I received a nice note from my friend Michelle Wolverton @chelpixie asking me if I would share the new novel from J.C. Hutchins with you today, the day it launches. So, please check out 7th Son — you can check out the PDF of 7th Son: Descent “SPECIAL EDITION” here — chapter 1-10 of the novel, exclusive to my readers!  Oh, and you can buy 7th Son: Descent from Amazon right now.

Here’s his story:

Novel by J.C. Hutchins

For two years, J.C. chased publishers the traditional way. Unable to find a literary agent to represent his human cloning thriller — but convinced his novels were worthy of an audience — he took to the “podwaves” in 2006 and released the 7th Son trilogy as free serialized podcast audiobooks. A thriving community soon formed around J.C. and his fiction. By 2007, it was 40,000 members strong.In ‘07, J.C. asked St. Martin’s Press to consider 7th Son for publication. The publisher saw the thriving grassroots platform J.C. had created, and accepted. Nearly seven years to the day of writing the novel’s opening lines — The president of the United States is dead. He was murdered in the morning sunlight by a four-year-old boy… — the first book in the trilogy will be released on Oct. 27.  (Personally, that line hooked me as a true fan forever.)

J.C. is a real-deal, dirt-under-the-fingernails DIY / social media success story. To celebrate the book’s release, he is rolling out an ambitious, content-fueled promotional campaign, including free fiction, and serialization of the book at “Top 5” blog BoingBoing.net.

Here’s some more information for you about the novel, 7th Son, Descent:

As America reels from the bizarre presidential assassination committed by a child, seven men are abducted from their normal lives and delivered to a secret government facility. Each man has his own career, his own specialty. All are identical in appearance. The seven strangers were grown — unwitting human clones — as part of a project called 7th Son.

The government now wants something from these “John Michael Smiths.” They share the flesh and implanted memories of the psychopath responsible for the president’s murder. The killer has bigger plans, and only these seven have the unique qualifications to track and stop him.

But when their progenitor makes the battle personal, it becomes clear he knows the seven better than they know themselves…

Learn more about 7th Son: Descent.