Dark Shepherd the novel is now available for preorder from Newcon Press
Available as e book, paperback, hardback and special edition hardback
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So, what's Dark Shepherd all about you may ask?
It began when I was working as a concept artist in Dallas back in 2006. The concept team were displaced from all over the world and without families to go back to at night we soon became a close knit group. Once a week we would have "film night", where we would take it in turns to host the event, choose a film to watch and generally chew the fat.
One evening one of the guys asked of everyone in the room, "What's your story?"
"My story" I thought, "is he asking for a life history?" But no, I had forgotten I was with Hollywood folk. He meant, what was the story that we were working on, as in script, book, whatever – because of course, everyone must have one.
I was disappointed to discover I was the only person in the room who didn't have a story.
Several years later I was out cycling and the Dark Shepherd story popped into my head although it wasn't called that yet. That night in Dallas came back to me and so I resolved to write it up and finally have my "Story."
I wasn't sure what to do next so I sent it to my art rep to see what she thought. She in turn sent it to a literary agent who came back saying, "I love this, but what is it? Is it a novel, a graphic novel, a screen play, we need to turn it into something"
Somewhat encouraged by this I decided to turn it into a script and then a novel and that's what I have been doing, on and off, ever since.
Both script and novel languished over the next couple of years as I found myself busy working on other projects. Then, out of the blue, Titan books approached me, interested in doing an Art of Fred Gambino book. Of course, a retrospective of the last fifteen years of my career would be fantastic but I suggested we add something extra and include parts of the script (now called Dark Shepherd) with new illustrations specially created for the book. Titan were great and pretty much let me do what I wanted.
The book was published in 2014 as The Art of Fred Gambino - Dark Shepherd.
I'm excited to be able to announce that the first Dark Shepherd novel is to be published by Newcon Press in May/June 2024. There will be a special edition hardback which will include an original Fred Gambino pencil drawing. Pre-orders will be available early next year. Stay tuned for more information when I have it.
Meanwhile you can use the links below to check out some Dark Shepherd related music videos.
Thanks for dropping by, let me know what you think.
Dark Shepherd music videos Christain Hernadez Time Machine Paul Limb