Tag: Hometown

Heroines of Hometown: Vicki Powers

This post is a re-run, leading up to a new post in the same series coming either later this week or early next week. Sort of a “Previously on Hometown promotional art. If you want the archived versions of all of these articles plus more, check out the Promotional Art archive. Just keep your eye out for that new post, coming soon!

Victoria Powers (the redhead on the right) is the only child of Brenda Powers, a single mother who lives in a trailer park on the edge of Belford (the town where Hometown is set). In 1994, at the time Hometown begins, Vicki is just shy of eighteen years old. Brenda is thirty-five.
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Hometown Book Trailer!

Hey, all!

I’ve signed up for a premium membership at Booksgosocial, an online book promotion service, and one of the services they provide for premium members is creation of book trailers.  Of course I’ve taken advantage of this service, and the first one, for Hometown, has been completed!  It is now available at both their Youtube channel and mine.  Have a look:

(And of course, if this trailer convinces you that Hometown is something you want to check out, then just head on over to Amazon and get yourself a copy!)

Heroines of Hometown: Angelina Santos-de la Cruz

This post is a re-run, leading up to a new post in the same series coming either later this week or early next week. Sort of a “Previously on Hometown promotional art. If you want the archived versions of all of these articles plus more, check out the Promotional Art archive. Just keep your eye out for that new post, coming soon!

Angelina Santos-De La Cruz (seen on the left above, with the leg injury) was born in late February of 1977, nine months to the day after her parents’ June wedding. At the time the Hometown begins, in the fall of 1994, she is seventeen.

Angelina is just a Good Kid in pretty much every dimension: she’s a shoo-in for valedictorian, she’s an athlete (captain of the field hockey team), she’s in the school choir, and she’s in all the school plays. The eldest of seven children, she got used to taking on responsibility early on, and she helps out a lot at home – once all those school activities are done, of course. She’s also an active participant at her family’s church, though she’s maybe not quite as devout a Catholic as they are (more on that later).

What’s more, she doesn’t fall into the trap of many a Good Kid and become self-righteous. She has friends among all strata of Belford High School society, and she doesn’t judge people for having a different life than she does. Many of the school’s bad girls – including Vicki – have waited for quite some time for the slut-shaming to begin before they realized it wasn’t going to.
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The Art of Hometown: Angelina and Vicki At The Last

This post is a re-run, leading up to a new post in the same series coming either later this week or early next week.  Sort of a “Previously on Hometown promotional art.  If you want the archived versions of all of these articles plus more, check out the Promotional Art archive.  Just keep your eye out for that new post, coming soon!

The brave young women you see before you are Angelina Santos-de la Cruz and Vicki Powers, the heroines of my novel Hometown. I can’t tell you exactly what they’re facing because, well, that would be telling. This scene is from the end of the novel, and Angelina and Vicki are facing the final horror with nothing but a flathead screwdriver, an injured leg, and their indomitable wills.

The thing they’re facing might be in more trouble than it thinks.

For more information on Angelina, see here.

For more information on Vicki, see here.

Thanks to the talented MJ Barros for this marvelous interpretation of my two heroines.

And if you want the whole story of Angelina Santos-de la Cruz and Vicki Powers, just pick yourself up a copy of Hometown at Amazon.

New Pages Added To Promotional Artwork!

Two new pages have been added to the Promotional Art page, specifically to Angelina and Vicki At The Last.  If you look at that picture and want to know more about those brave, frightened, extraordinary young women, you can find the backstory for Angelina here, and for Vicki right here.

Check it out!

New Page Up In Promotional Artwork – Angelina And Vicki At The Last

Hey, all.  There’s a new page up in Promotional Art, explaining just what’s going on in that picture of “Angelina And Vicki At The Last”.  Previously, this information was only available on my old blog.

More detail on Angelina and Vicki, the protagonists of Hometown, coming soon!

An Excerpt from Hometown – #1

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Hey, all.

As promised, here is the first of the excerpts from my longest work, the horror novel Hometown:

It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall.

Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren’t found at all. Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories.

There’s something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry. Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start…changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.

That’s the cover blurb.  You’ll probably see it again.  Meanwhile, the plan here is to keep giving you excerpts at the rate of one or two per week, until you’ve seen everything that’s publicly available from Amazon, then give you a few previews from later in the book.  With that in mind, check below the fold (it’s a touch NSFW) for the opening scene to Hometown.

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Coming Attractions

Hey, all.

Just wanted to give you a heads-up about some upcoming events here at matthewkeville.com.

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First of all, I’m going to start a big push on the book that, for now at least, remains my magnum opus.

I’m not sure exactly how many years I spent working on Hometown; there was a long period where it was just sitting on my hard drive, untouched.  But it wouldn’t let me rest while the work was unfinished.  That story needed to be told.

A lot of my heart went into that story.  Pretty much everything I needed to say about the first eighteen years of my life went into Hometown.  Never mind that it’s a supernatural horror story: fiction is about using lies to tell the truth, and the truth of Hometown is the truth of the small town that you need to escape.

As you can imagine, I want that story to be heard.  So be on the lookout for excerpts, behind-the-scenes commentary, character profiles, illustrations, and promotions.

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I’ve got a number of stories that are coming to Amazon soon, but the first of them will be part 1 of Turning the Curse, a romance story about a Sweet Innocent Heroine using the Love of a Good Woman to protect her village from the man she loves, who has become a werewolf…and to protect him from them.

(Darn thing was inspired by an old Hammer film, and it was originally supposed to be just a short story, but it’s already growing to the size of a novella.  Thus the Part 1.)

I’m taking a bit of a chance with this one.  I’ve had stories with explicit scenes in them before – two of them are up in The Grindhouse right now – but this will be my first piece of outright erotica.  Let’s see how this works.