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Thursday, May 16, 2013

L. Andrew Cooper Virtual Tour May 8 to June 7, 2013


About L. Andrew Cooper:
L. Andrew Cooper thinks the smartest people like horror, fantasy, and sci-fi. Early in life, he couldn’t handle the scary stuff–he’d sneak and watch horror films and then keep his parents up all night with his nightmares. In the third grade, he finally convinced his parents to let him read grownup horror novels: he started with Stephen King’s Firestarter, and by grade five, he was doing book reports on The Stand.

When his parents weren’t being kept up late by his nightmares, they worried that his fascination with horror fiction would keep him from experiencing more respectable culture. That all changed when he transitioned from his public high school in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia to uber-respectable Harvard University, where he studied English Literature. From there, he went on to get a Ph.D. in English from Princeton, turning his longstanding engagement with horror into a dissertation. The dissertation became the basis for his first book, Gothic Realities (2010). More recently, his obsession with horror movies turned into a book about one of his favorite directors, Dario Argento (2012). He also co-edited the textbook Monsters (2012), an attempt to infect others with the idea that scary things are worth people’s serious attention.

After living in Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California, Andrew now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches at the University of Louisville and chairs the board of the Louisville Film Society, the city’s premiere movie-buff institution. _Burning the Middle Ground_ is his debut novel.

Burning the Middle Ground
Book Synopsis:
Burning the Middle Ground is a dark fantasy about small-town America that transforms readers’ fears about the country’s direction into a haunting tale of religious conspiracy and supernatural mind control. A character-driven sensibility like Stephen King’s and a flair for the bizarre like Bentley Little’s delivers as much appeal for dedicated fans of fantasy and horror as for mainstream readers looking for an exciting ride. Brian McCullough comes home from school and discovers that his ten-year-old sister Fran has murdered their parents. Five years later, a journalist, Ronald Glassner, finds Brian living at the same house in the small town of Kenning, Georgia. Planning a book on the McCullough Tragedy, Ronald stumbles into a struggle between Kenning’s First Church, run by the mysterious Reverend Michael Cox, and the New Church, run by the rebellious Jeanne Harper. At the same time, Kenning’s pets go berserk, and dead bodies, with the eyes and tongues removed from their heads, begin to appear.

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Tour Schedule and Activities


May 8 - Read 2 Review  - Character Post
May 9  - readings Sunshine - Review
May 10 - Spellbindings  - Guest Post
May 11 - Beagle Book Space - Promo/Spotlight
May 12 - SpecMusicMuse - Review
May 14 - Workaday Reads -Guest Post
May 15 - The FlipSide of Julianne - Interview
May 16 - Once Upon a Time - Guest Post
May 17 - Sheila Deeth - Character Post
May 18 - Azure Dwarf - Review
May 19 - MikesFilmTalk - Review
May 20 - Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews - Interview
May 21  - Beauty in Ruins - Review
May 24 - Book Den - Guest Post
May 25 - Come Selahway With Me - Excerpt
May 28 - The Dan O’Brien Project - Promo/Excerpt
May 31 - Armand Rosamilla, Horror Author - Guest Post
June 1   - Bee’s Knees Reviews- Review
June 3   - Rachel Tsoumbako - Review
June 4   - Fictional Candy - Excerpt
June 5   - I Smell Sheep - Guest Post
June 7   - Darlene’s Book Nook - Guest Post

This book may have been received free of charge from a publisher or a publicist. That will NEVER have a bearing on my recommendations.

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