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March 24, 2011
And I hope you f*cking choke on your food!
I've added another quick story to www.lastoftheliving.net: an increasingly unpleasant morning in an already unpleasant job suddenly gets much worse for Karen Chase. Yet again, David Naughton-Shires has provided the excellent artwork.
That's all for March, but there's plenty of free fiction planned for April. More Amy Steadman, an extract or two from AUTUMN: PURIFICATION (which, of course, gets its UK release on April 21st), and a 10,000 word novella.
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And I hope you f*cking choke on your food!
March 21, 2011
New releases for 2011
I thought it would be useful to list the new releases I have coming up for the rest of 2011 because there are quite a few. As always, please remember that these dates may be subject to change. You can always check my regularly updated FAQ page for the most up-to-date information.
APRIL
CUILDAD ZOMBIE (Spanish AUTUMN: THE CITY paperback – 12th)
AUTUMN: PURIFICATION (UK hardcover – 21st)
HATER (Romania)
MAY
DOG BLOOD (US paperback – 11th)
AUGUST
AUTUMN: PURIFICATION (US paperback – 16th)
OCTOBER
AUTUMN (UK paperback – 13th)
NOVEMBER
THEM OR US (US hardcover – 8th)
AUTUMN: DISINTEGRATION (UK hardcover – 17th)
AUTUMN: DISINTEGRATION (US paperback – 22nd)
DECEMBER
THEM OR US (UK – 29th)
And there will be an anthology appearance or two and, I think, several more foreign language editions to add to this list. So it's looking like a busy year, and I'm really pleased. I know lots of people have been waiting for AUTUMN: DISINTEGRATION and THEM OR US for far too long…
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New releases for 2011
March 20, 2011
Great places to be stranded in the event of a zombie apocalypse (part 1)
I was laid up most of last week, so I didn't get to see much of St Patrick's Day. I hope all my Irish friends and readers had a great day, and I also hope they'll respectfully avoid mentioning yesterday's rugby match.
You might remember a short while back I did a food-based interview with Jeremy Sus of Chicago Examiner.com when we talked, amongst other things, about the impact a zombie apocalypse might have on our eating habits. Jeremy posted a link on my Facebook page this week about beer, and that got me thinking back to my recent visit to Dublin.
Before the Sunday sessions began at Phoenix Con, my wife Lisa and I snuck off for a little sightseeing. Inevitably we ended up at the Guinness Storehouse – home of one of the most famous, and undoubtably one of the greatest beers ever created. The tour takes you up through several floors of exhibits describing the history and production of Guinness, before culminating in a complimentary pint in the seventh floor Gravity Bar. And the Gravity Bar, I remember thinking at the time, would be a damn fine place to find yourself stuck when the dead start to rise.
Where else are you going to get a). a virtually unobstructed, panoramic view of the chaos unfolding across Dublin, b). the security of being seven floors and a hundred feet above street level, and c). the luxury of a huge bar serving almost nothing but perfect pints of Guinness? Okay, so technically it wouldn't be the most sensible place to hide (from memory there's only one way in and out if the lifts are out of action – you'll have to try and get down the same way the living dead are fighting their way up), but with all that Guinness on tap, who'd give a damn?!
You wouldn't last long, and you're out of luck if you don't like Guinness, but I challenge you to find a better place to be stranded in the event of a zombie apocalypse!
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Great places to be stranded in the event of a zombie apocalypse (part 1)
March 14, 2011
More stories and artwork added to www.lastoftheliving.net
Another week, another brief slug of free zombie fiction… This week an excerpt from the beginning of AUTUMN: THE CITY has been added to www.lastoftheliving.net, and a new story BRIGID CULTHORPE (brilliantly illustrated once again by David Naughton-Shires). Brigid's another new character who appears in AUTUMN: PURIFICATION.
Also added to the site this week are a number of great pieces of art from Antony White. Learn more about Antony by visiting his site www.blackpapersky.co.uk. And don't forget, you can view all the artwork so far added to www.lastoftheliving.net in the 'art' section. Please keep checking back, because there's loads more to come.
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More stories and artwork added to www.lastoftheliving.net
March 11, 2011
Read an ebook week (and a few suggestions)
Yes, I know I'm late with this – I should really have written about it being 'Read an ebook week' on Monday, not Friday, but it's been one of those weeks (one of those months, actually). It's an initiative which was originally designed to get people to try ebooks, but it seems slightly less relevant now given the advent of the Kindle and iPad etc. and the rapid increase in ebook consumption. Nevertheless, I think it's a good (and long overdue) opportunity to mention a few ebooks I read and enjoyed recently, and to help promote a few indie authors.
APEXOLOGY: HORROR
The Apex Book Company is a small press that's well known for its Apex magazine. This ebook collection was designed as a cut-price introduction to its impressive range of authors, and you get a lot of bang for your buck here. The past, the present, the future, Nazis, Werewolves, Vampires, body snatchers, deformed creatures, twisted realities, obsession, lust, sex… the scope of the collection is very broad and, to its credit, it succeeds on many levels. There's huge variety between the stories, with something to satisfy even the most ardent horror fan. Okay, so some tales invariably encroach into familiar genre territory from time to time, but they're all handled with real skill and enthusiasm. I defy anyone to read this collection and not be haunted by at least one of the stories. Personally, quite a few of them got to me, in particular Jennifer Pelland's grotesque (but never sensationalist) story of sibling envy and hatred, Big Sister/Little Sister, and Guy Hasson's spiralling mind-f**k, The Dark Side. From Cthulu to Dracula, from the surreal to the downright disturbing, from the ends of the Earth to the cold depths of space, this is an excellent collection and a fascinating introduction to the many worlds of the Apex Book Company. Click here to get the book.
JEREMY BISHOP'S TORMENT
Some authors (myself included) like to write fiction which although far-fetched, has at least one foot anchored in normality. Others don't. Bishop's Torment is a fast-paced action novel in which the wife of a double-agent finds herself shot into orbit with the President of the United States as a global nuclear war rages on the Earth below them. When they return to Earth, they find a curiously undamaged planet. But they're not alone… Suspend your disbelief, go with the ride and you'll have a lot of fun with TORMENT.
MAN OF LETTERS BY ERIC POLLARINE
Eric's novella is a fast read with that most precious of things at its heart – an original idea! A frustrated author struggles with the daily grind of working in a call centre (this sounds like a chapter from my autobiography!), before an unexpected event and subsequent revelation changes the direction of his life. Well worth a couple of dollars and a little of your time. Click here to get it.
UNDEAD WORLD
I noticed this week that A P Fuchs has repackaged and re-released his Undead World trilogy book BLOOD OF THE DEAD which I read a couple of years back. He's also released a sequel – POSSESSION OF THE DEAD. You can get them both here.
REMY PORTER'S DEAD BEAT
And finally… a quick note that the price of the ebook edition of Remy Porter's DEAD BEAT has been dropped to 99c/70p for a limited time. I promised Remy some space on this site but, for various reasons, I've been unable to yet do so. So, huge apologies to Remy, and please check back soon for more about DEAD BEAT.
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Read an ebook week (and a few suggestions)
March 9, 2011
Jim Harper – new story added to Last of the Living
A new story has been added to www.lastoftheliving.net, the first of three shorts for this month. Jim Harper appears in the forthcoming Autumn: Purification (out in the UK on April 21st, US August 16th), and his story has been illustrated by David Naughton-Shires (see www.knightwatchpress.info for more of David's work).
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Jim Harper – new story added to Last of the Living
March 8, 2011
Phoenix Con report
This weekend just gone I was a guest at the Phoenix Convention in Dublin. A very small and informal event in comparison to the recent SFX Weekender and the like, it was a great opportunity to catch up with friends and spend a weekend in Ireland with the missus.
The convention has an almost exclusively literary focus which is refreshing. I took part in a number of panels, most notably 'What do we do with Zombies?' with Wayne Simmons (who surely by now needs no introduction), and Derek Gunn author of The Estuary and the popular Vampire Apocalypse books.
But it wasn't all about the living dead (for once). Other panel topics included 'Mission to Mars: who would you send?' (answers ranged from George Lucas to Jedward (and if you don't know who/what that is, I envy you), Justin Bieber and, bizarrely, Geoffrey Boycott!), and 'Routes into Publishing' – a discussion about the various options available to writers in today's rapidly changing marketplace.
Another highlight for me was meeting David Naughton-Shires. For those of you who haven't come across David, he's the brains behind Knightwatch Press, a very active member of the Moody's Survivors Facebook group, and a damn fine artist who's responsible for some of the artwork over at www.lastoftheliving.net – the new AUTUMN website. David was kind enough to give me several of his original illustrations, and you'll be able to see them shortly as more stories are added to the site. In fact, he's illustrated the next three entries I'll be adding. Check back tomorrow to find out how the end of the world actually turns out to be a good thing for Jim Harper, one of the characters you'll meet in AUTUMN: PURIFICATION.
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Phoenix Con report
February 24, 2011
The Mother Load
I'm sure plenty of you are aware of James Melzer. He's the evil genius behind the Unleashed podcast, and the author of ESCAPE – the first book in a new trilogy of zombie novels coming later this year from Permuted Press and Pocket Books.
James got in touch with me a while back and invited me to be a part of a unique pre-order campaign for ESCAPE, and I was happy to oblige. Starting from tomorrow and running through to Escape's release in December, everyone who pre-orders the book can get their hands on THE MOTHERLOAD a free eBook featuring never before published stories from myself (my contribution is 'The Deal' – a lovely little tale of perversion and greed), S G Brown, Mur Lafferty, Jeremy C Shipp, Wayne Simmons, and Matt Wallace.
To get the free eBook, simply order Escape from one of the following retailers – Amazon (Print Edition), Amazon (Kindle Edition), Amazon UK, Amazon Canada, Borders.com, and Indigo Canada - and email a copy of your receipt to EscapeNovel@Gmail.com.
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The Mother Load
February 17, 2011
Dead Island trailer
In no way am I an avid gamer – I love my Xbox, but a). playing on it is a luxury I only allow myself at the end of the day when all my work is done (i.e. not often), and b). I refuse to pay £40 – £50 for a brand new release so I wait for cut-price reissues of games after everyone else has finished playing them!
That said, this game trailer which is all over the Internet today, is completely stunning. If the game is even half as good, I'll be there in a flash.
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Dead Island trailer
February 11, 2011
Last of the Living
The official AUTUMN website is now open for business. As well as information about the five AUTUMN novels, by the end of 2011, the site will also be home to more than 100,000 words of free zombie fiction. The first batch of stories are now live, with more to follow at regular intervals from early March onwards.
You'll notice that the site is also home to a lot of superb artwork like this:
If you're an artist and you'd like to get involved, click here to read the submission guidelines. (The illustration above, by the way, is Amy Steadman – Day 3 – by the very talented Craig Paton.)
Enjoy the new site – and the free stories – there's a LOT more exciting stuff on the way very soon!
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Last of the Living
