Out Now! in November

Hello all!

On the shelves this month is just one title, but it's a proper doozy. You may have heard of Chuck from his long career writing for roleplaying games - especially for the World of Darkness - or you may have encountered his many screenwriting projects, or been spattered with bile and whisky on his hate-filled writing-advice-and-general-thought-vomit site, Terrible Minds. Either way, you've either fallen in love with his peculiar mix of insight, sarcasm and spite, or taken out a restraining order.

Well, Chuck has strode (stridden? strode? stroden? let's say "strode"), mighty-thewed, into the world of the novellist, with self-published novella, short-story collection, and several "writing" "advice" "books" available at all good ebook retailers, and two full-length novels in the works over at Angry Robot, but we're extremely proud to be able to present his first full-length, original novel, the vampire/zombie/apocalypse epic Double Dead.

Tomes of the Dead: Double Dead, by Chuck Wendig

Coburn’s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he’s a vampire and all, it doesn’t much bother him. Or at least it didn’t, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead— but not dead like him, oh no. See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He’s smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he’s starving. And nocturnal. And more pissed-off than a bee-stung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector—after all, a man has to look after his food supply.

David Says: A hectic road movie of a book, complete with guns, arbitrary deaths, religious fanatics, drug-crazed juggalo cultists and a big final showdown with explosions and shattering glass. Coburn's a proper lovable rogue - well, a despicable rogue, but acerbic and awesome; you want him to win even though you kind of hate him - and the story barrels along. I was left sweat-drenched and gasping for air.

Which is about all you needed to know. It's available in hard copy at all good bookstores (literally; if it's not at your local bookstore, it's a rubbish bookstore), and in ebook at all good electronic stores, including at Rebellionstore.com.

Go now! Buy it! Hurry!

David

New Website! Also, Time's Arrow LIVE NOW!

Cover by Pye Parr...

Hey all,

So as you've probably noticed - what with how everything looks all shiny and different on the website (of course, you may only ever read these updates directly on Blogger, in which case may God have mercy on your wretched soul) - the new, shiny website is up and looking pretty damn pretty.

It should also be up to date and everything, but let us know if anything is out of date or isn't working.

And, of course, beautifully timed to coincide with the new update...

BREAKING NEWS

So as you may have noticed on Jon Green's Pax Britannia blog, or on the Pax Britannia facebook page or group, or on Amazon - if you're in the habit of tracking Amazon to see if any highly-anticipated new products have hit the shelves (you know who you are; all hovering over the screen in your darkened room, cathode glow playing over your pallid features, feverishly pounding the f5 key as you wait for that special something you've been waiting for to finally come up as available) - or, hell, on the website, where there's a whole full-screen ad for it and everything, the first part of Pax Britannia: Time's Arrow is here!

Yeppers. It's available through the Kindle store in both the US and UK, and should come online in the iTunes store presently, for less than a pint of beer.

Pax Britannia: Time's Arrow, Part One, "Red-Handed" (or Pax Britannia: Time's Arrow: Red-Handed, for those of you who don't mind the ol' double-colon) comprises the first nine chapters, or roughly a third of the final book. The second and third parts are due out early next year.

And, for the first time in ebook-publishing history, you, the readers get to tell the story.

...sort of.

Buy the book, read it, then follow this link - or just click the massive VOTE NOW button on every page of the Abaddon Books website - and vote on where the story goes next.

Pretty cool, huh?

Do it now. Buy. Read. Click. Vote. Bosh.

David

Out Now! in June

Hey all,

As you may have seen over at our partners at Solaris, we've decided to run monthly articles on our blogs about what's actually out now on the shelves and what we think of it. Of course, we love all our children equally, but here's a chance to see why...

The Afterblight Chronicles: America, by Simon Spurrier, Rebecca Levene and Al Ewing

The Blight arose from nowhere. It swept across the bickering nations like The End of Times and spared only those with a single fortuitous blood type. Hot headed religion and territorial savagery rule the cities now. Somewhere amidst the chaos, however, there are groups of people fighting to survive. Heroes determined to create a better world. But can these warriors of the apocalypse hope to rediscover the humanity lost long ago in the blood and filth and horror of the Cull?

The Afterblight Chronicles Omnibus: America features three action-packed novels set in a dangerous, broken America ruled by crazed gangs and strange cults.

David Says: Fast, maniac, bloody and action-packed. It almost feels like Spurrier, Levene and Ewing are playing some kind of game of one-upmanship, both in the craziness/grotesquery of the villains and in the hard-boiledness of the heroes. By the time you get to cannibal bankers and a man punching a bear to death, it almost feels reasonable. Brilliant.

So go get it!

David