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The Man Who Walked in Darkness has a release date!

Posted by chrisstrange1 in Books on June 12, 2013

News time! After much delay (entirely my fault), the sequel to The Man Who Crossed Worlds is nearly here. The ebook edition will be available June 21st 2013, with the paperback soon after. Woot!

The sequel, titled The Man Who Walked in Darkness, follows freelance Tunneler Miles Franco as he deals with the aftermath of the events of The Man Who Crossed Worlds. Here’s the blurb:

Miles is back for another round of hardboiled pulp action in the two-fisted sequel to The Man Who Crossed Worlds. The Man Who Walked in Darkness

Freelance Tunneler Miles Franco is having a bad time of it. He’s facing a trial that could see him spend the rest of his days in prison. Hallucinations of dead men haunt him day and night. And to top it all off, one of his bandmates has been poisoned by a toxin from another world.

Miles doesn’t take kindly to people killing his friends. Now he’ll have to walk the darkest road he’s ever been down. With corrupt corporations on one side and fanatical interdimensional gangsters on the other, he doesn’t hold out any hope he’ll come out of this alive. But he has a promise to keep.

And Miles will burn every last world to the ground if it gets him answers.

That’s not all. To celebrate the release of the new book, the first Miles book will soon have an all new and updated cover and paperback version. And keep an eye out for a special price on the Kindle edition of The Man Who Crossed Worlds in about a week.

And remember, if you want me to email you as soon as the book is out so you can get your grubby little hands on it, sign up for my New Release Mailing List.

Catch you all soon!

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Shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award 2013

Posted by chrisstrange1 in Books on April 23, 2013

Don't Be a Hero: A Superhero Novel I have great news! Don’t Be a Hero, my superhero novel, has been shortlisted in the Best Novel category of the 2013 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. Thank you very much to all of you who were kind enough to nominate me.

The next stage is voting by members of SFFANZ and Au Contraire. If you are member of one of these groups and would like a free digital copy of Don’t Be a Hero to read before casting your vote, please email me at chrisstrangeauthor@gmail.com with your name and format preference (Kindle, EPUB, PDF).

Thanks again, everyone. You guys are the best.

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My Books on Sale for Read an Ebook Week 2013

Posted by chrisstrange1 in Books on March 3, 2013

It’s Read an E-Book Week this week, and to celebrate, my novels Don’t Be a Hero and The Man Who Crossed Worlds are both 50% off at Smashwords!

Smashwords is an ebook retailer that offers ebooks in a variety of formats, including EPUB (for Kobo, Nook, and iBooks) and MOBI (for Kindle). To get 50% off either of my novels, just go to the store page for Don’t Be a Hero or The Man Who Crossed Worlds and use the coupon code REW50 at the checkout.

Get in fast, because the deal ends at midnight Pacific time on March 9. And be sure to check out all the other awesome books on sale for Read an E-Book Week!

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Nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards Are Open!

Posted by chrisstrange1 in Books on February 4, 2013

Nominations for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards, New Zealand’s premier science fiction and fantasy awards, are now open! Since my superhero novel Don’t Be a Hero was released in 2012, it is eligible for the Best Professional Novel category. But to stand a chance of getting this award I need your help!

If you read and enjoyed Don’t Be a Hero, I’d really appreciate it if you could take the time to send in an email nomination. The author must be a New Zealander (like me) or a New Zealand resident, but you don’t have to be — the SFFANZ accepts nominations from any living person on Earth. Every nomination helps!

All you have to do is cut and paste the information below, add in your name and email, and forward it to: sjv_awards@sffanz.org.nz

For further information, or to see other authors you can vote for, go to: http://www.sffanz.org.nz/

Here are the details you need to nominate Don’t Be a Hero for Best Professional Novel:

Book Title: Don’t Be a Hero

Author: Chris Strange

Type of work: Novel

Year of release: 2012

Publisher: Cheeky Minion

Author Contact: chrisstrangeauthor@gmail.com

Category: Professional – Best Novel

Genre: Science Fiction

Your name: [Insert your own name here]