Hey all, thought I'd drop a few lines about my horror novella 'Dubaku' coming out from Damnation Books on September first in ebook (print later on this month).

THE BLURB: In 1760 somewhere near the Bight Of Benin, an African shaman belonging to an obscure interior tribe surrenders himself willingly to an English slaving expedition. This man, Dubaku, has come in search of his wife, abducted and sold to another party of whites. Not knowing one ship from another, Dubaku boards the slaver hoping to find her. The captain, a cruel and careless man named Bryce, mistrusts him immediately, and when a rampant sickness takes its toll on the superstitious crew and their human cargo midway through the voyage to Jamaica, Bryce decides to offer up Dubaku as their Jonah.

After a violent squall drowns the entire compliment of would-be slaves, Dubaku calls upon dark and terrible powers to enact a fitting vengeance on Captain Bryce and his men.

The Kindle version is already available from amazon.com. It can be downloaded straight from the publisher at www.damnationbooks.com starting tomorrow (and I believe they're offering some kind of deal to the first few orders), as well as various ebook purveyors across the net. The print edition is due out toward the end of September, so I'll put up a note about that as well - I think you'll be able to order that from Barnes and Noble.

Before anybody asks, I've never seen an episode of 24, though apparently the not so common African name is shared by a character on the show. I got it off a baby name site somewhere around the summer or fall of 2008. I guess the writers looked up the same site as I did - or else the characters are distantly related.

Thanks for looking!

MTFBWY