Los Angeles, CA. For Immediate Release
“Slay Bells Ring: The Rise of the Banner Elk Slayers”
Bravo Bay Books is proud to announce the brand new Christmas Horror Comedy by S. David Acuff, SLAY BELLS RING. “It’s the type of novel,” Acuff explains, “for those who watch Hallmark Christmas movies and think to themselves, ‘You know what this story could use? A blood thirsty monster on the loose!'”
Set in the charming NC mountain town of Banner Elk, the story focuses on the great, great, great grandson of the famous monster hunter, Van Helsing. Nothing like his great, great, great grandpappy, Dan Helsing is a middle school math teacher with a cat named Smeagol and no love life whatsoever.
When a hellish portal opens under the local orphanage, Helsing must pull on his big boy monster-slayer britches for the first and probably the last time. Rogue slayers, Hell hounds and an old school crush back in town all add up to his worst Christmas ever.
Acuff admits to conceiving the idea while home for the holidays watching “sappy” Christmas movies with his mom when this ‘Hallmark meets Van Helsing’ idea came to him.
“I laughed and shrugged it off at first,” Acuff says, “because it was pretty ridiculous and my writing slate of next books is very full.”
But by August of 2022 the idea had become a full-blown obsession. And with Christmas 2022 looming large, he had to dive all-in or wait another whole year to time the holiday release. His logic on the subject is fool-proof.
“I decided to kill myself on deadline to make it happen so that Ryan Reynolds could find out about it and turn it into a fun movie in time for Christmas 2023!” he explained.
Like we said, “fool-proof.” Pick up your copy today on Amazon.
Kindle: $9.99
Paperback: $14.99
https://tinyurl.com/SlayBellsRing2022
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