"A spectacular debut novel."

Michael Laimo, Bram Stoker Finalist, author of FIRES RISING

"I WILL RISE is like the bastard lovechild of William S. Burroughs and Bentley Little, and is the biggest waiting-to-be-discovered cult novel of the decade. It's hip, witty, scary, strange, apocalyptic, sad, and full of beautifully observed moments. In a perfect world, American readers would already be slavering in anticipation of whatever Michael Louis Calvillo puts out next."

Lisa Morton, Bram Stoker Award winning author of TESTED

“I WILL RISE is unique and oddly compelling, one of the finest, most challenging novels of 2007. It’s the first novel by Michael Louis Calvillo, and one of the most promising debuts I’ve encountered in some time. It’s everything we’ve come to expect from underground horror and then some: defiantly idiosyncratic, shocking, subversive, ambitious and one-of-a-kind. Don’t let it pass you by”

Adam Groves, Fright.com

"I Will Rise is the most original novel I've read in years. Once I started reading I was hooked immediately. Michael Louis Calvillo is now firmly placed on my buy-on-sight list."

John R. Little, Bram Stoker Finalist, author of THE MEMORY TREE

"I WILL RISE is like the still screaming aborted love child of Chuck Palahniuk and Clive Barker. It's full of bile, cynical humor, stunted, maleformed characters, all dipped in a Family-Size bucket of gore. Michael Louis Calvillo is a bad, bad man that writes very well. One of the next big voices in transgressive horror fiction."

Matt Staggs, Skullring.org

"A gorgeously and very explicitly wrought tale of pain, power and choices."

JL Comeau, The Tomb of Dark Delights

"I WILL RISE is more than just the title of Michael Louis Calvillo's debut novel; it is a prophecy of his likely career trajectory. This is the most deeply weird, highly stylistic and surprisingly profound road story the horror genre is likely to produce this decade."

Garrett Peck, co-author of GRAVE CRAVINGS

"Calvillo's I Will Rise is a refreshingly unique addition to the genre, a mind-bending trip full of fascinating, conflicted characters. This is thought-provoking, literary horror, and Calvillo is definitely a new author to watch."

Nate Kenyon, Bram Stoker Finalist, author of BLOODSTONE

"I Will Rise eviscerates us, lets us see the cancers that eat at us,
divulges the secrets and the hungers at the heart of us, the waste in
the bowels of us--and then refuses to sew us back up."

D.L. Snell, Author of ROSE OF BLOOD ON BARBEDWIRE VINES

"Michael Louis Calvillo finds the center of the target with his debut novel. I WILL RISE certainly does.  And it isn't a stretch to consider the title a prophecy for a strong new writer with gifts for characterization in dynamic plots."

Thomas Sullivan, Pulitzer Prize nominated author of THE PHASES OF HARRY MOON

"I WILL RISE will rise to the top of zombie fiction. A highly imaginative journey into the world of the undead."

Michael McCarty, Bram Stoker Finalist, author of DARK DUETS and co-author of
MONSTER BEHIND THE WHEEL

"I WILL RISE makes for a perfect addition to any library."

downwarden.com

"Michael Louis Calvillo is a promising new voice, and I WILL RISE is a unique and worthwhile read."

Norman L. Rubenstein, FEARZONE.com

"I WILL RISE has several 'Oh my God!' moments in which the reader finds himself readjusting in his chair -- mostly from picking himself up from the floor from shock and getting comfortable to read more. A real page turner."

Mari Adkins, APEX SCIENCE FICTION & HORROR DIGEST"

"I WILL RISE is nothing short of amazing. Not only is it wildly original, but it is also thrilling, profoundly funny and dark as pitch. I've not been this impressed by a debut novel since reading Iain Banks' THE WASP FACTORY."

-Sean Keller, screenwriter GIALLO

"I WILL RISE is a stellar piece of writing that focuses mass amounts of energy on one character’s dramatic coming-to-terms with himself and his species. I enjoyed reading it, and I expect great things from the author. Michael Louis Calvillo is going to be one of the next big authors, and this book is going to take him there."

Rachel Byrd, Book Reviewer and author of RED SKY

"Every generation has artists who leads the way that others inevitably follow. If his early work is any indication, Michael Louis Calvillo is a leading light for the next generation of horror writers. His knife-edged imagery read like flashbulbs in the darkness."

Edo van Belkom, Bram Stoker Finalist, author of BLOOD ROAD

"Michael Louis Calvillo’s debut novel, I Will Rise, is a love story disguised as a nihilistic joyride, a constant assault of wild, visceral extremes that veer into apocalyptic wish fulfillment. The human element makes it work, but the high-pitch avalanche of descriptive mayhem makes it sing. I couldn’t put this book down! Calvillo is a writer of rare uninhibited abandon, not satisfied to take the easy, formulaic path, instead opting for a twisted logic driven madness. Think Chuck Palanhiuk’s attitude as crossed with David Lynch’s love of bizarre characters, add death and zombie resurrections galore, shake well, and you might have a feel for the brilliant, overdriven lunacy that is I Will Rise. But don’t take my word on it, read the book! Michael Louis Calvillo is a force. You have been warned!

John Claude Smith, author of the horrific and surreal

"I WILL RISE by Michael Louis Calvillo is a debut novel any veteran horror writer would be proud to claim. It is Apocalyptic Horror at its finest, the love child of King’s The Stand and Romero’s Night of the Living Dead with a post modern twist. The stylistic writing evokes the surrealist aesthetics of terror, a grand melding of Cronenberg’s Videodrome with the Alien art of H.R. Giger. Calvillo’s I WILL RISE takes no prisoners and is a strong contender for the HWA Stoker Award for First Novel. Read this book! "

C. Dean Andersson, award winning author of the BLOODSONG saga, I AM DRACULA and RAW PAIN MAX

"Written in the first-person, in present-tense, I WILL RISE is fast-paced and insistent. Fans of apocalytic horror will more than likely enjoy the afflicted hero, and his strange place in the world."

Stacie L. Wilson, author of 50 YEARS OF GHOST MOVIES