Carpathia Audiobook on Sale

Amazon jumped the June 1 release date and has the audiobook of Carpathia for sale already. This is my first-ever audiobook release, and I cannot wait to hear it. The talented Ralph Lister provides the voice for it. Amazon has it for the low-low price of only $11.24 at the moment for the whole nine hours. If you like your historical horror …

Carpathia’s Centennial

The Titanic went down in the North Atlantic 100 years ago yesterday, something I’ve thought about for a long while. As you know, my latest novel, Carpathia, is set on both the RMS Titanic and the RMS Carpathia itself (the ship that picked up the disaster’s survivors), and I’ve done a ton of research about the disaster, trying to figure out what it must …

Carpathia Review and Kindle Sale

Over at Wired’s Geek Dad blog (for which I sometimes chip in a bit or two), James Floyd Kelly gave Carpathia a wonderful review: Yes, Matt Forbeck went there. He took those poor souls that survived the Titanic‘s sinking and decided to make their lives a little more terrifying. He mixed history with horror, and probably did it with a sly grin …

Many More Carpathia Raves

Just because the Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter sucked up nearly all my attention last week doesn’t mean that everyone else in the world stopped reading. Many of those folks even read Carpathia and were kind enough to say several nice things about it. At the San Francisco & Sacramento Book Review, David Marshall gushes over the book. This is a beautifully constructed …

Streams Crossed!

The Crossing the Streams contest came to an end last night, and today we have winners! First, we have Chris Bauer, whose Hollywood-style mash-up tickled my fancy the most: Rotten Sweet Tooth Imagine Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory meets Dawn of the Dead, okay? Starring Vin Diesel or John Cena (whoever is available) as the fearless, chainsaw-wielding candymaster who …

Carpathia Out Everywhere Today

Carpathia, my latest novel from Angry Robot, came out in North America on Tuesday. Today it hits shelves in the rest of the world and is available as an ebook in all major formats worldwide. To mark the event, I’ve rounded up a number of the latest reviews and interviews about it. At Falcata Times, Gareth Wilson loved the book and …

Carpathia Preview and Reviews

Angry Robot has posted a preview of Carpathia, which hits stores in the US today. Check it out below and read the first seven chapters for free!   If that’s not enough to convince you, here’s another review that showed up this morning from Paul Simpson at SciFiBulletin, who gives the book an 8 out of 10: There’s plenty of …

Carpathia in the USA Today!

My latest novel from Angry Robot – Carpathia – hits stores in the US today, and is also available as an ebook directly from Angry Robot and for the Kindle in the UK. It should be on shelves in the UK on March 1, and in the Kindle and Nook (and hopefully iBooks and Kobo) in the US that day too. In …

More Carpathia Reviews

With the release of Carpathia only eight days off, more and more reviews for it have cropped up. Here’s a summary of those that I’ve seen over the past week or so. At the Opinionator, David Marshall enjoyed the book. He writes: Forbeck imparts a pleasingly relentless quality to the narrative as the humans slowly realise they may just have …

Carpathia Reviews and Interviews

My historical horror novel Carpathia is due out at the end of the month. It hits most of the world on February 28, which is the release date for the ebook edition as well. The UK print edition reaches shelves a couple days later on March 1. There’s also an audiobook edition in the works for June 1. Today, L. Dean …