Hometown Labor Day Sale – Scenes From Hometown!

The Hometown Labor Day Sale is coming up in just a few days! Here are a few of the characters you’ll meet and scenes you’ll read if you download a free copy:

First, let me introduce you to Vicki & Val – Vicki Powers, one of our heroines, is the redhead on the right. Her best friend Valerie Robard is the brunette on the left. They’re two of the bad girls of Belford High, and you can find out more about them here.

Here we have Kara Sauer and Jason Olsen, our other heroine’s best friends. They’re a bit busy just now. Kara tried to punch above her mystical weight class, and it isn’t working out well. For a bit more information, see here.

Kara and Val. The situation…isn’t as happy as it looks.

Kara and Val at the last. Also not as happy as it looks…and I know it doesn’t look happy.

And finally, our heroines. Angelina Santos-de la Cruz, and you’ve already met Vicki. Here they stand – as best they can – at the end of everything. More information here.

To learn more about these characters – and the scenes you’ve glimpsed – download a copy of Hometown during the Labor Day Sale from September 1 to September 5.

All of the artwork in this post was by the marvelously talented MJ Barros.

Characters of Hometown: Kara Sauer and Jason Olsen

We’ve met Vicki’s best friend, now it’s time to meet Angelina’s.

The two young people you see before you are Kara Sauer and Jason Olsen.  They’re a bit busy at the moment.  They attempted a ritual to drive out the dark spiritual forces attacking Belford in the fall of 1994, and maybe it was starting to work, because those dark spiritual forces counterattacked.  Right now they’re fending off The Roadster – the surprisingly solid ghost of a local hoodlum who was killed in a suspicious car accident in the Fifties – and a local dog who’s usually a big friendly fluffo but is currently acting more like a satanically possessed wolverine.
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Characters of Hometown: Valerie Robard

So here we see Vicki just hanging out with her best friend Valerie Robard.

Val is another one of the bad girls of Belford High.  Sort of.  She likes a lot of the same things that Vicki does, certainly – she likes to party, she likes to drink, she likes to smoke a few nugs now and then, and she’s very easy to talk out of her knickers.  Especially when she’s been partying and drinking and smoking a few nugs.

The difference is that she’s not magnificent in her bad girl-ness like Vicki is.  Where Vicki is angry and defiant, Val is timid and submissive.  Or rather, as Natasha VanDyne and the other snobs would put it, Vicki is a bitch and Val is just a dumb trailer trash ho.  The teachers and other adult authority figures of Belford mostly agree with that assessment, though they’re more likely to use words like “troublemaker” and “underachiever”.
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Heroines of Hometown: Vicki Powers

This post is a re-run, leading up to a new post in the same series coming either later this week or early next week. Sort of a “Previously on Hometown promotional art. If you want the archived versions of all of these articles plus more, check out the Promotional Art archive. Just keep your eye out for that new post, coming soon!

Victoria Powers (the redhead on the right) is the only child of Brenda Powers, a single mother who lives in a trailer park on the edge of Belford (the town where Hometown is set). In 1994, at the time Hometown begins, Vicki is just shy of eighteen years old. Brenda is thirty-five.
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The Art of Hometown: Angelina and Vicki At The Last

This post is a re-run, leading up to a new post in the same series coming either later this week or early next week.  Sort of a “Previously on Hometown promotional art.  If you want the archived versions of all of these articles plus more, check out the Promotional Art archive.  Just keep your eye out for that new post, coming soon!

The brave young women you see before you are Angelina Santos-de la Cruz and Vicki Powers, the heroines of my novel Hometown. I can’t tell you exactly what they’re facing because, well, that would be telling. This scene is from the end of the novel, and Angelina and Vicki are facing the final horror with nothing but a flathead screwdriver, an injured leg, and their indomitable wills.

The thing they’re facing might be in more trouble than it thinks.

For more information on Angelina, see here.

For more information on Vicki, see here.

Thanks to the talented MJ Barros for this marvelous interpretation of my two heroines.

And if you want the whole story of Angelina Santos-de la Cruz and Vicki Powers, just pick yourself up a copy of Hometown at Amazon.