The wait has been long, I know, but trust me when I tell you it will be worth it.  INFERNAL GAMES, book four of the Templar Chronicles series, will be released on Wednesday, February 15th.  To start it will be available in ebook format on the Kindle, Nook, and iPad platforms.  Shortly thereafter I hope to have a paperback edition as well.  It will sell for $3.99, just like all the other books in the series.

But…if you preorder it now, you can have it for $2.99, which is a 25% discount off the cover price.  In addition, you’ll be featured on the acknowledgements page for showing your support.

So what, exactly, is INFERNAL GAMES about?  I’m glad you asked…

[Spoiler Alert - if you haven't read TEAR IN THE SKY, you probably don't want to read any farther...]

The Templars have emerged victorious following their battle with the Chiang Shih, but paid a high price in doing so.  The dead line the halls of the local commanderies and the survivors are both physically and spiritually exhausted.  Estimates suggest it will take years for the Order to recover.

Even Echo Team has been decimated; its ranks reduced by half.  Knight Commander Cade Williams managed to survive his journey deep into the heart of the Beyond and his subsequent confrontation with the Adversary, but he has returned a changed man; his thirst for vengeance quenched but his spirit broken.  As a result, command of Echo has passed to the newly-promoted Captain Riley.

It is the moment Simon Logan, former leader of the Council of Nine and the man once known as the Necromancer, has been waiting for.  In a daring prison break, he frees himself from Templar control and vanishes into the night.  Given the difficulty the Order had in capturing him the first time, the assignment to track Logan down falls to those who know him best – Captain Riley and the newly reformed Echo Team. 

But rather than waiting for Echo to coming looking for him, the Necromancer takes the battle to them instead; luring former Commander Williams away from his home and stealing the physical form of his wife, Gabrielle, a woman caught somewhere between life and death.

It is perhaps the one act that could rouse Cade from the grey haze his life has become.  As he ruthlessly tracks the Necromancer through this world and the next,  Cade can’t help but ask himself what Logan might want with a half-dead woman and the man who had literally travelled to hell and back to rescue her.

One thing is for certain – Cade won’t rest until Gabrielle is by his side once more.

Reserve your copy today and it will be emailed to you as soon as its available on February 15th!

Bestselling Authors Joseph Nassise and Jon F. Merz Launch HELLstalkers Series with Barnes & Noble

December 22, 2011:  International bestselling authors Joseph Nassise and Jon F. Merz announced today the launch of a new series of novels that combine science fiction, horror, and action-adventure into the perfect blend for any genre fiction fan. 

HELLstalkers tells the story of an elite group of soldiers brought together to fight an invasion of otherworldly creatures that have infiltrated our world as a result of an accident at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.  Led by former US Army Ranger Memphis Stone, the HELLstalkers unit is comprised of an international cast of former special operations and intelligence operators who are devoted to tracking down and killing the wide array of monsters, aliens, and other creatures that come through portals into our world.

“The best part of this launch,” said Nassise, “is that we are doing it with Barnes & Noble, one of the premier forces in the changing face of publishing.”  The first HELLstalkers novel, THE CERBERUS PROTOCOL, will be available exclusively on the Barnes & Noble.com website for Nook users for thirty days.  After that time, the novel will also be available for other popular e-reading platforms, including the Kindle, the Kobo, and the iPad.

THE CERBERUS PROTOCOL will officially go on sale at BarnesandNoble.com on December 27th.  According to Merz, the series will be “a non-stop roller coaster ride – like the X-Files on steroids.”  Each new HELLstalkers book will feature exotic locations, bizarre villains, crazy characters, and tons of adrenaline-charged action.

Nassise and Merz are no strangers to writing action-packed material.  Nassise’s Templar Chronicles is an international bestselling urban fantasy series in multiple languages with audio rights recently scooped up by Graphic Audio.  Merz’s supernatural espionage Lawson Vampire series is a cult favorite and is headed to television in 2012.  Both authors have also written a number of books in the Rogue Angel adventure series.

For more information on HELLstalkers, please visit the official series website at http://www.hellstalkers.com or join the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/hellstalkers.

Having recently completed and turned in my own Dead Man novel (tentatively entitled The Dead Man:Eater of Souls), I thought it was only right to highlight the release of the latest book in the series, The Beast Within.

If you aren’t familiar with the Dead Man series, it is about Matt Cahill, a guy who inexplicably came back from the dead and can now see a nightmarish netherword that nobdoy else does…and pursues an evil entity known as Mr. Dark.

In this novel, Matt Cahill journeys deep into the Northern Michigan woods searching for a militaristic community that’s led by a paranoid visionary… a man who claims to have defeated an entity eerily similar to Mr. Dark. This could be Matt’s chance to solve the riddle of his nightmarish quest. But things go very wrong very fast… and soon he’s trapped in a bloody siege between warring factions. The only way to escape from an unstoppable advance of mayhem, carnage and black magic is to trust his instincts, grab his ax, and unleash the ferocity of the Beast Within.

Written by James Daniels, this is sure to be another great entry into a really fun series!

Download it on your Kindle today or give it as a gift for Christmas!

…the book you’ve all been waiting for.  INFERNAL DREAMS, book four of the Templar Chronicles.

Book Four of the Templar Chronicles

My editor over at Gold Eagle was kind enough to send the art for my latest Rogue Angel adventure, Library of Gold, due out in early 2012.  The storyline deals with the search for Ivan the Terrible lost library, so I think the artwork is especially appropriate.

While hunting around online tonight, I found a catalog from Harper Voyager that includes the first cover copy I’ve seen for my forthcoming novel, By The Blood of Heroes, book one of the Great Undead War series.  Not sure if it is final copy (in fact, I’m reasonably sure it isn’t, as the issue with the drilling vehicle changed in a later draft) but it certainly gives a sense of what the book is about.

Take a gander and let me know what you think…

An alternate history zombie novel set during World War I that blends the take-no-prisoners heroic grit of Inglorious Basterds with the irreverent inventiveness of Dawn of the Dead…

At the end of 1917, the increasingly desperate Germans introduce a new gas to the battlefield: T-Leiche — “corpse gas” — that radically alters the face of the war. Unlike other chemical weapons that attack the living, T-Leiche resurrects the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited, if not quite fresh, source of troops.

When legendary Allied pilot and war poster-boy Major Jack Freeman is shot down and taken captive by the Germans, veteran Captain Michael “Madman” Burke is the only man fearless and wild enough to try to rescue the American Ace. With a small squad of heroes — his right-hand man Sergeant Moore, Clayton Manning, the filthy rich big-game hunter turned soldier, and professor Dan Richards, Tesla protege and the resident authority on all things supernatural — Burke must traverse the putrid ground of no man’s land to infiltrate the enemy’s lines.

Using an experimental drilling vehicle, the team faces incredible danger and finds risk and peril at every turn, including ruthless traitor smugglers and marauding bands of the Kaiser’s undead. But only when they arrive at the prison camp is the true importance of their mission unveiled…

CRADLE OF SOLITUDE – ROGUE ANGEL #33

HALLOWEEN GIVEAWAY! Given that my new book EYES TO SEE features a pair of ghostly companions named Whisper and Scream, I can’t think of anything more appropriate than giving away two copies in honor of Halloween.

Leave a comment over on my Facebook page (see link below) and I’ll choose two random winners at the end of the day to receive a free hardcover edition of EYES. (International readers can participate, but realize that I’ll be shipping it book rate so it will take a bit to reach you.)

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Author Spotlight: Lee Goldberg on “The Dead Man” Series

The Dead Man series is the continuing story of Matt Cahill, an ordinary man who survives a terrible accident with a horrific side effect: he can see the evil in people as a rotting, festering, physical decay, one that’s spread like a plague by a mysterious supernatural figure known as Mr. Dark. Now Matt is pursuing Mr. Dark and trying to stop the evil from spreading.

William Rabkin and I are both experienced authors but we’ve also spent twenty years writing & producing network TV series together. Writing books is a lonely profession, involving a single writer facing a blank screen.

But writing television is a collaborative experience, with a room full of writers plotting stories together, then going off to write their individual episodes under the “showrunners” hands-on, creative supervision.

Now we are bringing that episodic TV approach to The Dead Man novels, which is not only making it possible for us to publish a new book every month, but also to capitalize on the creativity, experience, and unique voices of a dozen successful authors representing a wide variety of genres.

Read more at the Kindle Daily Post…

Today marks the release – in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook formats -  of EYES TO SEE, the first book in my new urban fantasy series from Tor.  I’m very excited about this series and am looking forward to hearing what fans have to say about Jeremiah and his companions, Whisper and Scream.  Fans of my Templar Chronicles series will also get the chance to re-unite with the hedge witch, Denise Clearwater, who made an appearance in TEAR IN THE SKY.

Here’s what folks have been saying so far:

“…a rich, exciting, emotionally resonant blend of horror, thriller, and fantasy.”

—Booklist

“A well constructed backdrop, sturdy plot, and characters who develop along with the story…”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Nassise’s clean, lean writing style heightens the brisk pace of the novel, keeping events clearly focused even as they barrel along towards the novel’s conclusion…sure to delight and intrigue his growing number of fans.”

—Cemetery Dance

“Brings urban fantasy to a new level. Heartbreaking, deeply insightful, powerful, and genuinely thrilling. Joe Nassise has just raised the bar for the whole genre.”

—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author

“A great read and unlike almost anything else I’ve read in urban fantasy: It’s hard-boiled and dark, definitely its own beast. Damn, this man can write! I’ll be standing in line for book two.”

—Kat Richardson, bestselling author of the Greywalker series

“At last—something new under the urban fantasy moon. Nassise’s visceral prose and dark, gritty setting propel the blind Hunt and his unique ghostly companions, Whisper and Scream, through an urban nightmare where nothing is what it seems.”

—F. Paul Wilson, bestselling author of The Keep and the Repairman Jack Series

“Joe Nassise’s driven, sardonic hero Jeremiah Hunt sees a whole lot more than dead people in Eyes to See. Vividly set in Boston, the novel follows Hunt through a labyrinth of undead dangers and unexpected emotion as he seeks his missing daughter and finds an unearthly serial killer. The climax, both thrilling and moving, will stick with you.”

—Alex Bledsoe, author of The Girls with Games of Blood and Burn Me Deadly

“I couldn’t stop ready—I had to see how Hunt was going to untangle the mystery that’s overwhelmed his life. Hunt’s an intriguing character and the world Joe Nassise has built for him is full of supernatural creepiness that will have you leaving the lights on when you go to sleep.”

—Carrie Vaughn New York Times bestselling author of the Kitty Norville series

Tor.com has the first few chapters up as an exclusive excerpt today and a sample of the audiobook edition can also be listened to over at Audible.com.  Drop by, check it out, and if it looks like something you might enjoy, please pick up a copy of your own or even a copy to give to a friend.

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