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Coming soon ‘Conversations in the Abyss’ the sequel to the 5 star rated supernatural thriller ‘The Cult of Me’



Stealing Lazarus’ miracle gifted him immortality. Combined with his natural ability of invading and controlling people’s minds this made him one of the most dangerous people on Earth.

But the miracle came with a price. His punishment was to be imprisoned within the walls of an ancient monastery and tormented by an invisible fire that burned his body perpetually. To escape the pain he retreated deep into his own mind.

There he discovers the truth of the universe and that only he can stop the coming Apocalypse.

Conversations in the Abyss is going on tour!

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

Happy days are here to stay as my new book is out today :-)

'Conversations in the Abyss' is now available from Amazon:

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BCP08JU/
US: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BCP08JU/

I recently wrote an article for Olga Núñez Miret's blog about writing in someone else's universe that may be of interest:

In English: http://olganm.wordpress.com/2013/02/0...

In Spanish: http://olganm.wordpress.com/2013/02/0...

Thanks Olga!

And the first review is in (Amazon and Goodreads):

This is an amazing novel which weaves together a number of strands. We meet The Deathless Man, an entity who has been imprisoned within the walls of a monastery and is visited by a good and a fallen angel. We meet a group of clerics from Rome who are chasing an ancient document, The Gospel of Lazarus and a newly discovered prophecy, and we follow the preparations made by The Antichrist for The End Times. It's an intriguing tale and is very philosophical and metaphysical. I don't think I've ever read anything quite like it.

There's some wonderful imagery used here and the action of the story is exciting. There's also considerable food for thought. If you've read Michael Brookes' first novel, `The Cult of Me' it will fill in some background on characters you meet here but it's perfectly possible to appreciate this book on its own merits. Particularly at the beginning, I found some of this book rather lyrical, poetic, in its descriptions. I'm assuming there will be more. I'll certainly be reading it.

T James has featured 'Conversations in the Abyss' on his blog 'The Word on the Net'

http://thewordonthe.net/02/2013/featu...

Thanks TJ!

Second review is in:

4 stars - Conversations in the Abyss 10 Feb 2013
By Joo (in UK)
Format:Kindle Edition
This is apparently the sequel to The Cult of Me (The Third Path), which I haven't read. In saying that, it's kind of apparent there's history but I didn't feel that I was missing out by not having read Cult.

This is an age old story of good versus evil, angels, demons, souls, God, etc. There are a few strands going on, which obviously come together bit by bit. Sometimes I felt like there could be a fleshing out of various bits of the story. I think I liked the Friar Francis bits the best. I would have liked to have read more about his part in this story.

An enjoyable read and I shall have to read the first one now, to see if it enhances my enjoyment of this one.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, let's celebrate in style on the Bloody Valentine Blog Hop:

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

See you there!

Just bought Cult of Me and Conversations in the Abyss for my Kindle. I have several other books to read first, but I'll comment when I've read yours.

Excellent - I'll look forward to your thoughts. I hope you like them!

Conversations in the Abyss has been reviewed on the Ajoobacats blog and who has some very nice things to say:

This metaphysical thriller (should I coin it that?) is the sequel to The Cult of Me and is an unusual and absorbing read. The theme is the battle between good and evil, namely archangel Michael and fallen angel Lucifer. The arena stretches from heaven to hell and an imprisoned deathless man is a key player. The book explains the concept the plot is based on at the beginning and it is quite mind blowing stuff. I like the way Michael Brookes’ mind works and he doesn’t disappoint as things progress in this novel.

Read the full review via the link below:

http://ajoobacatsblog.wordpress.com/2...

Join me for the Conversations in the Abyss blog tour. It starts tomorrow and continues throughout March:

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

Day 1 of the Conversations in the Abyss blog tour sees me interviewed by Rosen Trevithick on her blog:

http://www.rosentrevithick.co.uk/174/...

Day 2 of the Conversations in the Abyss blog tour brings me to the Where The Dead Fear To Tread blog where I am interviewed by M R Gott:

http://wherethedeadfeartotread.blogsp...

On the third day of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour I did write a guest post on The Word on the .Net blog:

http://thewordonthe.net/03/2013/guest...

And it was pretty awesome :-)

On to Day 4 of the Conversations in the Abyss blog tour brings me to Musings of a Creative Mind blog. Here Allan Krummenacker has hosted a guest post about how I created the book cover. Read all about it via the link below:

http://allankrummenacker.blogspot.co....

Thanks Allan!

Welcome to day 5 of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour, the fun moves onto David Wailing's blog where I ask the question - "What's the big idea?"

http://www.davidwailing.com/2013/03/m...

Thanks David!

Day 6 of the Conversations in the Abyss brings me to Jaq Hawkin's blog where she hosts a guest post by me called 'Writers are readers too'. You can read the post here:

http://indiewritenet.com/jaqdhawkins/...

Thanks Jaq!

Scott Marlowe interviews me on his blog for day 7 of the tour:

http://www.scottmarlowe.com/post/Auth...

Thanks Scott!

For day 8 of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour I've been interviewed by Devorah Fox on her blog:

http://devorahfox.com/index.php/2013/...

Thanks Devorah!

After a few hiccups over the weekend the Conversations in the Abyss blog tour is back on track with an interview on AF Stewart's blog:

http://afstewartblog.blogspot.ca/2013...

Thanks AF!

On the thirteenth day of the Conversations in the Abyss blog tour we visit Mary Sutton's blog where she has posted an interview with me:

http://theresabodyinthelibrary.blogsp...

Thanks Mary!

The blog tour continues and today I'm welcomed by Melissa Bowersock to her Word Lovers blog. You can read the interview with me here:

http://mjb-wordlovers.blogspot.co.uk/...

Thanks Melissa!

My next stop on the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour is on Jonathan Hill's blog, where he has posted an interview:

http://jhillwriter.blogspot.co.uk/201...

And if you haven't met Maureen yet, then that is another excellent reason for you to visit his blog!

I've been interviewed by some of Don Martinez's characters on his Hidden in Plain Sight blog. See the craziness unfurl at:

http://hiddeninplainsightranch.tumblr...

Thanks Don!

For the day 18 of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour I visit Ken Magee's blog and wax lyrical about how wonderful indie authors are.

http://kenmagee.blogspot.co.uk/2013/0...

Thanks to Ken for the post and thanks to everyone who has supported me in the adventure that is indie publishing!

Day 19 of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour takes us to the Top of the Heap blog, where Joe has posted an interview and a review:

Interview: http://topoftheheapreviews.com/tuesda...

Review: http://topoftheheapreviews.com/conver...

Thanks Joe!

We're now two-thirds the way through the tour and we've visited some great blogs and met many wonderful people. The tour continues with a review on Joo' Book Review blog:

http://joobook.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03...

Thanks Joo!

Continuing the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour I visit fellow author Christine Rice's blog where she features an interview with me:

http://christinerice-author.com/2013/...

Thanks Christine!

Today we visit Will MacMillan Jones' blog where he has published a guest post about spreading the word for a new book:

http://willmacmillanjones.wordpress.c...

Thanks Will!

Continuing the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour I am interviewed on Caledonia Lass's website:

http://www.caledonialass.blogspot.co....

Thanks Mel!

Ok, so I'm a day late posting this, but in my defence I was feeling poorly last night so had an early night. Anyway, the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour continues (with or without me!) and yesterday we visiting Sherrie Cronin's blog where she has posted an interview with me.

http://zsquaredblog.org/2013/03/24/co...

While you are there check out her latest book - thanks Sherrie!

Twenty five days into the tour and we're into the final week (shame!) and a five star review has been posted on the Ignite Books. I'm chuffed at getting such a favourable review!

http://www.ignitebooks.blogspot.co.uk...

Thanks Kath!

As we roll into day 26 of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour I visit Geoff Wakeling's site where he has posted an article from me about how I put together this blog tour. Sounds a a bit meta! (Or mental - whiever you prefer) :-)

http://geoffreywakeling.com/2013/03/2...

While you are there, make sure to check out out his books. I posted my review of Inside Evil recently and highly recommend it!

http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/201...

Thanks Geoff!

In today's blog visit we do something a little bit different. Over on M T McGuire's blog he's posted five things I hate. Take a read through and then vote on which items should be consigned to box 010:

http://mtmcguire.co.uk/2013/03/27/box...

Thanks MT!

For today's blog visit I'm welcomed by Sara Boyd on her blog. She has posted an interview with me and a review for 'Conversations in the Abyss'. I've been receiving some great reviews for books, which is quite simply awesome :-)

http://saraboydauthor.blogspot.co.uk/...

Thanks Sara!

We're drawing to the end of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour. It's been a fun journey, but we're not quite finished yet! Today an interview with me has been posted on the Luna Risen website:

http://www.lunarisen.com/alltheotherb...

Thanks Matt and if any readers are fans of fantasy fiction they should check out his books while you are there.

And we come to the last day of the 'Conversations in the Abyss' blog tour. We end the tour at Elizabeth Rose's blog 'The Singing Roses':

http://thesingingroses.wordpress.com/...

Thanks to Liz and thanks to everyone for their support with the tour. I've visited some excellent blogs and met many wonderful people. Thanks again!

There's a chance to win one of two signed copies in a Goodreads giveaway:

http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Enter now for a chance to win!

To celebrate Conversations in the Abyss leaving select this week I am offering it for free download for May 5th to May 8th.

This will be the only time that this book will be offered in a free promotion, so make sure to grab it while you have the chance.



Conversations in the Abyss is the second book in 'The Third Path' trilogy.

Stealing Lazarus’s miracle gifted him immortality. Combined with his natural ability of invading and controlling people’s minds this made him one of the most dangerous people on Earth.

But the miracle came with a price.

His punishment was to be imprisoned within the walls of an ancient monastery and tormented by an invisible fire that burned his body perpetually. To escape the pain he retreated deep into his own mind.

There he discovers the truth of the universe and that only he can stop the coming Apocalypse.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-A...

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversations...

Striking cover, Micheal. I hope you do well with the book.
Note: Greg Petaloudis over at horror mag Diabolique is looking for writers. This may or may not be up your alley. I say it's worth checking out.
to give you some idea what they're capable of, take a look at this press release they put together for me and posted on FB:
http://horrorunlimited.blogspot.com/2...

You and others like you continue to inspire the lot of us!

Kirk Alex

Kirk wrote: "Striking cover, Micheal. I hope you do well with the book.
Note: Greg Petaloudis over at horror mag Diabolique is looking for writers. This may or may not be up your alley. I say it's worth checkin..."

Thanks - I'll check them out. I hope you've grabbed yourself a copy of the book!

I grabbed a copy of this. Looking forward to checking it out, thanks!

Jason wrote: "I grabbed a copy of this. Looking forward to checking it out, thanks!"

Thanks Jason, I hope you enjoy iy - and if you do, please leave a review.

Conversations in the Abyss is still available for free download. Grab a copy now while you can, this will be the only free promotion for this book.

This is an amazing novel which weaves together a number of strands. We meet The Deathless Man, an entity who has been imprisoned within the walls of a monastery and is visited by a good and a fallen angel. We meet a group of clerics from Rome who are chasing an ancient document, The Gospel of Lazarus and a newly discovered prophecy, and we follow the preparations made by The Antichrist for The End Times. It’s an intriguing tale and is very philosophical and metaphysical. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything quite like it.

There’s some wonderful imagery used here and the action of the story is exciting. There’s also considerable food for thought. If you’ve read Michael Brookes’ first novel, ‘The Cult of Me’ it will fill in some background on characters you meet here but it’s perfectly possible to appreciate this book on its own merits. Particularly at the beginning, I found some of this book rather lyrical, poetic, in its descriptions. I’m assuming there will be more. I’ll certainly be reading it.

Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-A...

Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversations...

Time is running out to grab a free copy of 'Conversations in the Abyss'. The promotion ends tomorrow, so make sure to download it while you can.

Here's a five star Goodreads review to entice you - if you need enticing :-)

This is the second part of 'The Cult of Me' but it can be read as a stand-alone novel as well because there's enough information in it to understand the story. Having read the first novel, I found this story more plot driven and was completely absorbed.

It's a good versus evil tale but every bit as unusual as the first book, featuring characters of the first novel and introducing some new ones. There's food for thought in this one as well and… room for a third instalment? I hope so and definitively look forward.

I enjoyed 'Conversations in the Abyss' and highly recommend it.

US: http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-A...

UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conversations...

Conversations in the Abyss has received a rather wonderful 5 star review on Amazon UK that I am compelled to share. It's reviews like this that make the effort worthwhile :-)

I was lucky enough to win this book in a draw on a forum and I feel privileged to have done so. To me, the blurb doesn't do it justice, what drew me in was the prologue. I read that and was hooked.

Although the second book in a trilogy, having not read the first book did not diminish my enjoyment of this story and I will now go and read The Cult of Me

The story really does feel in the main like a conversation between The Deathless Man and the other protagonists. I rather enjoyed that style and found it made you have almost an empathy with the main character even though I am sure you are possibly not supposed to like him.

Without giving the story away, I loved the concepts about why/how heaven and hell and even the creation of earth occurred. Yes, it is a story, no I am not saying it is the gospel truth but I love a story that makes me think 'What if...' And the author has come up with some interesting theories.

This book is not a religious tract and not at all preachy, so please do not be put off simply because it has a religious theme. It is more about the character of the individuals and an interesting political commentary too. One is left with the thought that some of it just might be how it is!

I found this a quick read possibly due to the conversational style but was left with probably what the best endorsement I can give, I couldn't wait to finish it to pass it on to a friend. It is one of those books that you want to share so that you can discuss it with them after they have read it. A book has to really draw me in before I would recommend it to a friend, this one did.

Michael Brookes has created some fascinating characters that I can't wait to revisit in the next book.

I'm pleased to announce that Conversations in the Abyss is now available on Nook from Barnes & Noble:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books...

I'm happy to announce that Conversations in the Abyss is now available on iTunes:

UK: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/id64...

US: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id64...

Continuing my steady march onto new platforms - Conversations in the Abyss is now available on Kobo:

http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Conver...