GALE HARBOUR 3 RELEASE DAY!

Today is the day! 

After three years of waiting, Gale Harbour 3: Dirtbag Satan Worshippers From Down by the Bay is finally available for purchase. You can get it from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and (hopefully soon) from Indigo!

Here's the blurb:

Newfoundland, Canada. 1994.

Niall O’Neil is wallowing in teenage angst, still getting over Harper Jeddore, his childhood crush who helped him save the sleepy town of Gale Harbour from otherworldly monsters. Twice. When he meets a new, less-complicated girl named Stacey, it seems his life might be turning a corner. But Niall is pulled back into his old world when people start disappearing around town again, seemingly abducted by Satan-worshipping rednecks.

Torn between his new existence of simple happiness and his messy feelings for his old flame, Niall must make a decision: Enjoy dating girls, experimenting with drinking and making new friends, or risk his life to save the town one more time?

The fate of the entire world may depend on the choices of a hormonal fourteen-year-old with a flair for the dramatic.

Join Niall, Harper, Pius, Keith and Skidmark as they band together for one last adventure…

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Satan Worshippers is by the far the longest of the three books, clocking in at about 105,000 words. For reference the second book was 85K, and the first book was only 65K. I had originally intended the series to be short, pulpy adventures, but it kind of got away from me. The cast of characters grew, and they became deeper and more complicated, too. I really got hooked on the normal teenage drama these characters were experiencing, in addition to the supernatural stuff. I think it helps the story, instead of hindering it. Most of the compliments I've received are from people who relate to the characters, who remember being kids that age, of thinking and acting like they do. Being attached to the characters really ups the tension, and I hope that readers are afraid for their safety and sanity.

I went into this with the idea that no one was safe, that this finale was going to be bloody and tragic. I went back and forth on who would live and die, and honestly my alpha and beta readers had to rein me in a little bit. The current ending, which I'm happy with and I think brings the story to a satisfying conclusion, is WAY less dark than the original version. It's not all sunshine and roses, not by a long shot, but let's just say that after my wife read the original ending she looked at me in disgust and wouldn't speak to me for the rest of the day. 

So is this really Niall and the gang's last adventure? Maybe, maybe not. Certainly the last for awhile, anyway. But I will revisit Gale Harbour again, of that I'm certain. There are plenty of other interesting characters and stories to tell in that cursed town. 

SO PLEASE! Head out and grab yourself a copy of Gale Harbour Book 3 and complete the series! It's available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback, and the links are below. Leave me a review and let me know what you think of it! Lemme know if I've wasted the last five years of my life writing this stuff... ;-)

Hugs & kisses,
-CDGK

BUY DIRTBAG SATAN WORSHIPPERS FROM DOWN BY THE BAY HERE:

AMAZON US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F277SXCV/

AMAZON CANADA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0F277SXCV/

AMAZON UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F277SXCV/