DOMPIERRE

This story has been updated to reflect a correction in one of the quotes as well as a correction on the book’s launch date.

MARQUETTE — A Marquette English teacher is publishing his debut paranormal novel just in time for Halloween.

Adam Dompierre has been teaching English for 14 years and is currently teaching at Bothwell Middle School. About six years ago, he taught a creative writing class and his own imagination was sparked.

He described loving the 1930s-era “hard-boiled noir” stories that featured detectives, which inspired the atmosphere of his debut novel, “Wild Bolts Electric.”

Dompierre combined his passion for detective stories with an X-Files science fiction monster type of genre to create a paranormal mystery novel he said is “well suited to Halloween reading.”

“The writing took two years and then I spent a year editing it, before I pitched it to publishers, which was another two years,” Dompierre said. “I signed a publishing contract back in the fall of 2021 and it’s just getting ready to come out.”

Its description reads, “Suspecting his best days are behind him, Victor Drake runs an out-of-the-way detective agency that provides him with just enough to get by. But when James Chandler comes to him desperately seeking deliverance from a menacing stalker who seems to possess supernatural powers, Drake needs to recapture his mettle to take on the challenge of a lifetime.”

“Wild Bolts Electric” ramps up as the reader meets Chandler’s physicist girlfriend, Claire Ventura, her mob associate father and a top-secret program with connections to Claire’s university.

The author also has a free prequel to the novel available for download on his website. “Wild Bolts Electric” will be available Tuesday on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and possibly Snowbound Books as well.

A book launch will be held at Velodrome Coffee in Marquette at 10 a.m. on Nov. 11 when Dompierre will be signing books and conducting a reading.

Further details are available at www.adamdompierre.com and in Dompierre’s monthly newsletter where he gives regular updates on his projects.

“I did a cover reveal; I had a book trailer that I sent out to people, I’ll post the Velodrome book signing, craft fairs or things I might go to,” he said. “Sometimes I do book giveaways.”