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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:43:20 +0000

Well, its official! After many years of tinkering and incessantly adding to it, my submission for Project 14: Dark Futures, has grown into a full length story. I am in the process of making it available here for viewing since it's a tHP baby and I would love comments, reviews, or just plain criticisms from anyone affiliated with the Herscher Project. It is my hope that this might become a published work someday, hopefully part of a series of works that deal with speculative sci-fi. I already have some other ideas in the works, but I must get this one finished before I can even begin to think about them!

Thanks in advance to anyone who reads it and don't hesitate to leave comments. I promise to offer my own services as reviewer and critic as well, wherever it is desired.

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Scimitar Moon Debut at Dragon*Con

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:05:57 +0000

At long last, Chris A. Jackson's newest novel with Dragon Moon Press is on the shelf and making its debut at the biggest SF - Fantasy convention in the southeast, Dragon*Con.

The author will have a limited number of copies to sell at the convention, so seek him out early in the dealer's room, booth C-16 (Jaxbooks). Mention tHP for a special deal, and an invitation to the book release party!

Also, ask the author about the Scimitar Moon Easter Egg Hunt! Spicial gift for the first to find the easter egg in the novel!

For purchase online, see Scimitar Moon
at Amazon.com

Zellohar: Book 1 of the Cornerstones Trilogy

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:52:57 +0000

Zellohar Keep is lost…

Once the ancestral home of a glorious dwarven kingdom-a masterpiece of architecture, secure, secretive, impregnable-Zellohar is now prison to a dark evil. The dwarves used the might of the Cornerstones, conduits to the power of the elemental spheres, to forever seal the keep.

But the minions of the Dark Gods are not so easily imprisoned.

The squires of the Nekdukarr Lord Iveron Darkmist, a paladin of the death god, Mortas, have recovered the Cornerstones. The enchantment has been broken. The doors that sealed the chaos of the Nine Hells within the mountain under Zellohar have been opened. The powers of the Nine Hells, have, quite literally, broken loose.

Iveron Darkmist has resumed the campaign he began nearly one hundred year ago-to devastate the surface world in a storm of destruction and death. And with Zellohar as his fortress, the Cornerstones to fuel his magic, and the Dark Gods' favor, he will be invincible.

All that stands in his way are a horse farmer's daughter, a superstitious tribesman, a defrocked priest, a demented dwarf and an elf cursed with lycanthropy. The unwitting companions stumble into the Nekdukarr's plot, and are thrown into a conflict that threatens to obliterate all they know and love.

Pursued to the corners of the realms, the companions flee the wrath of Iveron Darkmist. But even death is no refuge from the power of the Dark Gods.

Download the first four chapters for free!

Buy the book at JaxBooks.com

Debut at FX-International in Orlando, April 17-19! Special Pricing! Free Tee-Shirts! Author signings!

Cover art by Noah Stacey.

© 2009 by Chris A. Jackson and Anne L. McMillen-Jackson. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author.

Dark Haven just released in US, UK

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:36:55 +0000

PRESS RELEASE

Feb 5, 2009

For Immediate Release
Contact:
Gail Martin

Chronicles of the Necromancer

The Summoner

The Blood King

Dark Haven

Dark Lady's Chosen (2010)

Dark Haven Just Released in US, UK

Book 3 in the Chronicles of the Necromancer hits shelves

Charlotte, NC-Dark Haven, the newest title in author Gail Z. Martin's bestselling Chronicles of the Necromancer series, begins a new chapter in the epic tale of adventurer Jonmarc Vahanian, Lord of Dark Haven and King Martris Drayke of Margolan.

In Dark Haven, the effects of Jared the Usurper's reign of terror, strike at the stability of the Winter Kingdoms. Undead forces align against Lord Jonmarc Vahanian of Dark Haven in a struggle for power between mortals and the vayash moru. King Martris Drayke prepares for war against rebels still loyal to Jared. Isencroft is on the brink of civil war. Only one thing is certain-the Winter Kingdoms will be changed forever, and innocence is the first casualty.

The series will also appear in German and French translations beginning in 2009.

The Summoner, the first title in the series, sold through four printings in the first year after its release and has returned for additional printings since then. It remained on the Book Sense bestseller list for over 12 weeks, pegged top spots on many other bestseller lists, and garnered high praise from reviewers and readers. The Blood King, book two in the series, followed The Summoner's strong sales, making its own appearances on bestseller lists in the U.S. and U.K.

Dark Haven is published by Solaris Books, the new a UK-based fantasy and science fiction imprint from BL Publishing, the publishing division of industry-leading tabletop games company, Games Workshop. The Summoner, The Blood King and Dark Haven are part of The Chronicles of The Necromancer fantasy adventure series distributed in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster. Ms. Martin is handled by the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency in New York City. Learn more at www.ChroniclesOfTheNecromancer.com.

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Dark Haven by Gail Z. Martin

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:36:25 +0000

Dark Haven is Book Three in The Chronicles of the Necromancer, following immediately after The Summoner and The Blood King. In The Summoner and The Blood King, Prince Martris Drayke must seek the throne he never wanted in order to unseat a usurper and avenge his family. The only chance he has to succeed lies in how well he can gain control over his rogue magic—he is a Summoner, with the power to interceed among the living, the undead, and the dead. At great cost, Tris takes back the throne, but the job of rebuilding his shattered kingdom has only begun. In Dark Haven, the effects of Jared the Usurper's reign of terror strike at the stability of the Winter Kingdoms. Undead forces align against Lord Jonmarc Vahanian of Dark Haven in a struggle for power between mortals and the vayash moru. Magic has become a dangerous and unpredictable force. As King Martris Drayke prepares for his wedding, he must also prepare for war against rebels still loyal to Jared. Isencroft is on the brink of civil war over the looming reality of a joint kingdom. Only one thing is certain—the Winter Kingdoms will be changed forever, and innocence is the first casualty.

Chronicles of the Necromancer

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:54:42 +0000

This little video needs some cool music.

The Summoner & The Blood King

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:44:38 +0000

The Summoner by Gail Z. Martin

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:04:35 +0000

Review by James K. Bowers.

The Summoner

Gail Z Martin

Solaris (an imprint of BL Publishing)

2007, paperback, 637 p.

ISBN 1-84416-468-3

$7.99

I opened to the title page of The Summoner, where the author had written in my copy, "Thank you for believing." I gave her comment only cursory thought at the time, but it only took the reading of a few pages before I began to believe in Martin’s well-developed fantasy world and in her ability to lead her readers through it with an enchanting grace that obscures the fact that this is her first published novel.