We love when technology exceeds our expectations and the Nook edition of Unlatched is now available.

The first installment of Latchkeys, a brand new series from a gaggle of writers herded by Steven Savile, is now available on Kindle, with a Nook version due in a matter of days. The series has been discussed here before and its worth noting that Crazy 8 Press co-founders Aaron Rosenberg and Bob Greenberger are contributing members.

Latchkeys is a series of standalone stories that as a whole tells a larger story. The first cycle of stories is projected to be thirteen parts in all, released roughly every six weeks going forward. The series will therefore be back in early March with the second installment, The Ugly Little Bloke, by Greenberger.

As promised not that long ago, Steven Savile’s long-gestating Latchkeys idea has come to Crazy 8 Press. Steven has partnered with C8 co-founders Bob Greenberger, Aaron Rosenberg and nine other authors to create a brand new young adult fantasy series.

The very first offering can be previewed right here: Unlatched teaser. The entire first installment will be available for purchase for Kindle and Nook starting next Sunday.

Give it a read and let us know what you think.

What happens when a group of writers, who happen to be friends, form a collective? As it turns out, it becomes Crazy 8 Press, which launched in early July. Interestingly, we had been talking about this for a year and despite all that, the final weeks still made us wonder if we would launch on time. We did, of course, because we are nothing if not professionals.

In case you missed it, we opened with Peter David’s acclaimed The Camelot Papers, which has garnered some lovely reviews. The weekend it was released, we gang-wrote The Demon Circle as a way to generate some publicity and to create a vehicle to raise some funds for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

After that, Aaron Rosenberg showed up with No Small Bills, a whimsical story that also seemed to find an audience. I re-released “A Matter of Faith”, a 2002 short story long out of print and then Mike Friedman turned up with his first original fiction in too long a time. Fight the Gods delved once more into his favorite subject of mythology and is worth a look.

Peter David rescued his The Hidden Earth series from publisher indifference and reintroduced it to a waiting world at a nice introductory price as a Nook exclusive. It will soon be available for Kindle and print on demand while the long-delayed second volume is poised for release early this year.

But first, Latchkeys debuts. A series conceived and executed by a dozen writers, it arrives with the first short piece by Steven Savile and then a new installment will arrive with clockwork regularity.

What else can you expect in 2012?

We’ll freshen the website design for starters. We’ll blog more often so you can keep tabs on our progress.

As for things to read, you can expect more new fiction from most of us, with Howard Weinstein making his debut in a few weeks, offering you all a freebie. Mike has a new series of novellas in the works while Aaron and I have a long-simmering fantasy underway.

We’re here to stay and hope you come along for the ride because we have only just gotten started. Thanks for your interest and support May you all have a Happy 2012, Mayan calendars be damned.

Crazy 8 Press is pleased to announce that volume one of Peter David’s epic fantasy tale, The Hidden Earth, is now available exclusively through the Nook at Barnes & Noble for the next thirty days. Darkness of the Light, which launched the ambitious series back in 2007, can finally be purchased as an eBook for the introductory price of $2.99. In January the book will go wide, offered both through Amazon and as a trade paperback. In short order it will be followed by the long-awaited sequel, “Height of the Depths.” Watch this space for further announcements and go HERE to begin the journey through the Hidden Earth.

“Darkness of the Light, first of a series, is another quirky, intriguing, wonderful tale, filled with adventure and unexpected plot twists.  No one else tells a story quite like Peter David does.”

                                                            –Terry Brooks

Thousands of years ago, a small number of extra-dimensional creatures—scarcely a hundred or so from twelve different races—landed on our world.  Although they were quickly hunted into oblivion, they made an indelible impression on humanity, forming the basis for most every creature of myth and fancy that exist:  Cyclops, vampires, dragons, fairies, trolls, mermaids and many more.

In the middle of the 21^st century, they returned, not by the hundreds, but in the millions.  The battle for survival was fierce and bloody and, in the end, humanity lost.

Now, in an undetermined time, humanity is nearly extinct.  The Twelve Races are now locked in endless battle with each other, fighting for whatever scraps of survival remain on his planet they refer to as the Damned World. The few human survivors that remain are slaves, like Jepp, a young woman who is a helpless servant to one of the more fearsome races, the serpentine Mandraques.

But when, after a particularly lethal battle, Jepp falls in with a group of scavenging Bottom Feeders, her life begins to change.  And those changes are going to wind up having a major impact on the Damned World, although whether they will result in the return of the human race or the ultimate destruction of all remaining life on what is nothing but a Hidden Earth, no one can say for certain.

Originally released in 2007 and now out of print, Crazy 8 Press is thrilled to be able to kickstart Peter David’s rich and complex trilogy.  This will begin with the re-release of the debut novel, available as an eBook for the first time, and at the introductory price of $2.99.  This will then be immediately followed by the release of the long-awaited sequel, Height of the Depths as an eBook at $5.99 and trade paperback at $15.99.  Both will feature new covers by acclaimed artist J.K. Woodward.  A wry combination of Game of Thrones, Supernatural and Planet of the Apes, Peter David’s The Hidden Earth is a must-have for fans of epic fantasy.