

David thought he’d buried his childhood nightmares along with his father in the town cemetery under six feet of dirt and thirty years of grief, but they’re not finished with him just yet. Now abandoned, the house stands decaying, simmering in the town’s tortured past. At its center stands Old Suzie’s house, a grand home once the elegant jewel of a bygone era. David Jackson leaves a successful law practice in the big city to return to the hometown he fled long ago. (He’s a HUGE dog person, by the way.)įind out more about Chris and his writing through his newsletter. He lives in Texas with his wife, son, and two dogs.

Martin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Max Collins. Those include Bernard Cornwell, Stephen King, George R.R.

When he’s not writing, editing, or working the dayjob, Chris loves exercising regularly, watching shows like Star Trek and Stranger Things, and reading his favorite authors. His dayjob is editor-in-chief for the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, which researches cutting-edge technologies across the transportation spectrum. He’s also edited and curated bestselling short story collections including the two animal-centric collections Tails of the Apocalypse and Tails of Dystopia (with Samuel Peralta), as well as Bridge Across the Stars, a collection of Sci-Fi stories from indie and traditionally published authors published by Sci-Fi Bridge, which Chris co-founded. The Lazarus Protocol, the first novel in the SynCorp Saga, placed in the Top Ten in Read Freely's 2018 50 Best Indie Book of the Year contest it was the highest-rated Sci-Fi novel in the contest. His first novel, Shadows Burned In, earned the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction.

Chris Pourteau is the bestselling author of the sci-fi thriller novels of the SynCorp Saga (co-authored with David Bruns), the post-apocalyptic Serenity Strain novels, and the military sci-fi collection Tales of B-Company.
