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With Halloween about one week away, the timing couldn't be better for news coming out of the Marquette Area Public Schools.
It seems MAPS English teacher Adam Dompierre is publishing his debut novel -- a paranormal offering titled "Wild Bolts Electric" -- just in time for Halloween.
A recent Mining Journal story on the issue had details.
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, the Journal story noted.
He said he loves the 1930s-era "hard-boiled war" stories that featured detectives, which inspired the atmosphere of "Wild Bolts Electric." Additionally, 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."
A book launch will be held at Velodrome Coffee in Marquette at 10 a.m. 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.
Sounds like good coffee table fare to us. We'd recommend readers check it out.