Scares That Care Or Bust!

Hi everyone!

AuthorCon VI is quickly approaching (it's this weekend, in fact!) and I just wanted to tell you all I'll be there and I'm hoping to see you. For readers, feel free to find me, get your books signed, and have some great conversation. Preferably at the bar...

AND I will be exclusively releasing my new book at this event.

THE HEMATOPHAGES: SPLATTERINGS is a collection of shorts (and loads of bonus content) set in my Hematophages universe. Body horror, sci-fi, parasites, pirates...even some space werewolves can be expected. Be among the first to feast your eyes (and hopefully hold on to them...) on this new volume.

For authors, I'm participating in a number of panels and events, including not one, not two, but THREE pitching sessions. If you have a manuscript and you're looking for a home for it, my indie press, French Press Publishing could be a good fit. We generally want horror and science fiction (and even better, a combination of the two.)

Click on the banner below for more information about the event or to get your tickets.

Dates: Friday through Sunday February 27 - March 1

Location: DoubleTree by Hilton 

50 Kingsmill Road 

Williamsburg, Virginia 23185 

Panels: 

Friday, 6:30 pm - "French Press Publishing Pitch Session" - 2nd Floor, Room E

Friday, 10:00 pm - "Who's Line is it Anyway?" (w/ Clay MacLeod Chapman, Nat Cassidy, CJ Leede, Bitter Karella, Shane McKenzie, Wile E. Young, and Jeff Strand) - First Floor Auditorium

Saturday, 11:30 am - "French Press Publishing Pitch Session" - 2nd Floor, Room E

Saturday, 2:15 pm - Reading (w/ Jonathan Gensler) - 2nd Floor, Room 8

Saturday, 10:00 pm - "Gross-Out Contest) (w/ Wile E. Young) - First Floor Auditorium

Sunday, 11:00 am - "French Press Publishing Pitch Session" - 2nd Floor, Room E

Sunday, 11:45 am - "Weird Westerns, Grimdark, and Military Honor" (w/ M - Robert Whitmore, Daniel J. Volpe, Jonathan Gensler, Andrew Najberg)

BRAINEATER JONES Available Now for Only 99c!

Hi everyone,

Since you are my favorite people, I have an awesome deal for you all. My first (and so far, most popular) novel, BRAINEATER JONES, is out now for a limited time for the sweet price of 99c. That's not even a dollar. It's practically nothing. In fact, it's probably more expensive for you to NOT get it.

Don't think about that too hard, just trust me. Anyway, if you haven't had the pleasure to make the acquaintance of BRAINEATER JONES, here's a bit about the book:

 No memory. No pulse. No clue.

The undead private eye everybody calls “Braineater Jones” has an axe to grind. Somebody plugged him and dumped his corpse in a swimming pool.

Worse yet, his memory’s gone. He has no idea who killed him or why.

But he’s damn sure going to find out.

With a smartass severed head as a partner, Jones hangs up his shingle in the city’s undead quarter. When he’s not solving cases (poorly) Jones is always looking to keep his flask full.

Prohibition is in full swing, and the dead need alcohol to function. Without liquor they become mindless, flesh-munching ghouls. (In a word: braineaters.)

Everything will probably be fine. The investigation into his own murder probably won’t point Jones toward the city’s most important bootlegger.

And even if it does, it’s not like he’ll risk cutting off the hooch just to seek justice for himself, right? No one man’s life is worth unleashing a cannibalistic orgy of violence. Right?

Cracking this case will be a tall order, but one thing’s for sure: whatever happens, Braineater Jones isn’t getting out of this one alive…

This offer is available in the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia until the 24th Feb. Don't drag your dead (ha!) feet, gobble up your copy today!

GET YOUR BOOK FROM THIS AWESOME LINK 

THE HEMATOPHAGES is Back!

Hi everyone,

I've returned to the blood planet, skinwrapping, parasitic universe that many of you know and love from my previous works, THE HEMATOPHAGES and SKINWRAPPER. 

Fasten your eyeballs securely in your sockets and get ready for my brand new short story collection, THE HEMATOPHAGES: SPLATTERINGS. It contains several short stories within this sci-fi horror universe that you probably haven't read, and one you definitely haven't come across. Plus, there's a whole load of extra, exclusive content in the story notes. 

In a galaxy riven by paranoid greed, profane forces marshal to consume humanity…

- On an abandoned ice moon, broadcasts from a long-dead civilization warp both body and soul.

- On a bizarre medical asteroid, a deranged physician discovers a gruesome “cure” for parasitic infection.

- On a deep space derelict, time becomes utterly meaningless and suffering transcends infinity.

- And on Earth itself, a lake transforms into pure blood and becomes infested with the hate-filled, eel-like aberrations known as…

The Hematophages.

You don't need to have read the novel or novella to understand these stories, everything in this universe stands on its own as self-contained stories. If you'd like to plummet into this gory pool of terrors, you can pick it up at AuthorCon VI at its exclusive release. Scares That Care is an awesome charity that we support every year, so I'm thrilled to unleash this carnage there. If you can't make the event though, don't scream about it (no one will hear you in space anyway), you can pre-order it HERE. It will be released to the wider world on March 16th.

But, I mean, you should read them all otherwise you won't know what to do when organ-stealing space pirates raid your ship, or you stumble upon a blood planet. In case you missed it on its original run, let me tell you a little about THE HEMATOPHAGES too, you know, while we're here. And I suppose I may as well also fill you in about SKINWRAPPER too (which is conveniently bundled into one book along with the novel proper).

2018 Splatterpunk Award nominee

Includes the bonus novella prequel, SKINWRAPPER.

Doctoral student Paige Ambroziak is a “station bunny” – she’s never set foot off the deep space outpost where she grew up. But when she’s offered a small fortune to join a clandestine salvage mission, she jumps at the chance to leave the cutthroat world of academia behind.

Paige is convinced she’s been enlisted to find the legendary Manifest Destiny, a long-lost colonization vessel from an era before the corporations ruled Earth and its colonies. Whatever she’s looking for, though, rests in the blood-like seas of a planet-sized organism called a fleshworld.

Dangers abound for Paige and her shipmates. Flying outside charted space means competing corporations can shoot them on sight rather than respect their salvage rights. The area is also crawling with pirates like the ghoulish skinwrappers, known for murdering anyone they can’t extort.

But the greatest threat to Paige’s mission is the nauseating alien parasites which infest the fleshworld. These lamprey-like monstrosities are used to swimming freely in an ocean of blood, and will happily spill a new one from the veins of the outsiders who have tainted their home. In just a few short, bone-chilling hours Paige learns that there are no limits to the depravity and violence of the grotesque nightmares known as…THE HEMATOPHAGES.

A single word strikes fear into the hearts of even the most experienced starship crews…Aboard the freighter Blue Whale, a young girl’s day begins like any other: texting her friends while her parents bicker about breakfast. Then, with a loud, sickening pop, their domestic tranquility is shattered. A single word goes out over the emergency warning system…The galaxy’s shipping lanes are plagued by a gang of vicious pirates. Suffering from all manner of terminal diseases, they require zero gravity to live. They also need a constant influx of fresh blood and organs, so their victims also become their unwilling donors. The band is so ruthless, so violent, that its very name has become a synonym for terror. A single word that chills the blood, even in the utter cold of space…The little girl finds herself alone, lost, and trapped aboard the vessel she called home, praying it won’t also become her tomb. She is about to learn there is nothing in the universe worse than being hunted by a SKINWRAPPER. This prequel novella shoves you screaming back into the world of “space horror masterpiece” (Daily Dead) THE HEMATOPHAGES.

Once again, if you'd like to be drenched in this bloody horror, here are the links:

THE HEMATOPHAGES: SPLATTERINGS

THE HEMATOPHAGES AND SKINWRAPPER