THE FINAL BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE! The end is, indeed, finally here. We know you are devouring your ebook, or waiting with bated breath as soon Read More
It is, quite literally, the end of an era. Raymond E. Feist’s thrilling epic fantasy opener – MAGICIAN – introduced to us the engaging character of Read More
The final book in Raymond Feist’s 30 year saga! Pug, now the greatest magician of all time, must risk everything he has fought for and everything he Read More
“Suspect Zero,” New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s latest work, is a brand new short story about a young aspiring serial killer who goes in search of a mentor—the supreme, the ultimate killer. What he finds is much greater and much worse than he ever could have imagined. Available in e-book on all devices for just $.99!
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Catch up on the Asylum series before the latest book comes out (Dead Man’s Deal, out May 7, 2013) and read the whole Dark Days series at just $.99 a book! Get them all before they go back to regular price…
ASYLUM SERIES
The Asylum Interviews: Bronx
The first of two prequel stories to Jocelynn Drake’s Angel’s Ink. It’s not easy being a tattoo artist and a wizard, especially when you’re in hiding. Or when a botched ink job has amplified an incubus’s existing sex appeal into one that could wreck the whole town. And your only help is a troll.
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The Asylum Interviews: Trixie
The second of two prequel stories to Jocelynn Drake’s Angel’s Ink—the first novel in her new Asylum Tales series about a magical tattoo artist, Gage, and his friends: Trixie, a gorgeous elf who hides her true identity, and a hulking troll named Bronx.
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Blood by Moonlight: A Halloween themed anthology featuring Jocelynn Drake’s novella Of Monsters and Men
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DARK DAYS SERIES:
Bound to Me: A prequel novella for the Dark Days Series
Travel back into Mira’s distant past to see the great love affair that shaped her.
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Nightwalker: Day Days Book 1
For centuries Mira has been a nightwalker—an unstoppable enforcer for a mysterious organization that manipulates earth-shaking events from the darkest shadows. But elemental mastery over fire sets her apart from others of her night-prowling breed . . . and may be all that prevents her doom.
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Dayhunter: Dark Days Book 2
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Dawnbreaker: Dark Days Book 3
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Pray for Dawn: Dark Days Book 4
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Wait for Dusk: Dark Days Book 5
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Burn the Night: Dark Days Book 6 (Final Book)
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The Dead, the Damned, and the Forgotten: A Dark Days Novella
A nightwalker is slain, and suspicion falls on Mira—Fire Starter—the last hope of her immortal race.
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Happy Holidays! To celebrate, we are dropping ebook prices on some wonderful titles–all below $1.99! This will remain until early January 2013.
Fistful of Charms by Kim Harrison–includes an excerpt from her upcoming novel EVER AFTER!
Flight of the Nighthawks by Raymond E. Feist
Dragon Haven by Robin Hobb
Magician’s Guild by Trudi Canavan
Star Strike by Ian Douglas
The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats by Mario Acevedo
Happy Holidays! To celebrate, we have an ebook sale with something for everyone! Arthurian legend, stunning fantasy, and two works by the acclaimed Sheri S. Tepper, all available for low prices as part of our Big Holiday Deal.
Earth to Hell, Journey to Wudang: Book One by Kylie Chan
The Sharing Knife, Volume Three by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Serpent Bride, DarkGlass Mountain: Book One by Sara Douglass
The Gathering of the Lost: The Wall of Night Book Two by Helen Lowe
The Companions and Six Moon Dance by Sheri S. Tepper
Taliesin by Stephen R. Lawhead
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y Halloween! To celebrate, we have a scary story e-book sale! Two spooky anthologies, a Victorian supernatural thrillers, and three of the best modern horror novels, all $.99 and under (all platforms!) Pick up something scary to read this evening!
GHOSTS BY GASLIGHT, Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense, edited by Jack Dann and Nick Gevers
An absolutely mind-boggling gathering of some of today’s very best dark storytellers—including Peter Beagle, James Morrow, Sean Williams, Gene Wolfe, Garth Nix, Marly Youmans, Jeffery Ford, and Robert Silverberg—Ghosts by Gaslight offers chilling gothic and spectral tales in a delightfully twisted Victorian and Edwardian vein. Think Henry James’s Turn of the Screw and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with a decidedly steampunk edge, 
and you’re ready to confront Ghosts by Gaslight.
999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, edited by Al Sarrantonio
Award-winning writer and editor Al Sarrantonio gathers together twenty-nine original stories from masters of the macabre, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, David Morrell, Erin van Lustbader, and many more. From dark fantasy and pure suspense to classic horror tales of vampires and zombies, 999 showcases the extraordinary scope of fantastical fright fiction. The stories in this anthology are a relentless tour de force of fear, which will haunt you, terrify you, and keep the adrenaline rushing all through the night.
HIDE ME AMONG THE GRAVES, Tim Powers
From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it’s possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire ghost of Lord Byron’s onetime physician, uncle to poet Christina Rossetti and her brother, the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Sweeping from the mansions of London’s high society to its grimy slums, the elegant salons of the West End to the pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. Paul’s Cathedral, Hide Me Among the Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride—a modern horror story with a Victorian twist.
AUDREY’S DOOR, THE MISSING, and THE KEEPER by Sarah Langan
Three amazing horror novels from the acclaimed author! Sarah Langan’s first novel, TheKeeper (2006), was a New York Times Editor’s Pick. Her second novel, The Missing (2007), won the Bram Stoker Award for outstanding novel, was a Publishers Weekly favorite book of the year, and an IHG outstanding novel nominee. The New York Times Book Review recently compared the her to Mary Shelley, extolling The Missing‘s “mournful end-of-the-world narrative,” and her “vision of a society perishing from within, exhausted by its own excesses.” Her third novel, Audrey’s Door, is about a woman who moves into a haunted apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Both THE MISSING and THE KEEPER are $.99, and AUDREY’S DOOR is free!
ETA–AUDREY’S DOOR is not up at Nook yet, given server issues post-Sandy, but the $.99 price for all the others is valid across platforms.
We’ve released two new eShorts recently–both tied to new full length books coming out in October!
“PET SHOP BOYS ” by Kim Harrison: An original short story, where things are most definitely not as they seem. The death of a pet shop employee’s innocent date with a customer quickly turns disturbing rather than delightful. She and her family hold a centuries-old secret, and they want him to stay with them forever…
“Pet Shop Boys” and several other stories appear in INTO THE WOODS, an anthology of stories including new material that’s out October 9, 2012 (just in time for NYCC!)
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“The Asylum Interviews – Trixie” by Jocelynn Drake: The second of two prequel stories to Jocelynn Drake’s Angel’s Ink—the first novel in her new Asylum Tales series about a magical tattoo artist, Gage, and his friends: Trixie, a gorgeous elf who hides her true identity, and a hulking troll named Bronx.
ANGEL’S INK comes out October 17th (and will also be available at NYCC… more on the Con to come!).
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ETA: The digital edition is now correct at Amazon, B&N, iTunes, and all major e-retailers!!
We are aware of the problems with the digital edition of Richard Kadrey’s DEVIL SAID BANG and are working to correct this asap. We will update you as soon as we can, and our sincere apologies. We are very sorry for this error, and thank you for your patience.
Out now,”Devil in the Dollhouse,” a digital original short story from Richard Kadrey!
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, has a new job, but being the new Lucifer in town gives fresh meaning to the word “Hell.” Especially when he hears of hideous massacres near a haunted fortress out on Hell’s frontier. As far as Stark’s concerned, the more dead Hellions, the better, but he still has to prove that no one screws with Sandman Slim. And facing creatures so terrible even Hell does not want them is no cakewalk, even for Lucifer.
Also out now, the trade paperback editions of SANDMAN SLIM, KILL THE DEAD, and ALOHA FROM HELL.
It’s that time again! In honor of Comic-Con, we have compiled a FREE PDF sampler of all of our amazing books coming out in the next few months. That’s over 350 pages of awesome content!
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We’re doing a special sale in honor of San Diego’s Comic-Con International! From classic epic fantasy to the hottest new steampunk and supernatural noir, plus great military sf and a look at Queen Victoria’s secret life as a demon hunter, don’t miss our e-book sales!
KING OF FOXES, Raymond E. Feist – $1.99
THE JANUS AFFAIR, Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris – $.99
RED PHOENIX, Kylie Chan – $.99
STAR STRIKE, Ian Douglas – $.99
THE TAKEN, Vicki Pettersson – $2.99
QUEEN VICTORIA: DEMON HUNTER, A.E. Moorat – $.99
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On sale today is The Asylum Interviews: Bronx, the first of two ebook only prequel stories to Jocelynn Drake’s ANGEL’S INK, the first novel in her new Asylum Tales series about a magical tattoo artist, Gage, and his friends, Trixie, a gorgeous elf who hides her true identity and a hulking troll named Bronx.
Download it today and look for ANGEL’S INK in October. Here is just some of the praise it has already received:
“Jocelynn Drake’s writing holds a wonderfully wry humor akin to dark chocolate: bitter but irresistible. With a unique and fascinating magic system, Angel’s Ink is a new take on traditional and urban fantasy themes, spinning a tale of personal vendettas, mob bosses, and just a touch of romance. Gage is an engaging, sympathetic character with curiously twisted problems that he brings upon himself despite his best efforts. Keeping secrets from his friends works…until the hapless Gage makes the largest, and perhaps best, mistake of his life. Now he just has to survive it. Angel’s Ink is an other-earthly blend of magic and technology in the best tradition of urban fantasy that refused to let me go. The continuing Asylum Tales promise to be intriguing and wildly inventive.”
— Kim Harrison
“Gritty, authentic and face-paced! This urban fantasy series rocks!”
— J.R. Ward
“A lot of fun, with a whole new take on the dark urban fantasy. Bright and breezy, with fascinating characters, and a background with hidden depths. Drake puts the ink in incredible.”
— Simon R. Green
For the first time, read the entire Soldier Son trilogy as one E-book … at a special price!
In Book One, Shaman’s Crossing, Nevare Burvelle was destined from birth to be a soldier. The second son of a newly anointed nobleman, he must endure the rigors of military training at the elite King’s Cavella Academy—and survive the hatred, cruelty, and derision of his aristocratic classmates—before joining the King of Gernia’s brutal campaign of territorial expansion.
And it continues in the next two novels, Forest Mage and Renegade’s Magic.
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Out today, our digital edition of Nick Cole’s fabulous post-apocalyptic novel, THE OLD MAN AND THE WASTELAND.
To celebrate, we’ve got three blogs from the author about dystopia and post-apocalyptia:
Apocalypse Tomorrow
The world ends as we know it, and you feel fine?
For most people the world ending is a source of fear, trepidation, concern even. Some go to great lengths to survive promised nuclear Armageddon or threatened global pandemics. Supplies are purchased in bulk, skills are learned, weapons stockpiled, all in hopes of surviving the worst case scenario ever imagined by the writers of any Bruckheimer summer blockbuster. But for others, it’s the ultimate game of Survivor.
For these, the end of the world is a source of pleasure. Reading pleasure that is. Welcome to the wild and wonderful side street alley Science Fiction calls, Post-Apocalyptic fiction, or PA for short.
Once we pass through the greats of the sub-genre, i.e. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Earth Abides, The Road, etc., we get down to the pulp fiction. Here we find the Former Navy Seal who can do just about anything, the savvy teen phenom with a penchant for solving her problems with a bow, and even the self-righteous ‘prepper’ who’s learned every skill and stockpiled everything one might need to survive. This last book might usually begin with a laundry list of supplies similar to the IKEA shopping fantasy one finds in a Stieg Larssen novel. So don’t be surprised when the protagonist pulls out that pair of wound-specific medical clamps from within the bunker.
Once we have a firm hero in mind, the Post-Apocalyptic world is revealed. To be more specific, what’s left of the world is revealed. Our hero journeys through the fallen Starbucks and fortress Wal-Marts of a crumbling world turned upside down.
And this is where I find the beauty of Post-Apocalyptia.
I love to imagine the ‘What If’ particulars of ‘what if it all went sideways’. I have been doing this for some time. I suspect this habit may have begun on the Sunday evening before that fifth grade State report assigned at the beginning of the year was finally due. Why did I pick North Dakota?! Since then, when things get rough, the bills are due, I didn’t get that job, or it’s someone’s wedding; I tend to engage in a bit of Catastrophic Dreaming. It happens a lot, even when I’ve got a few minutes to kill on the road.
For example, I give you this happy accident: Just a few days ago I was driving to downtown Los Angeles. It was a Saturday and all the freeways were jammed. Eventually the 710 slowed to a crawl and the traffic report blared that things didn’t look so good for the 5 and 101 interchange. So, taking the path less travelled, I cut up Firestone Boulevard all the Way to Alameda, turned right, sighted the towers and office buildings of downtown and made a straight dash for my destination. When I turned onto Alameda, I found Post-Apocalyptia.
I found a long line of salvage yards ringed with barbed wire. Tall concrete warehouses with few window openings. Wide spaces to see your enemies coming. All in the southern shadow of the heights of Downtown Los Angeles.
I thought, as I usually do when dreaming up global destruction, how would this place hold up given the end of the world? When I’m at Anthropologie watching my wife shop, I usually find the answer is, not well. Malls, the obvious 1980s B movie screenwriters’ choice for setting the end of the world tale, won’t hold up too well in my opinion. Hard to defend, obvious targets, too many entrances. Or if I’m watching Pujhols not hit homeruns for the Angels, I think, wow, Anaheim stadium would be like a Post-Apocalyptia Castle sitting astride two freeways, like some medieval fortress from which a minor warlord might torment the local population.
Back to the salvage yards south of downtown Los Angeles – great places. Already set up to defend their loot. Lots of scrap to construct armor, both personal and vehicular. Off the beaten track. A great place to hunker down and plan your next move.
This is Post-Apocalyptia. This is PA fiction. The thrill is in the setting. Envisioning the ‘what if everything I know doesn’t work, burns down, or is something I must flee from.’ Regular Science Fiction and Fantasy ask you to envision sometimes impossible landscapes. So unless you’ve been to Outer Mongolia and Death Valley, I don’t think anyone’s got a really firm picture of Mordor. And I still can’t even get my mind around Alastair Reynolds’ Glitter Band from The Revelation Space Novels. But my neighborhood two years after a viral doomsday? The skeletal remains of New York City? A burning IHOP surrounded by zombies? I can picture that.
And therein lies the special thrill PA readers seek when delving into wastelands both suburban and desolate. The thrill of what happened at the mall. The airport. The deepest depths of The Wasteland. PA readers want to see what End of the World tricks the writer can play with these places we live in, pass along the highway or have seen in the movies. It’s fun. I did it over several years driving the lonely highway 8 between San Diego, California and Tucson, Arizona: the setting for The Old Man and the Wasteland. Long ribbons of seemingly endless highway were turned into bent and buckled lifelines connecting the remnants of humanity. Jagged mountains and burning wastes became places of introspection and remembrance. Roadside gas stations and motels hinted at stories of mayhem on that last, long ago day before the world went Ka-boom. You can play it yourself. As you drive today or take the bus or simply head out, walking stick in hand. Take a look around at the grocery store, the city skyline or wherever you find yourself, and imagine what if? What if a dirty bomb exploded? Maybe an EMP pulse over the North American hemisphere? What if I hear the doomsday sirens…
What will become of this place?
What will become of me?
– Nick Cole