Post-apocalyptic thriller is 99 cents!

Bone and Cinder, the first book in the Zapheads post-apocalyptic thriller series, is 99 cents this week! In the wake of a devastating solar storm, former hired gun Mackie Dailey battles violent mutants and an old nemesis to reach his lost love.

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Crime thriller Playin' Possum for a taste of hillbilly noir

Willie "Possum" Purdue will go through hell and back for Gertie Shaw, but after a small-rime crime spree turns deadly, it might be a one-way trip.

From Scott Nicholson and Milton Bagby, based on Scott's original screenplay.

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Also coming soon, the post-apocalyptic thriller Zapheads #2: Scars and Ashes (with Joshua Simcox)

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Spooky preacher wants revenge from beyond the grave!

"Always surprises and always entertains." - Jonathan Maberry, Joe Ledger series

A return to the Solom supernatural series is now out in all markets! 

Solom #3: The Preacher

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In the aftermath of a chilling supernatural showdown, Katy Logan is determined to protect the farm she’s inherited in the rural Appalachian community of Solom.

But a circuit-riding preacher who has returned from the grave to seek vengeance has his eye on them...

"One of the most thrilling writers working today. Miss him at your peril." - Blake Crouch, Wayward Pines

"Keep both hands on your pants, because Nicholson is about to scare them off." - J.A. Konrath, Origin 

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Look for the other Solom books, The Scarecrow and The Narrow Gate

What Geneva Dreams, a Wayward Pines Kindle Worlds novella

WHAT GENEVA DREAMS, a Wayward Pines novella set in the world of Blake Crouch's series, which will air on FOX in 2015. $1.99 for Kindle.

http://www.amazon.com/Wayward-Pines-GENEVA-DREAMS-Novella-ebook/dp/B00KCXMZZ8/?tag=hauntcompu-20

New release The Narrow Gate (Solom #2) by Scott Nicholson

SOLOM: THE NARROW GATE 
Book #2 in the Solom series 

Currently $3.99 at Amazon 

After the violent death of Katy Logan’s psychopathic husband, she inherits a farm in the Appalachian Mountain town of Solom. 

Determined to protect her teen daughter Jett and not surrender to fear, she builds a new life in the wake of the tragedy. However, the dark forces that drove her husband to madness still lurk in Solom, and a horseback preacher has returned from the grave with a sinister mission. Solom’s slumbering spirits are stirring, the herds of goats are restless, and the townspeople are banding together to ward off the sinister force that threatens to destroy them. 

Katy and Jett discover an unexpected ally as they are drawn into the supernatural showdown, but is anyone--or anything--powerful enough to walk away from Solom’s final battleground? 

(Coming to Apple, Nook, and Kobo in the spring.)

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SOLOM #1: THE SCARECROW is only $2.99 for Kindle !

WHEN DARKNESS COMES multi-author horror box set for Kindle, 8 different novels (including THE HOME) for only 99 cents for a limited time.

Last chance to enter to be killed by Zapheads in After #3: Milepost 291, releasing March 31. Just write a review for After #1: The Shock and email authorscottnicholson@gmail.com with “Reviewed” in the subject line. Thanks for your support!

Get Eaten By Goats in Scott Nicholson's Solom!

Solom #1 is now out for Kindle, 99 cents for a limited time! When Katy and her teen daughter Jett move to the Appalachian Mountain town of Solom, they become the target of a legendary supernatural menace.

Solom #2, THE NARROW GATE, is live for Kindle preorder, releasing Feb. 26. Katy and Jett discover that Solom's legends now threaten the entire town, and they find an unexpected ally on Solom's final battleground. A new series derived from my 2006 novel THE FARM. Sign up for my Tao of Boo newsletter for your chance to be eaten by goats in Book #2!

I also have eight different Kindle thriller and horror books on sale for 99 cents for December.

Also having a Kindle box set blow-out, $2.99 or less.
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Big Kindle Bargains on Scott Nicholson books!

Big holiday blowout sale!

My supernatural thriller McFALL is now compiled into a single ebook for Kindle, with paper and audio versions also available for preorder. Currently $6 off the digital list price, McFALL is only $3.99. http://www.amazon.com/McFall-Scott-Nicholson-ebook/dp/B00DOFW8BM

I also have eight different Kindle thriller and horror books on sale for 99 cents for December. The Amazon list in your country is at http://smarturl.it/supchills

Also having a Kindle box set blow-out, stock up on all my books for only $2.99 each! Your Amazon list is at http://smarturl.it/chillbox
Many of these deals are also available on Nook, Apple, and Kobo! Happy holidays.

Mystery Dance box set sale, 99 cents!

Mystery Dance: Three Novels is on sale for a limited time-- contains The Skull Ring, Crime Beat, and Disintegration, as well as a bonus story. 99 cents through Nov. 23!

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More books at http://www.AuthorScottNicholson.com

Spooky Stacks Giveaway: Win $500 worth of signed horror books

Win $500 worth of signed books from bestselling horror authors Brian Keene, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Nicholson, and Bryan Smith! The SPOOKY STACKS GIVEAWAY runs from Oct. 24-31. Be sure to pick up your free copy of the Spooky Stacks ebook in all formats at Smashwords. Enter daily at their web sites or enter below!

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MEAT CAMP: Happy Camper giveaway

Bloodthirsty mutants attack a camp for troubled teens after a strange infection spreads. Adapted by J.T. Warren and I from my original B-movie horror screenplay, for the real horror fan who likes it spicy.


We're launching at 99 cents until May 2. Now live at Amazon, Amazon UK, Nook, and Kobo.

You can also enter the Happy Camper giveaway by writing a review for Meat Camp. Prizes include a savage stack of books (Hudson House--signed, They Hunger--signed, Eaten Alive at a Chainsaw Massacre, and the Dark Faith anthology) and a $25 Amazon gift card. To enter, just write a review of any kind at one of your favorite online stores or sites, then email AuthorScottNicholson@gmail.com.

QuiteDaffy was also recently selected to win a Kindle Fire from my newsletter subscriber list. If you haven't signed up, don't miss the next giveaway and the free prequel to the AFTER series, AFTER: FIRST LIGHT. The newsletter is only for special events and new releases, so sign up now!

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Kindle Supernatural Sale! Rain, Nicholson, Bennington, Tufo

Big Supernatural Sale going on for Kindle! 13 books from the likes of J.R. Rain, Jeff Bennington, Mark Tufo, and me. 99 cents each (plus one $2.99 box set). Horror, zombies, paranormal, and more. Offer good Feb. 26-28. Stop, shop, and shock!

Amazon link to the list in your country: http://smarturl.it/supchills

My Ghost Box set will also be $2.99 in BN for Nook for a few days, as well as Amazon:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ghost-box-set-scott-nicholson/1102726786

http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Box-Supernatural-Thrillers-ebook/dp/B0077U2IMO

99 cent books
Zombie Bits
http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Bits-ebook/dp/B003WJRICE

American Horror anthology
http://www.amazon.com/American-Horror-ebook/dp/B0054R09VO/

Speed Dating with the Dead
http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Dating-Dead-ebook/dp/B003TZLWTG

Cursed! (with J.R. Rain)
http://www.amazon.com/Cursed-ebook/dp/B004CYEV1O

Ghost College (with J.R. Rain)
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-College-Files-ebook/dp/B004PLNQ92

Mark Tufo

Zombie Fallout http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003A022YO

Indian Hill http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HWSLVO

The Spirit Clearing http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0094JWLYG

Jeff Bennington

REUNION: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004S7AR0E

TWISTED VENGEANCE:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006CB19R4

CREEPY (BOOK 2): http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009D9TH9Y

JR Rain

Zombie Patrol - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B00U7B6

The Body Departed - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0040JI3O2

Thanks!

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Exclusive opening to the AFTER series by Scott Nicholson

I'm currently working on both the AFTER prequel (a novella of about 15k words) and AFTER: THE ECHO, for release at the end of March. The prequel will be free to introduce readers to the series, but if you like to be among the first to receive it, just sign up for my mailing list (You'll also be eligible for a Kindle Fire and gift card giveaway for the After: The Echo launch.)

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AFTER: THE SHOCK is available at Amazon:

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AP6YRFS

Amazon.UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AP6YRFS

 

For a taste, here is the unedited first draft of  the AFTER opening, for those who like their apocalypse with a little research!

AFTER: THE STORM

By Scott Nicholson

            The sun looked like a cheese pizza that had been broiled in hell’s hottest oven.

            Dr. Daniel Chien frowned at the monitor, concerned less with the rippling cheese than the rising bubbles of red sauce. Each bubble erupted with a force equaling 100 billion megatons of TNT, spewing electromagnetic radiation across the solar system. Chien was intellectually aware that the pizza was really a massive star around which Earth and the other planets revolved, but technology had reduced it to little more than a commercial-free reality-TV show.

            Sir Isaac Newton nearly blinded himself staring at the sun, and I can do it from the comfort of my air-conditioned cubicle.

            The images recorded by the Solar Dynamics Observatory were a marvel of modern technology. Not only was the space-launched observatory performing a continuous, real-time monitoring of solar activity, it used an array of solar panels as it energy source. In turn, the data allowed Chien and other researchers to study the sun’s electromagnetic fluctuations, solar wind, sunspot activity, and particle radiation.

            The sublime beauty of the system had lured Chien from a faculty position at Johns Hopkins. Even as a boy in Vietnam, he’d been fascinated by the sun was the giver of life. The Earth’s precarious position at just the right orbital distance counted as something miraculous, although Chien was careful to avoid debates over science and faith. To him, wonder was wonder and did not require further complications. Let the glory hounds like Newton clog the pages of scientific history while Chien and his fellow grunt workers added to the pool of knowledge bit by bit.

            But his role as a researcher didn’t diminish his appreciation of solar myth. After all, there was hardly a more apt metaphor for human hubris than Icarus flying too close to the sun and having his wings melt.

            The sun, as he liked to tell his friends, was cool.

            Chien still found childlike delight in the real-time images of the sun captured in a variety of spectra, available to the public via the NASA website. The array of sophisticated instruments measured multiple wavelengths and offered multiple ways to observe and measure solar phenomena. The main image was the one now commanding his attention, and although he was fully aware of the sun’s petulant temperament, he didn’t like the erratic pulsations appearing on its surface.

            Somebody’s burning the pizza.

            “Katherine?” he said, calling to the other on-duty researcher at the SDO’s offices in the Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Katherine Swain was several years his senior, a 20-year veteran of NASA, and a woman who held no romantic notions of the sun at all.

            “Yes?” she said, in an annoyed tone, looking up from her laptop. She’d confided to Daniel that she was having “family problems,” and Daniel had projected a polite pretense of concern without pressing for details. Which meant avoiding her unless something important was happening.

            “It looks like some irregular plasma activity.”

            “We’re in an irregular phase,” she said, not clicking away from whatever she was working on. “The moon’s having its period.”

            Much like a woman, or the moon, or any other natural object, the sun went through nearly predictable cycles of behavior. Solar cycles lasted about 11 years, and the study of radionuclides in Arctic ice had allowed researchers to map an accurate history of the sun. Although the cycles followed identifiable patterns, the general agreement was that the current cycle was among the most active on record.

            “It’s not just regularly irregular,” he said. “It’s crazy.”

            “Ah, here comes the big one, huh?” Katherine teased. “Guess they should have listened to you, huh?”

            As a member of a commission asked to assess the nation’s vulnerability to electromagnetic pulse attack, Chien had testified before an Armed Services subcommittee. He’d warned of the impact of massive solar flares, but his cataclysmic scenarios were pushed aside for what were considered the more-relevant dangers of low-flying nuclear missiles. The military couldn’t fight the sun, and neither could it procure billions of tax dollars by provoking the administration’s fear of the sun. Besides, terrorist threats were far sexier than probability modeling.

            Last year, Chien had co-authored a report that painted a grim picture of infrastructure failure on the heels of a massive solar storm, calling it “the greatest environmental disaster in human history.” Since then, Katherine and the other SDO researchers had wryly called Chien “Dr. Doom.”

            Chien had stood firm in his quiet way. Besides, it really wasn’t a matter of “if.” It was a matter of “when.”

            But even Chien didn’t really expect “when” to be now.

            “Look at AR1654,” Chien said.

            Katherine’s keys clacked as she brought up an image on her laptop screen. “It’s only an M-1,” she said. “At worst, we could get a few radio blackouts in the polar regions. No biggie.”

            “But AR1654 is aligning with the Earth. That means we will be right in the path of the plasma stream if a flare erupts.”

            “And it will pass right over us. That’s why we have an atmosphere, so we’re not exposed to constant radiation. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be around to have this conversation.”

            Katherine, apparently satisfied with her prognosis, resumed typing. Chien watched the image on the screen for another minute, as sauce leaked from the edge of the pizza’s crust and bulged out into space in huge, curling ribbons.

            Maybe I’m no different than Newton, a sensationalistic glory hound. But he died a virgin, so I’ve got him beat there.

            Chien went through the rote recording of data that occupied much of his duties, but his mind wandered to Summer Hanratty, the woman he’d been dating for the last six months. He couldn’t escape the irony of her first name, and its connotation with sunny weather had fueled their initial conversation at a colleague’s party. Maybe they were getting serious.

            Heating up, huh? Well, even Dr. Doom needs a little comfort in the night.

            Katherine’s clipped voice interrupted his reverie. “Did you see that?”

            “See what?” Chien had flipped away from the satellite imagery to tables of temperature, X-rays, and magnetic energy.

            “Check the Magnetogram,” she sad, referring to the telescopic image that mapped the magnetic energy along the sun’s surface.

            Chien summoned the proper screen, which now showed the solar pizza as a mossy tennis ball pocked with violent orange and cobalt-blue acne. The area near AR1654 showed a brilliant plume erupting from the surface.

            “It will loop,” Chien said, referring to the sun’s habit of bending much of its escaped energy back into the thermonuclear maw. As turbulent as the imagery made the sun appear, most of the activity took place deep inside, where hydrogen and helium burned away at astonishing temperatures. It took light 200,000 years to emerge from the center of the sun to the surface, and from there a mere eight minutes to reach the Earth.

            Chien thought he would share that little factoid with Summer when he dropped by her apartment tonight. It was the kind of romantic bon mot that would wash down well with a glass of Chablis.

            “Even with a loop, it will likely shoot some electrons our way,” Katherine said.

            “Should we log a report?”

            One of the center’s responsibilities was to warn of potential interference with satellites and telecommunications equipment, which helped justify the $18 billion NASA budget. A caricature of a notoriously penurious Republican senator was pinned to the bulletin board near the restrooms, with a handwritten admonition: “A phone call a day keeps the hatchets away.” Providing a practical public benefit was essential to the long-term survival of the center.

            “The usual,” Katherine said. “Possible disruption of regular signal transmission but no need for extraordinary measures.”

            “A little static on the cell phone,” Chien said. “A little snow for the TV viewers with a dish. No Doomsday on the radar.”

            “Don’t sound so disappointed.”

            “I’m thrilled. An apocalypse would be terribly inconvenient. I’ve got a hot date tonight.”

            Katherine managed a rueful smile. “Wish I could say the same. Take my advice and never get married.”

            Chien didn’t want to tiptoe through those conversational landmines, so he shifted back to business. The bulging projectile of the solar flare clung to the sun’s surface like a drop of water on the lip of a leaky faucet. Usually, the flare would collapse again, the charged particles of helium and hydrogen reeled back by the intense gravity. But this one kept swelling, a ragged dragon’s breath of plasma leaping into space.

            Chien flipped through the suite of instruments, observing the flare at different wavelengths. “Are you seeing this, Katherine?”

            “Let me get this bulletin out first.”

            “I’d hold off on it for a moment. We might be upgrading.”

            “We can’t upgrade. This is M-1 already.”

            Chien’s mouth went dry and his heart hammered. The solar flare’s footprint grew both on the surface and in its bulge in the heliosphere. “Looking like an X.”

            “Daniel, that’s serious. It means rerouting high-altitude aircraft and damage to satellites. If we send out a red alert, we’d better be right.”

            “The sun doesn’t care who’s right or wrong,” he said, watching the ragged hole on the sun’s surface widen further and the plume take an immense leap.

            X-class solar flares dispensed radiation that could threaten airline passengers with exposure if they were not adequately shielded by the Earth’s atmosphere. Such flares were rarely recorded, but Chien was well aware that human measurement of such phenomena was but the blink of an eye against the ancient history of the sun. No doubt thousands—perhaps millions—of massive flares had swept across the Earth in ages past, scouring the planet with radiation and scrambling its geomagnetic fields. Chien was alternately excited and frightened that he might be witness to one of them.

            But Katherine was right. Issuing an X-class bulletin would set a whole range of actions in motion, affecting the telecommunications industry, defense, and air transportation. Rerouting flights alone would cost millions of dollars, not to mention throwing off flight schedules that could disrupt international travel for weeks. Any shutdown of telecommunications and satellite service could quickly run to costs in the billions as well. This was a panic button that, once pressed, could not be easily dismissed.

            “You know what happens if we cry wolf,” Katherine said.

            As project director, Katherine would be the scapegoat for any political fallout, but Chien would likely be drummed out as well. Sure, he could always return to university life, where notoriety was little more than a mildly eccentric selling point. But he’d likely be done in the field of government-funded research, and there wasn’t a whole lot of private-industry opportunity.

            But data was data, and the numbers were screaming X all the way.

            “Okay, I will give a warning of ‘possible disruption, monitoring closely,’” Katherine said. “That should keep us covered until we can analyze all the data.”

            She issued the alert to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, and the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The data She rated the threat a G3, a strong geomagnetic storm as measured on a scale of one to five. She logged the data and noted the time, saying to Chien, “Your shift is up. You better go play Romeo.”

            “No way,” he said. “The solar cycle doesn’t peak again for 11 years, and I’m not getting any younger.”

            “Your call. But take my word for it. When you get to be my age, you wish you’d had more dates with people and fewer with computers.”

            The solar plume on the screen had grown to epic proportions, so much so that Chien had to zoom out on the imagery just to fit it on the screen. Even for a trained scientist, it was difficult to equate what looked like a bit of Hollywood illusion with billions of tons of solar material hurting toward the Earth a two million miles an hour. Even if the plume proved truly dangerous, the solar wind and its charged particles wouldn’t reach Earth for at least a day, maybe two.

            “Something’s got me worried,” Chien said. “The SDO has only been operating for two years, and in that time we’ve had no major solar storms.”

            “So?” Katherine had apparently already swallowed her own downplaying of the threat and accepted mild space disturbance as fait accompli.

            “The SDO is itself a satellite. With a vicious enough solar wind, we’d lose uplinks and downlinks, as well as orientation. Worst-case scenario, we won’t be able to track the effect.”

            “Well, let’s just pray it’s not a worst case, then,” Katherine said, with a wry smile. Religious references were rare in the space center.

            Chien, a Taoist, was not amused, nor was he comforted.

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Link: Did a massive solar storm strike the Earth more than 12 centuries ago? http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/11/mysterious-radiation-spike-could-have-been-solar-super-storm.html

Big Kindle foam finger, "We're #2"

As a Taoist, I embrace the ephemeral nature of perceived existence. As a Buddhist, I seek to destroy the ego. As a writer, I am an arrogant swine who wants to be on top of the bestseller lists and let no one else have any of the ice cream, ever. So I am doing the happy dork dance of briefly being Amazon's second-rated author on the horror popularity list (behind King, ahead of Koontz, which shows you how ridiculous the rating is.)

It's mostly on the happy coincidence of After: The Shock still doing well, Amazon pushing Liquid Fear over Christmas, and Amazon pushing The Home in a January special. So, you see, it is hard for me to brag about it because I didn't really cause it, I just happened to be here when it happened. I'm too lazy to track down all the links and I'm probably already slipping, but if you want to look, it's at the bottom of my Author Central page at Amazon.

Sergio Castro is about to finish up the art for our next children's book, Bad Day For Ballooons. He did a cool anime style for it, and we hope to have it out in a few weeks. Then I am committing to marketing the books, something I've been far too slack about.

I was going to revisit my "Predictions for the Future of Digital Publishing" for the third year in a row but I am kind of tired of all that. Summary version is it's here to stay, we are all equally unique, and smarter people than me--like Edward W. Robertson, Joanna Penn, and Lindsay Buroker--are doing a much better job of writing about it.

Also just released Creative Spirit in both Czech (Duch Korban Manoru) and Italian (Spirito Creativo), and in other news, my translators and I have three of the top nine slots on the German Kindle horror charts. My goal is to make a similar impression in Italian, then move on in and take over the world via Brazilian Portuguese and Latin American Spanish. Ah, there goes my ego again...Here's me and a goat, because goat.

Also, The Skull Ring limited editions with high production values and awesome Alan Clark art whose ownership is sure to get your more sex is now shipping from King's Way Press. I'll do a separate rundown of recent audio releases and Italian books in a later post.

Look for some big 99-cent blowout sales coming up on Jan. 17-19, Jan. 29-31, Feb. 26-28, and March 26-28. I gave away 1.2 million books in 2012 but this year my books will rarely be free just because free no longer has value. If you enjoyed them, please consider writing reviews--not for my ego, but because so many of the advertising sites now have star-rating requirements to meet.And I'd like to keep writing books, lest I really have to become a Taoist and Buddhist and actually remove myself from mortal desires.

And my family is not quite ready for that. I hope your 2013 is off to an amazing launch for a wild ride ahead.
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#HomeForHalloween: Win a Kindle Fire, Nook, or Kobo Glo

Thanks for helping THE HOME hit the Top 100 on Kindle and Nook. That triggered the bonus ereader giveaway, so now there are TWO! Enter below or you can drop by the book blogs listed to the right and read exclusive excerpts and enter. Also writer J. Thorn and Dodge Winston were kind enough to host the rafflecopter today. (Any blogger who wants to host for a day, let me know!)
Amazon 
Amazon UK
Barnes & Noble 
Kobo

Experiments at a group home for troubled children lead to paranormal activity--and the ghosts are former residents of the home's past as an insane asylum. In development as a feature film.

Today's daily special: Story collection box set MAD STACKS free at Amazon US and Amazon UK


To celebrate the launch of The Home, you can win your choice of a Kindle Fire, a Nook HD 8G, or a Kobo Glo (two separate winners total). Other prizes include MP3-CD audiobooks of Liquid Fear and Chronic Fear, and signed copies of Chronic Fear, Monsters Inc., Drummer Boy, If I Were Your Monster, and Dirt. I'll also be randomly selecting Twitter RTs for a $20 gift card each week that use the #HomeForHalloween hashtag. If The Home hits the Top 20 on any of the ebook outlets during October, I'll give away an extra bonus device of the winner's choice.

If you don't use social media, you can enter by emailing bigkindleboogie@yahoo.com. Thanks and good luck!

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The Home, #1 Kindle horror bestseller: Win a Kindle Fire, Nook, or Kobo Glo

Thanks for making The Home a Top 100 bestseller on Kindle and Nook and kicking in that BONUS eREADER giveaway! The Top 20 for the third bonus eReader is harder. I can't do that alone, but you guys can make it happen! Thanks for your support. Because of you, the interest in the movie script by North of Seven Productions is heating up, too! I briefly bumped my buddy Blake Crouch off the #1 horror spot but he's rock solid. We're not finished yet, though...

You can drop by the book blogs listed to the right and read exclusive excerpts, and there are easy contest entries from the blogs, too. The price will be going to $2.99 (and then $3.99 later on) but different markets roll it in at different times, so better grab it fast!
Amazon 
Amazon UK
Barnes & Noble 
Kobo

Experiments at a group home for troubled children lead to paranormal activity--and the ghosts are former residents of the home's past as an insane asylum. In development as a feature film.

To celebrate the launch of The Home, you can win your choice of a Kindle Fire, a Nook HD 8G, or a Kobo Glo (two separate winners total). Other prizes include MP3-CD audiobooks of Liquid Fear and Chronic Fear, and signed copies of Chronic Fear, Monsters Inc., Drummer Boy, If I Were Your Monster, and Dirt. I'll also be randomly selecting Twitter RTs for a $20 gift card each Sunday that use the #HomeForHalloween hashtag. If The Home hits the Top 20 on any of the ebook outlets during October, I'll give away a THIRD device of the winner's choice.

If you don't use social media, you can enter by emailing bigkindleboogie@yahoo.com. Thanks and good luck!

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P.S. Congratulations to Hugh Howey for hitting #1 in the overall Kindle store with Wool!

Home for Halloween Kindle, Nook, Kobo giveaway

Thanks for helping THE HOME hit the Top 100 on Kindle and Nook. That triggered the bonus ereader giveaway, so now there are TWO! Enter below or you can drop by the book blogs listed to the right and read exclusive excerpts and enter. Also writer J. Thorn and Dodge Winston were kind enough to host the rafflecopter today. (Any blogger who wants to host for a day, let me know!)
Amazon 
Amazon UK
Barnes & Noble 
Kobo

Experiments at a group home for troubled children lead to paranormal activity--and the ghosts are former residents of the home's past as an insane asylum. In development as a feature film.

Today's daily special: Story collection box set MAD STACKS free at Amazon US and Amazon UK

To celebrate the launch of The Home, you can win your choice of a Kindle Fire, a Nook HD 8G, or a Kobo Glo (two separate winners total). Other prizes include MP3-CD audiobooks of Liquid Fear and Chronic Fear, and signed copies of Chronic Fear, Monsters Inc., Drummer Boy, If I Were Your Monster, and Dirt. I'll also be randomly selecting Twitter RTs for a $20 gift card each week that use the #HomeForHalloween hashtag. If The Home hits the Top 20 on any of the ebook outlets during October, I'll give away an extra bonus device of the winner's choice.

If you don't use social media, you can enter by emailing bigkindleboogie@yahoo.com. Thanks and good luck!

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A month of Nicholson Rain

It's raining men, halleleauh, it's raining...

Er. Check that. It's raining free books! A month of free Nicholson and Rain Kindle books coming your way. Please grab, like, and share because it's been a long, dry summer!

Cracked the 50,000 word count on AFTER and now entering the stretch run, with Mooney Design working on a cover. Also publishing Presenze in Italian. If you want an advance reader copy of Troubled (formerly The Home), let me know! Current plans are to release in late September.

Bad Blood (with H.T. Night)- Aug. 25-27

http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Blood-Vampire-Thriller-ebook/dp/B005Q1NBCW

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bad-Blood-Vampire-Thriller-ebook/dp/B005Q1NBCW

Ghost Files Set- Aug. 28-30

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ghost-Files-Boxed-ebook/dp/B008GHMO4O

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Ghost-Files-Boxed-ebook/dp/B008GHMO4O

Dark Spells- Aug. 31- Sept. 2

http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Spells-Four-Books-ebook/dp/B0063ACDQU

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Spells-Four-Books-ebook/dp/B0063ACDQU 

Ghost Hall (Michelle Wright)- Sept. 3-5 
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Hall-The-Files-ebook/dp/B0090Q0O5Q
UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Hall-The-Files-ebook/dp/B0090Q0O5Q

 

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The Red Church - Ten Years After

Ten years after.

This month marks the tenth anniversary of the release of THE RED CHURCH, my first novel. And although I had some short story sales before then, I generally consider THE RED CHURCH the start of my professional writing career as well. Ten years. A lot of books. I'm torn between feeling like a worn-out geezer and a guy finally figuring out what he wants to do with his life, but the reality is I am probably in the "middle age" of my writing career.

Today, with the whirlwind of digital books, foreign translations, eBookSwag.com, and basically running a tiny enterprise as a mad-emperor/demi-god, I have a hard time remembering the freshness of that feeling of accomplishment. I can still remember receiving the phone call from the year before, when the editor told me he wanted to publish the book, and the subsequent search for an agent. I remember the careful planning I put into preparing for the book's release (which I outlined in a monthly series leading up to the book's publication--boy, how times have changed!) I can't remember much about my life at the time, although it was fraught with self-inflected personal troubles.

But the thing that stands out clearly is that feeling of writing the book, the way I entered that fantasy land and followed the story from beginning to end, walked in Ronnie Day's shoes (and ran, in some cases), meeting the peculiar folk of Whispering Pines. The book felt fresh when I typed it, felt fresh when it was published, and still feels fresh today. Perhaps that is why it is still my bestselling and most popular book, even after 10 years.

I'm not even sure how many copies have sold, but it's probably around 80,000 now--not a knockout bestseller but the Little Engine That Could (well,  it was out of print and not on sale for half of its life...but that's another blog post for another day). It was a Stoker Award finalist (lost out to The Lovely Bones!), and an alternate selection of the Mystery Guild and in the Doubleday Book Clubs back when mail-order was a force more powerful than Amazon. It's been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Polish, and soon Portuguese and German. It's been around the block. It's been equally slammed for being a Christian novel disguised as a horror novel and a horror novel disguised as a Christian novel. It's inspired theological essays and critical analysis and a Bentley Little blurb, and the heady but rather commonplace Stephen King comparisons. Perhaps its greatest feat was impressing my daughter when she saw THE RED CHURCH on the Kindle charts ahead of Stephen King and C.S. Lewis...

THE RED CHURCH. Ten years, and I can still smell the dusty hay when I open that creaking church door...

I still feel the chill of the river fog laying low over the Appalalachian valley...

I still hear the rustle and slither of that shadow in the belfry...

Ten years after, I still live in THE RED CHURCH, and I always will.

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DIALOGUE Blogtalk interview: Audio Archive, June 28

Free Scott Nicholson books on Kindle:

June 28-30: Creative Spirit (UK edition only)

June 29-30: Scott Nicholson Library, Vol. 5 (Amazon UK only)

June 29-30, July 1: Mad Stacks (Amazon US Amazon UK)