Up From the Depths Book 1

Book 1 of this series was released July 12, 2013 through Smashwords. However, it has been removed from Smashwords due to me being signed on with Permuted Press.

The entire project of moving from notes to outline to actual work was several years in the making. As I don't write full time, it was a bit of a struggle to make time to work on the book.

You may notice that I mention book as in singular not plural. When I first started the story, it was only a single novel that morphed into a large, epic size novel. When I had finished it, there was really no way that any publisher would take a first time author's work that exceeded 800 pages.

This led to breaking the book down into a trilogy. Trilogies are kind of fun. But, after I looked at how it was broken down and then ran it through an epub program, each book in the trilogy was over 400 pages. That's a formatting thing with epub.

With that in mind, the only way to get this story out there was to break it down into smaller portions and make a series out of it. Up From the Depths is projected to last for 6 books. Book 6 is scheduled for release in 2016.

For those of you not familiar with the series, UFTD is a military themed, zombie apocalyptic story that encompasses a large cast of some very eclectic characters. I stayed away from the over-used cliche characters and settings and definitely away from the cliche causes for a zombie outbreak.

If you like horror, action, gore, weapons, high tech toys, and a realistic military edge to your zombie novels then you'll have to wait until September 2015 for the release of Book 1.