Severed Wings

Severed Wings

Imagine Leaving Las Vegas meets City of Angels and American Gods, and you can imagine the power of Severed Wings.

Brandon Jones, a handsome, hopeful young actor, stands on the verge of fame and fortune—when a car accident shatters his life, bringing his career to a screeching halt. Isolating himself, he cuts off his friends and family, turns to booze for companionship, and withdraws to a small apartment on Sunset Boulevard. Now, the only people he interacts with are a drag queen and a student working her way through college as an escort.

Brandon has nothing to live for…until a startlingly beautiful young couple moves in across the hall. Spying through the peephole in his door, he grows increasingly obsessed with his new neighbors—and the parade of damaged strangers who visit them at all hours.

Then something seemingly impossible happens that convinces him that this mysterious couple can help restore all he lost.

Brandon insinuates himself into their lives, and finds himself on a journey from despair into hope—as an ancient secret from the dawn of time draws him head to head with a terrifying foe, bent on destroying everything he’s now come to love.

Once again, Steven-Elliot Altman dares to place his readers in the company of an embittered anti-hero, in the same manner that inspired Paul Goat Allen of The Barnes & Noble Review to call his bestselling novel, Deprivers, “One of those rare novels that will haunt the reader’s subconscious for a long time.” The author has produced a timeless work that tempts our greater demons and provokes our higher angels.

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Endorsements
“A fascinating story . . . the plot really cranks up and it becomes impossible to know for sure what’s going to happen next.”
– Charles de Lint, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
“[an] ethereal story about the damage of the past and the hope for a better personal future.”
– Booklist
"This dark, alluring story will appeal to urban fantasy fans."
– Publishers Weekly
"Altman (Deprivers) combines the divine and the profane in this erotically charged urban fantasy."
– Publishers Weekly
"Very nicely written with a simple, straightforward plot that is actually more complex by implication than it seems."
– Don D'Ammassa, Critical Mass Reviews
"Severed Wings will make you believe in angels and demons and everything in between, at least until you turn the last page.”
– Kaye Lynn Booth, Writing to be Read
“An erotic and lyrical fantasy thriller, aptly set in the city of lost angels.”
– Poppy Z. Brite, author of Lost Souls and Exquisite Corpse
“In Severed Wings, Altman delivers a thrilling roller-coaster ride, plunging us headlong into dark territories fraught with unexpected pivots and twists.”
– Stephen Susco, screenwriter of The Grudge
“Steve Altman's Severed Wings is a tour de force of the Weird. Eat of the fruit and take a truly mesmerizing trip through a glass darkly. I did, and I can't wait to do it again.”
– Nancy Holder, NYT Bestselling Author of The Wicked Saga, written with Debbie Viguie
About the Author
Steven-Elliot Altman

Steven-Elliot Altman is a bestselling author, graphic novelist, ADDY Award-winning advertising executive, television writer-producer, and most recently a successful videogame developer, having served as the Games Director at Acclaim Games, and having won multiple awards for the games he has penned which include such titles as: 9Dragons, which boasts 15 million players; Pearl’s Peril, which boasts 90 million players; and his latest two games Ancient Aliens: The Game and Project Blue Book: The Game which Steve wrote, produced and narrative designed for The History Channel, based on two of their hit television series. All Steve’s games can be found online, or on mobile, and are free to play! If you play one, Steve hopes to meet you in-game to discuss the game’s story.

Steve's novels include Captain America Is Dead, Zen in the Art of Slaying Vampires, Batman: Fear Itself, The Killswitch Review, The Irregulars and Deprivers. He's also the editor of the critically-acclaimed anthology The Touch, and a contributor to Shadows Over Baker Street, a Hugo Award Winning anthology of Sherlock Holmes Stories. Steve's also a proud member of SFWA and the current Vice-Chairman of the steering committee of the Writers Guild of America's Videogame Division, and has served as a Finalist Judge for the WGA Videogame Awards since 2009, and as a Finalist Judge for the CDC's Game On Challenge.

When Steve’s not writing he’s playing social games with strange and wondrous people on and off of airplanes between Los Angeles, New York and Berlin. His website is socialimpulse.com

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