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Attn: Kindle Users - Please Enjoy "Shepherd: Bones Saga Book II" by Mark Wheaton

post #1 of 11
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Sequel!

Okay, so one year ago today I uploaded my cadaver-sniffing dog horror novella "Bones" to the Kindle and, on Bonesy's birthday, he's got a sequel:

http://tinyurl.com/2f8tyzx

The Amazon description for "Shepherd":

Bones is BACK! Everyone’s favorite barely heroic, pastry-sniffing cadaver dog returns in this action-packed adventure. Retrieved from the Ohiopyle woods, Bones is sent to the devastated ruins of Los Angeles after a magnitude 10.2 earthquake shatters the city and kills millions. While aiding a recovery team tasked with locating survivors and uncovering the dead, Bones and his handlers discover that the quake was only the first disaster and a far greater threat to mankind has emerged from beneath the rubble...

Anyway, enjoy!

Bones is also now on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bonesybones

And, bizarrely enough, has a thing called "Bonesy's Blog" here: http://cadaverdogsrus.wordpress.com/

I don't actually spend any money marketing this stuff, so the fact that "Bones" has gotten the zillions of downloads that he has done/spent months on the Amazon sci-fi bestseller charts is because of weirdos like you spreading the word. So, thanks.
post #2 of 11
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And oh, yeah - cover is by the great comic artist Tony Fleecs who also did the cover for the forthcoming third "Bones" adventure, "Alpha." You can check out his work here:

http://tonyfleecs.blogspot.com/

And here:

http://tonyfleecs1aday.blogspot.com/
post #3 of 11
I'm still making my way through Four Nails and I'm saving Bones tale for last (Read the first four or so pages and decided to do that), But as soon as I finish it I'll download the next book.

I was one of the lucky guys that received a signed book from you. Thank you!
post #4 of 11
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No prob - hope you're enjoying it!

And just got the cover art (painted by Portland artist Cristina Berretta) for "An Unnatural Selection," the follow-up print bit to "Nails" which'll include:

Shepherd
Stuttering Hunter
Gare du Nord
Spider
Disembodied
Meat
The Posthumous Mind; or, Please Don't Touch Me

That'll be it for awhile, but I'm putting it out on Amazon's CreateSpace bit as they sent me a coupon after I entered "Sunday Billy Sunday" in their Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards (of which, based on my logline alone, I didn't even make it past the first-first-first-first-first round - but hey, coupon!).
post #5 of 11
More Bones? Yay!

...oh, crud. No Kindle.
post #6 of 11
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When the print edition of the next one is done (including the new Bones adventure), you will be the FIRST person I mail a free copy to, Mattioli. Srsly.
post #7 of 11
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Cover of the next print one:

http://cadaverdogsrus.files.wordpres...0/10/cover.jpg

It includes the stories mentioned above, but also a new one: "The Enemies List"
post #8 of 11
Awesome. Just saw your October 12th comment. Don't worry about it! You were cool enough to send me a copy of Four Nails. Spread the wealth around!
post #9 of 11
I enjoyed the heck out of Bones. Your narrative hooks worked and I enjoyed where you took the subject matter.
post #10 of 11
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Thanks! Glad you liked it. Hoping to finish off the trilogy next year with "Alpha" and then just do prequels and little shorts after that.
post #11 of 11
I'm glad it's a successful character for you. It can't be easy to write a dog as a dog and not a man in a dog suit, if you know what I mean.
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