FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<div><br></div><div>Local playwrite/actor/director Michael Dempsey's novel, NECROPOLIS, had its national release on Oct. 4, 2011 from Night Shade Books. NECROPOLIS is a hardboiled crime novel set in the near future.<div>
<br></div><div><div><br></div><div>SYNOPSIS:<br><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><div><i>In a future where death is a thing of the past, how far would you go to solve your own murder?</i></div>
<div><i><br></i></div></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Paul Donner is a NYPD detective with a drinking problem and a marriage on the rocks. Then he and his wife get dead–shot to death in a “random” crime. 50 years later, Donner’s back–revived by of the Shift, a process that reanimates dead DNA.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in">The Shift has turned the world upside down. This new “reborn” underclass is not only alive again, they’re growing younger. Beneath the protective geodesic Blister, clocks run backwards, technology is hidden behind a noir facade, and you can see Elvis every night at Radio City Music Hall.</span></p>
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</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;border-top-style:none;border-right-style:none;border-bottom-style:none;border-left-style:none;border-top-color:windowtext;border-right-color:windowtext;border-bottom-color:windowtext;border-left-color:windowtext;border-top-width:1pt;border-right-width:1pt;border-bottom-width:1pt;border-left-width:1pt;padding-top:0in;padding-right:0in;padding-bottom:0in;padding-left:0in">In this retro-futurist world of maglev Studebakers and plasma tommy guns, Donner searches for those responsible for the destruction of his life. His quest for retribution leads him to the heart of the mystery surrounding the Shift’s origin and up against those who would use it to control a terrified nation.</span><span style="color:black;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"></span></p>
<div><br></div></font></span></div></span><div>PRAISE FOR NECROPOLIS:</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">"Michael Dempsey's <i>Necropolis </i>reads the way stepping over a wasted body in the rain feels. It's a noir science fiction gut punch from a strong new voice."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">- Richard Kadrey, author of <i>Sandman Slim</i> and <i>Butcher Bird</i></span></p></div><div><br>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">"Dempsey delivers! <i>Necropolis</i> is a new-school mix of sci fi, horror, crime noir, and good old-fashioned sex and violence. It's dark. It's fun. Just don't go inside if you plan on getting back out alive..."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">--Jeff Carlson, international bestselling author of <i>Plague Year </i>and<i> The Frozen S</i></span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">“Michael Dempsey hits one out of the park on his first swing with this hard-boiled tech noir detective story. The gritty, futuristic atmosphere pulses through every chapter. If you liked Blade Runner, Hammett, or Chandler, you’ll love Necropolis.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">– Derek Canyon, author of <i>Dead Dwarves Don't Dance</i> and <i>The Elemental Odyssey</i></span></p>
</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">"Unsettling and eerie, <i>Necropolis</i> gives us a shadowy
near future where the line between life and death has blurred and a past
wickedness still echoes in the present, begging to be avenged. Dempsey writes
with great nerve and imagination and will keep you reading long past midnight."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">-David Oppegaard, author
of <i>The Suicide Collectors</i> and <i>Wormwood, Nevada</i></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">"An intense, fast-paced
novel built on an intriguing premise, it takes hold of the reader in the first
few pages and never lets go.<span> </span>Darkly
atmospheric, Dempsey demonstrates both skill and imagination in this
beautifully crafted work."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"> - Pat Whitaker, author
of <i>Antithesis</i> and <i>Mindset</i></span><br><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:-webkit-auto">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">"Few writers can unite fascinating characters and a killer
premise in one story. Michael Dempsey has done exactly this--and it's his
debut novel." </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">- Vylar Kaftan</span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif">"Like a cross between Robert Parker's Spenser novels and
The Matrix, Necropolis combines a terrifying future with the one man who has
the guts, brains, and relentlessness to bring it all crashing down."</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">– David Walton, Phillip K.
Dick Award-winning author of <i>The Terminal
Mind</i></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">“A brilliantly visualized dystopian
future setting, striking characters and astounding plot twists.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">- Bryan
Talbot Writer/artist <i>The Adventures of Luther
Arkwright </i>and<i> Grandville</i></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">“Like his hero, Dempsey's reborn New York is darkly bent
and twisted but beautifully remains rooted in the past. A stunning
debut.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">-Warren
Hammond, author of the <i>KOP</i> series</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:2.25pt"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">“Michael Dempsey's Necropolis
reads like Fitzgerald's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
filtered through the minds of Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick. Don't
miss it.” </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black">--Dale
Bailey, author of <i>House of Bones</i> and <i>The Fallen</i></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="margin-left:2.25pt;text-align:right"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:black"><i>Sky</i></span></p><div>
<br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">ABOUT
THE AUTHOR:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">In addition to his career as a novelist, Michael has written,
acted and directed in theater, television and film in New York, Los Angeles,
Louisville, Cleveland and other venues across the country.</span><span style="line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="color:black;background:white">As a writer, Michael wrote for network television in the 90s,
most notably CBS’s </span><i><span style="color:black">Cybill</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white"> starring Cybill Shepherd. He
has sold and optioned screenplays and television scripts to companies such as
Christopher Lloyd’s Tritone Productions and Carsey-Werner Productions (</span><i><span style="color:black">The
Cosby Show, Roseanne, That 70</span></i><i><span style="color:black">′</span></i><i><span style="color:black">s
Show</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white">) in Los Angeles.</span><i><span style="color:black"> </span></i><span style="color:black;background:white">His plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles,
Washington and regionally in theaters such as Actors Theatre of Louisville.
A member of the Writer’s Guild of America, Michael’s a past recipient of
an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship for playwriting.</span></p>
</font><p></p><p></p></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">As an actor, recent Ohio appearances include <i>The Seagull,
1776, </i>and <i>Fiddler On The Roof </i> at the Beck
Center for the Arts, <i>Fiddler </i>at Cain Park, <i>Baby </i>at
True North Cultural Arts Center (for which he received a Times Newspaper
Theatre Tribute 2010 Outstanding Performance Award) , and <i>Macbeth</i> at
The Youngstown Playhouse. <span style="background:white">Recent
local directing efforts include</span> <i><span style="background:white">Into
The Woods</span></i> <span style="background:white">at Salem Community
Theatre,</span> <i><span style="background:white">Curtains</span></i> <span style="background:white">and</span> <i><span style="background:white">Macbeth</span></i> <span style="background:white">at the Youngstown Playhouse,</span> <i><span style="background:white">I Am My Own Wife</span> </i><span style="background:white">at Oakland Center for the Arts, and</span> <i><span style="background:white">Jesus Christ Superstar</span></i> <span style="background:white">at the Players Guild of Canton and also at Salem
Community Theatre. </span>This summer Michael taught theatre at Fairmount
Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Cleveland.</span><span style="line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"></span><span style="font-family:Tahoma, sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Michael currently lives in Ohio with his family and welcomes
correspondence at <a href="mailto:demzer@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none">demzer@yahoo.com</span></a>.</span></div><div><span style="line-height:24px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:1.2em;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;text-align:justify">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:12pt;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"></font></p><p><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><span>Read more about Necropolis at <a href="http://www.necropolisthenovel.com" target="_blank">www.necropolisthenovel.com</a> </span></font></p>
</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)"><font face="Tahoma, sans-serif"><p style="line-height:24px">NECROPOLIS is available in trade paperback, audio book and Kindle e-book format. <b>Order it online Amazon.com, BN.com (Barnes and Noble), or at your local bookseller:</b></p>
<p><span style="line-height:24px"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Necropolis-Michael-Dempsey/dp/1597803154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314883602&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1">http://www.amazon.com/Necropolis-Michael-Dempsey/dp/1597803154/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314883602&sr=8-1</font></a></span></p>
<p style="line-height:24px">To interview Michael Dempsey, or for more information about NECROPOLIS, contact <a href="mailto:publicity@nightshadebooks.com" target="_blank">publicity@nightshadebooks.com</a>.</p></font><p style="line-height:24px">
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