Author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson has unveiled the covers for his next two novels from Medallion Press, The Frenzy Wolves, which will be published in October, and Human Monsters, which will be published in March 2015. The Frenzy Wolves in the final book in The Frenzy Cycle werewolf trilogy in which NYPD police captain Anthony Mace navigates conflict among opposing factions of werewolves and werewolf hunters in the age of terrorism. Human Monsters is the sixth and final book in the author’s award willing occult detective series The Jake Helman Files, which began with Personal Demons.
“It’s bittersweet to finish each series,” says Lamberson. “The Frenzy books are based on a screenplay I wrote in 1986 called The Greenwich Village Monster, and I created Jake Helman in a screenplay called The Forever Man that same year, so these characters have been with me a long time. I have more stories to tell about Jake, but for now this is the end of his literary adventures.”
Lamberson, who is currently adapting his zombie novella Carnage Road into a screenplay for actor Craig Sheffer, is also developing The Jake Helman Files as a possible TV series with David Tripet, who worked on such films as Leprechaun, Wishmaster and Return of the Living Dead III as a development executive.
“Now that I’ve written six novels, the template exists for an edgy cable TV series,” Lamberson says. “These books have all the sex, violence and supernatural characters to make a great serialized show.”
Lamberson’s current book release is The Julian Year, the world’s first TREEbook (Timed Reading Experience E-book), an e-book platform for ipads which utilizes seamless story branching technology to tell multiple variations of one tale. Readers download the Medallion Media Group Sidekick app from itunes for free, then purchase the novel using the app. The Julian Year posits a world in which every person on earth becomes possessed on his birthday.
