Just In Time For Halloween

October is going to be a busy, but exciting month. The month of creepiness will bring not one, but two book releases, that I’ve been eager to see the light of day for quite some time. Details are below.

The Fields, The Zombie Feed Press, an imprint of Apex Publications. This atypical zombie novella received rave reviews from my peers and has an introduction written by NY Times Bestseller, Jonathan Maberry. The cover art and book trailer will be posted in the coming weeks. (Update – 10/14/11: the release date will now be in November, though pre-orders should still begin in October)

For After Midnight, Naked Snake Press. This collection is filled with 18 short stories, including a bonus novelette. There’s over 80k words of terror in this badboy. The cover art and book trailer will be posted in the coming weeks.

So, as you can see, October is going to be an great month. Start saving your pennies now, ’cause I don’t take candy in exchange for books. You’ll be glad you did.

Welcome to The Fields

The Fields

Billy Fletcher learned to farm the family’s tobacco fields – and beat slaves – by the hands of his father. Now, his father is dead, the slaves have long since been freed, and the once-lush fields are dying. Salvation by the name of Abraham knocks on the farmhouse door, bringing wild ideas. He can help Billy save the plantation and return the fields to their former glory…by raising his father’s slaves from the dead.

Can the resurrected slaves breathe life back into the Fletcher farm? Having brought the slaves back from graves that his father sent them to, can Billy be the kind master his father wasn’t? Is keeping the farm worth denying the men the freedom they earned with death?

Billy’s conscience holds the key to those mysteries, but not the biggest one: what does Abraham really want from the former slave owner’s son?

Welcome to The Fields.

 

Coming in October from The Zombie Feed Press, an imprint of Apex Publications.

Note: A trailer for the novella will be posted in a few weeks.

In The Pipeline…

It’s been awhile since I posted, let alone fill you in on everything that’s going to be released in the near future. So, below you will find a list of works, and their tentative release dates.

Novels

TBA

Note: Why did I leave “TBA” in this post? Perhaps this is a tease of an annoucement that should be coming in the next month or so..?

Novellas

Grave Intentions, Blue Leaf Publications, 3Q 2012.

‘The K-Club’, part of These Hallowed Halls (a 3-novella collection by Mike Oliveri, Gord Rollo & Myself), MHB Press, Summer 2012.

DININ’, Bad Moon Books, 1Q 2012.

The Fields (Introduction by Jonathan Maberry), The Zombie Feed, an imprint of Apex Publications, October 2011.

Collections

For After Midnight (short story collection), Naked Snake Press, October 2011. 

Anthologies

Cadence in Decay (Editor), MHB Press, Early 2012.

Relics & Remains (Editor), Dark Quest Books, TBA.

Short Stories

‘Urban Monsoon’, Morpheus Tales Magazine, Issue #17, July 2012.

‘Hung With Care’, A Hacked-Up Holiday Massacre (Anthology)4Q 2011. 

Films

House Call (feature length film), Little Oak Film Group, Currently in Pre-Production.

Online Serial Short Story – Part III

The final installment, ‘The Wolf’, of ‘The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf’ has been posted on Orion’s Child Magazine.  As mentioned before, this is a zombie tale co-written with Penny Mason. 

If you didn’t read the first two parts: click  here, then here.