L.T. Vargus's Blog, page 7

Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.

Two things: I wanted to send a really quick reminder about our sale and a really quick announcement about a fresh release. Let’s go! First up, the Killing Season countdown deal ends tonight. The clock is ticking. Grab it while it’s 83% off. Killing Season on Amazon Second, the Scattered and the Dead (Book 2.5) audiobook is out now! But wait there’s more: The audiobook ...
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Highway To The Darger Zone.

Crank up the Kenny Loggins, my friends. You’re now entering the zone. The Violet Darger Zone. Yep. The first two books in the Darger series have been slashed to $0.99*: Dead End Girl on Amazon Killing Season on Amazon *The $0.99 price for Dead End Girl is available worldwide. The sale price for Killing Season is only available in ...
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Other Stuff to Read

Looking for something to read while you wait on the next Vargus/McBain opus? Fear not. I’ve put together a list of recommended books that happen to be perfect for reading. (Oh, and they’re all free on Kindle Unlimited if you ride with KU.) First up is the book I’m reading now: An Innocent Client by Scott Pratt. Here’s a murder ...
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Thankee-Sai

I just wanted to let everyone know that, thanks to you, the new Darger novel, Five Days Post Mortem, achieved our best ever launch day ranking. Of all the 6,000,000+ books available for the Kindle, we hit #122. We also hit #1 in a bunch of subcategories, and we’re still #1 in Hard-Boiled Mysteries and Pulp Thrillers at the moment. ...
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The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out.

Behold! The fifth book in the Violet Darger series, Five Days Post Mortem, is out now. Grab it! Five Days Post Mortem on Amazon Behind or new to the series? Fear not. The Darger books can be read in any order. We wrote these babies to stand alone. All alone. Believe me, they’d like to stand together, but we simply ...
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Apocalyptic Christmas.

Fudge yeah! St. Nick just delivered the big ol’ honkin’ Scattered and the Dead audiobook box set right in time for the motherfudgin’ holidays. Ho-ho-holy sugarplums! Am I excited? Let’s just say my candy cane is locked into an upright position. So here it is. 37.5 hours of harrowing apocalyptic survival, perfect for Christmas: Get The Scattered and the ...
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Bloody Sounds

I wanted to post a quick update to let everyone know that the Bad Blood audiobook is up. Kachow! It’s available now at your local Audible. Grab it here: Bad Blood on Audible We’ve got a lot of stuff happening in the next few months, so here’s a quick list to titillate and arouse the part of your brain that ...
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An interview with E. M. Smith

Meet the newest member of the Vargus/McBain-o-sphere, author E. M. Smith. He co-wrote Beyond Good & Evil and The Good Life Crisis with us, and we plan to launch some more stories together ASAP. But there persists an air of mystery around this guy. What do we really know about him? Is he weird? Let’s ...
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Shocktober!

The best month of the year is upon us. Let us rejoice with literary delights. And candy. And movies packed with unspeakable horror. (And more Loshak! More on that in a bit.) Turns out it’s physically impossible for me to transmit candy to you through email. (I just spent like three hours talking to the IT guys ...
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Is This Real Life?

Dead End Girl hit Number 3 in the entire Kindle store yesterday. Zoinks! This is a huge, big, mega-sized deal. I had to keep pinching myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. In a way, I’ve been on the path toward writing this book since 1995 when I read Red Dragon by Thomas Harris. It ...
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