Crystal Lake welcomes author Sam M. Phillips!
Sam’s dark cyberpunk vampire novel CRYPTO BLOOD will be released in 2027 through Crystal Lake’s Torrid Waters imprint with editor Kenneth W. Cain.
About the story: In Halo City, vampires prey on users of the Crypt, a virtual reality used to generate crypto blood. Addicted to this digital currency tied to people’s life force, Blackrock is an exiled vampire desperate for a way back in. Finding him in the gutter after a confrontation with some flesh avatars, inter-dimensional police officer Vanguard offers him a chance at redemption: hack the Crypt and she’ll restore him to his former glory.
About the author: Australian horror, thriller, and science fiction author Sam M. Phillips is the co-founder and former head editor of Zombie Pirate Publishing. During his tenure he edited and published twenty anthologies, helping hundreds of aspiring authors get their first works in print, as well publishing his own collection INFINITY AND I: Seventy Science Fiction Stories. Switching his focus to writing novels, he first released six cosmic horror and creature feature books through Raven Tale Publishing. Now a full-time writer, he has an on-going relationship with Severed Press, who has published a further six of his horror and thriller novels, with two more on the way and many more planned. His latest release is a shark and megalodon thriller, Abattoir Ocean. His other interests include playing drums in heavy metal bands, collecting and reading books, and juggling.