The setting also accounts for magic and psychic phenomena, and there are a lot more nasty critters out there than exist in Vampier$. The characters are fun too and often flip the usual Hollywood stereotypes on their heads. They act as often as they react, and don't usually wait around for the monsters to start hunting them. The characters in MHI are better equipped, tougher, and cope with adversity with more humor and less crying. Jack Crow and Felix are fantastic, and so are the supporting characters. But the characters are what this book brings to the table. And for a group of supposed professionals that are being supplied by the Vatican, they have shite for equipment, strategy and tactics. Mostly the good guys are just barely getting by and they know they're dead men walking. Vampire$ was much more depressing and the good guys much less competent, with a distinct feeling of hopelessness throughout the book. He's a writing maniac.Īs far as comparing it to Vampire$, it's very different. He also has a 1930's pulp/magic trilogy called The Grimnoire Chronicles coming out next year, and he's working with Mike Kupuri on the Dead 6 trilogy that is going to be a major expansion and rewrite of the Welcome Back, Mr. MHI: Vendetta is due out in October I think, but Baen is supposed to release an E-Arc (advanced reader copy) pretty soon. MHI is a book for gamers and deranged people who love B-movies, but I repeat myself.Īt the moment, Larry's got the one MHI sequel sold, two in the works, and two more in the planning stages. It is a big book, but I enjoyed the hell out of it. They initially wanted Larry to cut it down some, but the fans of the original wouldn't have it, IIRC, so it stayed the size it is now. Eventually MHI sold like 2000 copies (rare for self published books) and was picked up by Baen Books, who mass published it last year. Nightcrawler story he co-wrote with Mike Kupuri. It worked for him since he already had a fan base from the epic Welcome Back, Mr. MHI was Larry's first novel and after two years of rejection slips from publishers, he decided to self-publish the book. He's a good guy and MHI is a fun read, especially if you like action, monsters, and guns (and indeed I do). Everyone I've introduced the book to has loved it, even my baby sister who is a Twilight fan (yeeach), which is amusing to me since Larry laughingly bills himself as the anti-Stephenie Meyer.
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I used to buy guns at his gun shop, Fuzzy Bunny Movie Guns, here in Salt Lake.