Simon Janus- The Scrubs

James Jeter, the notorious serial killer with a sixth sense, holds court inside London's Wormwood Scrubs Prison. He's the focus of the "North Wing Project." Under the influence of a hallucinogen, Jeter can create an alternative world known as "The Rift" containing the souls of his victims. Pardons are on offer to inmates who'll enter The Rift. Michael Keeler has nothing to lose and little to live for. He's sent into The Rift to learn the identity of Jeter's last victim.  It's a mission where the guilty can be redeemed, but at a price...

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
It’s a very vivid tale, which I think will stick with people long after they've finished reading it.  I hope they'll fall in love with Michael Keeler, a damaged hero, who gives everything to redeem himself while combating a vile antagonist. 

Q: Why did you go indie?
The book had originally come out in paperback with a short print run.  The feedback from readers and reviewers was great and I wanted more people to enjoy the story, especially as it is the first book in a trilogy.  

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
James Herbert is my all time favorite horror writer, but I would include Dean Koontz, David Morrell (especially for his short fiction), Stephen King, Shaun Hutson and Mort Castle.  I could go on all day, but I'll stop there.  :-)

Link to web site or blog
http://simonwood.net/

Keith Brooke-- Embrace: Tales from the Dark Side

Keith Brooke: Since 1989 I've had around 80 short stories published around the world, and a dozen novels from major commercial publishers, including Penguin and Gollancz; movie options include one with the people who made the Bridget Jones films. For ten years I ran the online genre fiction showcase infinity plus, publishing work by Jack Vance, Connie Willis, Michael Moorcock and Stephen Baxter and others.

Embrace collects eleven horror and dark fantasy stories, each with a new afterword. Revisit the haunts of your youth, retell the story of your life, embrace your inner demons. Listen to the voices, go on... This book is part of a bigger project to republish much of my short fiction, which also includes the e-collections Liberty Spin, Segue, Faking It and Memesis.

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
Well I've been lucky enough to receive some wonderful praise for my short fiction. Jeff VanderMeer says, 'Keith Brooke's prose achieves a rare honesty and clarity, his characters always real people, his situations intriguing and often moving'; Locus magazine says I'm 'in the recognized front ranks of SF writers.' I hope others will feel likewise! I'm probably most widely known as a science-fiction author, but I've always returned to dark and atmospheric horror, often set around the seaside town where I grew up. Embrace collects these stories together for the first time, with tales ranging from full-on horror to gentler, more subtle stories of childhood and the power of imagination.

Q: Why did you go indie?
I've always been closely associated with indie publishing. I've had novels and collections published by excellent indie presses such as PS Publishing and Immanion. In the case of these ebooks, the timing seemed right to relaunch infinity plus as an ebook imprint. It runs along the same lines as the original infinity plus: a bunch of authors getting together to explore independent electronic publishing; we have other books either out or coming soon from Eric Brown, Anna Tambour, Garry Kilworth, John Grant and others.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
Far too many to name individually! I love fiction that moves me, defies the boundaries, excites me, stops me in my tracks and makes me think... I've spent the last twenty years intimately involved in publishing, and in genre fiction in particular. It's my life. It's what I do.

http://www.keithbrooke.co.uk/ebooks/embrace.htm
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Barry Napier- The Masks of Our Fathers

Barry Napier has had over 30 short stories and poems published in print and online.  His publication credits include:

Debris (short fiction collection) - Library of Horror, 2009
The Final Study of Cooper M. Reid - Strange Publications, 2010
A Mouth for Picket Fences (poetry collection) - Needfire Poetry, 2010

In August 2011, his novel The Bleeding Room will be published by Graveside Tales.

Product description:

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
It's a very claustrophobic jaunt through the elements of horror I have always loved the most. There is nothing anymore appealing to me than a character that is literally trapped with no way out.

Q: Why did you go indie?
I didn't want to keep ignoring the self publishing trend, particularly in the wake of e-readers.  I didn't want to look back on this time in the writing world and regret never having tried it.

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
King, Barker, Lovecraft, Poe, Preston/Child.

Link to web site or blog or Amazon/Smashwords
blog: www.barrynapierwriting.wordpress.com
purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Masks-Our-Fathers-ebook/dp/B004O0UA2A/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1297952451&sr=8-15

Lee Pletzers-- The Armageddon Shadow

Lee Pletzers is a writer who is very active in the genre world, online and off.
In September 2009 his first novel, The Last Church, was released by BBS books and last August 2010 his novel, The Game was released in several eBook forms, in Hard Cover and paperback. His latest novel will be available from Panic Press from March 2011.
He is also a member of AHWA (Australian Horror Writers Association), Fictioneers and a founding member of SpecFicNZ. He has edited 4 anthologies, worked as editor and reviewer for Sinisteria horror magazine, has translated one novel from Japanese to English and edited several novels for small press authors.

Product description:

2007, Agent Baxter pursues the entity, Darkness, following an accident that slew Doctor Hayden’s wife and son. Dr. Hayden studied the Darkness without realizing it was studying him. Shadows, however, have a way of vanishing into light and the entity flees the compound where Hayden thought it was contained.

In 27 B.C. a peaceful man’s family is slaughtered, turning his life upside down and bringing forth a leader. A leader who will drive an army into the bowels of hell for vengeance. At the moment of his death, he offers his soul to the dark gods of the underworld for revenge which is granted swift and deadly.

Thrown from his stead on his return to Hell, Darian crawls out of the blackness and into the modern world under the new name of Darkness and carrying an infection. An infection that will take mankind to a new level of evolution.

Q: What will e-readers like about your book?
If you like: demons, hell, a deal with a shadow, revenge, powerful Elders, a distraught farmer from 27 BC, an FBI who can't express his feelings, wormholes, and the buildup to a zombie apocalypse, then you need this book once released.

Q: Why did you go indie?
Recently I've found indy authors to be releasing books that I want to read and knowing my subject matter I figured Indy was best. I write in crossing genres of horror/SF/fantasy in all my novels.
I also feel indy is the way of the future, especially for new and emerging writers

Q: Who are your favorite authors in your genre?
I grew up with Bradbury and King, and Herbert. Discovered Koontz and Richard Laymon in my late teens. I still read them today, but my Kobo is filled with indy authors.   

Author Website: http://kobefiction.we.bs/
The Armageddon Shadow: http://panicpress.org/2011/02/13/the-armageddon-shadow-by-lee-pletzers/
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Jeff Bennington-- The Rumblin'

Jeff Bennington is the author of the short story, The Rumblin’, and the political thriller Killing the Giants. He lives in Central Indiana with his wife and four children, runs drums, and is the author of the blog, The Writing Bomb. He also teaches creative writing. Look for Jeff’s upcoming paranormal thriller, REUNION, to be released May 1, 2011 and Act of Vengeance to be released September of 2011. His Twitter handle is @TweetTheBook!

 

Title: The Rumblin’

 

Product Description (Thriller/Suspense/Horror):

Phil Knite is so ready for a vacation, but he and his family get more of Mother Nature than they can handle. The Rumblin’, as described by the camp ranger, is something to be feared. When a wicked wind blows in from the north, Phil and his family are forced to shack up with the rest of the campers and discover that the ranger is more than crazy and The Rumblin' is deadly!

 

What will e-readers like about your book?

So far my readers have enjoyed the suspense, pacing, originality, and horror without being overly gory.

 

Why did you go indie?

Is there any other choice? I’m not a celebrity, worldwide speaker, or pre-existing bestseller. But I love writing and the process of publishing so much that I started, nexGate, my own publishing imprint.

 

Who are your favorite authors in your genre?

Without sounding cliché, I enjoy Dean Koontz, Robert Louis Stevenson, J. Konrath, and Richard Matheson…all of which are the first authors I put in my Kindle.

 

Smashwords Link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/34666

 

Kindle Link: http://www.amazon.com/Rumblin-Short-Story-ebook/dp/B00422LGI2