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You want to know one great way to start the weekend? Check your email to find that Jeffery Deaver enjoyed The Demonologist, and had this to say..

"Richly crafted, deliriously scary and compulsively page-turning from beginning to end. Imagine The Exorcist and The Da Vinci Code as penned by Daphne du Maurier. Don't miss this one!"
--Jeffery Deaver

I'd like to share a comment from an early reader of the new novel. An early reader, by the by, who is none other than S.J. Watson, author of the excellent Before I Go to Sleep:

“Plenty of books claim to be scary, but this is genuinely terrifying, don’t-read-late-at-night stuff. Thrilling, compelling, and beautifully written, The Demonologist makes Rosemary’s Baby feel like a walk in the park.”
—S.J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep

Okay, I'm a goodreads blog virgin, but it's time to pop this cherry.

I'm dropping in to say I've finished a new novel I'm particularly proud of. It's called THE DEMONOLOGIST, and it's being published by Simon & Schuster in early March 2013. The novel follows a Columbia professor of English, specializing in Milton's Paradise Lost, who comes to believe his young daughter's apparent suicide is in fact an abduction: a demon from the poem who is not as figurative as he'd always presumed has taken the light of his soul away. And now he has to find a way to get her back.

That's it for now. I just wanted to say hi, and that there's a lot more to this story - both on the page and in so-called real life - than you'd guess...