The fourth installment in The Latchkeys series, The Bootleg War, is almost ready for sale. First, feast your eyes on Vance Kelly’s amazing cover. It is our great pleasure, after much tumult, toil and trouble, to present a preview of the latest Latchkeys saga. This is a fantastic series, and part four is our very first cliffhanger.
Enjoy!
By Debbie Viguié
Latchkeys: Nevermore is for sale! Release Day is one of the happiest, most exciting days in the life of an author. It’s when you watch your story jump out of the nest and you hold your breath urging it to soar, to fly as you pray that it doesn’t crash and die. There is an amazing sense of relief and accomplishment that accompanies the release of a new story. Writers often talk about their stories as if they are children. Well, the day a story is officially released is when the idea you’ve been nurturing and protecting is thrust out into the cold, cruel delivery room of the world. Suddenly this story that’s been burning inside you is out there for everyone to see.
One of the coolest things about Twitter is how many posts I now see where editors, readers, and other writers congratulate you on your Pub Day or Release Day. It’s such an amazing feeling of connecting and I love it.
So, Nevermore is now out there for the world to see. I’m very proud of this story and of all the work that the Hivemind has put into the Latchkeys universe. And when you read about the dark assassin who is trying to kill Poe there is an incredibly funny inside joke there. In reality when Poe died he was muttering the name Reynolds over and over, something which has remained a bit of a mystery. Without spoiling the story too much there is a Reynolds character in it, intent on killing Poe. Now, I will say this, I kill Poe in the story. But please don’t read too much into the fact that my maiden name was Reynolds! I assure you that it’s only a happy coincidence.
The book can be purchased for Kindle or Nook and let us know what you think!
One week till the End of the World!
Hold on, amigo. Before you donate the contents of your bank account to Bart Simpson’s favorite charity, tell your boss where he can stick that twelve-dollar raise he gave you, and go sky-diving off Mount Rushmore–get a grip on yourself!
It’s not really the end of the world. Not the end of the real world, I mean. It’s only the end of the world in Aztlan: The Last Sun, the first in my brand-new series of 21st-century Aztec murder mysteries– available now as an e-book from Amazon. The Nook edition will follow in a day or so.
Imagine if Cortes never conquered Monteczuma. Imagine if the Aztecs expanded their empire from Tierra Del Fuego to Baffin Bay. Imagine if 2012 rolled around and that empire was plagued by a series of grisly murders that recalled the human sacrifices of ancient days?
No need to keep on imagining. It’s all in Aztlan: The Last Sun.
The Crazy 8 Press gang will be at Farpoint this coming weekend. We’ll be doing a C8 panel Saturday at 4, but all six of us will be involved in other programming. We will have news, books to sell, stories to share, and much merriment to make. If you come to show, do stop by and say hello.
Here are our individual schedules:
Peter David
Peter David Saturday 12:00 AM
Peter David Autograph Session Saturday 1:00 PM
Crazy 8 Saturday 4:00 PM
Comics: Reboots, Crises, and Civil Wars Sunday 1:00 PM
Michael Jan Friedman
Michael Jan Friedman Autograph Session Saturday 12:00 Noon
Michael Jan Friedman Saturday 1:00 PM
Crazy 8 Saturday 4:00 PM
Comics: Reboots, Crises, and Civil Wars Sunday 1:00 PM
Bob Greenberger
Bob Greenberger Saturday 10:00 AM
Writers Workshop Saturday 1:00 PM
Crazy 8 Saturday 4:00 PM
Bob & Howie Show Sunday 10:00 AM
Comics: Reboots, Crises, and Civil Wars Sunday 1:00 PM
Glenn Hauman
Bob Greenberger Saturday 10:00 AM
Glenn Hauman Autograph Session Saturday 2:00 PM
Crazy 8 Saturday 4:00 PM
Glenn Hauman and Aaron Rosenberg Sunday 11:00 AM
Aaron Rosenberg
What to Do with a Finished Novel Saturday 10:00 AM
Aaron Rosenberg Autograph Session Saturday 1:00 PM
Crazy 8 Saturday 4:00 PM
Glenn Hauman and Aaron Rosenberg Sunday 11:00 AM
Writing Humor in Science Fiction Sunday 12:00 AM
Howard Weinstein
Writers Workshop Saturday 1:00 PM
Crazy 8 Saturday 4:00 PM
Bob & Howie Show Sunday 10:00 AM
The long wait is over.
In 2007, Hidden Earth: Darkness of the Light was released to critical acclaim. Terry Brooks said, “Darkness of the Light…is another quirky, intriguing, wonderful tale, filled with adventure and unexpected plot twists. No one else tells a story quite like Peter David does.” Publisher’s Weekly wrote in a starred review, “Peter David (Knight Life) is a master at juggling multiple characters and plot lines…(and) breathes new life into some well-worn mythic tropes.” Booklist wrote, “An entertaining adventure whose cliff-hanger ending confirms that it launches a series.”
Indeed it did, and now the second volume—after a long, strange trip—is here. The eagerly awaited second volume, Height of the Depths, will be released for Nooks and Kindles on Friday but right now you can read an excerpt by clicking here.
The Earth of the future is not one you’d recognize. Creatures that had previously been thought simply myth—vampires, two-legged dragons, trolls, and nine other races—have overrun the planet and made it their own. Humanity is nearly extinct. But now the Twelve Races have discovered that their own fortunes are inextricably linked with the remnants of the human race.
As a result, a young slave girl named Jepp, who holds the key to the future of the world, is on her way to a fateful meeting with the most powerful creature on the face of the planet. Except the question isn’t what will happen when she gets there. The question is whether she’s going to make it there alive.
For fans of Darkness of the Light (newly available as a trade paperback and also, for the first time, as an eBook), Heights of the Depths introduces new races and answers questions about some of the previous ones, including the truth behind the mysterious Serabim, the dreaded Travelers, and even the Overseer himself. For newcomers, you are about to enter an exciting world that is both comfortably familiar…and disturbingly nightmarish.
Here’s the back cover copy to give you a taste of what’s to come.
The Earth of the future is not one you’d recognize. Creatures previously thought to be simply myth—vampires, two-legged dragons, abominable snowmen, and nine other races—have overrun the planet and made it their own. Humanity is nearly extinct. But now the Twelve Races have discovered that their own fortunes are inextricably linked with the remnants of the human race. And so one of the last remaining humans, a young slave girl named Jepp (who holds the key to the future of the world) is on her way to a fateful meeting with the most powerful creature on the face of the planet. Except the question isn’t what will happen when she gets there. The question is whether she’s going to make it there alive.
Download the Preview PDF for Heights Of The Depths: The Hidden Earth Chronicles, Book 2 now!
Notes from Howard Weinstein:
Awesome is a very overused adjective these days. I experienced the real deal on two whale watch cruises off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts some years ago. Watching the black bulk of a 40-foot-long humpback swim casually past a boat that suddenly seems much smaller…watching it flip its broad powerful tail flukes and submerge…and then leap completely out of the water in a twisting playful belly flop… Now that’s awesome!
This epic-scale screenplay is based on the riveting true story of the only rescue of a stranded humpback whale, using contemporary news coverage and the book The Great Whale Rescue as source material.
I got caught up in these events as they happened in 1985, and even in those innocent days before 24/7 news overload, this story made the daily papers and evening news for weeks – and captured the imaginations of people world-wide. Even Wikipedia describes Humphrey as “arguably the most widely publicized humpback whale in history.”
The ending knocks your socks off – just as it really happened. Proof of the story’s continuing power came in 2007, when a mother and calf pair of humpbacks incredibly retraced Humphrey’s path in California – prompting the same media frenzy and overwhelming public interest.
Lost Whale: The Legend of Humphrey was entered in the Motion Picture Academy’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship screenwriting competition in 2007. The script was evaluated by industry-insider judges, and scored in the top 7 percent of 5000 entries.
Maybe this screenplay will actually become a movie someday. But for now, you can “see” it by reading this script. And it’s a free exclusive download – as Crazy 8 Press’s first-anniversary gift to our readers. Thanks for your support in our first year…and we have more great stories to come!
And now you can read the script by clicking: WHALEScript.Nov2011Crazy8.