Limbus, Inc.

A shared-world anthology from featuring Jonathan Maberry and Joseph Nassise!
 (Available April 26, 2013)

Are you laid off, downsized, undersized? Call us. We employ. 1-800-555-0606 How lucky do you feel?

So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS’s employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word.

In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and scifi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the fringes of society.

One thing’s for sure – you’ll never think the same way again about the fine print on your next employment application!

What Others Are Saying…

Publishers Weekly – “This shared-world anthology about a mysterious metaphysical employment agency is pleasingly consistent in tone. The execution and intriguing theme leave the reader wanting more.”

“Limbus, Inc. is a brilliant concept that lets writers share a world while allowing their imaginations free rein. Ethridge, Mayberry, Nassise, Petty, and Talley take full advantage of all that creative elbow room and serve up some tasty stories. Do not miss this.” - F. Paul Wilson

“Get street level in crazy town. Limbus, Inc. finds a new kind of noir.” – Weston Ochse, author of Seal Team 666.

“The five novellas in Limbus, Inc. are the kind of horror fiction I love most: Smart, scary, funny, edgy, melancholy, and set in a world I recognize all too well. The most frightening elements here aren’t alien princesses with insatiable appetites, ancient murder cults, or shapeshifting assassins, but desperation, hunger, neverending wars, and a wealthy class all too eager to prey on the rest of us. Limbus, Inc. isn’t just kickass – it’s five kinds of kickass.” - Lisa Morton, four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Castle of Los Angeles

“Limbus, Inc. is the best shared world anthology I’ve come across in the last twenty years. It was absolutely outstanding – five perfect stories from five of the top names in the business. Even the best shared world anthologies can, at times, play a little fast and loose with continuity, but not so Limbus, Inc. Editor Anne C. Petty has put together such a flexible, yet finely realized world here that the five voices she’s brought together sound like a choir warmed up in hell. This book is going to set the bar for shared world anthologies for a long time to come. Mark my words.” - Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Flesh Eaters and Inheritance

“An infinity of Earths and an infinity of possibilities…all connected by a single shadowy entity–Limbus, Inc. Their goal: to match the person to the job, regardless of where that job might lead in time and space. The result: aliens, ancient gods, and characters with secrets too dark to be revealed but too dangerous to keep hidden. Too large for a single volume, the tales of Limbus, Inc., explore worlds of the imagination. And far beyond. But beware! Like so many good things, the stories of Limbus, Inc., can be addicting. One is just not enough. For those of us who welcome the obsession to excellent storytelling, there is an entire volume…and more to come.” – Dr. Michael R. Collings

“Five excellent authors. Five wonderful stories. Slaughterers and robot emissaries. Slave traders and monsters. Welcome to the amazing multiverse of Limbus, Inc.” – Allyson Bird, Author

“I can honestly say that all of the stories in Limbus, Inc. were riveting – to the point of being mesmerizing. If you are looking for an anthology that is truly different from the run of the mill, and one that takes itself seriously enough to commission the best tales from its first class authors, then I highly recommend you pick up Limbus, Inc.” – TT Zuma – HorrorWorld.com

“Listen up, fans. Limbus, Inc. is a delight. Remember all those alternate universes suggested by classics such as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone? Turns out they’re for real. Only one sinister corporation controls all of the entrances-and there are no exits.” – Harry Shannon, Stoker nominated author of Dead and Gone and The Hungry

A Book Bomb for Ben Happening Now!

Today we are raising money through a book bomb to help David Farland’s son, Ben Wolverton. You can provide extra help by forwarding this message to anyone who might be interested.

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Ben Wolverton, age 16, was in a tragic long-boarding accident on Wednesday the 4th, 2013. He suffers from severe brain trauma, a cracked skull, broken pelvis and tail bone, burnt knees, bruised lungs, broken ear drums, road rash, pneumonia, and is currently in a coma. The parts of his brain that affect speech and word recognition, the ability to walk, and, perhaps, his vision are of most concern right now.

His family has no insurance.

Ben is the son of author David Farland, whose books have won multiple awards, and who is widely known as a mentor to many prominent authors, such as Stephenie Meyer and Brandon Mull. Costs for Ben’s treatment are expected to rise above $1,000,0000. Today, people everywhere can help raise money by purchasing David Farland’s books Nightingale and Million Dollar Outlines.

You can learn more about Ben and his condition at www.helpwolverton.com.

Nightingale

David Farland’s young adult fantasy thriller Nightingale has won seven awards, including the Grand Prize at the Hollywood Book Festival—beating out ALL books in ALL categories. It has been praised by authors such as James Dashner (The Maze Runner), Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn), and Paul Genesse (Iron Dragon series), and has received four and a half starts on Amazon. You can read reviews here.

Synopsis

Some people sing at night to drive back the darkness. Others sing to summon it. . . .

Bron Jones was abandoned at birth. Thrown into foster care, he was rejected by one family after another, until he met Olivia, a gifted and devoted high-school teacher who recognized him for what he really was—what her people call a “nightingale.”

But Bron isn’t ready to learn the truth. There are secrets that have been hidden from mankind for hundreds of thousands of years, secrets that should remain hidden. Some things are too dangerous to know. Bron’s secret may be the most dangerous of all.

Nightingale is available as a hardcover, ebook, audio book, and enhanced novel for the iPad. Get it on–

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

The Nightingale website (get print and audio editions here!)

or get the enhanced version complete with illustrations, interviews, animations, and its own soundtrack through iTunes

Outside of the U.S.? No problem! Buy it off your usual Amazon site, the U.S. Amazon site, or the Nightingale website!

Million Dollar Outlines

If you are a writer, you may want to consider purchasing David Farland’s Million Dollar Outlines also. Both books are part of the book bomb. Million Dollar Outlines has been a bestseller on Amazon for over a month and is only $6.99.

As a bestselling author David Farland has taught dozens of writers who have gone on to staggering literary success, including such #1 New York Times Bestsellers as Brandon Mull (Fablehaven), Brandon Sanderson (Wheel of Time), and Stephenie Meyer (Twilight).

In Million Dollar Outlines, Dave teaches how to analyze an audience and outline a novel so that it can appeal to a wide readership, giving it the potential to become a bestseller. The secrets found in his unconventional approach will help you understand why so many of his authors go on to prominence.

Get it on–

Amazon

or Barnes and Noble

Outside of the U.S.? No problem! Buy it off your usual Amazon site or the U.S. Amazon site.

Shop to Raise Money

Help raise money by going on a shopping spree through the U.S. Amazon. The Wolvertons will get a small percentage of everything you purchase–whether you purchase one item or 50. Just make sure you START your shopping through this Nightingale link.

Donate

If you prefer to just donate money, you can do that right here.

Help that Doesn’t Require Money

If you can’t spare any money, but would still like to help, you can do so by telling others about Ben’s donation page, and/or this book bomb. Share it on facebook, twitter, pinterest, your blog—anywhere you can. We have an event page set up on facebook here.

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So far, we have gotten Million Dollar Outlines to the top spot on Amazon’s bestseller list for books on editing. Nightingale ranks in the twenties for bestsellers in paranormal and contemporary fantasy. Can we get it to the top spot by the end of the day?

To my surprise and delight, the list also includes a book written by yours truly.

BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES squeaks into the top ten at…yep, you guessed it…number ten!

I’ve always been proud of the book but I’m thrilled that others are finding it as enjoyable to read as it was to write.

My thanks to Paul and B&N.

(Jeremiah Hunt #3)

A spine-tingling new Jeremiah Hunt dark fantasy thriller.

New Orleans was nearly the death of Jeremiah Hunt, between a too-close brush with the FBI and a chilling, soul-searing journey through the realm of the dead that culminated with a do-or-die confrontation with Death himself.

But when he performs an arcane ritual to reclaim the soul of the magically gifted, beautiful woman who once saved him, he must flee the law once again, to Los Angeles, city of angels, a temporary sanctuary. In L.A., he has to contend with Carlos Fuentes, who sees in Hunt a means to obtain the mystical key that would open the gates of Hell. Fuentes knows Hunt’s weakness—his loyalty to the woman he loves, and to another “gifted” friend—and uses the real threat of torturing them as a way to get Hunt to help complete his dread quest.

Hunt has learned a lot since his life was irrevocably hijacked by fate months ago. But when his friends are threatened by the supernatural predator known as the Preacher, Hunt knows that all his newfound experience and ability will go for naught unless he can keep both the Preacher and Fuentes at bay long enough for him to somehow find a way to free his friends from mortal peril.

But life has a way of knocking us out of our comfort zones (or sick bed, as it were) and that’s what happened this afternoon when I heard the news that Rick Hautala passed away.  I didn’t know Dave or James, but I knew Rick.  I think we first met back at Necon in 2001 and I’ve always admired his talent and tenacity as a writer.  He was one of those authors I cut my teeth on, back when I first discovered horror fiction, and I always enjoyed the times when we had a chance to sit down and talk shop. I think the last time we did so was at Anthocon in New Hampshire this past fall.  Too few and too far between, as always.  Rick was just an all-around good guy and he will definitely be missed.

My prayers go out to his wife, Holly.

Godspeed, Rick.