Ben Tripp : Art and Words
Novels and Essays
The writing career began with punching up scripts for Hollywood studios, along with essay-form political humor for assorted outlets including Counterpunch and The Huffington Post.
Novels grew out of this sideline and continue to provide a fascinating storytelling tool.
Publicity for the novels resulted in a number of video trailers made entirely by the author, which can be found below.
The genre-bending horror/ vampire/ heist story. Follow the adventures of antique antiques dealer Asmodeus "Sax" Saxon-Tang as he assembles an international team of vampire hunters to rob the greatest hoard ever assembled -- unless the vampire gets him first.
"Tripp melds the modern vampire myth with comic mystery and detective fiction in this intriguing and intelligent horror novel.”
-- Publisher's Weekly
The Fifth House
of the Heart
(Gallery)
The second part of the Rise Again duology, in which Danny Adelman discovers death is not the worst thing that can happen to a loved one.
"Spectacular...smart....Tripp excels at depicting a world whose center no longer holds and whose inhabitants will resort to any measure to stay alive. More than a routine zombiefest, this taut and intelligent tale succeeds as a moving meditation on a world steeped in 'the loneliness of life without afterlife.'"
-- Publishers Weekly
Rise Again: Below Zero
(Simon & Schuster)
A brutal reinvention of the zombie apocalypse. Sheriff Danielle "Danny" Adelman is on a quest to find her runaway sister in an America brought down by the flesh-eating dead.
"Tripp balances kinetically choreographed scenes of zombie carnage with studies of well-drawn characters and enough political intrigue to give his tale more gravity and grounding than most zombie gorefests."
-- Publishers Weekly
Rise Again
(Simon & Schuster)
A madcap tale of magic and mayhem in the 18th century. A young man rescues a faerie princess, more or less, and foils a plot to marry her off to Prince George III.
"Readers will root for star-crossed lovers, Kit and Morgana, and delight in their 'opposites attract' romance, drawn onward by a rollicking plot…. Fantasy readers, especially fans of Catherynne Valente's work, will enjoy the author's elegant turns of phrase. A first purchase for all fantasy collections."
--School Library Journal, Starred Review