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After the fabulous review Hellnotes gave Eyes to See a couple of weeks ago (which you can read in all its praising glory HERE), I was more than happy to answer a few interview questions for editor Sheila M. Merritt when she later asked. 

The interview is now live over at the Hellnotes website and in it you can learn where the characters of Whisper and Scream came from, as well as what you can expect from book two in the Chronicle of Jeremiah Hunt, King of the Dead.  Happy reading!

MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF

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…

My apologies to my fans for being unable to attend the #torchat today.  Spent the morning in the ER thanks to a bad dog bite on my hand.  Very hard to participate in a text-based chat when your hand looks like a balloon.  Good news is that there is no tendon damage and no surgery required.  Hope to try the chat again at some point in the future.

-J

Tor Books has invited me and two other horror authors to join this month’s #TorChat to discuss the genre tomorrow afternoon – that’s Wednesday, October 19th, from 4 – 5 PM EST!    Here’s the official release from their website:

Tor Books (@torbooks) is thrilled to announce the theme and participants for October’s #TorChat, part of a monthly series of genre-themed, hour-long chats created by Tor Books and hosted on Twitter.

We’re halfway through October, and that means it’s almost time for Halloween! Between the costumes, candy, and things that go bump in the night, this is one of our favourite holidays here at Tor Books. Joining us to celebrate all things ghoulish are authors Jonathan Case (@jonathan_case), the author of DEAR CREATURE, a graphic novel featuring the atomic sea monster Grue, who decides it’s time to climb out of the ocean and into the world to find true love; Joseph Nassise (@Jnassise), the author of EYES TO SEE, an urban fantasy tale full of ghosts and creatures from beyond the grave; and Rhiannon Frater (@RhiannonFrater), the queen of zombies, whose second book FIGHTING TO SURVIVE finds her heroines still kicking zombie butt as they try to figure out how to live in a new world.

The chat will be loosely moderated by Laura Fitzgerald (@Laura_FitzG), of Tor’s digital marketing department. Laura also runs the popular @TorBooks feed and has a paralyzing fear of zombies.

About the Authors
Jonathan Case (@jonathan_case) is the author of DEAR CREATURE, a graphic novel that combines a love of sixties horror movies and Shakespeare. Case is both an artist and an author, and is a member of Periscope Studio, the largest cooperative of comics creators in America. His work is featuring in the Eisner award-winning Comic Book Tattoo, and has been lauded as some of the best show of new talent in comics. Find him online at http://jonathancase.net/.

Joseph Nassise (@JNassise) is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the internationally bestselling Templar Chronicles and the Jeremiah Hunt trilogy, of which the just released EYES TO SEE is the first book. He is also the former president of the Horror Writers Association, the world’s largest organization of professional horror writers, and a two time Bram Stoker Award and International Horror Guild Award nominee. Find him online at http://josephnassise.com/.

Rhiannon Frater (@RhiannonFrater) is the author of the As the World Dies trilogy, of which the first book, THE FIRST DAYS published this summer. FIGHTING TO SURVIVE, the second book, will be published in a revised and updated version in November of this year. She and her husband live in Austin, Texas. Find her online at http://rhiannonfrater.blogspot.com/

About #Torchat
#TorChat is a genre-themed, hour-long chat series created by Tor Books and hosted on Twitter. Guest authors join fans in lively, informative and entertaining discussions of all that’s hot in genre fiction, 140 characters at a time, from 4 – 5 PM EST on the third Wednesday of every month. Each #TorChat revolves around a different genre topic of interest, often of a timely nature, and strives to provide a new media opportunity for readers to connect with their favorite authors.

About Tor Books
Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, is a New York-based publisher of hardcover and softcover books. Founded in 1980, Tor annually publishes what is arguably the largest and most diverse line of science fiction and fantasy ever produced by a single English-language publisher. In 2002, Tor launched Starscape, an imprint dedicated to publishing quality science fiction and fantasy for young readers, including books by critically acclaimed and award winning authors such as Cory Doctorow, Orson Scott Card, and David Lubar. Between an extensive hardcover and trade-softcover line, an Orb backlist program, and a stronghold in mass-market paperbacks, books from Tor have won every major award in the SF and fantasy fields, and has been named Best Publisher 24 years in a row in the Locus Poll, the largest consumer poll in SF.

I’m guest posting today over at All Things Urban Fantasy as part of their Spooky Legends event.  Drop on over and listen to Jeremiah Hunt, the hero of my new book Eyes To See, tell you all about the Wandering Bus. Leave a comment and be entered into today’s giveaway, which includes a hardcopy edition of Eyes To See and ebook editions of the first three books in my Templar Chronicles series!

Veteran Authors Form

Supernatural Ink 

October 12, 2011:  Internationally bestselling writers Jon F. Merz, Joseph Nassise, Steve Savile, and Mel Odom announced today the formation of Supernatural Ink, an authors’ collective designed to bring quality SF, horror, and fantasy fiction to readers in the digital marketplace.

All four are veteran writers, each of them having penned more than a dozen novels for major NY publishers over the last few years.  Between them they have written for some of the most popular genre franchises on the market today, including Buffy, Primeval, Stargate, Torchwood and Rogue Angel.  Their original fiction includes the Lawson Vampire series, the Templar Chronicles series, and the Ogmios Team adventures, to name just a few.

Every title released by Supernatural Ink will bear the ebook “Seal of Excellence,” indicating that it has been edited, proofed, and formatted to professional standards.  “The seal is our way of letting readers know, at a glance, that they are getting a quality story from a veteran writer that is packaged and presented in a way that won’t distract from the reading experience,” says the group’s founder, Merz.  “Excellence in ebooks, that’s our goal.”

In addition to their individual projects, SI authors are launching exclusive series like HELLstalkers and Department One designed to maximize reader interaction in the digital age.

To help spread the word, SI has made their first publication, “Supernatural Ink Annual #1″ free for the entire month of October and readers can get a free copy just by going to the SI website and signing up for the newsletter.  SI Annual #1 features exclusive stories by the four authors, including brand new material from Nassise’s Templar and Merz’s Lawson series.  SI also expects to partner with a variety of digital distributors in exciting new deals that maximize both their commitment to the reader and to the standards of excellence inherent in professional publishing.

The books offered by Supernatural Ink will include an assortment of the authors’ digitally-republished backlists as well as new, never-before-available front list titles.  They will be available in a variety of formats from major online distributors, including Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Smashwords, and the Apple iBook store.  Foreign translations are already underway and should be available after the first of the year.

More information can be found at the collective’s website http://www.supernaturalink.com. 

Get your free copy of the Supernatural Ink Annual #1 by signing up for the mailing list!

Now that the contracts are signed (and the audiobooks listed for preorder over at Barnes & Noble.com!) I’m free to announce that all three books in my Templar Chronicles series to date – The Heretic, A Scream of Angels, and A Tear in the Sky – have sold to GraphicAudio for audiobook production.

I must say I’m extremely happy with this deal.  GraphicAudio is the company that produced the audiobook versions of my Rogue Angel novels from Gold Eagle and they do an absolutely tremendous job.  Full cast narration, sound effects, even original musical scores – they cut no corners and their productions sound like a million bucks!

If you are into audiobooks, this is a company you want to get very familiar with in a hurry.  Their material comes as mp3 downloads or boxed CD sets and includes such terrific genre titles as Lilith Saintcrow’s Dante Valentine and Jill Kismet series, E.E. Knight’s Vampire Earth series, the aforementioned Rogue Angel series, James Axler’s Deathlands and Outlander series, even a host of titles from D.C. Comics!

Heck, don’t take my word for how good they are – download their new catalog and see for yourself!

As some of you know, I’m a big fan of diversification in a writers career, which is one of the reasons I’ve embraced the ebook revolution so strongly.  While I continue to publish new material through major NY publishers like Tor and Harper Voyager, I’m equally enthusiastic about releasing both new material and my backlist titles via independent publishing platforms like Barnes and Noble’s PubIt! and Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing.

In fact, I’m going to be speaking on this very topic at a panel at the New York Comic Con in October.  Here’s all the details for anyone who might be attending the con.  (And if you do attend, please, come up after the panel and say hello!)

The New Independents: How to Self-publish and Succeed in the Digital Bookstore

Date: Saturday, October 15 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location: 1A02

Speakers: Aaron Rosenberg, Bobby Crosby , Glenn Hauman, Joseph Nassise, Peter David

Description: Find out how to sell your work as an eBook with the world’s largest bookseller -for free. With the new self-publishing platforms, authors and artists have an opportunity to reach new audiences through eReading devices like the critically acclaimed NOOK(tm) line of eReading devices and free NOOK reading apps. Find out how authors of graphic novels, science-fiction and fantasy are using platforms like PubIt!(tm) by Barnes & Noble to publish eBooks and find more readers. Speaking on the panel will be Crazy 8 Press authors Peter David and Aaron Rosenberg, ComicMix VP Glenn Hauman, urban fantasy novelist Joseph Nassise and graphic novelist Bobby Crosby