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 heroine...

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...