Protectors 2: Heroes release day!

Protectors 2: Heroes is now available! Most retailers still have it a the reduced pre-order price of $6.99, a dollar off retail. For e-books it’s on Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iTunes, and you can order the e-book direct from the Protectors Books website, and we’re offering a special:

You can order Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT AND Protectors 2: Heroes for a discounted price of $12, which is $1 off retail.

The trade paperback is available through Amazon, and will be on Barnes & Noble, Indiebound, and Powell’s shortly. You can also order it from your local bookstore. It is a hefty 608 pages and contains illustrations by children’s book artist Linda Sarah, comic book artist Dennis Calero, illustrator Dyer Wilk, and artist Jyl Ion, plus 55 stories by an army of authors, from all genres.

Here’s the full table of contents, from legends to rising stars to emerging writers, all who support PROTECT’s cause: protecting children from all kinds of abuse and exploitation. 100% of the proceeds are donated to Protect’s lobby. If you’re unfamiliar with PROTECT, they are the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators.

Table of Contents:

When!? by Linda Sarah

The Questions by Alison Arngrim

City Water by Allison Glasgow

Black and White and Red All Over by David Morrell

Silvia Reyes by P.J. Ward

Plan B by Andrew Vachss

Gatekeeper by Richard Prosch

The Night Watch by Susan Schorn

One Night in Brownsville by Gary Phillips

Silverfish by S.J. Rozan

Parental Guidance by Scott Adlerberg

Superhero, With Crooked Nails by Rachael Acks

Angel by Terrence McCauley

Mr. Nance by Linda Rodriguez

Something I Said by Bracken MacLeod

El Puente by Rios de la Luz

Mesquite by Graham Wynd

Level 5 by C.R. Jahn

On the Road to La Grange by Karina Cooper

Reprisals: Enmity by John A. Curley

The Whistler in the Graveyard by Chad Eagleton (illustration by Dyer Wilk)

Solar Highway by S.A. Solomon

Jibber Jabber by Reed Farrel Coleman

Doll: A Poem by Jyl Anais Ion (illustrations by Jyl Anais Ion)

Doggone Justice by Joe R. Lansdale

The Occurrence of the Black Mirror by Teel James Glenn

Sister Cecilia by Hilary Davidson

Croatoan by Harlan Ellison®

Little Howl on the Prairie by Thomas Pluck

Things Held Dear by Neliza Drew

49 Foot Woman Straps It On by Laird Barron

Moon Over the Midwest by Elizabeth Amber Love

Sixth Floor by Albert Tucher

Adamsville by Clare Toohey

Point of View by Will Graham

High Meadow Storm by Wayne Dundee

Out of Context by Joelle Charbonneau

Lone by Alex Segura (illustrations by Dennis Calero)

Love and Valour on ‘the Victorian Titanic’ by Gill Hoffs

Just Pretend by Martyn Waites

Freak by Charles de Lint

The New Heroes of the Old Fairgrounds by K.L. Pereira

When the Hammer Comes Down by Josh Stallings

Stretching Fifteen by Angel Luis Colón

Bounty by Jerry Bloomfield

Light-Bringer by Laura K. Curtis

Hercules and the Spawn of the Titans by Michael A. Black

How to Paint Your Dragon by Andrew D’Apice

Don’t Fear the Ripper by Holly West Two Views by Tim Daly

A Hundred Pearls by Errick Nunnally

Snapshots by Christopher Irvin

Deceit by Joyce Carol Oates

The Perfect Weapon by Zak Mucha

An Open Letter to the Children of the Secret by Dionysios Dionou

Behavior is Truth by Gwyndyn T. Alexander

Pigeons for Protect! by Linda Sarah

Tagged: PROTECT, Protectors Anthology