Fireflies and Savage Species

Posted on by Jonathan Janz

I love fireflies. I always call them lightning bugs, but fireflies sounds more like Bradbury, which means it’s lovelier. We’re starting to see a few fireflies in our yard and will be spotting more as July continues.

My Glowing-Rumped Friends
My Glowing-Rumped Friend

It’s one of my favorite parts of July. That and Lil Kim‘s birthday.

Oh, come on. Don’t tell me you don’t already have something big lined up for the eleventh. We’re all friends here. Right?

A-hem. So the other order if business is my periodical check-in with you about Samhain Horror’s first serialized novel SAVAGE SPECIES. The first installment is free and can be filched just about anywhere. Okay, downloaded just about anywhere—I just wanted to use “filched” in a blog post.

Free, friends. Read it today.
Free, Friends. Read it today.

 

The second installment can be gotten right here. Or anywhere else.

They're ALIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!
They’re ALIIIIIIIIVE!!!!!

And the third here. Or anywhere else.

In which things get even darker...
In which things get even darker…

That’s all for tonight, Friends. If you need me, I’ll be watching a Downton Abbey rerun with my wife. Or standing gape-mouthed on the lawn watching the firefly show.

 

2 thoughts on “Fireflies and Savage Species”

  1. I envy you…down here in Florida we get roaches and mosquitoes the size of toy cars…I’ve been lucky, though, to experience lightning bugs while visiting grandparents in Pittsburgh as a kid.

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    1. That’s the first time in a while I’ve had someone from Florida envy our Indiana conditions. But the way you say it…yeah, I do prefer fireflies to roaches.

      I’ll still take your January, February, and March, thought. 🙂

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Jonathan Janz grew up between a dark forest and a graveyard, and in a way, that explains everything. Brian Keene named his debut novel The Sorrows “the best horror novel of 2012”. The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, “reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.” Samhain Horror will also publish his third novel, The Darkest Lullaby, in April. Savage Species will be his fourth full-length work. Look for his fifth novel, a vampire western called Dust Devils, in early 2014. He has also written three novellas (The Clearing of Travis Coble, Old Order, and Witching Hour Theatre) and several short stories. His primary interests are his wonderful wife and his three amazing children, and though he realizes that every author’s wife and children are wonderful and amazing, in this case the cliché happens to be true. You can learn more about Jonathan at www.jonathanjanz.com. You can also find him on Facebook, via @jonathanjanz on Twitter, or on his Goodreads and Amazon author pages.