From the moment Dr Candice Mallus lays eyes on retired Navy SEAL Derek Montague, she knows there's something special about him..... more special even than the successful graft that will make him SHARK-MAN, the first shifter ever created by humanity!
Have you ever made a joke you liked so much you followed through with it?
That's what happened to me. I joked about writing a pulpy paranormal romance called THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN, and wrote up a back-of-book blurb about it because I thought it would be funny, and then I just sort of couldn't let the idea go. I first serialized the book on my Patreon as I was writing it, and then for my newsletter, and now I'm bringing it to the world because I am a giant dork who thinks she's really, really funny. :D
SHARK-MAN is a pulp-fiction-(like Edgar Rice Burroughs, not John Travolta)-inspired paranormal shifter romance, in which...
...The dastardly Corpus Corporation has long known there are shifters among us. What they have never been able to do is command the power that lets a human and a beast share a soul... until now!
Derek Montague is everything a woman could want— handsome, wealthy, a brave protector who has done his time as a Navy Seal...but his secret wish has always been to be more. When he's offered a chance to participate in a dangerous new experiment, Derek can't resist the opportunity that could make him able to swim freely in the depths of the sea... the chance to be what no one has been before...the chance to become... SHARK-MAN!
Gorgeous scientist Doctor Candice Mallus knows the work she does to develop a new line of corporate-sponsored shifters is borderline unethical— but that's why she will only accept volunteers for the perilous transformations she's trying to trigger. Mixing animal DNA with a man's was sure to have some unintended consequences, but she never expected love to be one of them.
But from the moment Candy lays eyes on Derek, she knows there's something special about him..... more than the successful graft that turns him into the first shifter ever created by humanity.
But Derek's metamorphosis awakens a savage strength within him, and an undeniable rage at the very corporation that has given what he has always desired. Will his new power destroy the hopes of a generation...or can scientific beauty soothe the sharkish beast?
This is a slam-dunk crowdfund project, as the book is already written. We're looking at getting print editions, getting swag, getting extra goodies if we fund high enough, and getting it out the door. It's my first time crowdfunding in a while, and I'm really looking forward to bringing this absurd, fun project to readers everywhere.
Also will you LOOK at that COVER ART?
The Seduction of Shark-Man, by CE Murphy writing as Murphy Lawless
It's the combined brainchild of me (because if I was going to write a book called THE SEDUCTION OF SHARK-MAN, I wanted to go all-in on a pulpy, pulpy cover for it), artist Trashmancer, whose pulpy Murderbot fan art I found on Tumblr and thought: THIS ARTIST. THIS ARTIST UNDERSTANDS MY SOUL!, and my long-time cover designer Fringe Element, who has done pulp treatments on covers for me before and just NAILED this one.
I am SO grateful to them, because they have honest-to-god brought my vision to life, and it just fills me with absolute outrageous joy. :D
At €4000, there will be high-quality fridge magnets of the SHARK-MAN cover!
At €5500, there will be high-quality posters of the SHARK-MAN cover!
At €7500, there will be more art from the incredible SHARK-MAN cover artist, Trashmancer!
At €10,000, there will be secret stuff revealed!
And beyond that...I don't want to go overboard with stretch goals here, because this is meant to be a quick and dirty campaign, but tell you what, if we hit the extremely pie-in-the-sky goal of €30,000, I'll write a sequel, THE TEMPTATION OF TIGER-MAN, for e-book distribution to all backers.
PLEASE NOTE that to the best of my knowledge, I cannot ship food - ie, fudge - to Australia, so my Aussie readers should probably not get the Sweetest Shark-Man support level. :(
All shipping fees will be chargedseparately, AFTER the campaign, during pledge management.
I've priced everything out at current shipping rates, which I don't expect to change before a late Q3-early-Q4 delivery on this project, but I mean who knows what will happen at this point. ::gestures at the world::
Expected shipping is in the €20-30 ($23-35USD) range for literally everything except maybe a book/two books/fudge together, which may run a bit higher. Actual shipping prices will be determined after production is finished and we're gearing up to send out the books. To emphasize the beginning of this paragraph: if you add-on additional physicalcopies of the book to your order, your shipping cost may increase.
*I mean international postage here. Any other kind of SHARK-MAN shipping is up to you. O_O
