Wetwork Now Available

I thought I’d let folks know that Wetwork is now available for Kindle ($1.99) and in paperback ($6.99). Click the picture below or the title to head to the Amazon page. Right now, this is an Amazon exclusive, but it will be coming to other platforms soon.

Here be vampires with nary a sparkle in sight.

For those who have read Lou vs. the Zombies, you might find a familiar name or two in this book. And for those who are looking forward to Lou Black’s next adventure, Lou vs. the Pack is getting closer. I have a whole bunch of other goodness coming soon as well.

Description: What happens when a hitman hiding from his former boss finds out that a vampire is hunting him? Joey Sanders and everyone he has ever cared for are about to find out…

From the author of Lou vs. the ZombiesMeat City, and Dead Ahead comes Wetwork, a horror/action novella.

Wetwork

Good News on the Writing Front – Comic Books, Lou vs. the Pack, and More

Some interesting developments over the past couple of weeks. While I continue to toil away on my normal freelance work and try to make ends meet,  I received some good news. Yours truly is going to be writing a comic book for Shot in the Dark Comics! The comic, titled Pieces, comes from the mind of Gene Tipton, publisher of the comic company.

(Once again, I’ve gotta thank Nick Grabowsky, the publisher of Black Bed Sheet Books, who published Meat City. I found out about Shot in the Dark Comics through him – they are the company turning Nick’s stories into stand alone comics seen here)

This is a steampunk/superhero styled comic that promises to be quite a bit of fun. I’ve always loved comics, and I’m very excited to have the opportunity to take over writing the book. Gene Tipton wrote the first issue, and I will be taking over duties from the second issue forward. I have some fun and wild ideas that I look forward to incorporating as well. I’ve already just about finished the synopsis for the first arc, and will be working on finishing up some scripts in the coming weeks.

In other writing news, I am going to be finishing up a few other prose projects in the next few weeks, hopefully. I am just about done writing Out in the Cold, a short horror novel. I’ve started work on Lou vs. the Pack as well, and that should be out in – hopefully- a couple of months. It’s gonna be a fun one. If you liked Lou vs. the Zombies, chances are that you’ll like this one too. Same Lou attitude, entirely different beastie and a new cast of entertaining characters.

I also have a couple of other things in the works, but I imagine people are tired of hearing about that sort of thing. I’ll try to blog about other things that might interest folks as well! I promise.

Dead Ahead Now on Sale – Free on Amazon Jan 1 and 2!

The short horror story “Dead Ahead”, which clocks in at more than 10,000 words, is now up and ready to download at Amazon. It’s going to be free on Amazon January 1 and January 2. After that, it’s just 99 cents. It also includes a free flash fiction piece called “Feeding Lizzie”.

Dead Ahead

It’s 1987 in Upstate New York. What secrets and horrors will fourteen-year old Andy Vinson and his friends behind an old taxidermist’s shop?

Give it a shot!

Plus, I may have some cool news to announce in the very near future! Yeah, I hate when people do that too, but there you have it.

Lou vs. the Zombies Currently in iTunes Top 100 for Horror

Well, it’s nice to see that Lou vs. the Zombies cracked the top 100 in horror at iTunes, and Uneasy Reading is still at about the 110 or 112 mark depending on the day! Now, it would certainly be nice to see one of the zeroes disappear so I could be in the top 10 (insert appropriate emoticon here). Of course, that’s just this zombie guy’s dream.

Lou vs. the Zombies is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Smashwords, Kobo, Sony, and more. If you’ve read it, tell a friend. If you haven’t read it, give it a shot.

This weekend, I will come back and try to write a proper post rather than me just going on about me. Okay, it will probably still have to do with me, just maybe not so blatantly. I’ll probably give some updates on the projects I’m doing. If only I weren’t such a busy boy, I’d have more time for this and all of the (anti)social networking I should be doing.

 

Trailer for Brian Keene’s Dark Hollow

I love Brian Keene’s work and thought Dark Hollow was a great horror novel, so it’s no wonder this movie trailer excites so much! If you haven’t read this novel, go and grab it. It’s well worth reading.

Since I couldn’t get the video to embed here, just go to Brian’s site and watch the video. Click here.

More Book News – Lou vs. the Zombies Sale, Lou vs. the Pack, and more

I keep writing, freelancing daily while working on my own fiction into the wee hours. I only stop for dinner, maybe a bit of Netflix, and sleep. Although, most of the time, I try to sleep but end up watching old episodes of Star Trek (TOS) because, you know, it can’t watch itself.

However, I am making some good headway on all of the various projects that I’m doing. Wetwork is just about ready to go, and Out in the Cold is probably a week or two away from going on sale. Still plugging away on a rewrite of the outline for the short story “Dead Ahead” – it’s rough. Also, the outline for the new novella, number 2 in the Lou Chronicles, is nearly done. Lou vs. the Pack promises to be just as fun as his first adventure.

I want to make sure old Lou gets the attention that he deserves, so I’m running a sale on Lou vs. the Zombies from now until Monday, September 3 (Labor Day). Until then, the novella is going to be just 99 cents on Kindle! I’m working on a paperback version as well.

I’m also mulling over ideas for the third Lou novella. I also thought it might be fun to “interview” Lou after the third book comes out, hopefully before Christmas of this year.

That’s all for now. Please spread the word about the sale for Lou!

Dark Superheroes – Corrupts Absolutely?

I recently had the honor of appearing in a wonderful anthology called Corrupts Absolutely?, a book that looks at the world of superheroes through a dark and dirty lens. The anthology, edited  by Lincoln Crisler and out now in paperback and digital from Damnation Books, has a ton of great stories for those who like their superheroes with a bit of a sharp and nasty edge.

You might recognize some of the authors in the anthology: Weston Ochse, Jeff Strand, Tim Marquitz, Cat Rambo, and some other greats. I’m quite proud of my own contribution to the anthology, “Enlightened by Sin”, but sharing a table of contents with all of the other great writers is what really makes me happy.

Now, I’ve blogged about this antho before, but with the loss of so much of my posts, it needed to be done again. I also thought I would add some links to a round table discussion on the book that appeared on a great genre blog called Wag the Fox.

Enjoy the discussion:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Interview with the Editor: Lincoln Crisler

George A. Romero’s Ward of the Dead

Well, this looks pretty damned cool.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to try to survive in a zombie apocalypse? Of course you have, and you’re sure that you would come out on top, king or queen of the zombie slayers too. Now you can get a small taste of that, for a couple of days at least.

This year, from September 29 to October 31 at the Fright Dome in Circus Circus in Las Vegas, experience the zombie apocalypse. And it’s not just any old zombie uprising either – this one comes from the mind of the master of the original walking dead, George A. Romero.

Unfortunately, I am not going to be able to get to Vegas this year to experience this fun-filled gore-fest. Hopefully you can. Check out this link to find out more about the experience.

Free Kindle Promotion: Lou vs. the Zombies

I’m doing a promotion on the Kindle on 8-22-12. Lou vs. the Zombies will be free for the day. Please spread the word and enjoy some free zombie goodness. Lou will certainly appreciate it.

What happens when an over the hill mafia bodyguard has to deal with zombies invading the trailer park he now calls home? Lou Black, former Giovanni family enforcer and protector, is about to find out.
Poor zombies.
(Lou vs. the Zombies is an 18,000-word horror/action novella with a touch of dark humor)