Postponed Events, Free Kindle Books

Sadly, I was informed last night that both the Author's By the Sea event scheduled for 19 April and the Vermont Sci-Fi and Fantasy Expo scheduled for 25-26 April have been postponed. The organizers of both events are hoping to reschedule them for later this year. Once I know when they're going to be held, and whether I can attend, I'll let you know.

Also, to help out those who are under lockdown, whether it's self-isolation or mandatory quarantine, and who are short on money because of the financial hardships created by COVID-19, I'm offering the Kindle version of two of my books for free until 12PM PST 29 March. Just go to Amazon and download Rotter Nation, the second book in my Rotter World saga, and my novella Nazi Ghouls From Space (the title speaks for itself). All I ask is that you leave a review of the books on Amazon.

Stay safe, stay healthy, stay distant.

Let's Not Forget My Older Works: Novellas and Anthologies

Nazi Ghouls From Space -- January 1945. The Allies have crossed the German border. In a desperate effort to avoid the inevitable defeat, the Third Reich develops a long-range rocket capable of striking the United States. Three German soldiers pilot the capsule, volunteers who agreed to test fly the craft to ensure victory for the Fatherland. However, a technical malfunction propels them into orbit with no way to bring them home.

July 1947. The capsule plummets back to Earth and crashes in the isolated flats of the New Mexico desert. What returns are not the bodies of the three German soldiers lost in space for over two years, but something far more ghoulish. When an unsuspecting rancher opens the hatch to check inside, he unleashes on America the reanimated bodies of the test pilots who are now living dead creatures that crave human flesh.

"Scott Baker has done it again. Great blend of concepts and a truly spooky tale on all levels! The details Baker includes here will please History buffs and horror fans both." -- Filmfreak

Dead Water -- When the crew of an oil platform off the Virginia coast rescue a survivor from a lifeboat adrift at sea, they inadvertently release a zombie virus aboard their rig. As the crew is rapidly transformed into the living dead, the captain must find a way to stop the infection before it can spread to shore, even if that means sacrificing those on board.

Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology --  An outbreak of the living dead aboard a cruise ship. Cannibalism among the survivors of the rising. Steampunk reanimates. These are some of the nightmarish scenarios that Scott M. Baker has written about. Now most of his zombie-themed short stories have been pulled together in Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology. The stories include:

"Cruise of the Living Dead" - Carissa Banning, a cruise ship's medical officer, finds herself at ground zero of a zombie outbreak when an infected family aboard ship spreads the virus through the passengers and crew.

"Rednecks Shouldn't Play With Dead "Things" - Sam Grodin and his buddies think they stumbled across the ultimate hunting experience when zombies attack their campsite. However, when these zombies fail to behave the way they do in the movies, Sam and the others realize they have bitten off more than they can chew.

"The Hunger" - Janet Simmons has been roaming an apocalyptic wasteland for months avoiding the living dead and trying to find enough food to stay alive. When she stumbles across another survivor, she suddenly finds herself in a human eat human world.

"Last Flight of the Bismarck" - Victorian adventuress Scarlet and her male companion Chappy thought they were taking a trans-Atlantic flight in Germany's latest airship, The Bismarck. When they discover that the Bismarck is actually being used as a delivery device to infect the Northern United States with steampunk-enhanced zombies, they engage in an epic battle with the living dead in the skies above New York City.

"Is Anyone Out There?" - An isolated survivor of a zombie outbreak uses the Internet to contact family and friends before the world comes to an end.

Incident on Ironstone Lane and Other Horror Stories --  A washed up writer comes home to find his wife being raped and seeks revenge. A cuckolded husband leaves his family to die in a blizzard. An Iraqi war veteran picks up his weapon one final time to defend his home from an alien invasion, and faces his most terrifying enemy yet. These are just some of the demented musings of horror writer Scott M. Baker. This collection includes all of his non-zombie themed horror stories, including four that have never been published. So if torture porn, attempted murder, sewer monsters, and alien invasions are what keep you up at night, then read on.

"Incident on Ironstone Lane" – Tom Bowen has gone from one of the most recognized writers in horror to being a washed up loser. The only thing he cares about now is his wife, Brenda. When Tom returns home to find Brenda being raped by Wayne Hoskins, the town thug, something inside of him snaps. Tom develops a demented new interest and Wayne realizes how sick and twisted a horror writer can get.

"Denizens" – After a botched robbery attempt results in the death of the shop owner, Jack Randall and his friends try to evade the police by escaping through the sewers beneath Washington D.C. However, the justice that awaits them underground is much more horrific than anything humans could devise.

"Baby It’s Cold Outside" – Raymond Kim’s manhood has been stripped away by a shrew of a wife and a spoiled son who doesn’t respect him. Every day Raymond prays for death. When the family car goes off an isolated country road during a blizzard, leaving Raymond’s wife immobilized with a broken leg, he sees the perfect opportunity to get rid of his family with no one being the wiser.

"The Emblem" – Reptilian-like monsters invade Pennsylvania, quickly overpowering the National Guard and establishing a beachhead. With reinforcements still days away, Iraqi war veteran Steve Preston joins a local militia to repel the invaders. During his first contact with the enemy, Preston discovers the awful truth about the alien’s intentions.

"Entertainment of the Gods" – What if man did not shape his own destiny, but was merely a plaything of the Gods?

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” – When the Queen realizes that her vengeful stepdaughter Snow White wants to remove her and take over the kingdom, she has Karl the huntsman take Snow White into the forest to place her under a sleeping spell. The Queen’s attempts at keeping peace in the realm unravel when Snow White is befriended by seven unwanted misfits who come to her defense.

Q&A and Book Giveaway on Reading Zombies

Swing on by Reading Zombie on Facebook. It's an epic site for zombie aficionados. Today there is a Q&A with me (ask anything; I don't shy away from tough questions) and a zombie meme contest with a chance for four contestants to win one of the following: a signed copy of Rotter Nation, a signed copy of Rotter Apocalypse, a Kindle copy of Nazi Ghouls From Space, or a Kindle copy of the anthology Cruise of the Living Dead. In the coming weeks there will be Q&As and interviews with other zombie writers. This is your chance to find some great new talent within the genre.

Free Kindle Books for Christmas!!!

It's five days until Christmas. Did you wake up in a cold sweat last night realizing that you missed someone on your gift list? Did you receive a gift from someone you had not planned on buying for? Or do you feel like you've run yourself ragged this holiday and need a treat? Then I have you covered.

Between 20 and 24 December, I will be pricing all versions of my self-published Kindle books as FREE!!! Yes, you heard me correctly. That's not the spiked eggnog talking. The Kindle versions of the following books, novellas, and anthologies will be free:

The Vampire Hunters Omnibus

Rotter Nation

Rotter Apocalypse

Nazi Ghouls From Space

Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology

Incident on Ironstone Lane and Other Horror Stories

So treat yourself or gift copies of these books to your friends, and please pass this along to others you know who might be interested. And if you do buy the books for yourselves of for others, please leave reviews on Amazon.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Thanks to Everyone Who Picked Up a Copy of Rotter Nation and Rotter Apoclayse

I want to thank everyone who picked up a free Kindle copy of Rotter Nation and Rotter Apocalypse. I hope you enjoy them. If you do, please leave a review of the books on Amazon so others can enjoy them as well.

If you liked my writing and want more, there are plenty of other books of mine out there. Rotter World, the first book in the trilogy, is still available from Permuted Press. If zombies are your thing, pick up my novellas Dead Water and Nazi Ghouls From Space, or my anthology Cruise of the Living Dead: A Zombie Anthology. Maybe your tastes lie more with the undead rather than the living dead, in which case you will want to read The Vampire Hunters trilogy. And if you like your monsters kaiju style, then check out Yeitso, my homage to the big monster movies of the 1950s. 

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer Review of Nazi Ghouls From Space

I received a fantastic review late last year from Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer on Nazi Ghouls From Space that called the novella "a great slice of pulpy, Nazi-zombies-on-a-rampage story-telling," which was exactly the feel I was going for. Check out the full review here. 

New Facebook Pages for My Novels

To help reach out to new readers, I've created a few Facebook pages dedicated solely to my novels. Please drop by the pages and hit the Like button. If you're a fan of a particular novel or series, then click to get the notifications or bookmark the page to check it out once a week. I'm not going to post so often to these sites that it will spam your in box. I intend to post only news or events related to that book/series, and an occasional posting that's relevant to that particular page.

Rotter World: A Zombie Trilogy

The Vampire Hunters Trilogy

Nazi Ghouls From Space

Yeitso

Nazi Ghouls From Space Is FREE Until 11 May

It's time to commemorate the 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day. So, much like a liberated Berlin (or at least the Western sector), Nazi Ghouls From Space will be FREE from now until midnight on 11 May.

Nazi Ghouls From Space Is Now $.99 for Kindle

My novella, Nazi Ghouls From Space, is now selling for $.99 for the Kindle version. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, now is the perfect opportunity to do so.

Congratulations to the Spooky Empire Contest Winner

Congratulations to Kevin Orth who won my giveaway contest at the Spooky Empire Convention this past weekend. Kevin will receive a zombie USB drive as well as a free e-book copy of Nazi Ghouls From Space. I hope you enjoy it.

Making My Novels More (P)interesting

Is there really a Site R and a Fort McClary? How was Antioch laid out during the Crusades, or Peenemunde at the end of World War II? What did the Amerika Rakete look like? Or a Pontiac Torpedo staff car or a Buffalo-Springfield two-wheel roller?

Do these questions keep you up at night?

Your quest for answers has been fulfilled. For those of you on Pinterest, I have several boards posted there for Yeitso, The Vampire Hunters: Vampyrnomicon, Nazi Ghouls From Space, and Rotter World. Each of the boards contains maps, photographs, and other research material I used when writing the books. Rather than just let them sit on my computer taking up hard drive space, I thought I'd Pin them and hopefully give the readers a better feel for the respective books. 

I have other boards on writing, monsters, history, and post-apocalyptic art that are also entertaining and, in some instances, informative (who would have thought).

Nazi Ghouls From Space Is Available for Kindle!!!

Two days ago I mentioned that soon I'd have exciting news. Well, here it is.

I've always said that the only thing more awesome than zombies are Nazi zombies. For the past few months I've put my money where my mouth is and have been working on a novella titled Nazi Ghouls from Space. Last night, it became available on Kindle (the paperback version will be released in the coming weeks).

The other exciting news: As a Halloween gift to all my fans, I'm offering Nazi Ghouls from Space for only $0.99 until 31 October. After that, the price will increase to $2.99. Unless Elvira comes Trick or Treating to your house, you're not going to get a better deal than that.

So grab a copy while you can and spread the word to your friends. And if you like the novella, please leave a review on Amazon. If you don't like it, just egg my house and we'll call it even.

The title speaks for itself, but if you need more reasons to buy the novella, here's the jacket blurb:

January 1945. The Allies have crossed the German border. In a desperate effort to avoid the inevitable defeat, the Third Reich develops a long-range rocket capable of striking the United States. Three German soldiers pilot the capsule, volunteers who agreed to test fly the craft to ensure victory for the Fatherland. However, a technical malfunction propels them into orbit with no way to bring them home.
 
July 1947. The capsule plummets back to Earth and crashes in the isolated flats of the New Mexico desert. What returns are not the bodies of the three German soldiers lost in space for over two years, but something far more ghoulish. When an unsuspecting rancher opens the hatch to check inside, he unleashes on America the reanimated bodies of the test pilots who are now living dead creatures that crave human flesh. 



Also, I want to give a shout out to Morgan Carrie, the very talented artist who did the cover art for the novella. If you like Morgan's work, check out her website Artful Treasures.

2014-2015 Release Dates for My Other Novels

In addition to Yeitso, which was released 23 August, I have four more novels, a novella, and a short story coming out over the next year:

The Vampire Hunters: Vampyrnomicon (Emby Press). Drake Matthews and Alison Monroe battle The Master for control of the Vampyrnomicon, the book that reveals the darkest secrets of the vampire society. Scheduled for release 10 October 2014.

The Vampire Hunters: Dominion (Emby Press). Drake Matthews and Alison Monroe must deal with a vampire apocalypse in Washington that threatens to engulf the world. Scheduled for release early 2015.

Rotter Nation (Permuted Press). The sequel to Rotter World.  Mark Robson sends Natalie Bazargan and her Angels on a cross-country suicide mission to transport the Revenant Virus vaccine to the government-in-exile in Omaha while his team wages a vendetta on a local rape gang. Scheduled for release 14 July 2015.

Rotter Apocalypse (Permuted Press). The surviving Angels join the war to take back America from the zombies, and Mark Robson must deal with the many mistakes he has made during the apocalypse. Scheduled for release 29 September 2015.

Nazi Ghouls From Outer Space (Self-published novella). A failed attempt by the Nazis to put three men into space during the last days of World War II comes back to terrorize the American southwest years later in the form of flesh-eating ghouls. Release date TBD.

"From Space It Came" in the Monster Hunter -- Doomsday anthology (Emby Press). A giant wolf spider mutated by radiation crashes to Earth inside the space station and threatens a Florida college town. Scheduled for release 10 October 2014.