James A. Hunter
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MudMan Re-Release
🕑 Added 2023-10-31 22:00:04 +0000 UTCHey everyone, James Hunter here. We're dusting off an oldie but a goodie. I wrote MudMan in early 2016, back before I'd even started dabbling in LiRPG. It's dark, gritty urban fantasy with a whole lot of blood, gore, and action. We took this book down several years ago for a fresh round of edits and then... we'll, we just sort of forgot about it. I got caught up with so many other projects that this just ended up on the backburner.
Finally, all these years later, we're releasing it. Again, this is not LitRPG and it's also a weird, strange book. With that said, its a great fast read with some amazingly wild characters and one of the coolest magic-systems I've ever come up with. Levi (the main character who is also a murder golem) is basically an earth mage with the power to transmute substances, and man oh man does he put those powers to great use. Both the blurb and a link for your free copy are below. Hope you dig it!
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Levi Adams is a soft spoken, middle-aged Mennonite man—at least he tries to be when he's not murdering people.
Levi's a golem, a Mudman, crafted from the muck, mire, and corpses of a World War II concentration camp—killing is just a part of his DNA. He doesn't like it, but unfortunately he's been saddled with a divine commission to dole out judgment on those who shed innocent blood. After seventy years as a cold-blooded murder machine, however, Levi's trying to change his grisly nature. And the AA meetings and church services are helping. A little.
But when he runs across a wounded girl, Sally Ryder, during one of his "hunting expeditions," he realizes self-help may have to go on the back burner. Someone is attempting to revive a pre-Babylonian murder god, and the road to rebirth is paved with dead bodies. Lots and lots of them.
Now, Levi must protect Ryder—the key to an unspeakable resurrection—and defeat a Nazi warlock from Levi's murky past. But the shadowy spellcaster holds a terrible secret about the Mudman's unorthodox birth, one offering insight into Levi's morbid compulsion for bloodshed. It's a secret Levi would pay anything to uncover: maybe even Ryder's life. If Levi isn't careful, he may end up turning into the monster he always imagined himself to be.
