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Notable Book Club presents a Q&A session with Matt Hellman
about "The Biting Cold" a dark fantasy set in Copper Harbor</h3>
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<span style="color:#006400">UP Notable Book Club</span>:</strong>
The Crystal Falls Community District Library in partnership with the
U.P. Publishers & Authors Association (UPPAA) has scheduled
author events with winners of the <em>UP Notable Book List</em>.
The 33rd event is with novelist Matt Hellman who will take us
through his dark fantasy set during the worst snowstorm in recent
memory in Copper Harbor. Supernatural threats and an ancient evil
not seen in those parts in more than a century threatens an already
isolated community at the tip of the Keweenaw peninsula.<br>
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<em><strong>When: </strong></em>January 11th, 2024 at 7 pm Eastern
/ 6 pm Central<br>
<p><em><strong>Where: </strong></em>Join Zoom Meeting<br>
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Meeting ID: 874 6264 5166<br>
Passcode: cold<em><strong><br>
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<strong><img alt="AUTHOR Matthew Hellman depicted"
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width="200" height="246" align="right">MATTHEW HELLMAN i</strong>s
an award-winning author who was educated as an Electrical Engineer
but has worked most of his life in law enforcement. Probably because
those two things go together like peanut butter and jelly... Always
a fan of good writing, he is studying the craft and moving toward a
retirement gig as an author. He enjoys the freedom of fiction and
the ability to employ his creative mind in the horror genre.
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latest novel, "The Biting Cold" was recently awarded a U.P.
Notable Book honor. His first novel, "Solomon's Seal", was
published by Beacon Publishing Group (BPG) in November 2019. His
novella, "The Hawthorne Blow", was published in January 2021.
One of Hellman's short stories, "My Nameless Beast", is featured
in the anthology, "Six Guns Straight From Hell 3", published by
Science Fiction Trails Publishing in September 2020. This was
all a well-thought-out marketing blitz by Hellman so that he had
offerings covering the full spectrum of the human attention
span. Matt lives with his wife and three great kids in
Michigan's beautiful upper peninsula.<br>
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width="200" height="300" align="left"></a> What is it
about wintertime that lends itself so supplely to the horror
genre? Beginning with Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” in
1908, the dangerous beauty of winter was driven home. Now
throw in a dash of the supernatural, as in John W.
Campbell’s “Who Goes There?”, which inspired John
Carpenter’s low-budget classic “The Thing” (1982) and you
have a real recipe for edge-of-your-seat chills. Matthew
Hellman builds on the winter-horror tradition with his
latest novel “The Biting Cold”. In 1842, the Ontonagon
Boulder, an immense tonnage of float copper was removed from
the eponymous county. That very same year, the Chippewa
ceded all claims to 30,000 square miles of the Upper
Peninsula to the United States Government. Hellman uses the
purported disappearance of people in Copper Harbor in 1842
as the central mystery of “<a
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Biting Cold</a>”. What did those Native Americans know
that made them happy to be rid of Copper Harbor?</p>
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of Copper Harbor, a few other locales are mentioned such as
Calumet and Eagle Harbor. A key discovery takes place on top
of Brockway Mountain which will serve as a secondary anchor
in the action of the coming battle. The mountain it seems is
concealing a series of important aspects of the evil to come
including petroglyphs and huge sinkhole that threatens to
swallow our two teenage protagonists.</p>
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the area during the ensuing winter, Hellman portrays
snowmobile and snowshoe pursuit scenes with great detail and
accuracy. He has a penchant for introducing winter survival
techniques and traps in just the right proportion and at
just the right juncture in the storytelling. Even though I
grew up watching snowmobile races outside Mackinaw City, I
learned a thing or two about the dangers of handling a big
machine in untracked snows, such as how it can dig itself
into a hole in an unpacked snowbank.</p>
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Read the full review by Victor R. Volkman on <a
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Book Review</em></a>.<br>
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More information about the U.P. Notable Book list, <em>U.P.
Book Review, </em>and UPPAA can be found on <a
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Peninsula Publishers and Authors Association (UPPAA)</strong></div>
Established in 1998 to support authors and publishers who live in or
write about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, UPPAA is a Michigan
nonprofit association with over 100 members, many of whose books are
featured on the organization’s website at <a
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UPPAA welcomes membership and participation from anyone with a UP
connection who is interested in writing.
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Regards,
Victor R. Volkman, President
L H Press Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.LHPress.com">www.LHPress.com</a></pre>
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