Shades of Reality

New Audio Release: The Heretic (Templar Chronicles #1)

Joe Nassise — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:34:37 +0000

Those awesome folks over at Graphic Audio are at it again – this time with the audio version of THE HERETIC!

The Heretic

At the end of the First Crusade, the church created a monastic military order known as the Knights Templar. Now, rising up from the ashes of history, they are the Vatican’s last defense in the war between good and evil…

Cade Williams is no ordinary man. His ability to cross over to the other side makes him uniquely qualified to command the Church’s special operations division. As a modern-day Knight, Cade can use the curse that has scarred his soul as a weapon against the forces of darkness. But a new kind of unholy war is brewing — and soon Cade may be the last man standing…between the living and the dead.

The desecration of Templar cemeteries has sparked a full-scale investigation. Cade and his team suspect that a cabal of necromancers is behind it all. Their purpose: to claim the legendary powers of a lost holy relic for their own ungodly campaign.

For Cade, there’s only one way to stop them — by tracking the dead himself…crossing the most sacred of battle lines…and facing his own terrifying demons.

Approximate Run Time: 6 hours

Release Date: February 2012
ISBN: 978-1-59950-836-8

Download audio file (TEMPLAR001sample.mp3)

Directed by: Johann Dettweiler

Cast: Richard Rohan, David Coyne, Terence Aselford, Steven Carpenter, Mort Shelby, Bradley Smith, Michael Glenn, Thomas Penny, Alyssa Wilmoth, Thomas Keegan, Nanette Savard, Tim Carlin, Ken Jackson, Alexander Strain, Drew Kopas, Eric Messner, Johann Dettweiler and Joe Brack.

Book Adapted for GraphicAudio by: Johann Dettweiler

Dialogue Editor: Johann Dettweiler

Sound Designer: Johann Dettweiler

Original Artwork by: Jahbulani Ori

Producers: Richard Rohan and Duane Beeman

Executive Producer: Anji Cornette

New Audiobook Release: Tear of the Gods (Rogue Angel #31)

Joe Nassise — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:33:30 +0000

Apparently, its audio week for me, as I’ve got some more news to share in that regard. GraphicAudio (a smokin hot audiobook company that you all need to check out!) has released my third Rogue Angel novel, TEAR OF THE GODS, this week and once again I think they’ve done a fabulous job.

Tear of the Gods

It started as a dream — a redheaded warrior king fought and died for his men centuries ago. The dream would lead archaeologist Annja Creed to the king’s undisturbed corpse… and one of England’s greatest mythical artifacts.

Deep in an archaeological dig in England’s Midlands, Annja locates a braided necklace around a mummified king’s neck. Made of an unusual material — not quite obsidian, but gleaming with multihued color — the torc is an astonishing find. But someone knows exactly what the torc means. And he will do anything to get his hands on the Tear of the Gods. When the dig is compromised and innocent archaeologists are slain, even Annja herself is left for dead. Now she is fleeing for her life, not knowing the terrifying truth about the relic she risks everything to protect — or the devastating consequences should it fall into the wrong hands…

Approximate Run Time: 6 hours

Release Date: February 2012
ISBN: 978-1-59950-835-1

Download audio file (RA031sample.mp3)

Directed by: Nanette Savard

Starring: Nanette Savard, Colleen Delany, Gregory Gorton, Richard Rohan, Alexander Strain, James Lewis, Patrick Bussink, Danny Gavigan, Christopher Scheeren, Bradley Smith, Terence Aselford, Mort Shelby, Steven Carpenter, James Konicek, Christopher Graybill, Yasmin Tuazon, Eric Messner, David Coyne, Alyssa Wilmoth, Kimberly Gilbert, Michael Glenn, Joe Brack, Karen Carbone and Nathanial Perry.

Book Adapted for GraphicAudio by: Timothy Lynch

Dialogue Editors: Brian Rogers and Nathanial Perry

Sound Designers: Brian Rogers and Nathanial Perry

Theme Music by: Chris Rohan

Additional Redshirts by: The Dead Giveaways

Producers: Richard Rohan and Duane Beeman

Executive Producer: Anji Cornette

Bestselling Audiobooks!

Joe Nassise — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:36:43 +0000

While shopping over at Amazon.com this evening, I was both surprised and very pleased to see that the audiobook editions of RIVERWATCH and MORE THAN LIFE ITSELF were on the Hot New Release bestseller list for audiobooks at number #17 and #40 respectively…

17.

Riverwatch

by Joseph Nassise (Author), R. C. Bray (Narrator)

3.5 out of 5 stars (35)

Release Date: November 1, 2011

Audible Audio Edition

List Price: $19.95

Price: $17.95

You Save: $2.00 (10%)

40.

More Than Life Itself

by Joseph Nassise (Author), Veronica Giguere (Narrator)

4.7 out of 5 stars (3)

Release Date: November 1, 2011

Audible Audio Edition

List Price: $6.95

Price: $6.08

You Save: $0.87 (13%)

Friday the 13th Special – Get THE HERETIC for free at Amazon!

Joe Nassise — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:01:27 +0000

In honor of Friday the 13th, I’m making THE HERETIC, book one in my internationally bestselling Templar Chronicles series, free over at Amazon for the next 48 hours. If you’re looking for some new urban fantasy with a male lead, swing on over and download a copy – you won’t be disappointed!

Get it now!

Book one in the Templar Chronicles

Pre-order INFERNAL GAMES

Joe Nassise — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:52:52 +0000

The wait has been long, I know, but trust me when I tell you it will be worth it. INFERNAL GAMES, book four of the Templar Chronicles series, will be released on Wednesday, February 15th. To start it will be available in ebook format on the Kindle, Nook, and iPad platforms. Shortly thereafter I hope to have a paperback edition as well. It will sell for $3.99, just like all the other books in the series.

But…if you preorder it now, you can have it for $2.99, which is a 25% discount off the cover price. In addition, you’ll be featured on the acknowledgements page for showing your support.

So what, exactly, is INFERNAL GAMES about? I’m glad you asked…

[Spoiler Alert - if you haven't read TEAR IN THE SKY, you probably don't want to read any farther...]

The Templars have emerged victorious following their battle with the Chiang Shih, but paid a high price in doing so. The dead line the halls of the local commanderies and the survivors are both physically and spiritually exhausted. Estimates suggest it will take years for the Order to recover.

Even Echo Team has been decimated; its ranks reduced by half. Knight Commander Cade Williams managed to survive his journey deep into the heart of the Beyond and his subsequent confrontation with the Adversary, but he has returned a changed man; his thirst for vengeance quenched but his spirit broken. As a result, command of Echo has passed to the newly-promoted Captain Riley.

It is the moment Simon Logan, former leader of the Council of Nine and the man once known as the Necromancer, has been waiting for. In a daring prison break, he frees himself from Templar control and vanishes into the night. Given the difficulty the Order had in capturing him the first time, the assignment to track Logan down falls to those who know him best – Captain Riley and the newly reformed Echo Team.

But rather than waiting for Echo to coming looking for him, the Necromancer takes the battle to them instead; luring former Commander Williams away from his home and stealing the physical form of his wife, Gabrielle, a woman caught somewhere between life and death.

It is perhaps the one act that could rouse Cade from the grey haze his life has become. As he ruthlessly tracks the Necromancer through this world and the next, Cade can’t help but ask himself what Logan might want with a half-dead woman and the man who had literally travelled to hell and back to rescue her.

One thing is for certain – Cade won’t rest until Gabrielle is by his side once more.

Reserve your copy today and it will be emailed to you as soon as its available on February 15th!

The “Jump Start Your Novel” Workshop Returns!

Joe Nassise — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:51:40 +0000

For the last few years I’ve been teaching a workshop entitled Jump Start Your Novel which focused primarily on helping writers get better organized before they started their next novel-length writing project. Students from my workshop have gone on to land their first agent, sell their first novel to traditional publishers, and more recently, to successfully self-publish their work while maintaining complete creative control.

With all of the publishing opportunities available to writers today, it is now more important than ever to 1) produce excellent quality work and 2) produce that work in an efficient and timely manner.

On January 23rd^th, I’m going to be kicking off another session of the Jump Start Your Novel Workshop and this year we’re going to be focused entirely on making sure that you can do those two things and do them well.

In the workshop you’ll learn:

Why a road map is better than an outline
How to properly establish your premise before you write
An easy way to develop your plot with the Story Flow Blueprint
Ways to dissect your scenes to ensure better story flow
The four elements of a strong beginning
Methods for fixing a sagging middle and delivering a rockin’ ending
How to keep your research from eating up all your time and energy
A simple method for organizing your work in progress
Know exactly what happens when with the time line exercise
The sure fire way to increase your daily productivity

The methods I teach in the workshop are the same ones I’ve used for the last eight years, selling sixteen novels to major publishers in five countries. They are the same methods that have allowed me to increase my productivity more than 400% – from one full length novel in 2008 to five full-length novels in 2011. They are the same methods that have allowed me to add a full slate of independently published novels into an already full writing schedule and greatly increase my income as a result.

Participants in the Jump Start Your Novel Workshop will receive a weekly lesson and, when the lesson is completed, will get written feedback and one-on-one telephonic coaching to help them understand and improve their technique. They’ll also get a copy of the accompanying ebook that includes actual examples of how these techniques were used on a day-to-day basis while writing several of my own works.

As both a professional writer and a certified life and creativity coach, I have the experience and the skill to help both experienced writers and those new to the craft. If you’re looking to take your writing up a notch, I’d love to work with you.

The workshop is open to twenty students and costs $150.00. I’m happy to chat with anyone who is considering signing up and will do what I can to answer any questions you might have before hand. Feel free to use the contact page to get in touch.

THE HERETIC audiobook now available from GraphicAudio

Joe Nassise — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:35:21 +0000

“A Movie in Your Mind” – that’s what GraphicAudio calls their audiobooks and I think its a pretty decent description. Original background music, digital sound effects and full cast narration make these very classy adaptations well worth listening to, in my view.

Which is why I’m very excited to note that GraphicAudio has released the first book in the Templar Chronicles, The Heretic, a month earlier than planned!

Six hours of Templar action and adventure – what could be better? You can even listen to a sample before deciding on either a direct download or a 5 CD boxed set.

If you’re into audiobooks I’d urge you to drop by their site and check out the various series they have available – books from Brandon Sanderson, Brent Weeks, Lilith Saintcrow, Christopher Golden, John Shirley, Peter Brett, Simon Green and more.

Major Announcement – New Series Coming Dec 27th!

Joe Nassise — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:19:41 +0000

Bestselling Authors Joseph Nassise and Jon F. Merz Launch HELLstalkers Series with Barnes & Noble

December 22, 2011: International bestselling authors Joseph Nassise and Jon F. Merz announced today the launch of a new series of novels that combine science fiction, horror, and action-adventure into the perfect blend for any genre fiction fan.

HELLstalkers tells the story of an elite group of soldiers brought together to fight an invasion of otherworldly creatures that have infiltrated our world as a result of an accident at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Led by former US Army Ranger Memphis Stone, the HELLstalkers unit is comprised of an international cast of former special operations and intelligence operators who are devoted to tracking down and killing the wide array of monsters, aliens, and other creatures that come through portals into our world.

“The best part of this launch,” said Nassise, “is that we are doing it with Barnes & Noble, one of the premier forces in the changing face of publishing.” The first HELLstalkers novel, THE CERBERUS PROTOCOL, will be available exclusively on the Barnes & Noble.com website for Nook users for thirty days. After that time, the novel will also be available for other popular e-reading platforms, including the Kindle, the Kobo, and the iPad.

THE CERBERUS PROTOCOL will officially go on sale at BarnesandNoble.com on December 27th. According to Merz, the series will be “a non-stop roller coaster ride – like the X-Files on steroids.” Each new HELLstalkers book will feature exotic locations, bizarre villains, crazy characters, and tons of adrenaline-charged action.

Nassise and Merz are no strangers to writing action-packed material. Nassise’s Templar Chronicles is an international bestselling urban fantasy series in multiple languages with audio rights recently scooped up by Graphic Audio. Merz’s supernatural espionage Lawson Vampire series is a cult favorite and is headed to television in 2012. Both authors have also written a number of books in the Rogue Angel adventure series.

For more information on HELLstalkers, please visit the official series website at http://www.hellstalkers.com or join the Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/hellstalkers.

THIS CLEANSING FIRE – Free audiobook from GraphicAudio!

Joe Nassise — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:19:02 +0000

New from GraphicAudio – download yours today for FREE!

Listen to the story that launched the internationally bestselling Templar Chronicles series…

Captain Cade Williams and the newly formed Echo Team are sent to the city of Boston to investigate reports of a mysterious blood cult and the disappearance of several members of the Templar Order. What they find will have repercussions that echo well into the future…

This story first appeared in SPECTRES AND DARKNESS (a collection that also included stories by Drew Williams) and introduced the character of Cade Williams, a former Boston SWAT officer who developed certain unusual powers in the wake of an encounter with a supernatural entity known as the Adversary. The events that unfold in this story form some of the background for A TEAR IN THE SKY, the third book in the Templar Chronicles series.

Approximate Run Time: 1 hour

Release Date: December 2011

Download size: 71 MB

Get your copy here for free!

The Dead Man #7: The Beast Within

Joe Nassise — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:53:06 +0000

Having recently completed and turned in my own Dead Man novel (tentatively entitled The Dead Man:Eater of Souls), I thought it was only right to highlight the release of the latest book in the series, The Beast Within.

If you aren’t familiar with the Dead Man series, it is about Matt Cahill, a guy who inexplicably came back from the dead and can now see a nightmarish netherword that nobdoy else does…and pursues an evil entity known as Mr. Dark.

In this novel, Matt Cahill journeys deep into the Northern Michigan woods searching for a militaristic community that’s led by a paranoid visionary… a man who claims to have defeated an entity eerily similar to Mr. Dark. This could be Matt’s chance to solve the riddle of his nightmarish quest. But things go very wrong very fast… and soon he’s trapped in a bloody siege between warring factions. The only way to escape from an unstoppable advance of mayhem, carnage and black magic is to trust his instincts, grab his ax, and unleash the ferocity of the Beast Within.

Written by James Daniels, this is sure to be another great entry into a really fun series!

Download it on your Kindle today or give it as a gift for Christmas!