Canister X – A.P. Fuchs: Zombie, Paranormal Romance and Superhero Novelist, Blogger, Artist, Publisher

My publisher copies of Metahumans vs the Undead: A Superhero vs Zombie Anthology (edited by me) and Bigfoot War 3: Food Chain (by Eric S. Brown) came in the mail today.

Wow.

These books are beautiful. Turned out awesome. I’m really proud to get behind these books and put them out there for readers.

Here are front-and-back pics of the books.

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-927339-00-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-927339-01-5 The war between Good and Evil has raged since before Time began. Now the battle continues with the Ultimate Good versus the Ultimate Evil. Metahumans vs the Undead Metahuman: one of the human species endowed with one or more powers beyond that of mortal men; a person who uses those abilities to serve either themselves or society. Typically branded by a codename and colorful costume. AKA Superhero. Undead: one of the human species endowed with life even after death; a walking corpse. Typically branded by their decayed form and appetite for human flesh. AKA Zombie. In a world where superheroes and zombies collide, only one can prove the victor. Featuring indie heroic favorites like Axiom-man, The Wraith and Shadowflame, while also introducing newcomers like Nightcat, Spectrolite, Midnight Angel and more, Metahumans vs the Undead is a terror-filled action adventure where Light and Darkness collide and only one can prevail. Contains stories by: Rebecca Besser, Eric S. Brown, Frank Dirscherl, Lorne Dixon, A.P. Fuchs, Anthony Giangregorio, Keith Gouveia, J.L. MacDonald, Joe Martino, Rhiannon Paille, Gina Ranalli and J.B. Robb.

Available as a paperback at: Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk Barnesandnoble.com Other On-line Retailers Available as an eBook at: Amazon Kindle DrivethruFiction.com Fictionwise Mobipocket Smashwords Other Zombie Anthologies Edited by A.P. Fuchs: Other Coscom Entertainment Books by A.P. Fuchs

The Last Coscom Entertainment Release: Bigfoot War 3: Food Chain by Eric S. Brown

For the Entire Coscom Entertainment Monster Fiction Catalog, please go to www.coscomentertainment.com

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-926712-88-8 eBook ISBN: 978-1-926712-89-5 Under intense aerial bombardment by the German Luftwaffe, the British government arranges for the most valuable exhibits in the British Museum to be shipped to the Smithsonian for safekeeping. Charged with shepherding the priceless artifacts across the ocean is archeologist Priscilla Stuyvesant. Leaving Great Britain on the Limpkin, an aging freight vessel, the ship is overrun by a gang of Nazi deserters loyal to a doctor exiled from Germany for conducting genetic experiments on his own people. But the desperate deserters aren’t the worst terror on board: three of the exhibits from ancient Egypt return to life. In life, they were the Pharaoh’s most skilled assassins. In death, they are something far more dangerous: undead warriors with mesmeric powers and a thirst for revenge that defies the centuries. Book Trailer: What People Are Saying: “Intense, sharp, and gut-wrenching, Eternal Unrest sucks you in and holds you tight. I don’t normally read war novels, but this one I couldn’t resist. Dixon knows how to blend horror (mummies!), history, and humanity together to create a powerful merging of the three. Highly recommended!” -Elizabeth Massie, author of Sineater “Buckle up, folks… On the heels of putting his stamp on werewolf (Snarl) and zombie (The Lifeless) lore, Dixon now gives us a memorable mummy tale that spans centuries and continents, provides Hollywood-sized action, and shows the author’s aptitude to draw well-developed characters. Eternal Unrest is Dixon’s most ambitious work yet.” -Harrison Howe, author of R.I.P. “No longer will the Mummy be an over-looked horror trope, I foresee many trying to emulate what Lorne Dixon has created here with Eternal Unrest.” - Keith Gouveia, author of Animal Behavior

Available as a paperback at: Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk Barnesandnoble.com Other On-line Retailers Available as an eBook at: Amazon Kindle Drivethruhorror.com Fictionwise.com Mobipocket.com Smashwords

Also by Lorne Dixon:

The Last Coscom Entertainment Release: Bigfoot War 2: Dead in the Woods by Eric S. Brown
For the Entire Coscom Entertainment Monster Fiction Catalog, please go to www.coscomentertainment.com

The first Bigfoot War book took the cryptozoological horror world by storm. Now Eric S. Brown unleashes his follow-up, Bigfoot War 2: Dead in the Woods, with faster, meaner, more terrifying bloodthirsty sasquatches unlike any you’ve seen before.

This ain’t no Harry and the Henderson’s remix. This isn’t even like Sasquatch Mountain. We’re talking hordes of lean, mean killing machines covered in hair, with razor-sharp teeth and claws that’ll have you running for the door before you even finish the book.

The story:

Mere hours after the Babble Creek massacre, the beasts strike again, rampaging across the American Southeast. A small group of survivors in Jackson County, North Carolina, fight to stay alive as things get worse. Bigfoot is everywhere, terrorizing the citizens of Jackson County, tearing them

limb from limb and feasting on their flesh. Even the powerful US military stands in awe as the enormous beasts take their stand against them, going toe-to-toe with some of man’s most lethal technology.

Just when the survivors thought it couldn’t get any worse, death kicks into high gear as the dead begin to rise, hungry for the flesh of the living.

The military, tasked with restoring order and destroying the beasts, now find themselves racing to contain a virus that could mean the end of the human race. Colonel Drake and the small unit of tanks under his command are trapped inside the quarantine zone as the war between man and beast is

joined by the undead.

The body count rises. Humanity is on the run. The night is filled with terror, the vicious growls of the Sasquatch and the haunting moans of the living dead.

Are you ready to join in the fight?

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnesandnoble.com
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle
Nook
Smashwords
Drivethruhorror.com
Mobipocket

The last Coscom Entertainment release: Blood of my World Vampire Series by A.P. Fuchs

For our full list of books, please see: www.coscomentertainment.com

Another year of reading has gone by.

In 2010, I read 48 books, the majority of which were graphic novels and, yes, I consider graphic novels “real” books, as they carry the same depth and amazing storytelling ability that novels have.

Below is what I took in last year (<- weird saying that). I also linked the books up to Amazon (where able) in case you wanted to add one or more of these titles to your personal library.

Books Read in 2010

1.) The Holy Spirit by Billy Graham (finished from 2009)
2.) Sin City by Frank Miller
3.) How to Make Webcomics by Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett, Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub
4.) Gross Movie Reviews Volume One by Tim Gross
5.) Jumpstart Your Book Sales: A Money-making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses by Marilyn and Tom Ross (finished from 2009)
6.) MacFish by Sean Simmans
7.) Animal Behavior and Other Tales of Lycanthropy by Keith Gouveia
8.) Bigfoot War by Eric S. Brown
9.) Zombie Fight Night: Battles of the Dead by A.P. Fuchs
10.) Alec: The Years of Have Pants by Eddie Campbell
11.) Judenhass by Dave Sim
12.) Do Anything by Warren Ellis
13.) All Star Superman Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly, with Jamie Grant
14.) All Star Superman Vol. 2 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly, with Jamie Grant
15.) Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
16.) Praise the Dead by Gina Ranalli
17.) Transmetropolitan: Lust for Life by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
18.) Transmetropolitan Vol. 3 by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
19.) Stargazer Vol. 1 by Von Allan
20.) Magic Man Plus 15 Tales of Terror by A.P. Fuchs
21.) Madman Vol. 1 by Michael Allred
22.) The Superman Madman Hullabaloo by Mike Allred
23.) The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown
24.) King-Cat Classix: The Best of King-Cat Comics and Stories by John Porcellino
25.) Luke’s Story (The Jesus Chronicles) by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (finished from 2009)
26.) Possession of the Dead (Undead World Trilogy, Book 2) by A.P. Fuchs
27.) Transmetropolitan: The New Scum by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
28.) Transmetropolitan: Lonely City by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
29.) Transmetropolitan: Gouge Away by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson
30.) Supreme: The Story of the Year by Alan Moore et al.
31.) American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Harvey Pekar et al.
32.) Invincible Vol. 1: Family Matters by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker
33.) Invincible Vol. 2: Eight is Enough by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley
34.) The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
35.) The Walking Dead Vol. 2: Miles Behind Us by Robert Kirman and Charlie Adlard
36.) Phase 7 #001-004 by Alec Longstreth
37.) Supreme: The Return by Alan Moore et al.
38.) Spawn Vol. 1 by Todd MacFarlane
39.) Spawn Vol. 2 by Todd MacFarlane, Alan Moore and Frank Miller
40.) Our Cancer Year by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack
41.) Spawn Vol. 3 by Todd MacFarlane et al.
42.) Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? by Alan Moore and Curt Swan
43.) The Walking Dead Vol. 3: Safety Behind Bars by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard
44.) The Weaponer by Eric S. Brown
45.) Final Crisis by Grant Morrison et al.
46.) Transition: Phase 7 #010-011 by Alec Longstreth
47.) The Black Cat and the Ghoul by Edgar Allan Poe and Keith Gouveia
48.) Making Comics by Scott McCloud

The Weaponer by Eric S. Brown, the first book in Coscom Entertainment’s Monster Novella Series, and featuring an introduction by Joe McKinney, is now available at the following on-line retailers:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnesandnoble.com
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle
Fictionwise.com
Drivethruhorror.com
Smashwords
Scribd.com

The Buzz:

“With The Weaponer, Eric S. Brown reloads the zombie genre for a take-no-prisoners tale of action, heartbreak and adventure.” – Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of Patient Zero and Dead of Night

“If George Romero ever decided to combine Shane and The Road Warrior, he’d probably write something a lot like Eric S. Brown’s The Weaponer.” – Peter Clines, author of Ex-Heroes

“The Weaponer combines the old west with modern technology and an army of the living dead to create a bleak and chilling tale of a post-apocalyptic future. But at its heart, it’s a story about the human will to survive.” – S.G. Browne, author of Breathers

“The Weaponer takes the reader into the remnants of the modern world, where old west values take the place of modern comfort in a land of human savages and the zombie curse. Eric S. Brown sculpts his story like The Weaponer, as ‘an artisan of death.’” – Bowie V. Ibarra, author of the Down the Road Zombie Horror series

Synopsis:

Long after the fall of man, humanity lives sheltered behind a massive wall that encloses the United States’ last survivors of civilization. Outside the wall, the undead rule the world.

Generations have passed and mankind has returned to the technology and life of the Old West, surviving off the land and doing what they can to get by.

Hyattsburg, a haven once thought safe behind the wall, has visitors: hungry zombies.

When an entire family is murdered and partially eaten, Alan, the world’s last remaining Weaponer, is called to duty to aid those struggling to remain safe, as well as find out what happened and if the dead are the only ones to blame for the grisly deaths of innocents.

Terror and zombies rule an Old West Apocalypse in The Weaponer.

Other titles by Eric S. Brown: Bigfoot War, World War of the Dead, The War of the Worlds
Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies

The last Coscom Entertainment release: Possession of the Dead by A.P. Fuchs

For our full list of books, please see: www.coscomentertainment.com

This year has been an interesting year for me creatively. I got done more writing this year than I had in 2009. I finished my book, Zombie Fight Night, released it; wrote 95% of Possession of the Dead, released it; edited and compiled my short story collection, Magic Man Plus 15 Tales of Terror, released it; and aside from a week or two here and there, kept up with my weekly installments of Zomtropolis.

All this on top of publishing and marketing books for Coscom Entertainment.

It’s been busy.

Looking ahead to the New Year, I have a pretty good idea what’s going on with me creative-wise, the main things being to write and publish the third and final book in my Undead World Trilogy; finish and publish Zomtropolis; and finish and publish the next Axiom-man novel. Those are priority. Anything else I write is just extra at this point.

Since I do most of my creative writing in the evenings, I need something to do during the dayjob, which is Coscom Entertainment.

So . . .

Next year we’re going to be publishing new novels by Lorne Dixon, Nickolas Cook, Ryan C. Thomas, Keith Gouveia, Eric S. Brown, W. Bill Czolgosz and more.

We’re going to see the mass market release of two Coscom Entertainment mash-ups (the reissues of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim by Mark Twain and W. Bill Czolgosz (April 2011), and Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll and Nickolas Cook (March 2011)), the continuation of the Coscom Entertainment Monster Novella line (the first of which, The Weaponer by Eric S. Brown, is already available on the Kinde here, with the paperback coming next week), more titles in the Coscom Blue Banner Classics line (current ones include, Emma, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, all by Jane Austen), and other extra surprises and fun projects.

It’s going to be busy, but it’s going to be fun, and I hope you stick around for the ride.

And as if that wasn’t crazy enough, I’m going to attempt a regular comic book (probably a new issue every six weeks), and bring Axiom-man to the comic book world on a regular basis. It was comics that got me started in this business and I’ve been itching for the past three years to get hardcore back into it. It’s time I did something about that.

It sounds like a lot–and it is–but I have a plan to help keep things on track, and the support of the best team of authors around. Seriously, those I publish through Coscom Entertainment are amazing men and women who are not only awesome on the page, but also in real life as well. Please support them by checking out their books. They deserve it.

Okay, it’s back to work for me. Hope everyone else is having a productive day as well.

The Coscom Entertainment/Gallery Books reissue of The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies by H.G. Wells and Eric S. Brown is now available in bookstores nationwide, and at the following on-line retailers as part of Gallery’s Blood-Enriched Classics line:

Paperback:

Amazon.com
Amazon.ca
Amazon.co.uk
Barnes and Noble
Simon and Schuster
Other On-line Retailers

eBook:

Amazon Kindle
Simon and Schuster

“A clever spin on one of the greatest pieces of end-of-the-world fiction ever written, The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies actually manages to add another level to Wells’ classic tale of alien invasion. The living dead – an unexpected by-product of the arrival of the aliens – provides a constant threat to human and Martian alike. It’s hard to tell where Wells’ thoughtful prose stops and Brown’s twisted madness begins. The curse of ‘the Dead’ is so cleverly interwoven into the original story that you’ll be checking old copies, convinced the zombies were always there! A mash-up book that’s actually worth reading!” – David Moody, author of Hater and Dogblood

“Like the undead, Eric S. Brown is an unstoppable force in the genre. His fiction consistently delivers jolts to the heart and mind.” – David Dunwoody, author of Empire and Dark Entities

The story:

The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise.

There’s panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living, slaying the populace with Heat-Rays and poisonous clouds of black smoke. Humanity struggles to survive against technology far beyond its own, meeting fear and death at every turn.

But that’s not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh. Friends, neighbours and loved ones lost to the war of the worlds are now the enemy and the Earth is forever changed.

It’s kill or be killed, if you want to survive, otherwise you might become one of the walking dead yourself.

The last Coscom Entertainment release: Possession of the Dead by A.P. Fuchs

For our full list of books, please see: www.coscomentertainment.com

Coscom Entertainment is proud to announce that starting in the next couple weeks it’ll be releasing a whole new series of books–monster novellas.

In today’s market, readers enjoy quick but fun reading, and writers know this, except normally they can’t find a way to reach readers hungry for novella-format books. Usually publishers want either novel-length works, or short stories for anthologies. Very few cater to the novella crowd, and Coscom Entertainment has decided–and has always been its policy–to give readers what they want.

Now that time has come, and debuting in a couple weeks Coscom Entertainment will release the first of its new line of monster-themed novellas: The Weaponer by Eric S. Brown. Following quickly on its heels will be The Black Cat and the Ghoul by Edgar Allan Poe and Keith Gouveia, a unique mashup unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Not only will readers now be able to obtain monster fiction in novella format, but each new book in the series will be affordably released packaged with a standard cover with unique imagery embedded within, making the books both gorgeous and collectible for a reader’s shelf or e-library on their favorite eReader.

Coscom Entertainment is excited to launch this new line and can’t wait to see it grow both in its roster of authors, and especially where it matters most: an audience of readers who enjoy monster tales that are good old-fashioned fun, high-octane stories in a handy and collectible format.

Keep watching www.coscomentertainment.com for new releases in this exciting new line of books, or follow us on twitter @mrcoscom for updates.

Thanks.