David Jack Bell

Praise for
The Girl in the Woods:

"David Jack Bell enters Charles Grant territory with THE GIRL IN THE WOODS, a novel of finely honed characters facing mysterious disappearances, madness, and loss on many levels. A masterful job."

— F. Paul Wilson
Praise for
The Girl in the Woods:

"THE GIRL IN THE WOODS begins with all the terrible inevitability of a nightmare, and from those first words the reader is trapped, rapturously, desperately. Ruined lives litter this landscape. Lethal secrets lurk. David Jack Bell’s writing proves hypnotic, seductive, until a quiet sense of dread grows almost unbearable. With passionate intelligence, sensitivity and craft, Bell draws you in … and doesn’t let you go."

—Robert Dunbar,  author of The Pines and The Shore
Praise for
The Girl in the Woods:

"Just beneath the normal, lurk madness and waiting wickedness in David Jack Bell's THE GIRL IN THE WOODS. Because of the author's precise rendering of the mundane world--the one where we usually dwell, folks--its day to day fears and challenges and mysteries, the horror the novel reveals really does horrify. Bell gives us a world that's as real as an assisted living senior center or a police department's missing person report: we understand, we identify, we are there ... And then Normal vanishes and Terror hits. With neither zombie nor vampire nor next month’s frightful flavor, David Jack Bell gives us the genuine article: a horror novel."

—Mort Castle, author of MOON ON THE WATER
Praise for
The Girl in the Woods:

"David Jack Bell explores the dark forests of the human mind through real characters and a brisk pace. A gripping tale that kept my stomach clenched."

—Scott Nicholson, author of THEY HUNGER
Praise for
The Condemned:

“If David Goodis or Jim Thompson had written a zombie novel, it might have been something like this. It comes complete with a sly social commentary as well. Bell’s is an impressive debut...”

—Jack Ketchum, Author of The Girl Next Door

Upcoming Events

Hypericon

June 4th-6th 2010

Days Inn Stadium Conference Center

211 North 1st Street

Nashville, TN

http://www.hypericononline.com/

4:45 p.m. Friday June 4th Inspirations Panel

11 p.m. Friday June 4th Short Reading

1 p.m. Saturday June 5th Secondary Characters Panel

4:45 p.m. Saturday June 5th Book Signing

11:45 a.m. Sunday June 6th Book Signing

Past Events

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010, Mountains and Valleys Reading, Western Kentucky University Helm Library, Bowling Green, KY

Saturday, April 17th, 2010, Southern Kentucky Book Fest, Bowling Green, KY

Thursday, April 8th, 2010, Kentucky Live! Speaker Series: "The Missing and the Lost": The Girl in the Woods and The Condemned Barnes & Noble, Bowling Green, KY

Saturday, January 9th, 2010, Main Street Rag Publishing, Charlotte, NC

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009, Third Tuesday Writers Coffeehouse, Owensboro, KY

Thursday, September 10th, 2009, Davis-Kidd Booksellers, Nashville, TN

Saturday April 18th, 2009,  Southern Kentucky Book Fest, Bowling Green, KY

June 5-7, 2009,  Hypericon 5, Nashville, TN

December 5th, 2008,  Waldenbooks  Greenwood Mall, Bowling Green, KY

Saturday December 6th, 2008,  Waldenbooks  Towne Mall, Elizabethtown, KY

Saturday December 20th, 2008, Waldenbooks  Indian River Mall, Vero Beach, FL

Sunday December 21st, 2008, Waldenbooks  Mall at Wellington Green, Wellington, FL

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008, Third Tuesday Writers Coffeehouse, Owensboro, KY

Thursday, March 13, 2008, The Fortner Writers' Forum, Laurinburg, NC