Several months ago I donated my story “Roadside Memorials” to the RAGE AGAINST THE NIGHT ANTHOLOGY on behalf of my friend and HWA president Rocky Wood who is fighting Lou Gehrig’s disease.  The book is now available in both paperback and ebook editions and I urge you to check it out.  Rocky’s a good man and the money raised is going to an excellent cause – keeping him healthy!

Under the onslaught of supernatural evil, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These brave men and women stand up to the darkness, stare it right in the eye, and give it the finger. These are the stories of those who rage against the night, stories of triumph, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming evil.

Rage Against the Night features the megastars of dark fantasy and horror—including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Nicholson, Nancy Holder, Sarah Langan, and many, many more.

The full table of contents includes:

• The Gunner’s Love Song—Joe McKinney
• Keeping Watch—Nate Kenyon
• Like Part of the Family—Jonathan Maberry
• The Edge of Seventeen—Alexandra Sokoloff
• The View from the Top—Bev Vincent
• Afterward, There Will Be a Hallway—Gary A. Braunbeck
• Following Marla—John R. Little
• Magic Numbers—Gene O’Neill
• Tail the Barney—Stephen M. Irwin
• The Nightmare Dimension—David Conyers
• Roadside Memorials—Joseph Nassise
• Dat Tay Vao—F. Paul Wilson
• Constitution—Scott Nicholson
• Mr. Aickman’s Air Rifle—Peter Straub
• Agatha’s Ghost—Ramsey Campbell
• Blue Heeler—Weston Ochse
• Sarah’s Visions—Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• More Than Words—David Niall Wilson
• Chillers—Lisa Morton
• Changed—Nancy Holder
• Dead Air—Gary Kemble
• Two Fish to Feed the Masses—Daniel G. Keohane
• Fenstad’s End—Sarah Langan
• Fair Extension—Stephen King
• Rocky Wood, Skeleton Killer—Jeff Strand

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1108178635

Day eight of the Great Undead War Blog Tour and today I’m over at BuyZombie.com, courtesy of Stuart  Conover, where I’m talking about the different kinds of zombies you’ll find in the pages of BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES.

I’m very pleased to announce that contracts have been signed with GraphicAudio to produce audiobook editions of three new books in the Templar Chronicles series. Which, of course, means there will be ebook and print editions as well!

The first of these, INFERNAL GAMES, you already know about. The second will be JUDGMENT DAY, which continues the story begun in INFERNAL GAMES and answers more of the questions raised in the original Templar trilogy. The final book , BABYLON DREAMS, will actually be a prequel novel and will cover the mission in which Cade Williams meets the hedgewitch Denise Clearwater for the first time.

I hope you’re all as excited as I am to know the Templar Chronicles will continue well into next year!

Don’t forget you can grab the free audiobook of THIS CLEANSING FIRE, the original Templar Chronicles story, just by visiting GraphicAudio’s website.

I’m happy to say that after being out of print for the past five years, THE HERETIC is once again available in a trade paperback print edition.  It is currently available at Amazon.com and should be available through other distributors in the near future.

Print editions of A SCREAM OF ANGELS, A TEAR IN THE SKY, and INFERNAL GAMES will also come available over the next few months.

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!

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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