Publications

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Oh, Yeah, My New Book Came Out

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Seriously, I am the worst at keeping up with this blog. The worst!

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So yeah, my newest thriller The Killing Room came out two weeks ago, and … I guess it’s going okay?

Typically when I release a book, I have access to immediate sales data — even my Amazon Publishing stuff has a real-time sales numbers dashboard — but not here.

Oh, trad publishing, you so silly.

A few days after The Killing Room was released, I was a guest on my local news’s daytime morning show to pimp the book and my signing at Midtown Scholar that took place that weekend.

Speaking of Midtown Scholar, if you’d still like to order a signed copy and get one of the very few remaining limited-edition prequel chapbooks, you can do so here.

The signing went as well as could be, and I even had a special guest show up!

Marshal Zeringue was kind enough to ask me some questions about The Killing Room and take the Page 69 Test.

Oh, and if you’re an audiobook fan, be sure to check out the audiobook which is narrated by the one and only Edoardo Ballerini.

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What else, what else …

Oh!

Barnes & Noble Press named The Killing Room as one of their top five favorite ebooks of the week!

And then even better, the ebook managed to get this special tag for a few days.

And for whatever crazy reason, today I learned that on Amazon (in the US at least) the hardcover and paperback are priced at 50% off, so now’s the best time to grab physical copies if you’d like — plus, it helps build my print sales track record, as I was told the reason Barnes & Noble decided not to place an order for the book was due to the fact my sales track record is primarily in digital sales.

Again: oh, trad publishing, you so crazy.

Finally, today The Big Thrill (the monthly magazine for the International Thriller Writers) had this very nice review of The Killing Room, in part which says “An ultra-fast-paced thriller, claustrophobic in its essence and as suspenseful as they come...possesses all the merits of a top-notch thriller destined to leave the readers reeling. Excitement guaranteed.”

Sweet!

And … I think that’s it for now.

Does anyone actually look at this thing?

If so, be a dear and leave a comment so I know I’m not wasting my time.

Blogs are so, like, 2015.

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Nomad is BACK

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A couple years ago I was driving home when I got a call on my cell phone. It was Blake Crouch, and he told me about how he was in talks about entering his Wayward Pines series into Kindle Worlds, and would I be interested in writing a story? 

My answer: Hell, yeah! 

The Wayward Pines series have sold millions of copies worldwide and was made into a TV series by Fox, so I'm guessing most people are probably familiar with the storyline. If not, well, I don't want to spoil anything, because it has a really cool twist. 

I ended up writing a novella called Nomad. In terms of publication, I thought I was just going to self-publish it myself through the Kindle Worlds program, but it actually got contracted out by Amazon Publishing, which meant I got a nice advance and they took care of everything on their end. 

However, for whatever reason, Nomad was only available in the US Kindle store for the first year or two, and then I think it was available in the UK Kindle store but I may be wrong. And then, just this past summer, Kindle Worlds closed up shop, and with it my novella disappeared. 

Until now. 

I've been given the green light to go ahead and republish Nomad, except there's a caveat (apparently the only way to appease Fox Studios was to ensure writers who'd written Wayward Pines stories followed very stringent guidelines): 

The ebook can ONLY be made available in the US Kindle store.

And it’s currently in Kindle Unlimited, so if you have a KU subscription, you can read it for FREE.

Otherwise … that’s the only way to read the story, unfortunately.

Enjoy!

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"The Hunter" At Swedish Zombie

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My own special "Robert Swartwood" theme at Swedish Zombie concludes today with the publication of an original short story called "The Hunter." As I noted before, the story takes place in the world of The Dishonored Dead and is, in many ways, a "prequel of sorts" to the novel. It delves more into Philip's backstory and gives a startling revelation -- seriously, even I didn't see it coming. Of course, I wrote the story so it can be read by itself, but readers of the novel will no doubt appreciate it more. Please check it out. (Note: I have added "The Hunter" as a bonus feature to The Dishonored Dead ebook.) In case you missed it last week, Swedish Zombie reviewed The Dishonored Dead, and they liked it. Then over the weekend, they reviewed In the Land of the Blind (really liked it) and Through the Guts of a Beggar (sort of liked it) and then on Sunday they posted an interview with me about zombies and writing and whatnot.

My eternal thanks to Jonny at Swedish Zombie for not only being willing to initially take a look at The Dishonored Dead, but liking it enough to want to devote an entire week at his website for my work. It means a lot, especially as the novel wasn't published by a major press, or any press for that matter. If readers are a writer's best friend, then bloggers who are willing to take chances on self-published books are definitely a writer's second best friend. And if you like zombies, keep an eye on Swedish Zombie, as they plan to feature writers much more famous than me, including David Moody and Jonathan Maberry. Thanks again, Jonny, and keep up the good work!