An Interview with Me at Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action

Instead of me coming to you today with another fine installment of my Atomic Interviews series, the tables have been turned and it’s me being the subject of an interview instead of the inquisitor. Sean Taylor, of the excellent Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action blog, interviewed me about my writing projects. We talked about THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR, GUNFIGHTER GOTHIC, and DREAMER’S SYNDROME. If you click through you’ll also discover my dream project and my dream job.

Thanks to Sean for interviewing me, and please do check out not only his talk with me but his other fine articles posted around his site.

Cheers,
Mark Bousquet

THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR Now Available in Paperback and Kindle Formats

My latest novel, THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR is now available for purchase in paperback and Kindle formats.

From the back cover:

“The castle, a massive singular structure of grey, surrounded by high walls that hold three towers, is called Kraken Moor, named by the seafaring captain who made a fortune and lost his mind in the deep waters of the Pacific Ocean.” -Beatrice Sharper, 31 December 1864

In 1863, a wealthy girl of the American South runs away from her family’s plantation to chart her own course in life. A tough eighteen months later, 19-year old Beatrice Sharper takes a job at a housekeeper in Kraken Moor, an ancient castle in the east of England. From her first moments in the house’s employ, strange happenings abound, and Beatrice finds herself embroiled in a supernatural plot by an ancient evil to return to Earth and destroy all in its path.

This is the journal of Beatrice Sharper, written as the nightmarish events unfolded for two harrowing months at the beginning of 1865.

KRAKEN MOOR is a horror novel with some adult situations. I (or rather, Beatrice) wrote the novel as a series of journal entries, so we see Beatrice’s descent into the supernatural world of Kraken Moor unfold as it happened, day by day.

Beatrice’s journey takes her from Kraken Moor to London and to Hell and then back again. She comes face to face with the three demons of the estate: Kadul, the goat demon, Kanarl, the wolf demon, and Tchitok, the snake demon. Was force in Heaven or Hell could have the three demons spooked, and why is Beatrice important to their plans of escape?

There are allies, too: Mrs. Cotts, the Head of Staff; Lady Coraline, the sister to Captain Shepherd; Remy and Julie Lafayette, brother and sister vampires, and Charles Francis Poseidon, a demon hunter much older than he appears.

And on top of all this, Beatrice is given the opportunity to reunite with the love of her life, a man she thought she had lost in the American Civil War. All she has to do to spend eternity with him is give Kadul her soul.

THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR is now available for purchase in paperback and Kindle formats.

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Mark Bousquet is the author of several novels and collections, including The Haunting of Kraken Moor, Gunfighter Gothic, Stuffed Animals for Hire, Dreamer’s Syndrome, Harpsichord and the Wormhole Witches, and Adventures of the Five. He has also published a review collection entitled Marvel Comics on Film, which covers every cinematic and TV movie based on a superhero from the House of Ideas. A complete listing of all his work can be found at his Amazon author page.

The Haunting of Kraken Moor

While I haven’t talked much about it here, I have been writing a novel over at a dedicated site, called THE HAUNTING OF KRAKEN MOOR.

The novel was an experiment. As most of us who have written novels know, there are always some people amazed at the process of writing a whole book. Often, they’ll say something like, “I could never do that.” Well, KRAKEN MOOR was an example that they (or you!) can do that. I wrote nearly every days for two months. Sometimes, I’d have fifteen minutes to write. Other days, I’d have two or three hours. Today, I finished the novel and spent nearly ten hours working on and off on it. But mostly, it was written in short bursts of 1,000-1,500 words.

The result is that in 2.5 months I produced a roughly 95,000 word novel, so don’t tell me it can’t be done. It’s just a matter of you committing to doing it. Don’t wait for free time to find you. If you want to write a novel – or a poem or paint a picture or write a symphony – you have to make time to do it.

But you don’t have to make as much time as you might think. If you’re attempting – or are thinking of attempting to write a novel, I hope KRAKEN MOOR can serve as an inspiration or blueprint. It’s written as a journal, so you can literally see what I wrote every single day. I’d sit, I’d write, I’d post.

KRAKEN MOOR tells the story of Beatrice Sharper, a daughter of the American Confederacy who runs away from the privilege of her plantation home in 1863. The novel is written as Beatrice’s journal and begins on New Year’s Eve, as 1864 becomes 1865. She is ready to start her employment as a housekeeper at Kraken Moor, a castle in the east of England. She sits in the cold, committing her thoughts to paper, when an unholy scream rips apart the night.

The opposite of hilarity ensues.

This is a horror novel and the content is for mature audiences. There are small parts of the story that are graphic, but it is mostly inferred. If you can read between the lines, however, there’s some twisted stuff going on.

To see the complete table of contents, click here and begin reading. For those who have been reading, my deepest appreciation for your support.

By the end of March, KRAKEN MOOR will be available as a book and ebook, but I plan on leaving the web version up for the foreseeable future.