OPEN DISTANCE by Michael Vorhis -- a Premium Adventure Thriller is Launched

FREMONT, Calif. - May 7, 2013 - PRLog -- After two-plus years of worldwide appeal for mystery/suspense novel ARCHANGEL by Michael Vorhis, including an announcement last year by prominent Hollywood production company Max Freedman Media (MFM, www.maxfmedia.com) that the fiction novel would be produced as a feature film, on Sunday FreeFlight Publishing launched Vorhis' next major work, OPEN DISTANCE.

Based loosely on a popular short story published in 1996, OPEN DISTANCE "centers around an intrepid world of high profile, high risk international rivalry," says FreeFlight.  "The plot unveils an ingenious new extreme competition concept around which the story wraps. It's still an edge-of-the-seat thriller in the true sense of the phrase, but it skirts the edges of science fiction in that sense." Vorhis adds, "It is very tense. The danger needle is off the scale. But it's really about the destructive human emotions that drive its events. There's also the element of romance, which serves as a catalyst for sentiment and decision, and its effect on the story is powerful."

The FreeFlight Publishing press office adds that OPEN DISTANCE is different from Vorhis' first work. "Different setting, characters, theme...and it adds the 'malevolence of nature' aspect. But despite the vivid, perilous events, the heart and soul of OPEN DISTANCE is still heart, and soul."

OPEN DISTANCE is now available to readers in eBook form on Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and Kobo sales channels--links are below. (It will also appear in the Apple iBookstore soon, and will hit shelves worldwide as a paperback within the next few months.)

FreeFlight points out that Vorhis' first novel ARCHANGEL has consistently drawn top drawer reviews. Noted author and publisher Emily Hill of A.V.Harrison Publishing wrote, "Vorhis more than holds his own. He has style...the presence, and skill, to stir in the most three dimensional characters any debut novelist has a right to claim."  Author Robert DeCoteau called ARCHANGEL, "The Great American Novel," and added, "...a class five hurricane...sheer storytelling genius...takes fiction from good to great." Readers report a superlative narrative style and their inability to put the novel down.

OPEN DISTANCE is the long-awaited encore act.


[Acclaimed in 19 countries, fiction novels ARCHANGEL and OPEN DISTANCE are available at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/s/search-alias%3Daps&field-keyw...), at Barnes & Noble (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/Michael-Vorhis), and at Kobo (http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=Michael+Vorhis). ARCHANGEL is also available at Books Inc. retail stores throughout the San Francisco Bay Area ( http://www.booksinc.net/book/9780983898504 ).]