Meet the Demon Priest
The Demon Priest is an urban fantasy novel that brings fallen angels into a world already inhabited by superheroes, aliens and fairy folk. “How the Hell can a priest be a demon or a demon be a priest?” you might ask. Those are the very questions that the book sets out to answer. Along the way, it explores a number of very human questions of free will, repentance, redemption, and personal responsibility.
From the perspective of our world, the story started when I was creating a setting for a superhero role playing game. I had created an image of a character known as “The Demon Prince”. When telling a friend about him, I mistakenly called him “the Demon Priest”. I corrected myself immediately, but it was too late—over the next hour, I called him the Demon Priest several more times. Frustrated, I declared it was a ridiculous mistake to make—the whole notion of a “demon priest” made no sense. And so, a few days later, I found myself writing his story.
Even my narrator agreed that it was a crazy notion. Chapter 1 starts out:
Look, I know I’m not supposed to say these things. If I do, then I’ll need my meds again, and when I forget them, I’ll have to go to the Safe Place again. I shouldn’t tell you these things. If I do, you have to promise me that you won’t tell anyone I said them. Promise?
I was one of the first to see him, probably the first. He stepped out through the wall. Not a door in the wall, out through the wall. I know, walls don’t do that. I didn’t see it. Couldn’t. They just say that he stepped out through a wall. It was a brick wall, old, old bricks, a brick wall in an alley off of Washington Street, in a bad part of New Acadia, where nobody sees anything, especially not me.
The Demon Priest novel is available from Amazon.com as a trade paperback, a hardback, or a Kindle eBook—see the links and preview above. The eBook is also available from a number of other sites, including: Kobo, Smashwords, Thalia, Angus & Robertson, Vivlio, Fable and Everand. Links for all of these can be found on Books2Read.
Demon Priest Deluxe Preview
In addition to the novel itself, the Demon Priest and a number of his supporting characters show up in comics published by G-Man Comics. Because of this, the first couple of chapters of the novel are available through IndyPlanet and here in the form of the “Demon Priest Deluxe Preview” comic book. Its first eight pages feature an 8-page comic book adaptation of the first two chapters of the novel. This is followed by the full two chapters as text. The last eight pages form a Who’s Who of the characters and organizations that appear in the book. The digital version of the Deluxe Preview is free both here and on IndyPlanet. The IndyPlanet paper edition is available for $2.99, the printing cost.
Work in progress. To be continued…
