Release Date Announced for TZC: Escape
On September 1st, 2008, I began podcasting the first draft of my debut novel, The Zombie Chronicles: Escape. Four days later the podcast had a sponsor in the way of Permuted Press. Then, in November of 2008, I announced that all three books in the trilogy had been sold to Permuted Press before the first one was even finished. That made me the world’s first podcast author to acheive such a feat. Selling three books off of one unfinshed manuscript. Yeah, I claim bragging rights for that one.
Then in July of 2009, I revealed that TZC: Escape had been picked up in the deal between Permuted Press and Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.
While Escape was going to be published late in 2009 from Permuted Press, the deal between Pocket Books changed all that. I was okay with that. Why? Because with Simon & Schuster behind the novel, it would get a North American release, finding its way into book stores everywhere. How cool is that?
I am now pleased to announce that I have a tentative release month for The Zombie Chronicles: Escape. As of right now, it will be hitting book shelves across the country in March, 2011. Yes, 2011.
That may seem like a ways away, but in the world of Big Fiction, that’s actually not too bad. See, when S&S picked up seven books from Permuted Press, they decided to take a chance on mine. Initially, they only wanted books with proven sales records. With the success of the podcast version of Escape though (over 500,000 downloads and counting), they went with it.
So together, you and I are going to band together in March, 2011, to show them that they made the right decision, and that they should pick up the sequels as well.
There’s going to be big things happening over the next year, including an announcement soon about how you can pre-order signed copies of the book, and how you can help start spreading the word.
In March of 2011, we’re going to take the publishing world by storm and everyone will realize that there is no escape from the book New York Times bestseller Scott Sigler calls, “The 1984 of zombie novels…”
THE ZOMBIE CHRONICLES: ESCAPE!
