A press release from Danielle Gunter of The Twisted World:
The Twisted World is proud to announce author Patrick Thomas as the Author Guest of Honor for The Twisted World: Villains and Vixens Convention on March 28-30, 2014, at the Double Tree by Hilton Philadelphia – Valley Forge Hotel.
Patrick will be participating in several events including the official release and signing of his latest books, Startenders and The Assassins’ Ball (the latter co-written with John L. French and published by Ian Randal Strock’s Gray Rabbit Publications).
Patrick is the author of the Murphy’s Lore series, which David Sherman (author of Starfist and Demontech) described as “Mix Gaiman’s American Gods and Robinson’s Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon on Pratchett’s Discworld and you get an idea of Patrick Thomas’ Murphy’s Lore.” So far fifteen books set in the Murphy’s Lore universe have been published by Padwolf Publishing since Tales From Bulfinche’s Pub debuted in 1997. The series has earned much critical praise. Asimov’s has called it “Slick… Entertaining,” and Science Fiction Chronicle wrote it is full of “Humor, outrageous adventures and some clever plot twists.”
Laurence Fisburne’s production company Cinema Gypsy Productions took a film and television option on Patrick Thomas’ urban fantasy Fairy with a Gun, a paranormal mystery which chronicles the adventures of Terrorbelle, a former soldier from Faerie who is equal parts pixie and orgre who now makes her home in New York City. Raven’s Barrow praised Terrorbelle by saying “Who doesn’t love a well-stacked, ass-kicking, gun-toting woman with bullet-proof, razor-sharp wings that investigates all manner of supernatural spookiness? I know I do, and Thomas’s humor shows through in every tale. Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton have nothing on Thomas.”
In addition to Fairy with a Gun and the Murphy’s Lore books, Patrick Thomas is the author of the Mystic Investigators series from Dark Quest Books, as well as the Dear Cthulhu humorous advice columns which have been collected by Dark Quest Books into the collections Have a Dark Day, Good Advice for Bad People, and Cthulhu Knows Best. His stories have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies.
The books of Patrick Thomas are also part of the set and props department at the television program CSI and have been seen on the show.
Learn more about him and The Patrick Thomas Show mockumentary at www.patthomas.net.
The Twisted World is a yearly multi-genre 18-and-over festival that spans three days of avante garde performances, bands, writers, artists, vendors, costuming, and more.
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