The Bigfoot B Movie rebooted or how I hooked up with Sasquatch!

Hey all,
So today, I thought would tell you how my Bigfoot War trilogy came about. Back in 2001, I picked up the pen with my heart set on becoming a military SF writer and being the next David Drake. My first tale that sold was a zombie story and the zombie tales just kept selling even though back then they weren’t as mainstream as they are today. By 2003, I had accepted my fate and knew that I was a horror writer. I declared myself a “zombie” writer and promised I was going to try to give something back a genre that I dearly loved. I kept writing and around 2009 as my career began to really take off, I was getting a bit tired of writing zombie stuff. Not that I didn’t love them and I certainly didn’t stop writing them but I wanted to try something else. At the time I was in a three book deal with Coscom Entertainment and had turned in two of three zombie books to them. I told Coscom I didn’t really think a third zombie novel was the way to and pitched them the concept of BIGFOOT WAR. My books had done well enough for them that actually listened. I was given the green light and tore into it like crazed fan unwrapping the copy of Legend of Boggy Creek that had just arrived in the mail. As a child, Bigfoot had scared me to death. Living in the south, my nightmares were haunted by the creature standing outside my window waiting to eat me. I also grew up watching and loving Bigfoot B movies just like I had Z films. The one thing that always got me though was that was only one monster! Why? My fan boy horror mind couldn’t comprehend why there wasn’t a Bigfoot movie with a more end of the world feel like all the zombie stuff out there. I so loved the idea of folks battling hopeless odds and one Sasquatch just wasn’t enough. With Bigfoot War, I set out to create the Bigfoot film I had always wanted to see: A sleepy little of town of around eight hundreds folks who overnight thrown into a battle for survival with a horde of raging, flesh eating beasts out of vengeance and blood. And that’s really what Bigfoot War is. The Sasquatch mythos rebooted to make it into a survival horror concept. From page one, the action keeps rolling and the body count only grows. As soon as I finished the book, I knew it was only the start. This had to be a trilogy. The first book came out and its sales were kind of low for its first couple of months but then a funny thing happened. As folks begin to learn about it and see what it was about, it quickly became the best reviewed and most original work of my career to date. The world went insane for me with fan letters about it, its sales grew with each and every month, and I did a happy dance that a book I wrote from my heart surprised me hugely with its success. In March alone, it sold almost double what it did during its entire first quarter on the market. (A huge thank you to all the fans who made this happen for me!)
Anyway, not long after the first book began to take off, I went back to Coscom and they took the other two books of the trilogy no questions. Bigfoot War II: Dead in the Woods is slated for release in late April, early May of this year. And if anything, it’s crazier than the first book as it throws the zombie apocalypse into the middle of the already raging war between man and beast. It tells the tale of two teenage horror/comic fans who are there as things kick into high gear and the end of the world begins. The book also has a second plot arc that deals with the story of a unit of tanks who are cut off from their main force and stuck in the area where the initial Z outbreak is beginning while on their missions to eliminate the big, hairy beasts of the first book who coming out of the woods in even greater numbers all over the South. I am currently at work on the 3rd book as I type this. I can’t say much about it yet but I don’t think you’ve ever seen anything like it either. It’s working title is Bigfoot War: Food Chain. So I am out of time for the day folks but I will be back on here next week with more. Have a good weekend all.
ESB

PS- Oh yeah, if you haven’t read it yet or seen the trailer, check them out. The first book in the trilogy is available through Amazon, Bn, etc. Just check out the links to it on this site. Thanks if you do!