Title: Awakened
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: superhero, genhet
Excerpt rating: teen
A/N: Set in the H&V universe.
Summary: She’s a stranger in her own skin and she’s awakened once again. The world will tremble at her feet for she is a goddess given the flesh of a girl that died long ago, but she refused to lay down and let it take her.
I love metahuman stories. I’ve written several of them and will continue to write many more. So you can probably tell that I’m a big fan of comics and movies featuring superheroes and supervillains. I love watching amazing things and seeing splashy pictures.
But when I write them, I like to find out the secrets that no one else knows. Slice of life segments of heroes and villains, explaining why they do some of the crazy things they do. Because when you’re just looking at some guy, you don’t get the ideas running through his head. You just see the peerless hero or the cackling madman.
You don’t see the guy that has to go buy milk, but has to hide the fact that he’s got one giant gorilla arm under a trench coat. You don’t see someone like Sunfire [Supergroup] washing dishes and doing his own laundry. You don’t see the feelings that run through a superhero like Blue Ice when he realizes he loves a supervillain.
There’s something so awesome about reading a superhero novel. And there’s something awesome about writing one too.
I really like this “Patriot” trailer from Bleeding Cool Ink, so I thought I’d share this too.
This is one comic I can’t wait to read. The premise is so good, and if it’s done right it can be so good.
Title: Pulse of the City
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: YA, superhero, drama
The first part of the story.
Summary: Finding out her real identity was hard enough, but now she has to deal with the idea that someone had purposely tried to kill her.
Title: Heroes & Villains
Author: Harper Kingsley
Genre: superhero, science fiction, gay
Word count: 135,000+
Novel rating: M
Excerpt rating: PG-13
Summary: Starburst – loser, joke, failed superhero.
Darkstar – powerful, dark legend, supervillain.
Both Vereint Georges
Vereint has spent his entire life dreaming about being a superhero, and now he’s registered his name and set out to make his dream a reality.
Except nothing is going quite the way he planned.
No one respects him. His name – Starburst – is mocked far and wide. And Blue Ice – the hero he’s looked up to for years – thinks he’s nothing but a loser and a joke.
So what other choice does he have but to force the world to respect him?
And to that end he transforms himself into the world’s most feared supervillain. Darkstar.
Set in a world where metahumans are fairly common, Vereint has been gifted with extraordinary power. Unfortunately, with great power does not come great popularity. Not until the good boy goes bad… then the wannabes pop out of the woodwork and bring terror to the world at large in his name (“AS DARKSTAR WILLS THE DARKSTERS FOLLOW.”)
Reminiscent of the comic books of old, the world of “Heroes & Villains” is actually a pretty grim one. With one okay from the CMPF (Central Metahuman Policing Force) a metahuman found breaking the law can lose all of their basic human rights. If they’re lucky, they’re executed. If they’re not lucky… well, no metahuman wants to end up in Butcher Bay.
The good guys in “Heroes & Villains” aren’t so good, and the bad guys aren’t so bad. And Vereint is just a guy that wants to get ahead in the world.