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Luke Keioskie has been a professional writer since the millenium turned and the world didn't end. His first novel, Room One Nineteen, was published by Lothian Books in 2005 and he has published short fiction in Wet Ink magazine. A one time lecturer in Creative Writing, he recently added 'Dr' to the front of his name after graduating with a Doctor of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) in 2008. And he spends far too much time at the beach.

favourite books

The Surgeon of Crowthorne, Simon Winchester
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall
House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
Last Call, Tim Powers

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http://www.deadamerica.info     http://www.orbiteers.wordpress.com

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Dead America

Luke Keioskie

Life's tough in America. Especially when you're dead.


PI Jon Faraday thought finding a runaway girl would be easy money. But when the girl turns up dead – the first American to be really, truly dead in decades – Faraday must hit the streets to find her killer. With the help of a decapitated head named Dorothy, a necrophilic pathologist, and an undead reporter who'd give her right arm for a story (literally), Faraday must discover why the runaway girl didn’t relive as a zombie after she died, before the ever-present distrust between the living and the dead explodes into a lifism riot that could burn New York City to the ground.


DEAD AMERICA is set in a world where the undead hold down jobs at McDonald's, necrophilia is no longer a crime and zombies have the constitutional right to vote. Called the Newly Dead by scientists, necros by the common people and neccers by Life Supremacists, the undead are treated like second class citizens. But in a country where the afterlife is the same as life before death, can anyone really live anyway?


Part detective noir, part horror, part satire.
Welcome to Dead America.
Land of the dead and home of the grave.

 

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Backed Dead America. I am not an author but love to escape reality b....

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I wrote 1270 days ago

Pure, unadulterated shrike. No wonder you're on the editor's desk. Write on. Luke Keioskie view book

I wrote 1270 days ago

Hey Jennifer A great hook and an intriguing premise. You layer in enough clues that the reader wants to know more, and your writing is sharp. I can tell you're an avid reader/writer and, judging from my own experiences, the more you write, the better you'll get. Your work reads like a 'journey... view book

I wrote 1278 days ago

Hey Dan, I like it, you're creating a whole universe here and playing round in it. The disparate voices are good, but remember format - the more you change it 'on the page', the easier it is to read and distinguish the point you're trying to make. I see what Patty (below) means about the le... view book

I wrote 1285 days ago

Effortless prologue that intrigues me to no end. Just the right amount of...well, just about everything. I'm shelving you and hoping I see you on the editor's desk at the end of the month. Write on. view book

I wrote 1285 days ago

Hey John, I gotta say you've got a great idea for a book here. Fantastic title and a rich source of inspiration. But I wonder if it would work as an actual narrative, rather than a series of vignettes around each band. You have the opportunity here to write a non-fiction memoir on a topic that ha... view book

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