Happy Spring! Warm (or warmer at least) weather has finally come. Hopefully you’re taking the time to bask in the sun and enjoy a JournalStone Book while you’re soaking up the rays.
I have to lead off this month with an admission of error. In last month’s newsletter, I displayed the books that were being released in March, but I mentioned the April releases in this column. My sincerest apologies go to the authors whose works I neglected to mention. I hope that you give these books a look. I know you’ll enjoy them. I know I did. First of all, we had Black Water by Bobby Norman. It’s a tale of witchcraft and revenge in the swamps of the Louisiana bayou. You won’t want to miss this one. We also had Loonies by Gregory Bastianelli. I can honestly say that this one will keep you guessing right up to the very last page, with an ending that you just won’t see coming. This one is a must read.
This month sees the return of Matt Rowley in Patrick Freivald’s Black Tide. I know many of you got to know Matt Rowley in Jade Sky. If you’ve been anxiously waiting the next book in the saga, I’m happy to let you know that your wait is over. We also are proud to release Benjamin Kane Ethridge’s Divine Scream, a dark tale sure to please. If you’ve read any of Benjamin Kane Ethridge’s other work, you know that he is a master story teller, spinning a web that will hold you under its spell until you can’t take it anymore, and then will leave you wanting more.
As usual, I can’t let you go without making sure you know about our current issue of Dark Discoveries Magazine. Incredible original fiction by authors such as Celia Tan combined with great feature articles, columns, and book reviews make this a must have. And…if you like this issue, why not go ahead and be a subscriber. That way you won’t miss any of the amazing things we’ll pack into future issues.
Until next month…
Russ Thompson
Public Relations/Marketing
NEW JOURNALSTONE RELEASES FOR APRIL
Get the following titles, as well as many other exciting offerings, at JournalStone BookStore.
Black Tide
A Matt Rowley Novel
by Patrick Freivald
Matt Rowley – super human strength, unnaturally fast reflexes, enhanced senses – augmentation is something that he will have to learn to live with, for the rest of his life.
As cults spring up in worship of the demonic beings freed by the last of the nephilim, the United States calls on Matt Rowley to meet the threat. His unnatural powers returning with every passing day, Matt becomes the only weapon able to withstand eldritch forces older than time and darker than the blackest sea.
When his wife and infant son are taken in a violent attack on his hometown, Matt falls into a vast conspiracy that could destroy his family and his very soul.
They want Matt Rowley’s powers and will kill everyone to get them.
See the giveaway details at Goodreads.
Divine Scream
by Benjamin Kane Ethridge
For Jared Kare, every part of life is terrifying. He relies heavily on his friends and family for everything in his day to day existence. So when he is confronted by a banshee who would soon herald his death, Jared finds a new type of terror.
There are things much worse than dying though.
Jared has been given as a gift to the Assembly, a demonic group who hunger to possess and torture him forever. Will the banshee save him from the assembly, watch him die, or both?
Love can be found in the most unlikely places, but nothing can be accomplished without a great deal of luck, and sacrifice.
COMING NEXT MONTH FROM JOURNALSTONE
Get the following titles, as well as many other exciting offerings, at JournalStone BookStore.
He Who Walks in Shadow
by Brett J. Talley
The Incendium Maleficarum has been lost and Carter Weston presumed dead, but the story of That Which Should Not Be is only just beginning. Now Carter’s only daughter, Rachel Jones, and his oldest friend, Henry Armitage, must embark on an epic journey that will take them from the hell-blasted Tunguska forest to the catacombs of Paris to the shores of the Scottish Isles.
They are in a race against time, for in France, strange murders and whispers of occult rituals herald the rise of an ancient evil bent on plunging the world into eternal darkness.
It is up to Rachel and Henry to learn Carter’s fate, recover the Incendium Maleficarum, and perhaps even save the world.
In Silent Graves
by Gary A. Braunbeck
One moment, Robert Londrigan is a rising-star newscaster, devoted husband, and expectant father; the next, he’s a widower in a morgue, staring at gaping holes in his daughter’s body where surgeons have harvested every useful scrap of her organs and tissue. The rock-bottom falls out from under his life when a disfigured man knocks Robert out and steals what’s left of her tiny corpse out from under his nose, and leaves a gruesome surprise waiting for him back home.
Robert’s search for the disfigured man leads him through a rapidly-fragmenting reality into a chiaroscuro world and the discovery that neither his wife nor his daughter are who he thought they were.
Gary A. Braunbeck’s work has earned 7 Bram Stoker Awards, an International Horror Guild Award, 3 Shocker Awards, a Black Quill Award and a World Fantasy Award nomination.
