Sim Shattuck

Sim has published 3 novels with Dream Catcher Publishing Inc. They include Pleasant Hurricanes, Basilisk, and Krewe of Hecate, each a different style from the last.
Coming soon- Yarilo's Dance

(Here are reviews for Sim's novels)

On Krewe of Hecate
It truly is a small world. None of us really knows who walks amongst us or why our fate is seldom what we expected. Sim Shattuck has a strong, unique style, expressing a vivid and talented imagination. His narrative abilities with regard to the characters in both worlds, keep you reading to satisfy the need for closure. . . .Cheryl Ellis, Allbooks Reviews

On Basilisk
"Readers are given an entertaining and well-told story, rich in dialogue and description..." Robert W. Rudnick Arkansas Review, December 2005

On Pleasant Hurricanes
Pleasant Hurricanes... "In a first novel best described as a new age marriage between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and MTV's Road Rules." . . .The Texas Review

Other reviews
In a first novel best described as a new age marriage between Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and MTV's "Road Rules," Sim Shattuck's eclectic pilgrims abandon small town lives in hopes of attaining universal enlightenment as they journey from Palmyra, Texas, across Mexico, to the Central American country of Belize. . . . Dorothy Robbins from The Texas Review

Krewe of Hecate

This novel
intertwines human lives with those of the underworld and mythology. Zeus,
known as Bon Dyè plays billiards with his first creation, Demiurge.
During the game the three headed goddess, Hecates evolves and for eons
guards the underworld, known to us as Hell. She carries a key, a whip and
a torch so most souls avoid her. Hecates is tricked away from her
underground haven into our world by human wizards involved in a New
Orleans Mardis Gras troupe, known as the ‘Krewe of Hecate.’

Angered by the trickery and desiring only to return home, her
usual beauty becomes black with three vicious, fanged and growling dog heads.
In her search to the gateway to Hell she plays with the fate of several families.

Basilisk

Peggy DeWitt is in trouble: her marriage is coming apart and her university teaching career has become stagnant. The only bright spots are her two children Molly and Danny, her best friend Mimi, and an attractive student who seems to adore her. Little does Peggy know that this young man who respectfully loves her from afar has put Peggy in his sights: he lives part-time in a strange, pagan Medieval dream world where he plots, in the name of love, to destroy anyone who comes between him and the woman he's decided to make his own. He kicks out from under her all the supports of her life--friends, love, children, career--so that he can possess her completely--body, mind, and soul. While suddenly finding herself single again and dating the detective trying to protect her, Peggy faces one of the strangest of human problems: someone wants things from her that she can't even understand, let alone give. After the student, Rick Aaron Showell, has destroyed most of her life, she fights back in the only ways she knows.

Pleasant Hurricanes

Aging, beautiful, wealthy widow Elena Muñoz hurts her head in a drinking accident and sees her dead father, who tells her to leave the emptiness and isolation of her present life and go to Belize--where at the top of the Classic Maya pyramid of Altun Ha she will receive a revelation promising to give her a purpose for the rest of her life. Elena buys a giant Winnebago and takes a group of misfits with her across Mexico and Belize. What happens to this Crazy Caravan on the road and after they arrive is completely unexpected...

Yarilo's Dance

Yarilo's Dance
Coming 2009

An indigent mental patient, Tom finds himself in a realistic fantasy world of pagan Russia, about 850 AD. This fantasy, resulting from Tom's catatonia, concerns the life and destruction of the village of Razryv-trava, and Tom's desire to retrieve and save the inhabitants of the town who survive. Type- characters from Slavic folklore enhance the story: vampires, volatile elflike creatures, and a cruel nobleman who abducts a beloved wife of the village's leader. However, as Tom has his adventures, his psychiatrist Andrew Schalberg tries to medicate Tom back to reality, something Tom resists because he wants to see what will happen in the Russian past. Tom then convinces Andy to stop medicating him so that Tom can complete his "mission." While treating Tom, Andy goes through a divorce from his wife and the anger of his two children. He has an affair with Judy, a woman with a control-freak husband. Andy feels out of control, trying to pull his life together and ironically comparing it with his patient's heroic efforts in his Russian dream world. Eventually, the village chief's wife is saved, the Grey Prince is killed, Tom wakes up to his current reality, and Andy finds himself alone but hopeful of reconciliation with his family.

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