RELEASE: Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

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Of Mice and Men Meets The Odyssey in a Post-Apocalyptic Future

Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends and their wheelchair-bound hostage set out on a perilous fool’s mission--to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of finding a rumored haven. 

Spurred by a dark vision and the murder of their father, rageaholic Derek Cane and his over-sized, simple-minded brother, Teddy, flee the only home they've ever known, a struggling shantytown on the edge of the vast Wasteland. Heading ever eastward, they are accompanied by their friend, John, an orphan brought up by a fanatical religious order, and Leggy, a crippled old drunk who brags that, in his youth, he once traversed the Wasteland as a scavenger.

Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

 
 

COVER: Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

 

Of Mice and Men Meets The Odyssey in a Post-Apocalyptic Future

Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends and their wheelchair-bound hostage set out on a perilous fool’s mission--to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of finding a rumored haven. 

Spurred by a dark vision and the murder of their father, rageaholic Derek Cane and his over-sized, simple-minded brother, Teddy, flee the only home they've ever known, a struggling shantytown on the edge of the vast Wasteland. Heading ever eastward, they are accompanied by their friend, John, an orphan brought up by a fanatical religious order, and Leggy, a crippled old drunk who brags that, in his youth, he once traversed the Wasteland as a scavenger.

Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Post-Apocalyptic novel  coming from Dog Star Books in March 2014

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EVENT: Dog Star Books Author at Anthocon

Anthocon 

November 8-10, 2013 • Portsmouth, NH

Scott Christian Carr will be at Anthocon moderating the following panels and doing both an official reading and impromptu readings throughout the weekend. More information can be found at the official Anthocon site.

Writing From the Fringe: Voices from Beyond the Wall

Does an author need to walk the walk in order to talk the talk? We'll assemble a panel of writers who live in the bizarre worlds that they write about, who share the beliefs, behaviors and motivations of their characters - writers who are brave (or crazy) enough to live on the Fringe and report back.

There Used to Be a Moon: Exploring the Apocalypse

From blowing up the Moon to zombie epidemics, global warming, economic meltdown and disease to tried and true full-scale nuclear catastrophe, we'll explore the current trends in end-of-the world fiction. How do new mindsets and social paradigms, rapidly advancing technology and more sophisticated worldviews change the ways that it can all hit the fan?

Dog Star Books Author: Scott Christian Carr

Scott Christian Carr has been a radio talk show host, editor of a flying saucer magazine, fishmonger, spelunker, psychonaut, journalist, medical/pharmaceutical writer, TV producer, and author. He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, Scriptapalooza 1st Place Winner for Best Original TV Pilot, and in 1999, he was awarded The Hunter S. Thompson Award for Outstanding Journalism. Scott is a contributing editor and columnist for Shroud Magazine, and a 2010 Choate Road “Spotlight Scribe” - But his most satisfying and rewarding job is that of “Dad.” He lives in a home once owned by George Hansburg (inventor of the pogo stick) on a secluded mountaintop in New York’s Hudson Valley with his two children.

Scott Christian Carr’s latest novel Hiram Grange & the Twelve Little Hitlers is currently available from Shroud Publishing, Amazon.com, and at Barnes & Noble near you. Lloyd Kaufman (President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger) calls it, “More fun than a barrel full of Hitlers... The best novel since Don Quixote!” His upcoming novels Hiram Grange & the Twelve Steps and Matthew's Memories (illustrated by Danny Evarts) are scheduled to be released in 2013.

Scott’s first novel, Champion Mountain, was recently selected for distribution on Amazon’s Kindle digital bookreader. His other publications include the anthologies Sick: An Anthology of Illness (which features an excerpt from his novel Believer), Death Be Not Proud, Desolate Places, Beneath the Surface, Demonology: Grammaticus Demonium, Scary! Holiday Tales to Make You Scream, and the upcoming Terror at Miskatonic Falls. Scott’s fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and publications, including Shroud Magazine, The Dream People, GUD, Pulp Eternity, Horror Quarterly, The MUFON Journal, Weird N.J. and Withersin. His novella A Helmet Full of Hair was recently translated and reprinted in the prestigious French quarterly, Galaxies: La Revue de Référence de la Science Fiction.

Carr is an award-winning writer and producer of film/television. He is the Sr. Writer/Co-Creator of The Learning Channel (TLC) television series Dead Tenants. As Head of Development for both the Emmy Award-winning Triple Threat Television and the Academy Award-nominated Fredric Golding Productions Scott developed original programming for MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, A&E, The Hallmark Channel, Discovery Networks and The Learning Channel.

Scott is the creator and executive producer of the post-apocalypse scifi film The NUKE Brothers (featured at DragonCon the World's Largest Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival and the 2012 AnthoCon Speculative Art & Fiction Conference) and writer of the tie-in comic book The Continuing Adventures of Fat Man and Little Boy...

He is currently pushing his latest novels Believer and The First Time We Died out into the world, and diving into his next: [PAUSE] and his first historical novel Woodstock, Baby…!, as well as adapting for the stage his unpublished novel The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: A Reality Television Tragedy. He is also hard at work on his nonfiction memoir of the worst divorce in the history of the planet, Congratulations, I'm Sorry, Good Luck...! (the book won’t be finished until the real life story is).

He writes every day.

Wasteland Blues (co-written with Andrew Conry-Murray) is Scott's first novel with Dog Star Books. It will be released in late 2013.

Dog Star Books Author: Andrew Conry-Murray

Andrew Conry-Murray was born in Boston, MA, and lived in the area until age sixteen, when his family moved to New Jersey, and then to California. He attended Caldwell College, where he met Scott, his co-writer of Wasteland Blues, their first novel with Dog Star Books. After college, Scott and Drew moved to Boston. He earned a master’s degree in education from Boston College, but decided not to go into teaching.

Instead, he got a job as an editor at a small publishing company that specialized in books on Chinese martial arts and mediation. He also studied martial arts and meditation with the publisher’s founder, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. Drew trained with Dr. Jwing-Ming for four years.

In 1998 Drew got married and moved back to California because his wife was starting a Ph.D. program at Berkeley.

He got a job as an editor at a technology magazine for IT professionals. Over time, he moved up from editing to full-time writing. The company was acquired a couple of times, and he stayed on through each iteration. He's now editor of a technology website called Network Computing.com.

He and his wife lived in California for eight years, and both their sons were born there.

In 2006 they moved to Rochester, NY, where his wife got a post-doctoral position at the University of Rochester. They spent two years there before moving to Pennsylvania, where they currently reside.