REVIEWS for Progeny

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"What impressed me most about this novel is the ease in which the reader is immersed into the story. It's presented in a very inviting format, guiding the reader along with a cozy prose style and a compelling plot. Tension literally seeps from the pages as you move from chapter-to-chapter, each twist in the plot heightening the suspense. The whole time you know things are going to get hairy when the story kicks into overdrive. I would recommend this story not only to fans of Sasquatch-lore and horror, but readers who enjoy a gripping tale featuring a cast of colorful characters."


"Patrick C Greene weaves this tale together in a style so reminiscent of Stephen King but with a touch of Ray Garton for good measure. I highly recommend this book to any creature feature fan and even if you're not a fan of that subgenre you'll love this book for the psychological thrills it delivers."


"Both a coming of age story and a coming to light story - Progeny kept me turning the pages as rapidly as I could. It is very obvious that a lot of research went into the development of the creatures that haunt these pages and yet that study is so well blended that you don't even grasp that you are learning something about Bigfoot as you go along."

The 2012 PROGENY Book Tour

The 2012 Progeny Book Tour

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CHOOSING THE PERFECT TITLE: PART 1

A glance at the venerated New York Times Bestseller List reflects whatever might pass for current "trends" in titling. Alliterative, (Gone Girl, Winter of the World) lyrical (The Light Between Oceans), to-the-point (A Wanted Man), enigmatic (The Casual Vacancy), whimsical (This Book is Full Of Spiders), and generic (Phantom, Down To You). Looking over these, I'm given to wondering if anyone has ever agonized -as I have- over the perfect title for their work.
It seems like a lot of factors to consider. Too pedestrian and it may not stand out as interesting. Too wordy might seem pretentious. A little descriptive might give away plot details. Too simple might give the impression that the author has little imagination. A perfect happy medium then, would hint at the story, offer a poetic hint and be easy to remember. Right? One would think. 
If I'm honest, I have to admit that I lean toward the pretentious, or at least the imaginative. My novel PROGENY has at its core, a horror story about a ferocious family of sasquatches. If asked what it's about, I would be tempted to stress its theme of father/son relationships and the delicate dynamics thereof--and I'd pretty much sound like a jackass. The title makes that point--enigmatically and via a nifty vocab word that makes me sound smart. Now I have to rely on the cover art and word of mouth to convey that it has monsters in it. But I stand by that title. There are enough books and films with the word bigfoot in the title; more than one with that word alone as its title, in fact. Now if only there weren't a couple of dozen other books called PROGENY. 
Still, mine is the only book called PROGENY that features rampaging bigfoots! 
Some of you horror fans may have seen a film called Pumpkinhead. Back when that film was first completed, it fell into a sort of limbo. The distributing studio switched heads and may well have gone the direct-to-video route, thanks to the new suit, who wanted to re-title it Vengeance: The Demon, and dump it into video stores. Clearly, that title denotes little imagination and his decision shows no faith in its theatrical potential. Not sure what happened next; but obviously at some point, this guy was no longer in the picture. Pumpkinhead got its original title back and had a nice theatrical run. However, can I honestly say I would have been less interested in seeing it under the Vengeance title? No. I'd have probably seen it anyway. But I'm strange--what of the average filmgoer? 
So there's another facet to my dilemma. How do I know whether my quirky sense of what sounds cool will ring to potential readers? 
I've submitted scripts to filmmakers who have told me they liked everything but the title. I've had the same script dismissed by someone different-who then wanted to do something else with the title! I guess William Goldberg was right: nobody knows anything. 
MORE TO COME

PROGENY: ORIGINS

The monstrous Tsul Kalu beasts of PROGENY are drawn from actual Cherokee mythological lore, underscoring the fact that there are legends of hairy humanoid giants in countless cultures throughout the world. Tsul Kalu is revered by the Cherokee (a.k.a. Tselagi) as The Ultimate Hunter. Its spirit was invoked in pre-hunt rituals designed to imbue the Indians with some measure of the great being’s stealth and skill.

From the North comes the term sasquatch, dervived once again from the Chehalis tribal name for a creature called sasq’ets, though the legend pre-dates the actual name. Also known as siatco, this version, like the Tsul Kalu, is considered a dangerous spiritual being, best left to its own devices.

Chiye-tanka, meaning literally “big brother” is the Lakota’s Bigfoot. By contrast to the Cherokee legend, to be touched by him, they believe, is to be blessed.

Interestingly, North Dakota’s Ojibway nation sometimes refers to the beast as “rugaru”, a Cree/ Algonquian pronunciation of the French term Loup Garou—or werewolf.

There are numerous other North American Bigfoot legends-all from sources once isolated from one another before their myths and history began to be charted.

China is the home of the Yeren-a creature remarkably similar in description to western ape men legends. Lore suggests that the Yeren are descendants of slaves who escaped from China’s first emperor, who had put them to work building the Great Wall.

From Russia comes the legend of the Almasty-a female of whom is fabled to have long ago been captured, trained, and even crossbred with men from a remote village!

Perhaps the most famous version of the creature is the Tibetan yeti-a reclusive-at times even invisible-entity revered in pre-Buddhist times-like the Tsul Kalu-as…God of Hunters.

Such coincidences would seem even less likely than the existence of the beast itself-if not for the many supernatural powers attributed to it. In any case, if the existence of the creature is ever confirmed, we may be opening an entirely different can of maggots—who is truly “superior”?

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