Gott'im's Monster

See links for sampling various file-types of the novel. Gott'im's Monster is coming-of-age speculative fiction for teenagers with heads. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gott'im's Monster is part of The God's Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808 and the 1980s where townsfolk, acting as unofficial chorus, comment. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, the Cycle moves through its story in time and place with increasing mythic emphasis.

"Gott'im refers to Gottheim, a small Maine town. The locals call it Gott'im. If I had to reduce a complicated, vivid book to a one-liner, I'd say that Gott'im's Monster is a Maine-grown dialogue with Shelley's Frankenstein, opening up the arc with questions about how and why the irrational can irrupt into what we think of as rational life. The land and the town are as important as the individual characters, setting the reader up for an absorbing read." —Sherwood Smith, author of the Wren Books and Sartorias-deles; co-author of Exordium.

The God's Cycle is five books, in two parts. In chronological order:

GOD'S HOUSE.
1. Return to God's House.
2. Within Without (a.k.a. Within Without God's House).
3. In Winter (a.k.a. God's House in Winter).

GOD'S WILDERNESS.
4. Mystery Gottheim.
5. Balder's Wilderness.

Plus Gott'im's Monster.