Tony Bowman's Page on Redbud Revue

Recently, I received a five star review for Vales Hollow on Amazon from someone identifying themselves only as 'Cel'. When I get a review from someone, it makes my day - whether it's a good or bad review doesn't matter. The simple fact that someone read the book and cared enough to go online and talk about it is enough to put a smile on my face all day. Cel says that they've been an avid reader for sixty years, and one of the sentences in the review got me thinking:        "What a joy to have Janey be the leading lady."   Now, for those of you who haven't read it, Janey is a sixty-three year old ex-CIA assassin and retired mercenary. Admittedly, she does have the best lines in the book.   Reading between the lines, I'm wondering if Cel is happy that a woman is the leading lady, or that a woman over sixty is the leading lady. I really hope it's the latter.   So often in novels, the heroes and heroines are cookie cutter. If a b

Turning the Darkness, my post apocalyptic horror novel is now available on Amazon for the Kindle. The paperback version should be available within a couple of days. Almost twenty years have passed since I started Turning the Darkness - it's taken a long time. Part of the reason for this is that the story was so massive. The novel is a story about normal people caught up in extraordinary circumstances: most simply trying to survive, one attempting to regain his sanity, one attempting to regain his faith, and another attempting to regain her soul. It's a story about witches and demons, vampires and werewolves, the forces of heaven, and the forces of hell. My heroes are sometimes monsters, my villains sometimes ordinary folks. I hope you will enjoy it. My next novel, Nine Fingers will be released sometime in late July or early August. It's a story about unexplained murders on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Bedford, Virginia. Murders with a decidedly supernatural feel. A m