Series, yeah, Trestle Press has those!

I am undoubtedly an oldhead. I can remember so far back that people used to write on stone tablets, animal skins and then on parchment paper. My point in this is that I also remember reading stories like the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Executioner, The Death Merchant, Nick Carter and Encyclopedia Brown. Every week when I went to the library I would try to find a new installment in a series I was following and just enjoy it, devour it and look forward to the next or perhaps finding a new one that could help fill in any holes or time gaps from the others. Maybe it was the OCD talking to me at a young age but I love, just love, and still do following a series and the characters in them.

So what I am writing about now, and why would I go on a diatribe about serials and series? Very simply, Trestle Press has put together an ever growing collection of series in that vein, monthly installments with great characters that span a wide variety of genres. There is a little something for everybody: non-fiction to fiction, Amish to action/adventure, faith based to the devil. Each and every week a new installment of a different series comes out and they are all just about $.99 per download, plenty of great reads for your basic buck, and quite a bit of bang. Don’t believe me, here is a list of most of the series, if you haven’t seen or heard of them yet, check them out and give them a try this holiday weekend:

The Author’s Lab/Collaboration – over 20 installments thus far with just about every genre covered. Great authors doing some seriously amazing work. A new installment hits almost on a weekly basis.

Paul D. Brazill’s “Drunk on the Moon”- A Werewolf P.I., Are you into dark paranormal noir fiction? This has charted on both Amazon & Amazon UK.

B.R. Stateham’s “Smitty”- assassin, hit man, whatever you wish to call Smitty, you can bet there will be plenty of Action, Mayhem and Murder.

Thad Brown- “The Smoking Gun Sisterhood”- The series is up to the sixth installment with “Lights Out”. Strong heroines and amazing characters dominate the plotlines. Each installment has a different set of characters and universes.      

Alexandrea Weis’s NOLA Series- she is an award winning author and her love for her hometown of New Orleans comes out in every word she writes. Romance, paranormal

Mark Miller’s One- This is a faith based series but does plan to focus on just one faith; it is more directed at introspection and values.

Darren Sant- The Longcroft Estates- a rough edged British import that is a tough grizzled look at life in a community where every day is a struggle to exist and survive.

Mark Cooper’s “How I Met Your Mother”- Is she who she appears to be? No, not really, she was/is a secret agent and that is where it all comes from.

Chantal Boudreau- “Weird, Wacky, and Wonderful”- Chantal has the ability to write in different genres and do it extremely well. This is her monthly take on just about anything and everything.

William Tooker –“Slouching Towards Bethlehem”- this is a sci-fi/paranormal/ horror series that is sure to captivate. The universe that William Tooker creates and carries through time is a dark, intense and at times simply horrific look into another world.

Karen Vogel’s “Amish Knitting Circle”- Small time Amish life and the interaction of its residents. The first installment hits in about two weeks.

Julia Madeleine-“The Devil’s Music”- What music stars through the ages sold their soul to make it big? This series delves into music history and answers those questions.

S.L. Schmitz- “Mina’s Daughter… The Harker Chronicles”- Steampunk/ Paranormal/Vampire fun. Need I say more? The first installment hits in late September.

Lisa Taylor’s “Shana Black” series- West Point cadet and secret agent, what a combination.

Big Daddy Abel-“Open MIc” series- This series has been an amazing surprise to everyone. The installments in this series have charted in the Amazon Top Ten of its category in both sales and ratings. Open Mic Volume One has been number one for a number of weeks. BDA has a way with words and puts himself out there with each and every installment.

Sam Lang -”Reprisal”- Looking for horror, straight up and making no excuse for it? Here you go; each and every installment takes you deeper and deeper into the abyss and the darkness.

Molly Edwards- “The Willow Spring Killer”- Death is brought to a small town and someone has to solve the murders.

Angelique LaFontaine and Eddie Frantom- “Thirty-1”- This series has plenty of paranormal/fantasy/horror/aliens action. The first installment just dropped last week. Get in on this one early.  

This is going to be a growing list, so please make sure that you stay tuned for what else comes down the pike in this new age of digital short stories. Reading old school with paper is nice; I still enjoy it. But grabbing one of these and reading them on your ereader, smartphone, laptop or computer is pretty cool to break up that reading week and add a little more life and pizzazz to it. Yes I just used the word pizzazz, I played many board games during and after the hurricane, it expanded my limited vocabulary a little.

New from Trestle Press authors this week: Chantal Boudreau “Weighing Fate”, Mark Cooper “How I met Your Mother”, Darren Sant “A Good Day”, Mark Miller “Daniel’s Lot” & “Meant to Be”, Wenona Hulsey “Burden of Blood”, Joan Meijer “The Rescue”, Robert Ford “The Curse of The Translucent Monster”, Laurie Bowler “Fangs, Inc. The Tortured Revelations”, Michelle Vasquez “Second Hand Bookstore”, Ed & Eunice Vought “Best Friends #4” , Thad Brown, “Lights Out”, William Tooker,”Bad Angels”, April Pohren, “Dream Me To Death”, Angelique LaFontaine & Eddie Frantom,”Thirty -1 Reckless”’ John Reed “Winter Hill Exhumed”, Allan Leverone/Paul D. Brazill ” The Darke Affair”, Julia Madeleine “The Devil’s Music: Raised in Hell”, Paul D. Brazill “Brit Grit”, Molly Edwards “The Willow Spring Killer”, John Reed ”Another Lousy Day in Paradise”, Alexandrea Weis “For You”from The NOLA series, and Giovanni The G-Man Gelati “Holy Chrome Bocce Balls on Fire”.                   

 

          

NEWSFLASH: R.W. Doyen to release a series of novels with Trestle Press

R.W. Doyen will be releasing a series of novels with Trestle Press over the coming months:  “A Father’s Anguish” and “Green Eyes, Black Heart”.

“Green Eyes, Black Heart” will be released August 26^th and “A Father’s Anguish” will be released in late September. Currently R.W. Doyen has the digital short story “Green Eyes” available at Amazon Kindle, Barnes &Nobles, and Smashwords.

Here is a R.W. Doyen’s Bio:

“R.W. Doyen graduated from the University of Maine and then from the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine in Philadelphia. For twenty-four years, he practiced podiatry in Towanda, Pennsylvania. He relocated to North Carolina, founded a sea wall construction company, and began to write about this devastating episode in his life.”

What about the novels? Here you go:

“A Father’s Anguish

The harsh realities of a world that we try to shelter our children from have a way of coming back to slap us in the face sometimes. No one knows that better that John Stratton.  John is a man who has always played by the rules; worked hard, loved his wife and adored his only daughter. Yet, when his daughter comes home battered, bruised, and raped his entire psyche is altered. John’s daughter Laura begins to mend from the ordeal but John is tormented by the anguish that has struck him to the very core. A man who has always stood on a solid moral foundation is suddenly ready to jeopardize his marriage, his business and his own character as he becomes obsessed with finding his daughter’s rapist.  His only clue to find this man is a blue nosed reindeer, but God willing it would be enough. 

            When Jason “Red” Hewitt’s corpse is discovered and the investigation leads to the identification of a serial rapist, John Stratton becomes the focus of the investigation.   Did John lower himself to a place that there may be no return from? Or is he a victim of circumstances trying to locate a rapist that someone else got to first?

            “A Father’s Anguish” is a story of rape, love, revenge, law, and murder. It is a story that draws out your deepest emotions; it is a story that was contrived after the rape of my own daughter.  With a chest full of emotion and a head full of rage, I wrote this book to relieve my  own anguish as well as open people’s eyes to the fact that bad things can happen to good people and good people can do bad things.

                                                      Green Eyes, Black Heart

     Sandra gracefully charmed her way into men’s hearts using her beauty and her brilliantly flashing green eyes. She used them both as bait to lure her victims ever closer. She used her sex like a sharply honed dagger and when her prey discovered the trap and struggled to get free, she struck with deadly consequence. The road of Sandra’s life is strewn with the corpses of those that loved her, thwarted her or simply got in her way.

The green of her eyes could never overshadow the blackness of her heart. Dr. Bemis was not taken in by her charm, nor did he fear her wrath …… it almost cost him his life.”

 

NEWSFLASH: Trestle Press is pleased to announce that David Hoof will be releasing a series of full length novels will them!

David Hoof will be releasing a series of novels in different genres through Trestle Press, the first one, ”Sharpshooter”, will be released the end of August 2011, with the others to follow soon after. Here is the synopsis: 

“The Holloway family began grabbing up land and making serious enemies in Montana even before the Battle of Little Bighorn, but there was no payback until Senate candidate Jeb Holloway was found dead in his pickup in a lonely draw on his ranch. Using a Sharps buffalo rifle firing an antique slug, the killer seems to have stepped out  of time, then vanished. Local sheriff Redfawn Kravitz has plenty of suspects, but when their alibis emerge, the case gets muddier, nastier and no closer to a solution. “

About David Hoof:

“David L. Hoof is an author of seven published novels, a screenwriter, and teacher of creative writing. His published novels include:(1) The Spike Halleck (blind detective) series Sight Unseen, Blind Man’s Bluff and Blind Rage. (2) The Last Prisoner, the first novel dramatizing the possibility of clandestine, unattributable biological warfare, led Avon’s action-adventure list. (3) The Suicide Diary, a satirical novel involving nudist weapons salesmen, incompetent terrorists, a failed writer and his eviscerating lawyer ex-wife, written from the point-of-view of their jaded but brilliant daughter, whose Arctic winter vigil requires keeping herself and her dad alive on no more than a closet full of Dinty Moore canned beef stew.(4) Little Gods, available in 35 countries, blurbed and praised by Presidential candidate John Kerry and seven chapter presidents of Sisters-in-Crime, and by Sine-Gen reviews as "literature," begins with the cover-up of a 1963 murder at an elite New England prep school and a student who pursues the mystery to its conclusion in 1986. 4.5 stars on amazon.com. Nominated for Book Sense, New England Book Award. Winner of Honorable Mention in 2009 Beach Book Festival. Reader’s Circle Choice.(5) Triple Jeopardy. Irreverent satire of riches, greed and divorce. Apex Reviewed 4. 4.5 stars amazon.com. Readers Circle choice.”

The Authors Guild, web site: www.littlegods.net

The Irving Literary Society, Cornell University

Meinig Family National Scholar, Cornell University              

NEWSFLASH: Matthew Dunn author of “Spycatcher “ and Benjamin Sobieck author of “Cleansing Eden” will be on The G-ZONE Thursday August 11th @ 6am EST

Matthew Dunn author of “Spycatcher” and Benjamin Sobieck  author of “Cleansing Eden” will be on The G-ZONE blogtalk radio show on Thursday, August 11^th at 6am to discuss their novels.

Spycatcher and Matthew Dunn:

“ Will Cochrane is Spartan.

MI6’s Spartan Program allows one man to go through the program and, if he is not dead at the end of it, he carries the title Spartan. No others are allowed in the program while the current Spartan lives. There is only one Spartan and he is MI6’s most valuable—and volatile—asset.

In SPYCATCHER (William Morrow, on sale 8/9/11, ISBN 13: 9780062037671, $25.99) Matthew Dunn, an ex MI6 agent himself, introduces Will Cochrane, a seasoned, battle-scarred agent, who doesn’t play by the rules. His handlers can’t control him. Terrorists can’t outsmart him. And readers won’t be able to resist him.

The first in a series of Will Cochrane thrillers, SPYCATCHER marks the debut of a compelling and complex hero whose cold exterior hides a sensitivity and deep desire for vengeance. Will is a wild card, but his unpredictability may be the perfect weapon to bring down the world’s most wanted international terrorist mastermind, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general whose code name is Megiddo. And Will has his own reasons for catching this madman: He suspects that Megiddo is the man responsible for the horrific death of a special agent in Iran 25 years ago—a man Will can barely remember.

Dunn draws on his years of experience in the British Secret Intelligence Service to write a thriller that sizzles with authenticity. Through Dunn’s insider perspective, readers get a rare look into the mind of a spy—and a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to track down one of the world’s most dangerous international criminals.

Will tracks down a woman who once had an affair with Megiddo, believing that she might be an ideal go-between in his elaborate plan to trap his prey. The woman is reluctant to contact Megiddo, but when she does, he suddenly seems ready to make his move. Just as he seems in Will’s grasps, Megiddo’s real plans are revealed, and everyone knows it will be a race to the finish across the capitals of Europe and the northeastern US to avoid an attack the likes of which the world has never seen.

SPYCATCHER is a fascinating game of arms and wits played out in a high-octane, action-packed story from a very unusual writer, a man who has really ‘walked the walk’.”

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Matthew Dunn spent 5 years in the British Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6, as a field officer. His role required him to recruit and run agents, coordinate and participate in special operations and to operate in deep-cover roles throughout the world in order to collect secret intelligence to support the West’s ongoing fight against hostile and unpredictable regimes, state-sponsored terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. His missions required him to travel extensively and typically he operated in highly hostile environments where, if compromised and captured, he would have been executed.

Matthew was trained in all aspects of intelligence collection and direct action including agent running and debriefing, deep-cover deployments, small-arms, explosives, military unarmed combat, surveillance, anti-surveillance, counter-surveillance, advanced driving, infiltration and exfiltration techniques and covert communications. His skills were widely deployed by him in the field. Matthew typically worked alone but he also had significant experience of working with highly-specialized units of the British SAS and SBS as well as joint-operations with MI5, GCHQ, the CIA and BND.

Matthew was security cleared to the very highest level in Britain. Because of the nature of his work in MI6, Matthew is bound by a life-long pledge of secrecy regarding his methods of work, agents, missions and overall knowledge of the British Intelligence community and its allies. He remains in close contact with MI6 and will never breach its trust in him.

Medals are never awarded to modern MI6 officers, but Matthew was the recipient of a very rare personal commendation from the Secretary of State For Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs for work he did on one mission which was deemed so significant that it directly influenced the successful conclusion of a major international incident.

During his time in MI6, Matthew conducted approximately seventy missions. All of them were successful.

 About “Cleansing Eden” and Benjamin Sobieck:

“Obsessions? Yes everyone has them, but does everyone act on them? Cleansing Eden is the story of the characters’ different obsessions and what lengths they will go to get what they want or feel they must absolutely have or do. See what this simple word means and does to different people in this fast, hard hitting, action filled, and suspenseful full length novel from Trestle Press.

When a smooth-talking stranger offers aimless runaway Nick Eden a way off the streets, he jumps on the chance at a new life. The stranger provides the things Nick never had: regular meals, a warm place to sleep, plenty of praise and a peculiar drug called Bluegrasse.

But there's a catch. The stranger's purpose for Nick is killing celebrities deemed too damaging to society.

As the body count rises, Nick must choose what means more to him: a twisted sense of purpose or the lives of the people he's called to kill.

His professional journalism career spans newspapers, magazines, television, websites and books. Sobieck is currently an online editor for a group of national outdoors magazines and one television show. He has a degree in journalism and a minor in creative writing from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota. He and his wife reside in Minnesota.”