Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising
(Dinosaur Lake #2)
by Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Published March 27th 2014
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Suspense, Fantasy
BLURB:
Prehistoric creatures
have again invaded Crater Lake National Park
…and this time there’s
more than one.
DINOSAUR LAKE II: Dinosaurs
Arising
by Kathryn Meyer
Griffith
Henry Shore has
been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for thirteen years now and
thought the days when he’d had to fight a rogue dinosaur that lived in the
caves below the lake were long over.
Until one of his
park rangers, to save a visitor’s life, is in a deadly struggle out in the
woods with a new breed of dinosaur worse than the last one. It’s as big as a
man, but this one is a young one. And growing.
Then more of the
creatures begin to show up everywhere, threatening people and destroying the
tranquility and safety of his beloved park.
A tourist
trolley filled with fifteen people is snatched up off the crater’s rim by
another version of the younger one…but this one has grown into a giant with
fangs, claws and a deadly tail.
And this one has
wings.
Ugly Gargoyles,
Henry calls them.
For this one
isn’t alone.
They’re flying
beyond the park’s boundaries into the neighboring towns.
So Henry, with
the help of his son-in-law, a paleontologist named Justin, and a band of brave
park rangers, and a few good soldiers, must not only protect his park and his
people from monsters once more but find their lair and destroy it and them
before the creatures kill again. ***
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Read my review of Dinosaur Lake: HERE!
Guest Post:
Dinosaur Lake Series Backstory
Of all my 22 novels my Dinosaur
Lake series (Dinosaur
Lake, Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising, Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation–and
coming soon: Dinosaur Lake IV: Dinosaur Wars) has the strangest story
attached to its creation, death and rebirth…20 years later…of any of them.
Not so much because, as a few of my books, it took so
long to write or publish, but because in 1993 it was contracted, edited and the
final galleys had been proofed by me for a 5th paperback book release from
Zebra (Kensington Publishing) after 3 earlier novels with Leisure Books. I even
had a stack of the full-color, printed and embossed covers; it was only weeks
before it was to go to the bookshelves (in those days the brick & mortar
stores were still king, no Internet or ebooks). I strongly believed it’d be my
breakout book. You know, the book that’d make my career and launch me into the
stratosphere with Stephen King and Anne Rice? How wrong I’d be. But, hey, I
thought who wouldn’t love a tale of a cunning but malevolent rampaging
prehistoric dinosaur living in Crater Lake, Oregon, and the Park Ranger who,
along with a ragtag gang of heroes who’d try to stop it? I mean, I’d always
loved anything about dinosaurs…dinosaur books, playing with those little
plastic figurines and watching old stop-action dinosaur movies of the 1950’s
and 60’s…who hadn’t? Apparently someone. My new editor at Zebra.
By 1994, after four novels with them, I’d lost my sweet
editor there and a new one took her place…and over the next year he didn’t like
anything I wrote for him and later that year Zebra unceremoniously dropped me
and my book (Predator…which never came out but still lingers to this
very day like some weird ghost book in every computer on the global Internet)
only six weeks away from going to the bookstore shelves. When we were editing
the book and deciding on the title and the cover, I’d begged the new editor not
to call it Predator (his choice as they hadn’t liked my American Loch
Ness Monster title), bad title since there was a popular movie out of that
name and the movie, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, was nothing about a dinosaur,
and the cover was awful, an empty boat on a lake…what!!! Having that book-my
first ever-dumped like that was a crushing experience, let me tell you. I had a
stack of finished, printed covers and my final edits were done! But nothing my
agent or I could say or do would change their minds. They said they were
cutting their horror lines and setting adrift a lot of their mid-list horror
authors because horror (in 1994) was on the decline. The new
editor-that-didn’t-like-my-writing explained: “And no one wants to read a book
about a dinosaur.” Yeah, sure. And six months later Jurassic Park the book came
out! We all know how that story ended, don’t we? People loved the book, the
movies; they loved dinosaurs.
I’ll never know the real reason they cut the book but
that male editor never bought another book from me…which was another weird
thing because when I’d met him in New York (I went for a Horror Convention) in
the summer of 1993 he’d taken my husband and I out to lunch and gushed over me
and said how much he’d loved my last release WITCHES. Hmmm.
Anyway, I got to keep my advance but the book was
officially dead. It never came out. I grieved. I was so disgusted I stashed it
in a drawer somewhere and tried to forget it. Until now. After I’d finished
revising and rereleasing all my new/old 15 books (and besides paperbacks
they’re in ebooks for the first time ever) from Eternal Press/Damnation Books
in June of 2012 I remembered about my American Loch Ness Monster novel, took it
out and reread it.
Whoa, like a lot of my older novels now years later I
could see what was wrong with it and how to fix it. Back then I hadn’t seen the
head-hopping I did or the awkward phrasing, stiff or overly dramatic dialogue,
repetitive words and other things I’ve learned since to recognize and stay away
from. Of course, computers help make the editing so much easier. I think I’d
done the original book on my electric typewriter. Anyway, telling myself the
dumping of that book had been a turning point in my writing life-sending me in
the wrong direction for a long time apparently…I couldn’t sell a book for eight
long years after that-I decided to rewrite and finally release it. In fact, I
was going to do something that twenty years ago would have been unheard of and
frowned on…self-publish the book myself. With Kindle Direct. For the first time
in forty years I was walking away from the traditional publishers and going on
my own. Thank you J.A. Konrath’s blog! I figured I could sell the Kindle eBook
a lot cheaper and, thus, use it to introduce (as enticement) more readers to my
writing and perhaps, if they liked it, they’d buy more of my other novels,
novellas and various short stories. It could work, right? So here it is,
re-titled, rewritten, updated and with an amazing new cover I love by Dawne
Dominque… Dinosaur Lake. I hope my readers will like it.
My Review:
Chief Park Ranger Henry Shore is back and fighting more
dinosaurs at Crater Lake National Park. Henry has worked at the park for
thirteen years and was around helping to fight the dinosaurs the first time
they showed up about five years ago. The first dinosaurs came out of the lake
and were fought on the ground. Henry lost some of his best rangers and friends
on that horrific day.
The dinosaurs of today fly and are stronger when they are
flying than when they are on the ground. Now don’t get me wrong they are still
very strong when on the ground. They are bigger and stand taller than any man.
Their wings have claws on the end of them and they have fangs. The first one to
make an appearance is young but they are growing and will become stronger. They
can think and make up plans to fight the humans with. They are very cunning.
After the first flying dinosaur attack Henry is skeptical
about calling the authorities. He doesn’t want to cause a pandemic besides who
is going to believe him. Even after the dinosaur attack five years ago;
sometimes people just don’t believe their own eyes. But after a trolley full of
tourist and two of his rangers are snatched off the rim of the carter he
realizes he has no choice it is time to call for reinforcements before more
people are killed.
Henry does not only have to worry about dinosaurs in his
park but he is also having a hard time at home. His wife Ann is having a real
bad time with her health and having to go to doctor’s appointments and
treatments. Henry wants to be with his wife because he loves her very much and
he wants to be there to help support her through her time of need. He is very
lucky that he has a wife that is so loving and caring not only for him but
everyone else too. She understands and knows that he has to stop the dinosaurs
or a lot of people will suffer.
I read Dinosaur Lake and really loved it but I think
Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs Arising may be just a tad bit better. It is very
hard to say though. Both are filled with excitement, danger and suspense. I
loved all the characters and the love and caring they had for each other and
what they would all do for the other.
I loved watching the movie Jurassic Park so when I saw
Dinosaur Lake I knew I had to read it and I definitely wasn’t disappointed at
all. I loved it so much that I just had
to read Dinosaur Lake II and I am so glad I did it was out of this world
amazing. Dinosaur Lake II will take you on the ride of your life. I can’t wait
to read the next book Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation to see what kind of
dinosaurs Kathryn has in store for us and what kind of adventure she is going
to take us on next. I would love to see the Dinosaur Lake series on the big
screen along with all the characters. If you have not read Dinosaur Lake then I
suggest you pick up a copy of Dinosaur Lake and Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs
Arising today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Since childhood I’ve been an artist and
worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for
twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. But I’d already begun
writing novels at 21, over forty-four years ago now, and have had twenty-two
(ten romantic horror, two horror novels, two romantic SF horror, one romantic
suspense, one romantic time travel, one historical romance, two thrillers, and
four murder mysteries) previous novels, two novellas and twelve short stories
published from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press,
Damnation Books/Eternal Press. But I’ve gone into self-publishing in a big way
since 2012; and upon getting all my 22 books’ full rights back for the first time
in 33 years, have self-published all of them. My Dinosaur Lake novels and
Spookie Town Mysteries (Scraps of Paper, All Things Slip Away and Ghosts
Beneath Us) are my best-sellers.
I’ve been married to Russell for thirty-eight
years; have a son and two grandchildren and I live in a small quaint town in
Illinois. We have a quirky cat, Sasha, and the three of us live happily in an
old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk/classic
rock singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my
greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the
day I die…or until my memory goes.
2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS *Finalist* for her
horror novel The Last Vampire ~ 2014
EPIC EBOOK AWARDS * Finalist * for her thriller novel Dinosaur Lake.
*All Kathryn Meyer Griffith’s books
can be found here:
*All her Audible.com audio books
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Novels and
short stories:
Evil Stalks
the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forged, Vampire Blood, The Last Vampire
(2012 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Horror category),
Witches, The Nameless One erotic horror short story, The Calling, Scraps of
Paper (The First Spookie Town Murder Mystery), All Things Slip Away (The Second
Spookie Town Murder Mystery), Ghosts Beneath Us (The Third Spookie Town Murder
Mystery), Egyptian Heart, Winter’s Journey, The Ice Bridge, Don’t Look Back,
Agnes, A Time of Demons and
Angels, The Woman in Crimson, Human No Longer, Four Spooky Short Stories
Collection, Forever and Always Romantic Novella, Night Carnival Short Story,
Dinosaur Lake (2014 EPIC EBOOK AWARDS*Finalist* in their Thriller/Adventure
category), Dinosaur Lake II: Dinosaurs
Arising and Dinosaur Lake III: Infestation.
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