. Sadly the second half is weak, shoe-horned into place to make the book relevant to the Quicksilver series. Could have been much better. But still not bad. By Stanley Riiks HOW I SOLD 1 MILLION E BOOKS IN 5 MONTHS! By John Locke Anyone with even a passing interest in either the art of writing or the world of publishing should read this book. This guy caused a stir when he really did shift 1 million-plus units of one of his novels in just a few months in the first half of 2011, the first selfpublished author to do so. At one time he occupied the top two slots in the Amazon bestseller lists, and had a total of eight releases in the top 50, as we are constantly reminded throughout. I have no problem with the guy basking in his own achievements, but all the self-congratulatory remarks do tend to grate after a while, even if he makes crude attempts at balancing things out with a spot of light selfdeprecation from time to time. There is even a painfully conspicuous section entitled ‘This is Not an Ego Book’. He’s obviously feeling pretty proud of himself, and why the hell not? But do we really need to be told the same thing a dozen times? In the introduction Locke also gallantly defends charging so much money for a short book. If you want a longer read, he says (paraphrasing) read it twice. So there. There is even a Q & A section where one of the questions he asks himself is ‘How does it feel to have a best-selling novel?’ At various points throughout Locke is at pains to explain to us just how good a businessman he is by stating his achievements and honours in order to