Hello, all.
GreatRedShark here, a long-time denizen of various darkened corners of Internet Huskerdom, including this one, sometime around the tail end of the 20th century.
Like many of you, I rattled around the RSS for a while, prior to The Big Split (and several other Sub-Splits) so peculiar to - yet representative of - our fanbase, and then headed off to more suitable haunts to hash through the most tumultuous two decades of Nebraska football in the history of the university. But today, I figured it was a good time to sign up to Husker Online, take the temperature of the fanbase after the Front Effect, and post about my debut novel, I Am The River, which dropped yesterday, and might be of interest to some.
I'm a Nebraska-raised writer living in Los Angeles, and after many misspent years writing mediocre screenplays (and writing for The Reader, The Note, Sound News & Arts, and a few other Omaha/Nebraska/Midwestern publications prior to that), I switched to fiction in 2010, and have been writing horror/Weird fiction for the last eight years.
I've had published a collection of short fiction, a novella, several chapbooks, and dozens of short stories, but October 3rd marks the release of my first novel, a synopsis for which I will provide below:
This might not be everyone's cup of tea, and does tend toward the trippy, the Weird, and the intensely dark. That said, the reception has been encouraging so far (including a starred review from Publishers Weekly), from a wide selection of readers, reviewers, and publications. If curious, I'll link my website posting, which has ordering information at the bottom (from the publisher, through Amazon, Smashwords, and Audible):
https://tegrau.com/2018/10/03/official-novel-release-day-i-am-the-river-now-available-worldwide/
Thanks for your time, fellow Cornhuskers, and here's to a revival of our beloved Big Red.
GreatRedShark here, a long-time denizen of various darkened corners of Internet Huskerdom, including this one, sometime around the tail end of the 20th century.
Like many of you, I rattled around the RSS for a while, prior to The Big Split (and several other Sub-Splits) so peculiar to - yet representative of - our fanbase, and then headed off to more suitable haunts to hash through the most tumultuous two decades of Nebraska football in the history of the university. But today, I figured it was a good time to sign up to Husker Online, take the temperature of the fanbase after the Front Effect, and post about my debut novel, I Am The River, which dropped yesterday, and might be of interest to some.
I'm a Nebraska-raised writer living in Los Angeles, and after many misspent years writing mediocre screenplays (and writing for The Reader, The Note, Sound News & Arts, and a few other Omaha/Nebraska/Midwestern publications prior to that), I switched to fiction in 2010, and have been writing horror/Weird fiction for the last eight years.
I've had published a collection of short fiction, a novella, several chapbooks, and dozens of short stories, but October 3rd marks the release of my first novel, a synopsis for which I will provide below:
During the last desperate days of the Vietnam War, American soldier Israel Broussard is assigned to a secret CIA PSYOP far behind enemy lines meant to drive terror into the heart of the North Vietnamese and end an unwinnable war. When the mission goes sideways, Broussard is plunged into a nightmare that he soon finds he is unable to escape, dragging a remnant of that night in the Laotian wilderness with him no matter how far he runs. Five years later, too damaged to return home and holed up in the slums of Bangkok, where he battles sleep, guilt, and a creeping sense of madness, Broussard discovers that he must journey back to the jungles of Laos in an attempt to set things right and reclaim what is left of his life.
A fever dream with a Benzedrine chaser, I Am The River provides a daring, often surreal examination of the Vietnam War and the days after it, burrowing down past the bullets and battlefields to discover the lingering horror of warfare, the human consequences of organized violence, and the lasting effects of trauma on the psyche, and the soul.
A fever dream with a Benzedrine chaser, I Am The River provides a daring, often surreal examination of the Vietnam War and the days after it, burrowing down past the bullets and battlefields to discover the lingering horror of warfare, the human consequences of organized violence, and the lasting effects of trauma on the psyche, and the soul.
This might not be everyone's cup of tea, and does tend toward the trippy, the Weird, and the intensely dark. That said, the reception has been encouraging so far (including a starred review from Publishers Weekly), from a wide selection of readers, reviewers, and publications. If curious, I'll link my website posting, which has ordering information at the bottom (from the publisher, through Amazon, Smashwords, and Audible):
https://tegrau.com/2018/10/03/official-novel-release-day-i-am-the-river-now-available-worldwide/
Thanks for your time, fellow Cornhuskers, and here's to a revival of our beloved Big Red.
