Release day for Revolution Calling is nearly here!

Book Bloggers, fiction and metal music (even horror) websites and periodicals, I have an ARC of the new novel from Raw Earth Ink available for reviews and interviews.

If you work with or are open to a digital copy of Revolution Calling, please inquire with me and I’ll provide you the pdf immediately for your consideration.

I thank you in advance for your support.

About Revolution Calling:

Every generation coming up faces inevitable trials in the great proving ground of high school.  Be cool or be cast out, as the band, Rush, once issued as caveat.  The polarizing definition of cool from a teenager’s world sets its own parameters, often hotly contested amongst a school body’s diverse subdivisions.  Revolution Calling, from veteran music and film journalist Ray Van Horn, Jr. is a retrospective look at high school as he knew it from the alienating stance of heavy metal subculture in the late 1980s.  As a semi autobiography, Revolution Calling is an Outsiders tale for Generation X, an examination of the will to belong on one’s own terms, even when the stakes turn violent.  This is a story of inner and outer turmoil where persecution leads to comeuppance.  The path to acceptance in high school often takes turbulent paths.  For Jason Hamlin and Rob Martino, this is a call-to-arms for their own self-worth and moreover, their self-preservation.

Advance praise for Revolution Calling:

“Ray Van Horn grew up during the 80s metal upheaval and associated culture wars and was clearly paying attention. Revolution Calling captures what it was like to be a metal fan when the music was still dangerous. The book has a vibe that will remind readers of Joe Lansdale and Robert R. McCammon. If you ever wanted a novel that mapped Stranger Things favorite Eddie Munson’s inner life, this is it. Die posers!”

–Justin M. Norton, Decibel Magazine

“A story of everyday heavy metal folk and how their everyday pain is real.”

–Joel McIver, author of To Live is to Die:  The Life & Death of Metallica’s Cliff Burton

“It’s obvious Ray knows his metal, but it’s also obvious he knows his wider pop culture, history, politics and world events, as Van Horn, Jr. snaps us right back to life as a goofy metalhead in the pressure-cooker that was the late ‘80s—or as Morrissey called it, the haties. As well, he delivers action events, concepts and plot in a rock-solid writing style that shines with clarity. Dialogue is mapped-out with similar confidence, allowing Jason and his exquisitely-drawn buddy Rob, as well as the tale’s other characters, to take shape quickly. Completing the circuit and keeping the tale fizzy and effervescent are endless flashes of place names, band names and brand names.”

–Martin Popoff, heavy metal journalist and author

Revolution Calling, by Ray Van Horn, Jr. coming mid-December from Raw Earth Ink