Author Spotlight: Michael Libling

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Michael Libling

Fantasy

Michael Libling is a World Fantasy Award-nominated author and former broadcaster. Character-driven, with recurrent strains of dark humor, Michael’s fiction tends to defy categorization, appealing to a broad range of readers, encompassing genre and literary fiction. His short fiction has appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Amazing Stories, OnSpec and such anthologies as Ellen Datlow’s The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, and many others. He also has a number of non-fiction credits.

HOLLYWOOD NORTH: A NOVEL IN SIX REELS is his debut novel. Based on true events and set in Michael’s childhood hometown of Trenton, Ontario, this coming-of-age mystery contains elements of both fantasy and horror, with special appeal to fans of vintage TV and movies.

Michael is the father of three daughters and lives in Montreal, Quebec with his wife, Pat, and a dog named Piper. He claims to be one of only seven North American authors who does not own a cat. You can find out more about him at www.michaellibling.com, where he has been known to blog on occasion.

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Summary: Rumors are swirling in the northlands about a curse in Westcliff. People are being driven mad by the touch of angry ghosts during the full moon, in a village already haunted by a brutal murder from decades ago. Growing up as an orphan, Genshai always expected his life would be the same as the other warriors of the abbey: learning the ways of the Iron Style, and training his mind and body toward Illumination. But, at the start of his fifteenth year the boy is shocked when the abbot names him the new laymonk, and he is sent to learn the ways of the world from his predecessor, an old man named Taisan. Soon, Genshai receives firsthand lessons in ways that he never imagined— from fighting for his life, to defending the innocent, and even striding between two worlds, into the ethereal Veil. And just as Genshai is beginning to learn how to keep the Still Mind in the presence of spirits, the laymonks are sent to Westcliff to break an old curse, and to confront an unfathomable evil. By taking up the staff of the laymonk, will Genshai uncover the truth about himself? Or will the madness spread, causing his greatest fears to be revealed on the night the Lotus is in Bloom?