A new distinctive voice - who's garnered the praise of World Fantasy winners Graham Joyce and Peter Crowther.

James Cooper's novel will be published in 28 April 2007 under the New Wave imprint. The author has delivered the 172,000 word manuscript after working on it for almost five years. It's Crowswing's biggest book to date, running out at almost 500 pages. 

This tremendous debut novel searches the darkest depths of the human condition. The Midway is essentially a story of freaks, resurrected divinities, and glamours half-hidden to the world. It is the story of Stella Oddstock and her son; and of the genetic anomalies Lazarus and Jack; and of an alternative experience called the Midway, a place wrestled into being from the night.

"Though James Cooper's love of the traditional horror tale is evident in his writing, his fiction is anything but formulaic. His work is thought-provoking, passionate, slightly off-beat, and delves as deeply into the often very real horror of the human condition as it does elements of the fantastic. A fresh new voice in dark fiction, James Cooper is a writer on the rise, and deservedly so"-- Greg F. Gifune, author of DOMINION, DEEP NIGHT, A VIEW FROM THE LAKE

The Midway is available to pre-order. Shipping first week of May 2007.

James Cooper's website