Hey Everyone,
I’d like to start off by saying thank you for following An All-American Nightmare. This is my first attempt at a novel, and it feels great to see people showing interest. It has been a blast writing it and I would love to hear any feed back you have, be it positive or negative, on the story so far or the voice. As far as the draft goes, I am currently at 80,000 words, and predict that it will finish somewhere around 100,000 to 120,000. So there is light at the end of the tunnel.
An All-American Nightmare is the story of a small town in flyover country, where all neighbors feel like they know everything about their neighbors, being plagued by secrets and multiple evils, some natural and others supernatural. It’s the story of a rock band in a country music town called the Freaks, an alcoholic sheriff, and a secret group of witches hiding within the community, and how each of them uses the information they have to protect the ones they love. It is the story of a power struggle between two evils, a struggle for justice, and a struggle for life.
I get my influences from story tellers in all mediums. Writers like Stephen King, Lovecraft, Bradbury, Cline, Poe, and Stine opened my mind to the genres as much as other great visionaries like John Carpenter, George Lucas, Spielberg, or Wes Craven. Video games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil kept me glued to the big box T.V. with sore thumbs, sweating bullets with a pounding heart as I ran away from T-Virus infected dogs, and movies like A Nightmare on Elm Street inspired me to tape butter knives to my fingers and convince a sleeping friend that Freddy was coming for them. I took to writing as a way to put my own mark on the genres that have given me so much, as well as to pay homage to some of the great story tellers that have come before me.
If you like the story, please recommend it to your friends or give it a review. I would love to hear as many peoples views on the story as possible to help make it the best story it can be.
Sincerely,
J. Charles Poe
