'Lockdown' Releases This Week!

For the past few months, I’ve been working alongside co-editor Steve Weddle and publisher Jason Pinter (of Polis Books) on a very special project: Lockdown: Stories of Crime, Terror, and Hope During a Pandemic, an anthology of 20 suspense, noir, and horror stories set against the background of a (fictional) pandemic. One hundred percent of the proceeds from “Lockdown” will go to support BINC, the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, as it seeks to help booksellers recover from the devastating COVID-19 crisis.

Some background: This project came together super-fast by publishing standards, and I’m in awe of how quickly our authors turned around their uniformly excellent, mind-blowing stories—especially since everyone was also scrambling to figure out their self-imposed lockdowns. The pandemic in the book is fictional, which allowed them to play with all kinds of subgenres: heist, zombie, murder-mystery, even an incredible riff on “Peter Pan.” If you want to help booksellers through the pandemic while landing some enjoyable reading, check out “Lockdown” from the following bookstores:

• Bookshop.org
• Indiebound
• Barnes & Noble
• Amazon

The authors include:

• Hector Acosta
• Scott Adlerberg
• Ann Dávila Cardinal
• Gemma Amor
• V. Castro
• Angel Luis Colon
• Jen Conley
• Terri Lynn Coop
• S.A. Cosby
• Alex DiFrancesco
• Michelle Garza/Melissa Lason
• Rob Hart
• Gabino Iglesias
• Nick Kolakowski
• Richie Narvaez
• Cina Pelayo
• Renee Asher Pickup
• Eryk Pruitt
• Johnny Shaw
• Steve Weddle

We’re incredibly proud of this effort, and we hope you like it, too.