If you’ve
been following this page for any amount of time, you know I hate pimping my own
work, but we’re officially in the Christmas season now. And in theory this is the big internet
shopping day. And the marketing
people—who are seriously wonderful folks—have dropped certain hints. Sooooooo...
I have to
ask you all to buy stuff.
I’m so very,
very sorry. I'll try to be quick.
Here’s a
list of my books and also a few anthologies I’ve got stories in. Put them
on your holiday wish list or get them as gifts for friends and family members.
I’ll put links to most of them, but you can also scroll down through that sidebar on the right and
find links to pretty much every version at every store you could ever want.
Also,
there’s still about a week to place orders with Dark Delicacies in Burbank. You can order a book through
them, leave instructions for an autograph, and I’ll swing by there to scribble
in said book. Again, do it in the next
week and you should have said book in your hands in time for the holidays.
Really,
either way, just go to your local bookstore.
They’re cool and they could use the business, and then you’re not one of
those conformists falling for that Cyber Monday capitalist nonsense.
Anyway...
Many of you
are probably here because of the Ex-Heroes series. Ex-Heroes, Ex-Patriots, Ex-Communication,
Ex-Purgatory, and as of this spring Ex-Isle! All of these are
available in a number of formats and a number of languages. Also, Audible's included the first two books in a fantastic sale today soooooo... move quick if audiobooks are your thing.
The Fold came out in paperback this year, but I think there are still some
hardcovers kicking around if you know where to look Early on someone described it as something
like a horror-suspense novel disguised as a sci-fi-mystery, and I’ve been using
that ever since. The audiobook’s narrated
by the always-amazing Ray Porter. It’s
also loosely connected to another semi-popular book I wrote...
At least a
third of you have probably found your way here because of –14— my
odd little Lovecraftian-sci-fi-urban-horror-mystery novel. There’s a paperback, an ebook, and another
audiobook narrated by the amazing Ray Porter (it's part of that big Audible sale, too).
And, if things progress as planned, Team Downey’s finally shooting the
pilot this spring.
You can
pick up all of The Junkie Quatrain as either an ebook or an
audiobook (no paper, sorry). It’s my
attemptat a “fast zombies” tale, a series of interconnected stories I’ve
sometimes described as Rashomon meets 28 Days Later. It also features a recurring character of
mine, Quilt, who keeps showing up in different stories in one way or another...
The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson Crusoe also got a
brand new edition this year, with a damned fantatic new layout. It’s the
more-or-less true story of how the legendary castaway ended up on that strange
island, some of the things he found there, and some of the things that found
him. I admit it’s a bit of work to read, but I still love it.
I also have
a ton of short stories out in anthologies right now. The big one is The X-Files: Trust No One, edited by the wonderful-in-so-many-ways Jonathan Maberry and with
stories from Gini Koch, Tim Lebbon, Heather Graham, Brian Keene, and more. My story here is “The Beast of Little Hill,”
a classic Muder and Scully tale about roadside attractions and fake
aliens. Supposedly Chris Carter really
enjoyed it, which is... well, cool.
Naughty or Nice is a collection of fun, twisted holiday stories which run...
well, the full gamut. Don’t get it for
your nine year old, let’s say that. Or your less-than-open-minded mother-in-law...
Corrupts Absolutely is a collection about superheroes gone wrong. Mine’s a little standalone called “Bedtime
Story,” about a hero called Omnes and some parents trying to explain to their
little boy why the way the world is the way it is.
You can pick up Kaiju Rising, which contains “Banner of the Bent Cross,”my WWII pulp
adventure featuring the first team up of mercenary Dar Carter and history professor
Ken Kraft It also has a fantastically
funny story by Peter Stenson (author of Fiend).
There’s
also “The Apocrypha of Gamma-202, ” a story about robots and religion, which
appeared in Bless Your Mechanical Heart. You’ll also get some great stories from
Seanan McGuire, Ken Scholes, and Lucy Snyder.
And thus ends
my shameless Cyber Monday appeal to capitalism. Again, so very sorry, but please tell the marketing folks you read
it. I’ll also do another list later this
week with some great books I’ve read by other, much better authors. And please don’t forget my Black Friday offer if you happen to be someone who needs it.
Please feel
free to resume your internet shopping.
Browse responsibly. Clear your
history on a regular basis.
No, don’t
click on that—that isn’t really from PayPal.
The image link for the cover of "The Fold" is broken. Take care, Pete!
ReplyDeletehappy cyber-monday! Please tell your marketing overlords that we have duly absorbed and consumed this information. :D
ReplyDelete(Also you can tell them i bought Ex-Isle on Audible, as my very first audiobook, and it was great! Altho i'm still not convinced about this listening to books thing, feels weird.)