I have had many people ask me wheather they could they needed a Kindle to buy Titan: The Midnight Hour. The answer is no. Even though it listed as the Kindle edition of the book it will download on to any smart phone, tablet, or PC. All you have to do is download  the free Kindle app when prompted at the point of purchase through Amazon.

The proofs for Titan:The Midnight Hour are on their way to me for review. Unless there are any unforeseen issues Midnight Hour should be available for print within the week. I am also very excitedly working on the final framework of the next volume City Under Siege. The main villain of volume 2 is Dr. Melodian, he is the mad scientist of the Titan universe. he is far from the only threat that Titan will be facing however.

In designing the home for Titan I had the choice of either going with a real city or a fictitious one. In the end I thought it would be a lot more fun, and provide more liberties to play around in a fictitious one. So Titan's home became Delta City. Delta City was loosely based on and inspired by Vancouver. that is where I was living while creating the initial plot lines of the 11 Titan books. There will be points in the first book The Midnight Hour where people who are familiar with Vancouver will see the similarities with that city and others where they will see the liberties taken. in the end I want to create a city and landscape that is almost living and becomes another character in the story.

My favourite chapter of The Midnight Hour is chapter 14: Inferno. It's Titan's first real super villain battle and as a blast to write out. I hope the action and danger comes across for all readers as it did for me in the end. I really just tried to make the whole battle just plain big. I wanted to make the character as memorable as possible considering he only appears in the one chapter. The original image concept for him was vastly different than what Megan Furesz came back with, but I was stunned at just how much it worked with the description that I had written. The design she also did was much more functional and real feeling whee as mine was much more silver age cheesy villain looking. His arc is far from over however. Inferno will reappear in vol 5: The Reign of Diablo. When he does come back, true to comic villain form, he will be quite different the second time. 

In The Midnight Hour, Mr. Midnight is  the mastermind of the criminal underworld. He is the brain, power, and influence behind all of the criminal activity we see in Delta City. Kaizen is equally as mysterious in many ways as he is but she is all the of the brawn and might of the operation. She never utters a single word and yet seems to be the only one that can match Titan in sheer strength. By the end of the book even after we find out the little that we do do she remains shrouded in mystery. Will she get her rematch with Titan? Perhaps one day we will find out.

The Secret of the Secret Identity

If a superhero has a secret identity then why wouldn't a super villain? One of the elements I love the most is that his real identity is unknown to Titan or anyone else. The other thing I love about him is that he never even lifts a finger to do anything in The Midnight Hour unless its at someone directing them to do it, until the climax that is. Mr. Midnight is basically the Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, Savana of the Titan universe. I tried very hard to make him as close to a bad guy that could appear in the real world as possible as well as maintaining the comic book villain element as well. There are already in the The Midnight Hour some hints and teasers as to who Mr. Midnight might be, but readers won't know for some time his identity will not be revealed until volume 5 The Trinity of Evil. At that time the entire Mr. Midnight story will be revealed as well.

Titan's Hook

Every hero has their hook. Batman saw his parents murdered before his eyes. Superman uses his powers to protect his adopted home. Spider-man learned the hard way through the death of Uncle Ben that with great power comes great responsibility. Originally I intended the hook with Titan to be that Michael Novak was actually a small time criminal himself, a criminal with a heart of gold if you would. Then the ring would seek him out because deep down he was still noble and true of heart, and with the help of guide Azure would fight his instinct to do bad and stay good. I just wasn't feeling it the way I wanted in the end. I just felt that the Azure and ring would not choose someone that was a criminal in any way to be Titan. Michael also started out being 18 years old as well. So a fair bit changed over that time in the development cycle with Michael. Michael will however continue to struggle with watching and trying to intervene as others around him succumb to doing bad things from his neighbourhood. So in the end I suppose the hook is that Michael was pure and noble and strong despite his environment and neighbourhood elements and was specifically chosen to be Titan and stand tall above the rest. Michael will still struggle with his own noptions of good and evil as we kind of see in The Midnight Hour, but mostly he is just the one chosen.