Devil Tree - a new and never-before-released novel of historical horror...

Steve Vernon · 02-20-2011, 08:30 AM

Let me tell folks a bit about Devil Tree.

DEVIL TREE is a horror novel set in mid-nineteenth century North America. The novel opens with Lucas Sawyer and his wife Tamsen being cast from their raft into the twisting waters of the Greensnake River. They are rescued by Jonah Duvall, a woodsman dwelling in a strange hidden valley with his native wife Jezebel and her son Cord. These names were given to them by Duvall, because, “once you name a thing, it is yours”.

Above all this stands the Devil Tree, or Duvall’s Tree, as he calls it. The Devil Tree is a huge and evil jack pine that has summoned them all to this valley to feed on their collective emotions and their unnatural offspring. The tree is farming them and using them to feed its unholy appetites. It is part earth spirit, part elder demon and entirely uncontrollable.

This is a deep, dark yarn that I guarantee will haunt you for some time after you read it. The final scenes are guaranteed to take you way past gut-check and deep into the heart of oh-my-lordy!

This is my very first full-length novel release in e-book format.

You can pick up a copy through Amazon.com, Nook, Smashwords, and the e-publisher Crossroad Press.

I'd love to hear what some folks think of this yarn.

Steve Vernon · 03-06-2011, 09:32 AM

There's a brand new Devil Tree review up at Horrorworld.

Check it out.

Steve Vernon · 03-31-2011, 06:06 AM

Hot damn.

The book took a jump today in the Amazon sales ratings. The mystery of these ratings mostly baffle me - yet I still grin and salivate in mad Pavlovian delight.

Steve Vernon · 06-13-2011, 08:03 AM

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"This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." - EDWARD LEE, author of Flesh Gothic, Header

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"Buy my son's e-book so that he can stop living on our couch. He's starting to leave a stain!" - mom.

Come on, how can you resist blurbs like that???

Buy my book!

Steve Vernon · 06-25-2011, 08:41 AM

I was up way too early this morning. I worked a looong shift at work and have just got home and my stomach is grumbling and probably all I've got to gnaw on in the refrigerator is a loooong-expired technicolor slab of putrefying bologna and stale black bread. Why am I keeping my stale black bread in the refrigerator you might ask?

Because the cockroaches on the kitchen counter complained.
Actually, they took up a petition with the rats in the trash bucket.

You have no idea just how looong a cruelty-to-kitchen-counter-cockroach and trash-bucket-rat petition can actually be...but to give you an idea they have cleaned me out of several rolls of barely-used toilet paper and all of my best inked-out pens.

But am I stopping to eat when this thread so sadly needs to be bumped? No. Because I know that you folks here at Mobilereads depend upon my ceaseless dedication to gratuitous self-promotional semi-spamming thread bumps.

Buy my book so that I can buy the kitchen-counter-cockroaches a brand new loaf of slightly stale bread...

Steve Vernon · 07-18-2011, 07:21 AM

Devil Tree is now available on KOBO!

DixieGal · 07-18-2011, 08:04 AM

I just bought it at Smashwords because your mom said to do it. You need to raise the price another buck or so, in order to get you off the furniture sooner.

Steve Vernon · 07-20-2011, 06:24 AM

Thanks, Dixiegal!

Mom says thanks too.

And see...they've even put me on a magazine cover...
Image deleted - MODERATOR]

For more info on the three-hour photoshoot behind this magazine cover - check it out...

Steve Vernon · 01-30-2012, 06:00 AM

FREE BOOKS!

For the next three days - from January 30 to February 1 - I will give a FREE copy of any of my other Crossroad Press e-books to anyone who sends me a copy of their purchase receipt for my book DEVIL TREE!

FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS!

That's right. If you purchase a copy of DEVIL TREE you will be the recipient of a FREE copy of either Long Horn, Big Shaggy: a tale of wild west terror or reanimated buffalo OR Gypsy Blood OR Roadside Ghosts OR Nothing To Lose OR Nothing Down OR The Weird Ones OR Two Fisted Nasty OR - shit, I haven't published any other e-books (yet).

FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS!

Why am I doing this? Well, because as of this month Devil Tree has proven to be my bestselling e-book and I am that confident in the strength of this novel that I am willing to do ANYTHING - (insert sound-byte of Cadbury Caramilk devil saying "Anything?) - that's right, anything - to get more people to take a chance on this haunting novel.

So why not take a chance? Two-for-one is hard to beat. It's a cold and nasty time of the year out there - and we're about to enter the shortest and meanest month of the year - and what better way to cheer yourself up than a FREAKING FREE BOOK!!!

Do it. Do it. Do it now!

02-20-2011, 08:30 AM	#1
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	Devil Tree - a new and never-before-released novel of historical horror... Let me tell folks a bit about Devil Tree. DEVIL TREE is a horror novel set in mid-nineteenth century North America. The novel opens with Lucas Sawyer and his wife Tamsen being cast from their raft into the twisting waters of the Greensnake River. They are rescued by Jonah Duvall, a woodsman dwelling in a strange hidden valley with his native wife Jezebel and her son Cord. These names were given to them by Duvall, because, “once you name a thing, it is yours”. Above all this stands the Devil Tree, or Duvall’s Tree, as he calls it. The Devil Tree is a huge and evil jack pine that has summoned them all to this valley to feed on their collective emotions and their unnatural offspring. The tree is farming them and using them to feed its unholy appetites. It is part earth spirit, part elder demon and entirely uncontrollable. This is a deep, dark yarn that I guarantee will haunt you for some time after you read it. The final scenes are guaranteed to take you way past gut-check and deep into the heart of oh-my-lordy! This is my very first full-length novel release in e-book format. You can pick up a copy through Amazon.com, Nook, Smashwords, and the e-publisher Crossroad Press. I'd love to hear what some folks think of this yarn. Last edited by Steve Vernon; 03-31-2011 at 06:07 AM.

07-20-2011, 06:24 AM	#8
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	Thanks, Dixiegal! Mom says thanks too. And see...they've even put me on a magazine cover... Image deleted - MODERATOR] For more info on the three-hour photoshoot behind this magazine cover - check it out... Last edited by Dr. Drib; 07-20-2011 at 08:57 AM.

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03-06-2011, 09:32 AM	#2
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	There's a brand new Devil Tree review up at Horrorworld. Check it out.

03-31-2011, 06:06 AM	#3
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	Hot damn. The book took a jump today in the Amazon sales ratings. The mystery of these ratings mostly baffle me - yet I still grin and salivate in mad Pavlovian delight.

06-25-2011, 08:41 AM	#5
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	I was up way too early this morning. I worked a looong shift at work and have just got home and my stomach is grumbling and probably all I've got to gnaw on in the refrigerator is a loooong-expired technicolor slab of putrefying bologna and stale black bread. Why am I keeping my stale black bread in the refrigerator you might ask? Because the cockroaches on the kitchen counter complained. Actually, they took up a petition with the rats in the trash bucket. You have no idea just how looong a cruelty-to-kitchen-counter-cockroach and trash-bucket-rat petition can actually be...but to give you an idea they have cleaned me out of several rolls of barely-used toilet paper and all of my best inked-out pens. But am I stopping to eat when this thread so sadly needs to be bumped? No. Because I know that you folks here at Mobilereads depend upon my ceaseless dedication to gratuitous self-promotional semi-spamming thread bumps. Buy my book so that I can buy the kitchen-counter-cockroaches a brand new loaf of slightly stale bread...

07-18-2011, 07:21 AM	#6
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	Devil Tree is now available on KOBO!

07-18-2011, 08:04 AM	#7
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	I just bought it at Smashwords because your mom said to do it. You need to raise the price another buck or so, in order to get you off the furniture sooner.

01-30-2012, 06:00 AM	#9
Steve Vernon Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 231500 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Device: none	FREE BOOKS! For the next three days - from January 30 to February 1 - I will give a FREE copy of any of my other Crossroad Press e-books to anyone who sends me a copy of their purchase receipt for my book DEVIL TREE! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! That's right. If you purchase a copy of DEVIL TREE you will be the recipient of a FREE copy of either Long Horn, Big Shaggy: a tale of wild west terror or reanimated buffalo OR Gypsy Blood OR Roadside Ghosts OR Nothing To Lose OR Nothing Down OR The Weird Ones OR Two Fisted Nasty OR - shit, I haven't published any other e-books (yet). FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! FREE BOOKS! Why am I doing this? Well, because as of this month Devil Tree has proven to be my bestselling e-book and I am that confident in the strength of this novel that I am willing to do ANYTHING - (insert sound-byte of Cadbury Caramilk devil saying "Anything?) - that's right, anything - to get more people to take a chance on this haunting novel. So why not take a chance? Two-for-one is hard to beat. It's a cold and nasty time of the year out there - and we're about to enter the shortest and meanest month of the year - and what better way to cheer yourself up than a FREAKING FREE BOOK!!! Do it. Do it. Do it now!