We are pleased to report that longtime Northwest Connection editorial assistant Mark Ellis’s novel A Death on the Horizon is a finalist for the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Award in the category of General Fiction.
“Mark has been a great asset to the paper, a solid journalist and political reporter,” says NWC publisher JoLinn Kampstra, “but we’ve always appreciated his interest in creative writing and fiction.”
“It’s great to see him place in this competition.”
The novel tells the story of private investigator Melissa Blythe’s undercover assignment to probe the death of a politically progressive journalist. Lara Svenko ends up overboard and drowned in the frigid waters of Canada’s Inland Passage while covering a conservative think tank’s annual cruise.
Set in the summer of 2009, the novel explores the position America’s two major political parties found themselves in after the election of President Barack Obama. It also tells the tale of professional woman facing career burnout, assigned to the case that will change her life.
From the cover copy: Who killed Lara Svenko, and why? In A Death on the Horizon, political and cultural columnist Mark Ellis scares up a maritime thriller about love, obsession, and an ideology threatened by demographic obsolescence.
“I was experiencing some strong premonitions the week that I knew the NIEA judges were making the final decisions,” says Ellis, who writes a weekly column for the national political website PJ Media. “I closely follow the political scene, but I also poured my heart and soul into the personal journeys of the story’s main characters.”
The book is available as a Kindle digital download or paperback at Amazon.
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