This Thursday at 6 pm EST, I'll be chatting live on Facebook with author Mary SanGiovanni about her new ALIEN novel and more.
My Newest Book
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So it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I’ve mostly abandoned this blog in favor of social media — Twitter, for the most part.
But if you’ve been paying attention to, well, the world, you know just how much of a shitshow Twitter has become (and will inevitably continue to be) so I figured I might as well dust off this here ol’ blog and see if I can squeeze any juice out of it.
And so, without any further fanfare, I should note that my newest book is out!
BULLET COUNTRY, the second book in the Nova Bartkowski series (a spin-off of the Holly Lin series) came out a few weeks ago.
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While BULLET COUNTRY — like the previous Nova Bartkowski thriller BULLET RAIN — is part of the Holly Lin series, readers do not need to have read any of the books in that series to enjoy it. For those readers interested in the overall series timeline, the events of BULLET COUNTRY take place between THE DEVIL YOU KNOW and HOLLOW POINT.
It occurred to me the other day that this is the first thriller under my own name that I've published in two years, as END GAME came out at the beginning of 2020. Granted, I've been publishing books under my pen name in the meantime, but still. Two years!
(Oh, yeah, for those who have only been keeping an eye out on this dusty blog, for the past several years I’ve been publishing psychological suspense under the pen name Avery Bishop. I’ve published two novels so far, GIRL GONE MAD and ONE YEAR AGO, as well as a novella published by Audible which I later released as an ebook and paperback. And for fans of the AB stuff, fear not: there will be more coming in 2023!)
Anyway, I talked a bit about the new book in the latest issue of The Big Thrill, and I was a recent guest on the Brutal Dudes podcast where I discussed the book as well.
So … I guess that’s it for now. I’m going to try to remember I still have this blog moving forward and update it on a regular basis (especially as I have a new thriller being published next year by Blackstone Publishing), but for those just dying to keep up with me on a day-by-day basis, definitely check me out on Twitter. I’ll be there until the site dies or I get suspended because, well, Fox News recently labeled me as a “liberal writer.” On the plus side about that, new blurb!
Me On The Horror Show With Brian Keene
Brian Keene is starting a podcast series called The Horror Show With Brian Keene. For some reason, he had me on as the first guest. Check it out here.
New Interview And Review
Steve Umstead -- with whom I did a podcast once upon a time -- kindly interviewed me about Man of Wax and The Inner Circle. And hey, chance to win free stuff! Speaking of Man of Wax, the book is still getting reviews nearly a year later, this time by the Parents' Little Black Book of Books. The reviewer calls the novel "one of the best 'scary' stories I have read this year" and "great job, I loved it." You can read the rest of the review here.
In Which Ben White And I Talk About Very Very Very Short Fiction
Ben White is the editor of Nanoism, which I think is one of the best markets for Twitter fiction, and every night he posts a new story via his Twitter account Midnight Stories. Today he and I talk about extremely short stories, both twitter and hint, as well as Craigslist fiction and how Scrubs is the most accurate medical show ever. Enjoy.
In Which Ben White And I Talk About Very Very Very Short Fiction