Author's Teenage Son Creates Superpowered Video

DENTON, Texas - Sept. 15, 2014 - PRLog -- When debut author, Russ Linton, needed a book trailer for his latest release, Crimson Son, he went in-house. Upstairs, actually. All the way to the game room where his fourteen-year-old son, Bryce, likes to hang out.

"He's always enjoyed putting together slide shows and presentations. He and his friends once filmed a zombie movie which he edited and he has hard drives full of clips he's made and photos he's taken" says Russ Linton.

Never fully sold on the idea of a book trailer, Russ requested the project to give his son something to do over the last weeks of summer. But as the video developed, it became clear that Bryce had some latent superpowers which he'd never exhibited: mild-mannered gamer by day, pixel-slinging superhero by night.

Crimson Son is a coming of age story which focuses on the relationship between a young man and his absentee superhero father as he stumbles through his father's dangerous world. The nature of the story and the fact that the protagonist, Spencer, is a bit of a tech-head made this the perfect project for the father-son team.

"Team? To be clear, I'm the sidekick here," says Russ. "Bryce did a fantastic job and I'll definitely use his services in the future. Five star, A plus, Highly Recommend."

The trailer can be viewed at Russ Linton's website or on major video content providers such as YouTube and Vimeo.

http://russlinton.com/2014/09/09/behold-michael-bay-schoo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TYAQfRzlKo



https://vimeo.com/105991446

About Crimson Son

Nineteen-year-old Spencer is the son of the Crimson Mask, the world's most powerful Augment. Since witnessing his mother's abduction by a psychotic super villain two years ago, he's been confined to his father's arctic bunker. When the "Icehole" comes under attack from a rampaging robot, Spencer launches into his father's dangerous world of weaponized human beings known as Augments.

With no superpowers of his own save a multi-tool, a quick wit and a boatload of emotional trauma, Spencer seeks to uncover his mother's fate and confront his absentee superhero father. As he stumbles through a web of conspiracies and top secret facilities, he rallies a team of everyday people and cast-off Augments. But Spencer soon discovers that the Black Beetle isn't his only enemy, nor his worst.

About Russ Linton

Russ creates character-driven speculative fiction. His stories drip with blood, magic, and radioactive bugs. He writes for adults who are young at heart and youngsters who are old souls.