I grew up in Lancaster and was a six years old when the event occurred. The event has been, probably literally, part of my DNA and I thought you might be interested that I wrote a novel, Beaver Pig—a cryptozoological, dark comedy, seduction, horror tale inflamed by the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island.
Transformed into a cryptozoological beast as a result of the nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979, Beaver Pig, after 30 years of self-imposed exile, can no longer bear the loneliness of being a trans-species monster living on the outskirts of the modern world. One night, while robbing a nearby mansion to furnish his highly sophisticated branch and twig parlor, he happens across a photo of his childhood sweetheart, Willow, now married to the mayor’s son Charlie Wright. Unable to suppress his human desire for companionship, Beaver Pig returns to kidnap his love; and all mayhem ensues as Charlie Wright forms a posse of a taxidermist, an exotic game hunter, and a roadside bait salesman to hunt and kill the elusive and legendary creature. Meanwhile, Rogers, the new detective on the Wrightsville police force, tries to make sense of his new reality as a city boy in the twisted backwoods of “Beaver Pig Country”.
Beaver Pig placed as a quarterfinalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest and received a very positive review from Publishers Weekly saying Beaver Pig “feels like something co-written by Dave Barry and Dean Koontz”.
Beaver Pig was edited by industry veteran Alan Rinzler (Hunter Thompson, Tom Robbins, Clive Cussler) and is feature in several pages in the book, “Three Mile Island: The Meltdown Crisis and Nuclear Power in American Culture” by Dr. Grace Halden, PhD (University of London, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Director of MA Contemporary Literature and Culture) published by Routledge.
Best selling author, Donald Ray Pollock (Knockemstiff, The Devil All The Time) says of Beaver Pig, “the man can write,” and has offered to blurb Beaver Pig’s cover when it gets published.
Adam