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**OPEN** BotM (AUGUST) Nominations Are Now Open! (Small Press)

Please note, we have added to the Nomination Rules a LIST OF PUBLISHERS to better determine where your nomination should be posted.

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When nominating a book, please be sure to do the following:

1. Provide a linkable/clickable cover
2. A link to the author
3. A basic summary of the book
4. Please be sure to post a nomination in the Large Press Category as well. This allows for a more varied selection of votes in the polls. We are noticing that this is starting to become an issue, so please help us out.

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Watchers by Dean Koontz

summary,summary,summary,summary,summary,summary,summary,summary.


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[@bookcover:watchers]
[@book:Watchers] <@b>by<@/b> [@author:Dean Koontz]

<@i>summary, summary,summary,summary,summary,summary,summary,summary.<@/i>

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These nominations will be closed and a poll opened for voting on August 24th to determine which book will the Small Press Book of the Month for the month of AUGUST!

Thank you!

Death of Heaven by J.Z. Murdock

Death of Heaven is a hard Horror book to summarize. In one way it's a story about two friends since childhood facing the world's most horrible times. In another it's a grouping of horror stories covering Earth's history and yet in another way, it is about beings who possess some powers terrible to contemplate and the beings that even they are afraid of.

It's not quite like anything I've ever read before. Though perhaps so however in its portmanteaux, format. There are levels going on, upon levels, upon levels and to explain much at all would be to disassemble it in its entirety.

I can only really say that one of the central characters, Fade, is very old any yet not old at all. He is of the Earth and yet, not of it. While having had a hand in its creation, it had also created him.

Be careful reading this book alone. I wrote the novella, Andrew, the book this based upon while in college for a Fiction 101 class. It kept a couple of my classmates up most of the night and won me a kind of award. High praise I think.

Available in ebook or print formats.

Sanctuary in Steel

Sanctuary in Steel by Bryan Cassiday

Black ops agent Chad Halverson of the CIA's National Clandestine Service escapes plague- and zombie-ravaged Santa Monica with dress designer Victoria Brady and sets sail up the smoldering California coast.

Along the way, Halverson and Brady rescue the idealistic Dr. Parnell, the UCSB coed Brittany Pine who is in a state of shock induced by the loss of her boyfriend to the walking dead, and the cynical reporter Blake Reno.

Seeking sanctuary from the walking dead in Alcatraz prison, Halverson and his band of refugees discover that all is not as it seems on the island haven at the Rock.

In fact, they may have more to fear than the walking dead in the person of Alcatraz's reigning "Chosen One," the charismatic proponent of law and order Jefferson Bascomb, who believes zombies have the right to a fair trial.

The Siren's Tale by Anne Carlisle]

THE SIREN'S TALE is prefaced by Zaddie, a gifted 30-year-old contemporary siren in human form who is writing a saga about her siren lineage. Award-winning author Anne Carlisle's HOME SCHOOLING trilogy is a clever, erotic-paranormal romance series based on a siren's family history of accursedness and sexual obsession. Set in a small mountain town of the Old West, THE SIREN'S TALE, Book 2 in the trilogy, is about sexual ambiguities, the supernatural, and the power of storytelling. The book features the notorious temptress Cassandra, who, back in 1900, was hexed with a deadly curse after luring her lover away from a village girl on his wedding day. Later, living incognito as a silent movie actress, the siren blames herself for a series of untimely deaths and seeks to redress past sins while protecting her family. The curse enters modern times, endangering the future of the lineage. Cassandra's ghost appears at a siren reunion to "home school" thirty-year-old Marlena about their history, as the bisexual beauty makes choices about a troubling pregnancy and a hot affair. Will the cautionary tale from the early 20th century be as strong as magic and alter a modern siren's powerful will?

I would like to nominate:

by William Hjortsberg

"A terrific book-what might have happened if Raymond Chandler had written The Exorcist."-Stephen King "Falling Angel combines the best of the classic detective story . . . with elements of the occult with surprising humor and wit. . . . This is the literary love-child of Raymond Chandler and Stephen King. . . . Not for the faint-of-heart."-from the foreword by Ridley Scott. Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye against any detective's most fearsome adversary. A routine missing-persons case soon turns into a fiendish nightmare in which the shadow detective Harry Angel chases seems to be his own.

I'd like to nominate my vampire novel HUMAN NO LONGER. Also, anyone who'd like to read/review it I'll send it to them free, just ask rdgriff@htc.net
Blurb of Human No Longer, a vampire novel by Kathryn Meyer Griffith:
Jenny and Jeff Sanders become victims of a bizarre crime; leaving Jeff dead and Jenny in a temporary coma. She returns to her children. With Jeff’s death she must move back to her childhood home, a haunted farmhouse, in Summer Haven, Florida, where once they destroyed a family of vampires.
Jenny has no appetite. She’s edgy. Her eyes hurt. She thinks it could be trauma or grief. Until one night she can’t resist the night woods or the overpowering urge to drink warm animals’ blood–and accepts the truth. Her attackers were vampires.
Now she’s becoming what she once reviled. She can’t abandon her children but must find a way to live in the human world. At night she hunts, in the day hides what she’s becoming and attempts to fit in.
Then townspeople begin dying. Like years before. With her blackouts, she fears she may be the killer, or is it her vampire attackers? For they've found her and demand she joins them–or her family will die. She resists until they kidnap her children. Then she has to find a way to outwit and ultimately destroy them. ***
Kathryn Meyer Griffith

The Home by Scott Nicholson
From a #1 Kindle bestselling author, in development as a feature film.

"Like Stephen King, he has an eye and ear for the rhythms of rural America, and like King he knows how to summon serious scares. My advice? Buy everything he writes."-- Bentley Little, The Haunting

THE HOME

When twelve-year-old Freeman Mills arrives at Wendover, a group home for troubled children, it’s a chance for a fresh start. But second chances aren’t easy for Freeman, the victim of painful childhood experiments that gave him the ability to read other people’s minds.

At Wendover, Freeman and the other children are subjected to more secret experiments, organized by a shadowy organization called The Trust. But the experiments do more than open up clairvoyant powers--the electromagnetic fields used in the experiments are summoning the ghosts of the patients who died at Wendover back when it was a psychiatric ward.

Now a new scientist has been brought into the project, an unstable and cruel pioneer in ESP studies who performed most of his work on a very special subject: his son, Freeman Mills.