How shameless can shameless be... hmm, just about *this* shameless.
A couple of years ago I was a #1 bestseller in the UK (print hardcover sales) for my novel Shadow of the Jaguar, the first novel based on the popular tv series Primeval. I've written maybe 20 books now, including stuff for Dr Who, Stargate, Warhammer's RPG and all sorts of other stuff, but in the last year have taken the leap into 'controlling' my own career and trying the indie route and try to connect directly with a lot more readers with my own material, not stuff tied in to tv. To that end the blatant, shameless nature of this post.
I've got a bunch of stuff up on the kindle:
The Sufferer's Song: $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Sufferers-...4356170&sr=8-3
As a journalist, Kristy French is never going to win a Pulitzer while she's at The Newcastle Gazette covering bake sales and town fêtes. A missing persons report could be about to change all that. As a novelist, Ben Shelton's career's over before it's begun, he's the proverbial one hit wonder. The two of them have never met, but they're about to become the most important people in each other's lives. It isn't love. It's survival.
Johnny Lisker and has friend Alex Slater are having a beer in the local a pub after Alex's longtime girlfriend Beth broke his heart. It should be a quiet night. It isn't. Johnny stabs a man. Suddenly he and Alex are on the run from the law and there's no going back.
Just outside of the village of Westbrooke, disgraced American doctor, Brent Richards, is obsessed with playing the Devil. He has manufactured a strain of virus he calls N.E.S.T., one that effects the bodies' pain threshold as well as its need for nourishment. The side effects include blisters along the mouth, rapid weight loss -- and the insatiable need to feed.
Three people are missing. Murdered.
And the death toll is not about to stop rising.
Small towns are meant to be sleepy. Safe. They are not meant to be meat. Within a single week, Kristy, Ben and Westbrooke's residents have the comfortable safety of their world torn out from under them. People they have known all their lives turn on them and no-one knows what is happening, why, or how to stop it.
There's blood on the streets, and the suffering has only just begun.
The Last Angel: $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Angel...4356170&sr=8-5
Gabriel Rush takes a photograph of a beautiful sad-faced hooker in a down town bar and is stunned by what he sees when the picture is developed. At first he thinks it is a flaw in the photograph, but then he recognizes it for what it is, the mark of the Trinity Killer. It is the same mark that scars the faces of mutilated corpses that are turning up all over New York City.
Racing to warn the woman, Gabriel instead finds himself haunted by visions and fighting against time to save his future, the woman he loves, his friends, and - when the killer's identity is finally revealed - his own sanity.
Laughing Boy's Shadow: $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/Laughing-Boys-...356170&sr=8-12
“Your problem, city, is that you have no soul.
Declan Shea learns the depth of this lie through a series of brutal events, as systematically, an evil as old as the city itself strips him of every last shred of hope and humanity. A road accident, a bag lady, a bird man, renegades from L. Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz, all of these nightmares converge in one horrific moment under a dark bridge. Declan’s live can never be the same because that city, the one without a soul, has chosen him as its champion.
As war rages in the dark places of Newcastle, Declan Shea must fight to survive.
How do I know?
My name is Declan Shea. It is all that I have left. I come back here to look at the lights across the water, out of reach like the gates of heaven. More than anything, I want to start walking. You won’t understand what that means, not yet, but you will…”
Gods and Monsters: $1.99
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-and-Monst...356170&sr=8-17
Steven Savile shocks us with three tales of gods, ghosts and golems. He expertly guides us down the path man will take—or perhaps has already taken—in his quest to breathe life into his own soulless creations. But this can only be accomplished by committing the ultimate sin… murder.
The murder of God.
The Forgetting Wood: $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Forgetting...356587&sr=8-21
The Complete Hoke Berglund Stories:
The death of a beloved children's writer, Hoke Berglund, draws Jon Sieber into a world he cannot hope to understand - a world filled with Hoke's creations, including the vile Mr. Self Affliction who is the cruel master of this place. In a world where angels are beautiful women and the by-blows of nightmares people the mythical Forgetting Wood, Jon, heir apparent to all that Hoke created, falls for Kristen, the writer's daughter, but cannot let her secret remain secret.
A Guilty Mind: 0.99c
http://www.amazon.com/A-Guilty-Mind-...356587&sr=8-33
Jack Nolan is in trouble. He serves justice, and like it or not, people are dying in vigilante style executions inside The Scrubs so Jack has got to go inside.
Being banged up in the most notorious prison in England is bad, but being an undercover cop up in the toughest jail the justice system can offer is like having the cell door slam, locking you in a whole other circle of Hell.
An eChap from Steven Savile. A multi-award winning author who has published over a dozen novels and sold almost half a million books across the world in fourteen languages. He has written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval, Stargate SG-1, Star Wars, Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Guild Wars franchises.
Of Time and Dust: 0.99c (co-written with Steve Lockley)
http://www.amazon.com/Of-Time-and-Du...4356170&sr=8-6
A once-beautiful country mansion in historical Dorchester, provides the backdrop to a haunting novelette from two of the UK’s most respected authors, Steven Savile and Steve Lockley.
One suicide is a tragedy, two an unfortunate coincidence, but three is a problem for police forensic investigator Sally Reardon. Can she solve the mystery of Birkin House before she becomes the fourth?
Steven Savile is a multi-award winning author has published over a dozen novels and sold almost half a million books across the world in fourteen languages. He has written for Doctor Who, Torchwood, Primeval, Stargate SG-1, Star Wars, Jurassic Park: The Lost World and Guild Wars franchises.
Steve Lockley is the author of more than fifty published short stories, and with Paul Lewis is responsible for the novels “The Ragchild” and “The Quarry,” along with novellas “King of all the Dead” and “The Ice Maiden”. His work has been nominated for British Fantasy Awards on nine occasions and he has served as a judge for the World Fantasy Awards. This is not the first time that he has collaborated with Steven Savile and he hopes that it will not be the last.
(This is the first in the Sally Reardon Supernatural Mysteries series, the second, Missing, is due any day now)
Mostly Human: 0.99c (co-written with Willie Meikle, Scott Nicholson, and Steve Lockley)
http://www.amazon.com/Mostly-Human-e...4356170&sr=8-7
The English Lake District is a haven of tranquility, a place for hill walkers, mountain climbers and those in search of solitude. But when the rains arrive it becomes a desolate landscape where malevolence rises up from the depths and death is not far behind. It has struck before and this time it has to be stopped.
From the imaginations of four authors working as one comes a menace that is Mostly Human
There are a few others, but those are my mainstream publisher ebooks.
So, that's me... kinda. Was that shameless enough? Too shameless? Did it inspire you to run out and read everything I've ever written?
S.