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New Werewolf Novel from Steven Lee Climer Revives One of Horror's Icons
Werewolves Make a Comeback: BearWalker Is Latest From Steven Lee Climer in Electronic Publishing/Paperback
(ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 29) -- Award-winning horror author and EMU graduate Steven Lee Climer's new novel BearWalker will be released Oct. 7 from Indigo
Publishing (www.booktrain.com/indigo/) and will be available in paperback or electronically on disk or download.
"BearWalker" is a modern tale steeped in the rich tapestry of native-American mythology of Michigan's Ojibway Indians. Twenty years ago, David Walking Bear was banished from his tribe and exiled from his
reservation. He was the coming of a myth, a legend that always meant death and destruction to his people. The child was a BearWalker, a loup garou, a
changeling, a werewolf.
Twenty years later, David is an alcoholic living on the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan, booze being the only thing that can curb his uncontrollable
changes and fury. One evening, a gang of rednecks decide to "clean the streets" of some urchins and descend onto David and two others. Brutally
beating them with bats and pipes, the rednecks take pleasure in the attack. But theyve picked the wrong man to violate. David changes into the
BearWalker, a beast of legend, and obliterates the attackers.
Because of the attention, David must flee. He becomes the target of a ruthless tabloid reporter, Dillinger. Through all of this, another person
has taken notice of the events. Her name is Jeanette and shes a nurse at University of Michigan's Mott's Children's Hospital. But not just any nurse,
Janette is also the stuff of legend -- shes a healer, a BloodStopper. She recognizes the accounts of the BearWalker and knows she can help the beast.
BearWalker: Paperback ISBN: 1-58365-000-8
Other Media: Disk: 1-58365-00-4 or by download.
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Steven Lee Climer lives in metropolitan Detroit and is a Ph.D. student at Wayne State University and a dual-graduate of Eastern Michigan University.
When not writing, he teaches English at Detroit College of Business, and is an internet producer for Fry Multimedia in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The greatest joy in his life is his wife, Karen. If you've seen Titanic then you know how he feels about her (no, she's not a sinking ship -- think love story, jeeez!).
Born of southern stock, Steve's parents and family are from western Tennessee. He spent the first five years of his life on Dog Hill before moving north with his family (wanted to go alone, but they insisted on tagging along). He spent all his summers in Tennessee up until he was 17.
His short stories have appeared in over a dozen magazines, including Implosion, The Midnight Gallery, Into the Darkness, Squane's Journal,
Altered Perceptions and FrightNet.
His story "By Any Name a Devil" appeared in the anthology Monsters from Memphis and was named Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Horror and
Fantasy by OMNI Magazine, and also recommended for nomination for a Bram Stoker Award. Steven is also the recipient of the Memphis Science Fiction
Association's 1998 Darrell Award for Best Mid-South Short Story "By Any Name a Devil."
His first novel, DREAM THIEVES was published electronically by Hard Shell Word Factory, and will appear in softcover from Chalice Publishing in May, 1999. It was a finalist for Best First Novel of 1997 in the International Horror Guild
Awards, and won in the Fantasy category for Under The Covers Book Reviews Best Fantasy of 1997. One of his trademark tales is also in the anthology
"Dark Whispers." He also currently has a collection titled "Blood Red: Book 1" available from Hard Shell Word Factory (www.hardshell.com).
/EDITOR'S NOTE: Steven Lee Climer is available for interviews or local appearances in relation to BearWalker, other works of Horror, or the
Halloween season/
/CONTACT: Steven Lee Climer at (734) 729-8619 for further information or email: SKClimer@aol.com or sclimer@frymulti.com; or Lori Soard, Publisher,
Indigo Publishing: wordmuseum@aol.com./
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