Month: August 2023

Stairway to Hell

This cover was inspired by Hack’s cover artist Jonny M.’s experiences when his home of Los Angeles was facing the scourge of Tropical Storm Hillary. It began when Jonny texted the cover art for The Bunker to a friend the day before, who responded “You’re going to hell.”

A little later when it was pouring rain from Tropical Storm Hilary, Jonny had a vision of an earthquake and having to evacuate his government-assisted housing outside. Shortly afterward, there was an earthquake (no evacuation necessary, though). When he told the same friend about it, they replied “so the earthquake is YOUR fault.”

Jonny made the cover and Hack dashed out a novel around it.

The Bunker

Hack, Boris and I hope everybody is okay as SoCal braces itself for a day and a half of heavy rain in the wake of Tropical Storm Hillary. But we did think it was a bit much when we went grocery shopping last night and the shelves were emptied by nervous folks who were preparing for Armageddon. The cashier at Trader Joe’s told us that he could see the wisdom of staying off the road on Sunday and Monday but he didn’t see any reason why the store should have sold out of toilet paper by 9:00 a.m.