A New Zeroes Blurb, Star Wars Stuff, Seton Hill, And More!

AHOY, FELLOW HUMANS.

WHAT A NICE DAY WE ARE HAVING. OXYGEN IS AT PLEASANTLY SUFFICIENT LEVELS.

IT IS I, DEFINITELY NOT AN EVIL ROBOT MASTERMIND, CHUCK WENDIG. I AM A “HUMAN AUTHOR” WHO HAS INFORMATION OF THE NEWS-SCENTED VARIETY.

PLEASE HOLD STILL AND LISTEN WHILE I UPLOAD IT INTO YOUR FACE CIRCUITS.

LET US BEGIN.

– Hey, look! A new really awesome blurb from a really awesome author:

“With complex characters and feverishly paced action, ZERØES is a sci-fi thriller that won’t stop blowing your mind until the last page…. It left me rooting for the hackers!” —DANIEL H. WILSON, bestselling author of Robopocalypse

– ZERØES also has gotten a kind review from RT Book Reviews (subscription only): “…an engaging, diverse cast of characters, a pace that almost never lets up… these hacker heroes have layers, filling those few quieter scenes with emotional complexity… you’ll find this book to be an unbelievably thrilling ride.” I’m also interviewed in the latest issue about the book and stuff.

– I’m in this month’s Star Wars Insider, talking my top five creepiest moments in the Star Wars trilogies. (What are yours? What creeped you out during the movies, shows, comics, books?)

– Under the Empyrean Sky and Blightborn (books one and two of my Heartland trilogy) remain $1.99 for your Kindle, though no idea for how long. If you like bloodthirsty corn, hover-boats, floating cities full of rich people, murderous hoboes, helpful hoboes, and SHEER BLOODY-MINDED TEENAGE ADVENTURE, well, hey, check ’em out.

– And don’t forget to pre-order The Harvest because holy crap that’s out in like, three weeks or something?! It concludes the trilogy, which is really weird for me, emotionally. Whatever. Anyway, please behold how cool it is looking at the three of these covers together:

– Oh, and there’s a Goodreads giveaway for the third book, too.

– Wanna see me talk in public? I’ll be at Seton Hill in Greensburg, PA this Saturday (the 27th) giving a public talk at 7pm. And I’ll be signing books. And tapdancing in the nude. Wait, I’m just checking my email from the organizers of the talk and it says “NO tapdancing in the nude,” so…  it’s an ongoing negotiation, is what I’m saying.

– I just finished one awesome book and have begun another awesome book. Adam Christopher (my writing partner on The Shield) wrote a novel called Made to Kill, which is yet another demonstration of why Adam’s genre-bending imagination is a gift to us all (think robot noir). And I’m now halfway through Day Four by Sarah Lotz, which is an indirect continuation of The Three (kind of an apocalypse-adjacent horror novel). Day Four is maybe not as directly artful as the presentation in The Three, and yet, it’s a more traditional horror novel with a more forthright narrative thrust — and it’s fucking creepy as shit. Both books are amazing. I read The Three (which features four simultaneous plane crashes) while on a plane. Thankfully, I’m not reading the newest on a cruise ship (which is about the terror that unfolds on a cruise ship that breaks down in the middle of the ocean), but you can bet I will never ever ever take a cruise in my goddamn life after reading this book.

– Oh, snap. Two more books came out that I blurbed: Trailer Park Fae, by Lilith Saintcrow (which is a book so awesome I honestly wish I’d written the damn thing and by the way go look at that awesome cover) and Tin Men by Christopher Golden. Tin Men is a gut-punch of a book, a great near-future war thriller — has kind of a Saving Private Ryan meets Edge of Tomorrow vibe.

– What are you reading right now? SPEAK BOOKS UNTO ME.

And that’s about it, folks.

Reminder:

You can preorder ZERØES now from one of the bookstores I’ll be visiting —

Doylestown Bookshop | Murder By The Book | WORD | Joseph Beth

Or from other online venues:

Indiebound | Amazon | B&N | Books-A-Million | iBooks | Powells

And you can add it on:

Goodreads