Brian Keene's Blog, page 3
September 13, 2022
New Interview
Over at Lit Reactor, Jay Wilburn interviewed me and others about J.F. Gonzalez’s legacy and literary estate, and my own literary estate. You can read it here.
September 8, 2022
Reader Recession Relief Week 5
This week, the Kindle edition of NEMESAI by myself and John Urbancik is only 99 cents!
It starts with the red dreams. Everyone has them every night. But they’re just a precursor, because something deep within the bowels of the earth has awakened—something we defeated and sent back thousands of years ago. First, there are scouts which decimate cities, and the armies of humanity find their weapons impotent.
Enter Atiya Destine, professional adventurer and mercenary. She and her team will venture deep into the middle of China to follow the scouts back to where they came from: a hole in earth once protected by thousands of warriors awaiting the return of humanity’s Nemesai.
Enter Jane, a survivor of the destruction of Shanghai. Enter Stefan, trying to put down the unstoppable Nemesai with his fists.
They’ll enter the tomb of China’s first emperor, untouched for thousands of years, with rivers of mercury and pearls as stars in its sky hiding an underground city. Somewhere in that tomb, Atiya Destine hopes to find a way of driving back the rising army before it’s too late. Enter the Nemesai. They cannot be stopped.
August 30, 2022
Reader Recession Relief Week 4
This week, Kindle and Nook editions of ALONE are on sale for just 99 cents!
When Daniel Miller wakes up one morning, something has gone terribly wrong. The power is out. The phones are dead. The house is silent. The street is shrouded in fog. Both his partner and their adopted daughter are missing. So are their neighbors. And so is everyone else in the world. Daniel Miller is the last person left on Earth... or is he?
Borderlands Boot Camp 2023
For twenty years, Borderlands Writers Boot Camp has been the premier workshop for aspiring horror writers. With a roster of past instructors including Thomas F. Monteleone, F. Paul Wilson, David Morrell, Richard Chizmar, Ginjer Buchanan, Elizabeth Massie, and Douglas E. Winter, this intense weekend program has produced dozens of the genre’s most notable names over the past two decades.
We are proud to announce that Borderlands Writers Boot Camp is now part of the Scares That Care 501c3 charity’s family of events. RESERVE YOUR SPOT
The 2023 Borderlands Writers Boot Camp will take place March 29 through 31 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel 50 Kingsmill Road Williamsburg, VA 23185. The event will feature two and a half days of personal classroom time with a focus on writing, editing, submitting, and selling short stories. Students will be required to submit a short story to be workshopped prior to attendance.
The instructors for 2023 are Brian Keene, Mary SanGiovanni, Maurice Broaddus, Jeff Strand, Norman Prentiss, and John Urbancik.
Tuition is $750 per student, and includes an intense three-day workshop and classroom experience, both one-on-one and in a group setting. Price also includes admission into the second annual Scares that Care AuthorCon, taking place in the same hotel immediately following the completion of Boot Camp, giving students a real-time opportunity to immediately utilize some of the skills they’ve just learned. Attendees are responsible for their own travel and lodging. Because the instructors will be putting in advance time with each submitted story prior to the actual workshop, a non-refundable fee of $100 will be charged should a student need to cancel.
The deadline to sign up and submit your story is January 31, 2023. After that, no further registrations will be accepted.
August 26, 2022
Reader Recession Relief Week 3
This week, Kindle and Nook editions of TERMINAL are on sale for just 99 cents!
For over two decades, fans of Brian Keene’s cult-classic novel Terminal have heard rumors of an uncut version that was never published. Now, for the first time anywhere, here is that version, as the author originally intended.
Tommy O’Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But marriage and fatherhood have kept him running in place, working a job that doesn’t even pay the bills. And now he seems fated to stay for the rest of his life. Tommy has just learned he’s going to die young — and soon. But he refuses to leave his family with less than nothing–especially now that he has nothing to lose. Over a couple of beers with his best friends, John and Sherm, Tommy launches a bold scheme to provide for his family’s future. And though his plan will spin shockingly out of control, it will throw him together with a child whose touch can heal — and whose ultimate lesson is that there are far worse things than dying. Now, one man’s war with God may impact us all.
“A powerful, unique novel with a fascinating plot and characters, and echoes of Stephen King’s working-class voice.” — Ed Gorman
““If Brian Keene’s books were music, they would occupy a working class, hard-earned space between Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, and Johnny Cash.” — John Skipp
August 19, 2022
Clickers vs. Zombies Now In Audio
Now available in audiobook from Audible, narrated by Chet Williamson (Apple audiobook forthcoming)
From best-selling authors J.F. Gonzalez and Brian Keene comes the wildest, pulpiest, most over-the-top installment in the Clickers series yet—a crossover with Keene's The Rising!
In the aftermath of a devastating tsunami and a series of undersea earthquakes, hordes of Clickers swarm onto the California coastline, slaughtering everything in their path. As the attacks spread to other parts of the world, humanity fights back, unaware that a second foe is about to emerge—Ob, the leader of a supernatural race of beings known as the Siqqusim, who have the ability to possess and reanimate the dead.
Now, Earth faces an invasion from not one, but two enemies—the mindless and hungry Clickers, and the evil and equally ravenous zombies. Both groups have only one goal in mind—the total extermination of the human race. But what happens when these two forces meet....
Clickers vs Zombies - No matter who wins, mankind loses....
August 17, 2022
Reader Recession Relief Week 2
This week, Kindle and Nook editions of SCRATCH are on sale for just 99 cents!
April showers bring May flowers. But as the rain-swollen creeks recede, the residents of one rural Pennsylvania town learn that April showers bring something far worse than destructive floods and property damage. This year, the April showers have brought a cryptozoological nightmare named Scratch, and only pain and terror follow in his wake.
Happy reading! Come back next week for a new discount!
August 15, 2022
Baltimore Signing
Join Brian Keene, Mary SanGiovanni, Robert Swartwood, Hailey Piper, Wesley Southard, Mike Lombardo, Somer Canon, Stephen Kozeniewski, Sonora Taylor, Chris Enterline, and Matt Wildasin for a massive signing on Saturday September 10 from noon until 5pm at Protean Books & Records, 836 Leadenhall Street Baltimore, MD, 21230
August 9, 2022
Reader Recession Relief Week 1
THE GIRL ON THE GLIDER is just 99 cents on both Kindle and Nook for one week!
(Nook users, please allow up to 24 hours for the new price to take effect).
Considered by many critics to be one of Brian Keene’s best works, The Girl on the Glider has been long out of print – until now!
The year is 2009, and the world’s financial and publishing sectors are in chaos. In the midst of this disarray, a burned-out horror writer finds himself haunted by a variety of ghosts, both real and metaphorical. And as the ghosts increase their attacks, his struggle to make a living quickly becomes a fight to hold on to his family – and his very sanity.
This meta-fictional take on the traditional, old-fashioned ghost story is a deft mix of M.R. James and Hunter S. Thompson, and makes for one of Keene’s most personal and powerful novellas.
First time in digital. Includes a brand-new Afterword by the author.
Happy reading! Come back next week for a new discount!
August 2, 2022
New Interview - W.H. Chizmar
I was a guest on W.H. Chizmar’s podcast last week. We talked about three of my favorite things — heavy metal, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering. You can listen here.
