February in Review
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Time’s a funny thing, isn’t it? On one hand, I can’t believe how quickly February flew by, but on the other hand I can’t believe we’re only two months down into 2025.
That said, February was a pretty busy month. For starters, I joined the staff of reviewers over at FanFiAddict and already have a handful of new reviews under my belt over there. I’ll give a recap of all that shortly, down below.
The other big thing to happen were some behind-the-scene updates as I prepare to exit Kindle Unlimited next month. My entire bibliography will be leaving KU effective April 16. Some titles are making the exit a little bit sooner than others, as I decline renewal options to enroll them for another 90 days, but April 16 will be the absolute drop-dead cutoff for my stuff as it pertains to Kindle Unlimited. Everything will still be available for sale, but more importantly, everything will be for sale everywhere and, if all goes well, for borrowing digitally from your local library via OverDrive, CloudLibrary, and (eventually, fingers crossed!) Hoopla.
You’ll also be able to purchase the EPUB ebook files for my titles directly through my website, giving you complete ownership over the books you buy rather than any given retailer’s arbitrary licensing of my works. Come April 16, you’ll be able to find them all in the ebooks shop. Of course, all these books will available elsewhere, too, including the Amazon Kindle storefront, Apple’s iBooks, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and pretty much everywhere else you can think of.
A couple of titles have already escaped containment from KU, including my latest release, The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III. You may recall I ran into several snafus with Amazon in releasing this title back in January, which is what prompted my decision to finally go wide (or, more actually, return to going wide, as I had done before, a number of year’s ago). Well, I was able to work around whatever issues Amazon had with this release and, in doing so, got it listed everywhere else, too. I’m chalking that up as a win! You can now find The Horror Book Review Digest Volume III at a number of stores right now!
For those who may have been introduced to Salem Hawley back when The Resurrectionists was available wide, you can now find the second book, Borne of the Deep, at a number of other storefronts beyond Amazon. It’ll be available direct through my website April 16, but if you’re a Kobo or Nook reader, you can find it over there now. It should be appearing in the Apple Books storefront soon!
SALES
Before I exit Kindle Unlimited in April, I figure now’s a good time to have one last hurrah with Amazon’s scheduled promotions. Beginning Monday, March 3, all of my horror titles (minus Borne of the Deep) will be on sale for only 99c, along with my two science fiction titles, Convergence and Emergence, which make up the DRMR series duology. You’ll be able to find all my 99c titles beginning Monday morning on my Amazon Author Page. Just be sure to sort by Price: Low to High to get all the discounted titles.
NEW REVIEWSFebruary kicked off with two new book reviews here at the blog.
The Night Birds by Christopher Golden
Where the Bones Lie by Nick Kolakowski
And then things shifted into high gear as I began contributing to FanFi Addict, starting with a guest post reviewing Chuck Wendig’s The Staircase in the Woods before joining on as a full-fledged staff writer immediately following.
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
The Sundowner’s Dance by Todd Keisling
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
What’s been most surprising for me is that, with only two month’s into 2025, I’ve already read a handful of titles that will no doubt be some of the best releases of the year. Granted, some of these won’t be out for some time yet, and I actually read The Staircase in the Woods at the tail-end of 2024, but goddamn. I expect to be seeing this one, Chris Golden’s, Todd’s, and Stephen Graham Jones’s latest releases making a lot of Best Of lists later this year, along with Clay McLeod Chapman’s Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. This is shaping up to be a very, very, very strong year for the horror genre and we’re only just getting started! We’re eating good this year, Horror Fam! I’m sure I’ll have much more to say about all this as we prepare to close out 2025 (you know, presuming we make it that far and haven’t been dragged into nuclear conflict in World War III: The Search for Ukrainian Minerals so Donnie-boy can show Putin what a big, big boy he is! Fuck, it’s going to be a long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long year).
See y’all next month, I hope!
