Cheryl's Book Nook

Casey Duncan is a homicide detective with a secret: when she was in college, she killed a man. She was never caught, but he was the grandson of a mobster and she knows this crime will catch up to her. Casey's best friend, Diana, is on the run from a violent, abusive ex-husband. When Diana's husband finds her, and Casey herself is attacked shortly after, Casey knows it's time for the two of them to disappear again. Diana has heard of a domestic violence support town made for people like her, a town that takes in people on the run who want to shed their old lives. You must apply to live in Rockton and if you're accepted, it means walking away entirely from your old life, living off the grid in the wilds of Canada: no cell phones, no Internet, no mail, no computers, very little electricity, and no way of getting in or out without the town council's approval. As a murderer, Casey isn't a good candidate, but she has something they want; she's a homicide detect...

So what do you get when you give four authors the following sentence? "A strange visitor comes to town, offering to raise the townsfolk's dearly departed from the dead-for a price." You get Four Summoner's Tales, an anthology. This is what authors Christopher Golden and Jonathan Maberry did. They met in July 2011 and were discussing ideas for about plots. It was determined that there are only about seven different plots but it all comes down to...execution. Every person has their own idea about the execution of the story. So why not test that out and see what the results are. The above sentence was given to Mr. Golden, Mr. Maberry and their two fellow authors, Kelly Armstrong and David Liss. They had free rein to whatever concept they wanted in achieving the execution of the story that fit within the parameters of the sentence that they were presented with. Each author came up with their own unique twist on the execution. It has been a little while sinc...