Steven Savile's Blog: The Erratic Mumblings of Steven Savile - Posts Tagged "new-books"
I've been ignoring you all
No I haven't. Not really. I've just been useless and really haven't got the hang of this social media connecting malarky - I mean, I've just realised my website is 5 releases behind, how crap is that?
I suspect I've been obsessing over numbers too much, especially as we cruise into that slow down time of summer for ebooks, which over the last couple of years have been pretty much constants, hit June, slow down until end of August... you'd think everyone would want summer reads and all that, but the truth is people don't take their kindles and ipads to the wallow in the sun and sand, these are expensive pieces of kit. They take good old fashioned paperbacks and don't worry if they get wet or sandy or if the sun is so bright you can't read on the screen... so, anyway, numbers... Part of me was concerned it was the name - Savile - I mean that's not exactly a popular name right now thanks to a certain dead celeb who has pretty much haunted me all my life. Growing up kids would call me Jimmy and do this really annoying 'How's about, how's about jangle jangle jewellery jewellery, now then now then' impression that really drove me nuts, because I mean... look at the guy... he was creepy. And it turns out he was a lot more than that. So the name has this contamination at the moment... will it go away? I think so. But I've talked seriously with my agent about reinventing myself.
It's one reason the YA series has been released under the name Aimee Carr (Moonlands - over on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Moonlands-ebook... ) and B&N http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moonl... ) is one of my favourite things I've ever written, but part of me is absolutely convinced it's just confusing to people to have the thrillers under the same name as the kids books as the fantasy books... while I think it's fine (or at least used to) I'm starting to think that maybe not knowing what you're going to get is a bit of a pain for the readers as they're not fans of 'me' they're fans of set series, like the OGMIOS books...
Anyway... the purpose of this, basically is to let everyone know that I'm actually launching a new series:
Snatched from the press release:
Steven Savile, international bestselling author of the Ogmios series, and award-winning author Steve Lockley have masterminded a new action-packed crime-thriller series featuring Jack Stone, a man who has survived the worst humanity had to throw at him out in Afghanistan and Iraq, and just wants a quiet life. Men like Jack don't get to settle down and grow old gracefully. Men like Jack come into this world fighting and go out of it the same way. Fresh out of the Regiment (22nd SAS), Jack's coming home to a world of pain. He can't help himself. He's drawn to the darkness, but then, he's not exactly a white knight.
The series kicks off with Northern Fire, a free novella that introduces Jack to the world, and continues in Northern Grit, published this month by Crossroad Press. Upcoming titles include Northern Soul and Northern Steel, which see Jack Stone back in Savile's native Newcastle, in the north of England, surrounded by kidnapped girls, sex trafficking, gangland crime, drugs, and every vice known to man. This is Jack Stone's world. This is where he belongs. Because this is no place for a white knight.
NORTHERN GRIT
No good deed goes unpunished for men like Jack Stone. His best friend lies bleeding slowly to death when a bad situation goes to worse. A favour's being cashed in. He can't say no. Not that he ever would. He owes Micky Brannon big time. Once upon a time they'd been the Three Musketeers, Micky, Chris Drury and Jack Stone. Then Chris had come back to Brize Norton in a box and Micky had lost his legs thanks to an IED.
Shrinks called it Survivor's Guilt, Jack called it being a mate.
Micky's baby sister, Carly, is in trouble. Jack's promised to find her and bring her home safe. She's not the innocent young kid he remembers--but then he hasn't seen her since she was six and called him Uncle Jack. His search leads Jack into a seedy underworld of sex clubs, violent crime, and desperate people. The locals call it Paradise, the girls trapped there call it Hell. Jack calls it home.
As NORTHERN FIRE isn't up yet it's included in the back of NORTHERN GRIT as a bonus.
UK LINK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Grit... US LINK: http://www.amazon.com/Northern-Grit-e...
And if that wasn't enough... I've just launched the 4th OGMIOS book, LUCIFER'S MACHINE...
"Perfect for those DaVinci Code fans looking for another electrifying read combining Biblical history with modern-day Armageddon." -- Douglas Preston, NYT Bestselling author of IMPACT and BLASPHEMY
During the basking summer heat a university-based archaeology team uncovers an ancient box bearing the image of Baphomet. They are on a remote French island with strong links to the Knights Templar story. The image of Baphomet itself goes a long way to proving those links as far as the team lead by Dr Kytain are concerned, especially as the Templar were accused of devil worship during their trails. Could this box-a crude yet sophisticated machine centuries ahead of its time-be a vital link to discovering the true nature of the knights relationship to the horned devil?
Before they are able to decipher the box’s secrets the entire team are butchered horrifically, and all indications are that an extremist group, Al Aler’eyh, are behind the slaughter. A second linked murder in the hallowed halls of Cambridge University tips off Control to the threat.
Enter Sir Charles Wyndham and his Ogmios Team.
Tasked with finding the Lucifer Machine and putting an end to this particularly fundamentalist wing of the terror organisation, Noah and Orla find themselves in the adult playground of Dubai, fighting for their lives...
UK link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lucifers-Mach...
US Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Machin...
So that's three brand new things... a crime story, a YA fantasy and a religious thriller... something for everyone right?
I hope so - and thanks for sticking around guys - I promise not to neglect... but to try and you know... become a useful human being...
I suspect I've been obsessing over numbers too much, especially as we cruise into that slow down time of summer for ebooks, which over the last couple of years have been pretty much constants, hit June, slow down until end of August... you'd think everyone would want summer reads and all that, but the truth is people don't take their kindles and ipads to the wallow in the sun and sand, these are expensive pieces of kit. They take good old fashioned paperbacks and don't worry if they get wet or sandy or if the sun is so bright you can't read on the screen... so, anyway, numbers... Part of me was concerned it was the name - Savile - I mean that's not exactly a popular name right now thanks to a certain dead celeb who has pretty much haunted me all my life. Growing up kids would call me Jimmy and do this really annoying 'How's about, how's about jangle jangle jewellery jewellery, now then now then' impression that really drove me nuts, because I mean... look at the guy... he was creepy. And it turns out he was a lot more than that. So the name has this contamination at the moment... will it go away? I think so. But I've talked seriously with my agent about reinventing myself.
It's one reason the YA series has been released under the name Aimee Carr (Moonlands - over on Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/Moonlands-ebook... ) and B&N http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/moonl... ) is one of my favourite things I've ever written, but part of me is absolutely convinced it's just confusing to people to have the thrillers under the same name as the kids books as the fantasy books... while I think it's fine (or at least used to) I'm starting to think that maybe not knowing what you're going to get is a bit of a pain for the readers as they're not fans of 'me' they're fans of set series, like the OGMIOS books...
Anyway... the purpose of this, basically is to let everyone know that I'm actually launching a new series:
Snatched from the press release:
Steven Savile, international bestselling author of the Ogmios series, and award-winning author Steve Lockley have masterminded a new action-packed crime-thriller series featuring Jack Stone, a man who has survived the worst humanity had to throw at him out in Afghanistan and Iraq, and just wants a quiet life. Men like Jack don't get to settle down and grow old gracefully. Men like Jack come into this world fighting and go out of it the same way. Fresh out of the Regiment (22nd SAS), Jack's coming home to a world of pain. He can't help himself. He's drawn to the darkness, but then, he's not exactly a white knight.
The series kicks off with Northern Fire, a free novella that introduces Jack to the world, and continues in Northern Grit, published this month by Crossroad Press. Upcoming titles include Northern Soul and Northern Steel, which see Jack Stone back in Savile's native Newcastle, in the north of England, surrounded by kidnapped girls, sex trafficking, gangland crime, drugs, and every vice known to man. This is Jack Stone's world. This is where he belongs. Because this is no place for a white knight.
NORTHERN GRIT
No good deed goes unpunished for men like Jack Stone. His best friend lies bleeding slowly to death when a bad situation goes to worse. A favour's being cashed in. He can't say no. Not that he ever would. He owes Micky Brannon big time. Once upon a time they'd been the Three Musketeers, Micky, Chris Drury and Jack Stone. Then Chris had come back to Brize Norton in a box and Micky had lost his legs thanks to an IED.
Shrinks called it Survivor's Guilt, Jack called it being a mate.
Micky's baby sister, Carly, is in trouble. Jack's promised to find her and bring her home safe. She's not the innocent young kid he remembers--but then he hasn't seen her since she was six and called him Uncle Jack. His search leads Jack into a seedy underworld of sex clubs, violent crime, and desperate people. The locals call it Paradise, the girls trapped there call it Hell. Jack calls it home.
As NORTHERN FIRE isn't up yet it's included in the back of NORTHERN GRIT as a bonus.
UK LINK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Northern-Grit... US LINK: http://www.amazon.com/Northern-Grit-e...
And if that wasn't enough... I've just launched the 4th OGMIOS book, LUCIFER'S MACHINE...
"Perfect for those DaVinci Code fans looking for another electrifying read combining Biblical history with modern-day Armageddon." -- Douglas Preston, NYT Bestselling author of IMPACT and BLASPHEMY
During the basking summer heat a university-based archaeology team uncovers an ancient box bearing the image of Baphomet. They are on a remote French island with strong links to the Knights Templar story. The image of Baphomet itself goes a long way to proving those links as far as the team lead by Dr Kytain are concerned, especially as the Templar were accused of devil worship during their trails. Could this box-a crude yet sophisticated machine centuries ahead of its time-be a vital link to discovering the true nature of the knights relationship to the horned devil?
Before they are able to decipher the box’s secrets the entire team are butchered horrifically, and all indications are that an extremist group, Al Aler’eyh, are behind the slaughter. A second linked murder in the hallowed halls of Cambridge University tips off Control to the threat.
Enter Sir Charles Wyndham and his Ogmios Team.
Tasked with finding the Lucifer Machine and putting an end to this particularly fundamentalist wing of the terror organisation, Noah and Orla find themselves in the adult playground of Dubai, fighting for their lives...
UK link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lucifers-Mach...
US Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Lucifers-Machin...
So that's three brand new things... a crime story, a YA fantasy and a religious thriller... something for everyone right?
I hope so - and thanks for sticking around guys - I promise not to neglect... but to try and you know... become a useful human being...
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