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by Joe M. Solomon

THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS Blog Tour 

 

Title: THE LIGHT: HOUSTON TEXAS
Author: Joe M. Solomon
Pub. Date: June 11, 2019
Publisher: NES Publishing
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 538

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N, iBooks, Kobo

March Madness has begun and college basketball playoffs are heating up, not that Robert Walker—a graduate student from Texas—particularly cares. He has decided to skip classes for the day, sleep in, and get some rest. Unfortunately, a brief spat on the phone with his fiancée makes that impossible. Hoping to take his mind off of it, he scans through TV channels in search of entertainment and instead finds one news report after another that warns of violence erupting in the streets.

People are randomly and savagely attacking one another all along the East Coast from Maine to Florida. Some speculate it may be related to strange lights that have appeared in the sky above the outbreaks. Before any solid conclusions can be drawn, however, the brutality spreads, sweeping across the country until it hits Houston, then proceeds on to the West Coast. Robert, a handful of classmates, and a few others manage to survive the first wave and find themselves in the midst of civilization’s blackest hour, surrounded by pandemonium, bloodshed, and masses of people who have been stripped of their humanity. Hours later, as those strange lights continue to dominate the sky, the vicious horde undergoes a new transformation.

There is no escaping the horror. Unable to reach his fiancée by phone, Robert sets out to find her, joined by a small ensemble of fellow survivors. The thirty-five miles they must cover are fraught with danger, and their terror grows with each step they take as they witness the genesis of a new Earth. Can they find a way to stop it? Will they even survive it?

 

About Joe: 

Joe Solomon earned both master’s and doctoral degrees from Rice University and is a writer, a director, an independent filmmaker, and a composer.  His first novel—a supernatural thriller entitled The Darkness: Giger, Texas—reached #2 on Amazon’s Best Seller list and is available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook. His next novel—The Light: Houston, Texas—will release June 11, 2019. He has also completed a collection of short stories that arose from the macabre and will release next year.

An award-winning screenwriter, Joe has completed seventeen screenplays and nine stage plays. He has also been very active in the independent film industry, directing four short films, one feature film (post production), and six music videos. His screenplays have won Best Screenplay at the Mediterranean Film Festival (Cannes, France), been Official Selections at the Beverly Hills Film Festival, been a Finalist in the American Movie Awards, won the Final Draft Screenwriters Award, won the Screenwriting Showcase Award, reached the Second Round in The Sundance Feature Film Program, and been a Finalist in the Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition. His music videos have won Best Music Video at the Honolulu Film Awards, the Silver Remi Award for Creative Excellence at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, won the Maple Leaf Award at the Canada International Film Festival, been an Official Selection of the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema—Milan, been an Official Selection of the Switzerland International Film Festival, won Best Director—Music Video in the Honolulu Film Awards, and been a Finalist in the American Movie Awards. They have also been Official Selections of many additional international film festivals.

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INTERVIEW

  1. What is on your nightstand?

Stephen King’s Cell and HG Wells’ Complete Short Stories. I’ve read Cell and listened to the audiobook multiple times and continue to enjoy it. I also like HG Wells’ writing style and vocabulary. Some of the ideas he put forth in his stories were very innovative for his time.

  1. What author would you totally fan?

Stephen King. I’ve enjoyed his stories for years and also greatly admire his writing style. I’ve read and listened to his book On Writing many times and always recommend it to fellow authors.

  1. What makes you cringe?

Gratuitous gore. I love horror movies, both big budget and low budget. And I know gore goes along with that. But sometimes movies rely more on gore than storytelling. And some director’s strive hard to push that shock value line farther back than any previous director has. That’s usually when the gore makes me cringe.

  1. Do you obsessively plot out each point or just go with the flow?

A little bit of both. I will have certain scenes and events in mind before I sit down to write. Sometimes it works out, and other times the story takes me in another direction instead that I like even more, so I go with it.

  1. Is there a word you love to use?

Transmogrify. I first heard it in a Woody Allen movie and have loved it ever since.

 

Giveaway Details:

4 lucky winners will receive a $20 Amazon Gift Card, International.

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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
6/4/2019- BookHounds– Interview
6/5/2019- Book Sniffers Anonymous– Excerpt
6/6/2019- Simply Daniel Radcliffe– Review
6/7/2019- Tyto Forest– Excerpt

Week Two:
6/10/2019- fictitious.fox– Review
6/11/2019- Lifestyle of Me– Review
6/12/2019- The Tired Buyer– Interview
6/13/2019- Burgandy Ice– Excerpt
6/14/2019- Two Chicks on Books– Interview

Week Three:
6/17/2019- Pacific Northwest Bookworm– Review
6/18/2019- A Dream Within A Dream– Excerpt
6/19/2019- Owl Always Be Reading– Guest Post
6/20/2019- Adventures Thru Wonderland– Review
6/21/2019- Bookbriefs– Review

Week Four:
6/24/2019- Smada’s Book Smack– Spotlight
6/25/2019- Don’t Judge, Read– Interview
6/26/2019- KayBee’s Bookshelf, A Literary Blog– Spotlight
6/27/2019- A Gingerly Review– Review
6/28/2019- PopTheButterfly Reads– Review

Week Five:
7/1/2019- Reads & Reviews– Review
7/2/2019- Jaime’s World– Excerpt

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Comments

  6. I love that the author is a Stephen King fan. If I could pick the brain of one author King would be it!

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    • Hi Freda,
      The first fiction book I read for entertainment was Mr. King’s The Stand. I hope you give The Light: Houston, Texas a chance. You may also listen to an excerpt at Audible.

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  9. I can’t wait to read this and learn how they/he survives it. And I’m quite intrigued about the lights in the sky.

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  30. The fact that Joe is a huge fan of Stephen King makes this even more interesting to me, because the plot reminds me a bit of The Stand, which was really thought-provoking.

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  31. it really sounds and looks like a great book. How much research on average per book do you think it takes?

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    • Hi Sam,
      I had to research various aspects of NASA, learn about SOFIA (The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), nuclear submarines, military compounds and the topography of Houston and its surrounding area. It took a few weeks. Also, you may hear an excerpt of the book on Audible.

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  33. Joe really caught my attention with this book can’t wait to get my hands on it and read

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