Conservative and Libertarian Novelists of the Future #1: Kira Peikoff
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Conservatives are not only poised to capture the talk radio and cable news networks, but also the bestseller lists. There’s a new non-fiction bestseller every other week from a conservative personality and conservatives like Vince Flynn and Tom Clancy are still recreating genres and selling truckloads of novels.
Who will write the next great read for liberty lovers? We’re not sure, but there’s one first-novel we’ve been eagerly anticipating: The Unholy Grail by Kira Peikoff
Kira Peikoff: Is she the next Ayn Rand?
Why are we so impressed with Kira? We read an excerpt from The Holy Grail at KiraPeikoff.com and thoroughly enjoyed it. The novel is about a medical doctor’s struggle to save her own life from a debilitating disease… and government interference. The subject matter should earn her a bow on conservative talk shows and cable television as the “health care reform” fight in Congress heats up during the weeks to come. More importantly,
her prose and style remind us a bit of Ayn Rand, but the excerpt does not include the surest signs of Rand fan-fiction: long-winded philosophical or political speeches or characters who seem to be created as shallow representations of some idealogical dogma. On the contrary, Kira’s excerpt is vivid, sharp, and disciplined beyond her years.
If I were her publisher, I’d be eager to get The Unholy Grail on bookshelves immediately in order to bank on the recent upsurge in Ayn Rand’s popularity and the intense focus on this front in the health care wars, but we also understand the importance of ironing-out the wrinkles.
To read the excerpt and learn more about Kira and her unpublished novel, please feel free to click here:
Read the excerpt. It kept me spellbound. Cannot wait for the book.. Great sucess in the future Kira.
Stan B.
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It’s difficult to say this without blowing my own trumpet, but apparently, Mr. Martin, you’ve not heard of the Sparrowhawk series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period. Six titles complete the story, together with a Companion to the series. The first two are set in England, and introduce the two principal heroes at the age of ten, at opposite ends of 18th century British society. The series follows the next thirty years of their lives, up to the climax at Bunker Hill in June 1775. Most adult readers, aside from being captivated by the story, see an allegory in it of our own perilous times. This series makes credible and real the character of the men who made the Revolution possible. I have written a mountain of nonfiction, including a column on the Rule of Reason blog site of the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism. The Sparrowhawks are extremely popular with liberty lovers around the country and world.
I've begun reading these. It may take awhile because of time constraints, but this is great work and certainly deserves a review. Interestingly enough, I've been told that I'd enjoy the Sparrowhawk series by a friend, but he didn't mention that his recommendation made sense given my politics. Great stuff!