Tap and Die

A cowboy separated from his wife visits an ambassador's gala above an active volcano . Magical terrorists attack. Separated from his clothes and family, he must wield a lightning wand against an invading army in hopes to set the fantastic world's diplomats free. Will he make it out clothed, reunited, and unsinged? Conceived as a genre-bending - even Nabokovian - satire of Die Hard, one Canadian bookseller believes this fantasy novella will start a new genre named Die Bard: ___ "This is an author