James A. Moore

Sequel to DEEPER?

2009-07-06T23:18:04Z

Yep. I'll be starting it soon.

Illustration definitely related and illustrated by the ever talented Alan Clark.

Gaslight Grotesque

2009-07-06T23:15:19Z

So, now and then I write a short story and someone is crazy enough to actually buy and print it. Here's the latest.

GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES cover art by Timothy Lantz.THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON BAKER STREET!

Between the shadowy realms of fear and the unforgiving glare of science lies a battleground of unspeakable horror. In vile alleyways with blood-slick cobblestones, impenetrable fog, and the wan glow of gaslight, lurk the inhuman denizens of nightmare.

GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES frontispiece artwork by Neil Vokes.CAN REASON PREVAIL WHEN ELIMINATING THE IMPOSSIBLE IS NO LONGER AN OPTION?

Faced with his worst fears, Sherlock Holmes has his faith in the science of observation and deduction shaken to the core in 13 all-new tales of terror from today’s modern masters of the macabre!

"I'm a big fan of the Holmes pastiche (at least as a concept)--especially when it involves ghost and monsters--and ESPECIALLY when it's done as well as it is in these refreshingly original stories. A great collection."
- Mike Mignola, creator of HELLBOY

At long last I’m pleased to be able to announce our story line-up (pending contracts) and table of contents for GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Cover art is once again provided by Timothy Lantz. The frontispiece is by Neil Vokes.

GASLIGHT GRIMOIRE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Edited by J. R. Campbell and Charles Prepolec

Foreword: Tales of Terror & Mystery by Leslie S. Klinger
Introduction by Charles V. Prepolec

Hounded by Stephen Volk
The Death Lantern by Lawrence C. Connolly
The Quality of Mercy by William Meikle
Emily’s Kiss by James A. Moore
The Tragic Case of the Child Prodigy by William Patrick Maynard
The Last Windigo by Hayden Trenholm
Celeste by Neil Jackson
The Best Laid Plans by Robert Lauderdale
Exalted Are the Forces of Darkness by Leigh Blackmore
The Affair of the Heart by Mark Morris
The Hand Delivered Letter by Simon K. Unsworth
Of the Origin of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Barbara Roden
Mr. Other’s Children by J.R. Campbell

GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES will be available for purchase in November 2009 from all fine booksellers. Pre-orders are currently available through Amazon.com.

http://astore.amazon.com/bakerstreetdo-20/detail/1894063317

GASLIGHT GROTESQUE: NIGHTMARE TALES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing; 1 edition (November 15, 2009)
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN-10: 1894063317
ISBN-13: 978-1894063319

Steve Savile's at it again....

2009-07-02T20:49:57Z

http://variancepublishing.blogspot.com/2009/07/silver-cover-is-here.html

nice cover!

Passing it on.

2009-06-29T21:26:29Z

On Friday, we sent you the following message from Dan Choi, a native of California and an Army Lieutenant facing trial on Tuesday for "moral and professional dereliction" under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

With just hours left until Lt. Choi's trial, an amazing 91,147 people -- including you -- have signed the letter of support linked below asking the Army not to fire Lt. Choi.

It's important that Lt. Choi walks into the courtroom on Tuesday holding as many letters of support as possible. Can you help us gather more than 100,000 signatures for Lt. Choi by forwarding this email to your friends today?

http://www.couragecampaign.org/SupportDan

Rick Jacobs
Chair, Courage Campaign

Dear John --

On Tuesday at 8 a.m., I will stand trial for speaking three truthful words: "I am gay."

On Tuesday, I will face a panel of colonels who will decide whether or not to fire me -- to discharge me for "moral and professional dereliction" under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

On Tuesday, I will try to prove that it's not immoral to tell the truth.

As an infantry officer, an Iraq combat veteran and a West Point graduate with a degree in Arabic, I refuse to lie to my commanders. I refuse to lie to my peers. I refuse to lie to my subordinates.

My case requires that I provide personal testimony from people who can attest to my character. That's why several members of my military unit have written letters of support and offered to testify on my behalf.

Now I need your help. ANYONE who believes the Army should not fire me can take a stand right now. I am bringing a statement of support to Tuesday's trial and I need you to add your signature to it. Will you support me by signing this statement before Tuesday?

http://www.couragecampaign.org/SupportDan

I want to thank the 141,262 people who have signed the "Don't Fire Dan" letter launched a few weeks ago by the Courage Campaign and CREDO Mobile to President Obama, asking him to take leadership to bring this tragic policy to an end.

The momentum is building. This week, 77 members of Congress signed a letter to the President citing my service as an example of why DADT should be repealed. And a Gallup poll was recently released showing that 69 percent of Americans -- including 58 percent of Republicans - favor allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve their country .

As I learned at West Point, deception and lies poison a unit and cripple a fighting force. That's why more than 70 of my fellow West Point graduates have also come out of the closet to join Knights Out, the organization I co-founded to build support for the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell".

The only way we will eventually overturn "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is by speaking up together. You can help me fight back right now by adding your name to my statement of support. On Tuesday morning, I will bring your signature -- and thousands of others -- to my trial as a demonstration of your collective support:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/SupportDan

National security means many things, but the thing that makes us secure in our nation and homes is love. What makes me a better soldier, leader, Christian and human being is love. And I'm not going to hide my love.

Love is worth it.

Thank you for your support.

Daniel W. Choi
1LT, IN
New York Army National Guard

Now Shipping

2009-06-29T17:44:54Z

After lengthy delays, SLICES is finally shipping. I am pleased.

Review: Serenity Falls

2009-06-25T23:28:44Z

http://kurtmcriscione.macabreink.com/

I was just informed of a very nice review. Call it bragging rights: I had to share. :)

Coming from the printers at last....

2009-06-24T23:50:56Z

And of course, the interior art....

redredrage @ 2009-06-14T08:43:00

2009-06-14T12:44:06Z

It's official, I'll be attending dragon-con this year in ATlanta, labor day weekend.

If you;re going to be there, drop by and say hi.

Vein Specialists of Georgia

2009-06-01T21:25:07Z

Seriously, if you live in Georgia and you need to get a venous or arterial procedure/check up, find someone else if you can.
Why? Average wait in the waiting room AFTER scheduled time, is 40 minutes. Today they broke their own record and we waited 50 minutes.
For a ten minute procedure.
Then we waited another 50 minutes (seriously, I clocked it) for the 2 minute discussion with the doctor.
Then we waited 40 minutes to get an appointment for next week for a minor surgery. That last one I can ALMOST forgive. The other two? Assanine and unprofessional. This is the worst of roughly fifteen doctors we see every year and they are actually getting worse.

So if you have a choice, find someone else.

Nice words for first draft of YA novel.

2009-05-27T21:16:04Z

"Let’s agree that you have written an absolutely wild novel that we know deserves a sequel and we hope will become a series. This is great stuff! You have a remarkable talent for graphic action: but the often gruesome quality of your language is not gratuitous; rather, it helps set the perfect tone for a page-turner that’s both frightening and intricate in its design. Kids are going to love this book."

I suspect me and this particular editor are going to work together just fine. :)

THE NEW DEAD (Limited edition)

2009-05-20T19:14:17Z

Apparently Subterranean Press has worked out a deal to publish a limited edition of 250 copies of the anthology. More news when I know it.

Jim

"limited" is an understatement.

2009-05-19T20:33:44Z

http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/_CDEX2009

Seriously, if you're interested, jump now, do not wait.

I'm just sayin....

THE NEW DEAD

2009-05-18T22:14:14Z

The following is stolen directly from Chris Golden's website. I am absolutely delighted to be a part of it.

The New Dead
So, last year, I was approached by Michael Homler, an editor at St. Martin's Press. They had an interest, he said, in publishing an anthology of zombie stories and wanted me to put one together as editor. My initial reaction was hesitant. I enjoy zombie stories as much as the next weird bastard, but I was skeptical about doing something just to capitalize on the current trend. If I were to attempt it, my interest would be in compiling a collection of stories that touched on WHY zombies are so damn popular at the moment. Vampires, of course, remain popular because of their glamour and eroticism and the promise of eternal life. But zombies...um, they eat your brains.

Thus...THE NEW DEAD.

We live in odd times. Strange days, indeed. Times of torture and deceit and celebrity and constant exposure to the worst the world has to offer, thanks to a media that never tires of feeding our hunger for the horrible.

My favorite work of zombie fiction ever is the poem "The March of the Dead" by Robert Service. In a way, it set the tone for this new anthology, though it was published long, long ago. Service wrote of the glorious homecoming of victorious soldiers, celebrated by the townspeople as they parade through the streets...only to be followed by the ravaged, horrible, lumbering dead, the soldiers who did not survive the war.

This isn't to say that the stories in THE NEW DEAD are all focused on such modern concerns (hah...modern...tell that to Robert Service). But each has its own unique perspective on the zombie story, and many are certainly informed by the cultural concerns unique to our era. On the other hand, some are about love. And, of course, they're all about Hunger, in one form or another.

Aside from taking a different slant on the zombie story--or, I should say, because of it--my other goal was to assemble a very eclectic array of contributors, a zombie anthology version of Forrest Gump's box of chocolates. Fantasy writers. Mainstream literary writers. Horror writers. Mystery and thriller writers. I can only hope you'll be as pleased with the results as I am.

Without further ado...the Table of Contents for THE NEW DEAD, shipping in February, 2010 from St. Martin's/Griffin:

Table of Contents

"Lazarus" by John Connolly
"What Maisie Knew" by David Liss
"Copper" by Stephen R. Bissette
"In the Dust" by Tim Lebbon
"Life Sentence" by Kelley Armstrong
"Delice" by Holly Newstein
"Closure, LTD" by Max Brooks
"The Wind Cries Mary" by Brian Keene
"Family Business" by Jonathan Maberry
"The Zombie Who Fell From the Sky" by M.B. Homler
"My Dolly" by Derek Nikitas
"Second Wind" by Mike Carey
"Among Us" by Aimee Bender
"Ghost Trap" by Rick Hautala
"The Storm Door" by Tad Williams
"Kids and Their Toys" by James A. Moore
"Shooting Pool" by Joe R. Landsdale
"Weaponized" by David Wellington
"Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" by Joe Hill

No, seriously, read this book!

2009-05-16T21:07:50Z

One of the best suspense novels ever written. Just that simple.

James A. Moore

Sigh

2009-05-14T03:26:52Z

I just saw the absolutely gorgeous Jill Bauman cover for a collaborative stale coming out from a cool publisher, and I can't tell you about the story, the release date, the publisher or the list of contributors, but, by golly, it's gonna blow everyone away.

Maybe soon.....

Ready....Aim....

2009-05-12T03:45:08Z

http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/star-trek-and-retreads

Updates

2009-05-09T23:21:59Z

Okay, so, done with the first draft of THE FAILURES. Well, almost done. I'm going over it one more time for typos.

And then back to BOOMTOWN.

And then, I think it's gonna be time to write BACK TO SERENITY. Or just maybe DEAR DIARY: RUN LIKE HELL.

I dunno yet....

Ah rare and precious books....

2009-05-05T03:13:00Z

New contest at The Keenedom. Win free (and expensive) books: http://www.briankeene.com/

No, seriously, check this one out! The top prizes are damned fine....

About damned time!

2009-05-02T20:55:50Z

Glenn Chadbourne finally broke down and got himself a website.
It's still under construction, but even the front page is worth checking out and you can do just that, right here:
http://www.glennchadbourne.com/

THE WILD HUNT

2009-04-23T21:59:48Z

My new novella, THE WILD HUNT is finally available for preorder from Insideous Publications. There's even a sample cahpter up on the site: http://insidiouspublications.com/TheWildHunt.htm

How well do you know your friends?
They’ve been chums since high school and every year they go hunting together and reminisce about old times and their glory days while they try to bag their limit.
Would you die for them?
Now something has gone wrong. Someone has grabbed their families, taken their loved ones and left strict instructions about where they must go, when they must meet if they want their families back alive.
Would they kill for you?
Someone is hiding a secret that’s linked to one of their hunts. Someone offended the wrong people and now unless that someone comes clean, every last one of them is going to either sacrifice himself or lose his loved ones in his stead.
Do they deserve to live?
But they have one last option, a test of skills against the very creatures they offended, blood for blood in the middle of a wintry nowhere. Fight and kill and win your freedom or hesitate and die for your foolishness.

The Wild Hunt has begun and before it’s over, somebody dies.

More news as warranted!

I've been Kindled!

2009-04-19T22:53:21Z

Actually, I believe Berkley already put up BLOOD RED as a Kindle, but now Cemetery Dance Publications is trying their hand at it and I've agreed to be one of the test subjects.

So, the following products will now be available from CD and Amazon.com working in conjunction:

For those interested:

HARVEST MOON

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026P38VA?ie=UTF8&tag=052379122979-20

Home for the Holidays

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026P38VK?ie=UTF8&tag=052379122979-20

The Walker Place

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026P38VU?ie=UTF8&tag=052379122979-20

All three are out of print in other formats. See? Sometimes "Limited Edition" means just that.

More news as warranted,

Jim

There's something wrong with Brian Keene

2009-03-30T14:03:35Z

http://www.inyork.com/ci_12011759

Some time in June

2009-03-30T14:00:04Z

That's when Jeff Strand gets his fanny up this way and we settle in at a local book store and have us an old fashioned book signing. Rumor has it there will even be coffee nearby.

I'll give you the details soon.

Jim

It's new and it's published

2009-03-26T20:48:08Z

http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/PROD/_ebook01

SLICES

2009-03-14T22:46:09Z

Looks to be coming around in June or July. I'm looking forward to holding this one in my hands.