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my blog

You can access my blog at www.michaelprescott.typepad.com .

stuff that got cut

Three scenes edited out of Stealing Faces and The Shadow Hunter. Each scene is preceded by a brief explanation.

Stealing Faces : Kaylie's Shock Treatment

The Shadow Hunter : Abby’s Night Out

The Shadow Hunter : Abby and the Tough Guys

other book sales All my books except Final Sins have been published in French by Editions Pygmalion. Comes the Dark is available in England as a large-print hardcover from F. A. Thorpe (Ulverscroft Large Print Books, Ltd.). Comes the Dark has also been sold to Russia. Stealing Faces and The Shadow Hunter have been published in Bulgaria. Stealing Faces is available in a Czechoslovakian edition. Last Breath has been sold to Ersen Publishing House in Estonia. Last Breath has also been published in Iran. Dangerous Games and Next Victim have been published in Germany. All my books have been offered as selections of the Mystery Guild and allied book clubs.

Bulgarian edition of The Shadow Hunter French edition of Last Breath

movie interest

Stealing Faces has been optioned by Nostromo Films as a possible feature film.

Shiver, a thriller I wrote under the pen name Brian Harper, has been filmed. (See News.)

interviews, chats, etc.

Shannon Riggs' interview with me in FictionFix

Nickie Fleming's ten-question interview with me

the transcript of my online chat, hosted by BarnesandNoble.com, focusing on the eBook version of Stealing Faces

my essay on why people write (and read) about serial killers, written for TomFolio

essays

A list of all my online essays on a variety of subjects, including paranormal phenomena, Shakespeare, Ayn Rand, and God, can be found here.

bio

I was born in 1960 and grew up in New Jersey. My childhood hero was stop-motion animation master Ray Harryhausen, and my early ambition was to create special-effects monsters like the ones in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts. I attended Wesleyan University, majoring in Film Studies, then moved to Los Angeles, where I wrote scripts for several independent producers. Only one of these films was produced. I also worked as a magazine freelancer, archival researcher, and editor, and eventually started writing books. I wrote a few horror novels under a long-defunct name, then authored six titles under the pseudonym Brian Harper before switching to my new identity as Michael Prescott. My first Michael Prescott novel, Comes the Dark, grew out of my interest in ancient religion and mythology. I followed up with Stealing Faces, which made its debut as an ebook and became the bestselling e-book in the U.S., and The Shadow Hunter, which was praised by Publishers Weekly for its "brilliant elements of psychological horror." Publishers Weekly also had kind words for Last Breath ("a chilling, character-driven tale") and Next Victim ("unrelentingly suspenseful"). In Dark Places was called a "dark, compulsive read" (Publishers Weekly), a "gripping new drama" (Cemetary Dance), and "hard to predict and thoroughly absorbing ... Michael Prescott at his best" (Round Table Reviews).

The fearsome Cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

With Dangerous Games, I began a trilogy about two female characters, Tess McCallum and Abby Sinclair, who had appeared separately in two of my earlier books. The second and third entries in the series were Mortal Faults and Final Sins.

Final Sins turned out to be aptly named, as I was unable to get into print again! The publishing business is changing, and mass-market paperbacks are dying out. Luckily, the ebook market is rapidly expanding. My newest publishing venture involves releasing my old titles as ebooks, as well as publishing new titles in digital form. The first original ebook I put out was Riptide.

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