There’s a lovely review of my new book, The Mona Lisa Sacrifice, in the National Post. It talks about the pen name issue — probably the only time I’ll appear in a piece that also discusses JK Rowling — and gives me some great quote material:

The Mona Lisa Sacrifice is a deliriously unhinged roller coaster of a novel, blending fantasy, history, horror and humour with the aplomb of an overfull blender, but all of it smarter than it, truly, has any right — or need — to be.

I blush.

The press cycle is starting for my new novel, The Mona Lisa Sacrifice. Quill and Quire says the book “sweeps you up with its gallows humour, whether you’re revelling in the pleasures of two-fisted, angel-punching action or the cleverly rendered language.” The same day, lit blogger extraordinaire Chad Pelley posted an interview with me about why I used a pen name, lit fiction vs. genre fiction and what’s next for Cross. More to come, hopefully!

Courtesy of ChiZine editor Sandra Kasturi. Coming to a bookstore near you in mid-June, along with David Nickle‘s The ‘Geisters. That should cover your summer reading.

My new novel, The Mona Lisa Sacrifice, isn’t out until June, but it does have a lovely review already, courtesy of Publishers Weekly.

Vancouver author Roman (a pen name for Peter Darbyshire, The Warhol Gang) pushes urban fantasy noir to its logical extreme by casting the resurrected body of Christ—now called Cross—as an angel-slaying, wise-cracking antihero in search of the real Mona Lisa who inspired da Vinci’s painting.

That’s me — the logical extreme!