Christmas ideas for the fantasy and suspense reader! Signed books!

Thriller/suspense author Scott Nicholson is one of the first authors I met when I jumped into the whole publishing industry, and has been a great source of information and advice. Added bonus, he lives in the NC Mountains about 90 minutes from me! He has earned my total respect.

If you or a loved one is a thriller/suspense/supernatural fan, then think about grabbing a book. You will not be disappointed. There are even two kids books that are freaking adorable!

Scott Nicholson has the following trade paperbacks available for mail-order: (SHIPPING INCLUDED!) $10 each, 3 for $25, get the whole After series set of 0-6 for $55, Also a few $8 ones. Let me know if you want a deal on a bunch.

Scott's website: http://www.authorscottnicholson.com/

Scott's amazon page where you can look up each book 

http://amzn.to/2hgUytP

AVAILABLE:
After #0-6
Next #1-5
The Scarecrow
The Narrow Gate
The Preacher
Liquid Fear
Chronic Fear
Zapheads #1-3
Drummer Boy
McFall
Cursed (with JR Rain)
The Harvest
Playin’ Possum (with Milton Bagby)
Disintegration
Speed Dating with the Dead
Creative Spirit

$8 books (includes shipping)
They Hunger mass market PB
The Red Church mass market PB
Dirt graphic novel
Grave Conditions graphic novel
Bad Blood (with JR Rain and HT Night)
Too Many Witches (children’s book in color)
Ida Claire (children’s book in color)
The Vampire Club (with JR Rain)

Just email authorscottnicholson AT gmail.com! 

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Author Scott Nicholson has written 20 thrillers, 60 short stories, four comics series, and six screenplays. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where he tends an organic garden, successfully eludes stalkers, and indulges in the vain whimsy of believing his thoughts are important.

Fright Night Blog Hop Sheep Style!

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Welcome to I Smell Sheep's stop on the Fright Night blog hop! Katie has put together a cool prize pack for you. But first we need to talk scary sheep stuff. Stop laughing, sheep can be scary-ish.

I really don't get scared reading stories. When I was younger Stephen King made me sleep with the lights on many times, but as I got older not so much. I can be creeped out or disturbed. Here are two authors who can do that.

First is Scott Nicholson (waves to Scott) He's such a nice guy. Anyway...he has a series called Solom. About old NC mountain legends that turn out to be real in this small town. The horseback preacher rides at night in The Narrow Gate and the Scarecrow hunts for his next victim in The Scarecrow.  I'll throw in his novel McFall too.
Total creep fest going on.
Narrow Gate is only $.99 right now 

Then there is Jeff Strand's book Dweller. WTF? Disturbing, but you can't stop reading the horror unfold. The wonderful author Terri Garey (waves to Terri) turned me on to this. She even helped make the trailer for the book, which is pretty funny by the way. Be sure to listen to the words about the book...monster-bromance, ha!

Honestly I haven't picked up another Strand book since...but I want to...once I get over this one! <G> Seriously, it is a fabulous horror story questioning who the real monster is.

yeah, who's laughing now? Mwahahaha...

GIVEAWAY
one US winner will win this prize pack of books and stickers!

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An InLinkz Link-up

Book Review (sort of): The Narrow Gate (Solom #2) by Scott Nicholson

The Narrow Gate: A Supernatural Thriller(Solom #2)
by Scott Nicholson
Kindle Edition, 320 pages
Published February 26th 2014 by Haunted Computer Books

"Like Stephen King, he knows how to summon serious scares." - Bentley Little, The Burning

"Scott Nicholson knows the territory. Follow him at your own risk." -- Stewart O'Nan, A Face in the Crowd

SOLOM: THE NARROW GATE
Book #2 in the Solom series

After the violent death of Katy Logan’s psychopathic husband, she inherits a farm in the Appalachian Mountain town of Solom.

Determined to protect her teen daughter Jett and not surrender to fear, she builds a new life in the wake of the tragedy. However, the dark forces that drove her husband to madness still lurk in Solom, and a horseback preacher has returned from the grave with a sinister mission. Solom’s slumbering spirits are stirring, the herds of goats are restless, and the townspeople are banding together to ward off the sinister force that threatens to destroy them.

Katy and Jett discover an unexpected ally as they are drawn into the supernatural showdown, but is anyone--or anything--powerful enough to walk away from Solom’s final battleground?

I can't officially review this book because I was one of the editors on it, but I loved it so much I wanted to bring your attention to it.

Do you remember sitting around a campfire and hearing ghost stories? The Solom series is about some of those scary legends you will hear about up in the Appalachian Mountains in N.C. (probably other places too). Scott lives in the N.C. mountains and uses his knowledge of the area and people to craft authentic stories.

The Narrow Gate is about the horseback preacher who roams the mountains collecting souls. He has returned because the small town of Solom has fallen under the sickle of The Scarecrow we meet in book one. What happens when two legends want to claim the same town?

Right now you can The Scarecrow and The Narrow Gate for $.99

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Sheep Book Review: McFall by Scott Nicholson

McFall 

By: Scott Nicholson

When wealthy developer Larkin McFall moves to the small Appalachian Mountain community of Barkersville, generations-old tales of supernatural phenomena, sudden deaths, and odd disappearances resurface. Larkin laughs off the stories as superstition, while promising to bring a bright new future to the dying town.

Sheriff Frank Littlefield senses a diabolical motive in McFall’s good intentions. High school friends Bobby Eldreth and Ronnie Day also suspect that an evil menace has invaded Barkersville, but both soon fall under McFall’s spell. Has the sinister presence that once infiltrated the abandoned—perhaps haunted—red church spread to the community as McFall turns the family property into a luxurious subdivision?

When those who oppose Larkin McFall’s ambitions begin to die horrifically—or even worse, become the man’s biggest supporters—Sheriff Littlefield’s investigation uncovers a man with no past and no fingerprints.

A man who destroys people by giving them exactly what they want.

"If Evil had fortified secret strongholds across the globe, the red church was certainly one of them."

Intriguing characters, enthralling story, and poetic writing… Oh, my!

There are great stories, and there are well told stories. Two different things. The magic happens when an author can bring both to the table, and Scott Nicholson has in McFall. This might be his best work. The word tangible comes to mind. I could see, hear and feel the mountain river running under the bridge, and the horrors it held. It is like the words and story flowed onto the pages just like the river it centers around. Watching Larkin McFall, now one of my favorite antagonists, play the towns people of Barkersville was a page turning thrill. Every character in this story had depth and felt real.

McFall takes place many years after the events in The Red Church and Drummer Boy, but you don’t have to read them to appreciate this story. All relevant information is provided.

This is an evil vs good story with a blurry line between the two. Ghost stories often come off as hokey to me because writers use tired, eye rolling horror clichés. There aren't any in McFall. There also isn't any gore used to shock the reader. This is the subtle horror of how easy it is to control human nature and base instincts by giving someone what they want the most.

This is a damned great read for all fans of speculative fiction.

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McFall is an amazon serial novel

I will take a moment to explain what a serial novel is. A book is published in episodes. Like a TV series. When you buy the book you pay the one price. All the episodes that have been published up to that point will be sent to your kindle, and you will receive all subsequent episodes as they are published at no extra cost. After all the episodes are published, the complete book will then be available for purchase as a whole book, but I am not sure if it will be at the same bargain price. McFall is a 6 episode book. If you look on the amazon page for McFall all this is explained with green text in the book description section so you know what you are getting.

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5 “game within the game playing” Sheep

Sharon Stogner

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amazon link to all Scott's books

Press Release: McFall (serial novel) by Scott Nicholson

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International bestselling author Scott Nicholson returns to his supernatural roots in the new serialized novel McFALL, launching Sept. 3, with new episodes releasing every six weeks.

The supernatural thriller, from Amazon’s 47North imprint, features characters from THE RED CHURCH, a Stoker Award finalist and alternate selection of the Mystery Guild Book Club, and DRUMMER BOY, a ghostly coming-of-age tale. The stories are set in the rural Southern Appalachian Mountains where Nicholson lives and are inspired by actual local legends.

“I enjoyed working with Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint for my Fear series, and I had been mulling a return to the world of my first novel,” Nicholson said. “When 47North offered the opportunity to write a serial, I jumped at it. I am always eager to experiment, and Amazon is proving progressive in its digital publishing approach. I’ll still be writing McFALL as it goes live so it’s a bit like walking out on a tightrope in flaming underpants over a canyon full of cobras. Or perhaps it’s just another day in cyberspace.”

Although it’s exclusive to Amazon, McFALL will be published in paperback and audiobook later this year. New episodes are automatically emailed to the Kindles of those who order the first episode. Learn more about the project at http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/mcfall.htm.

The serial is $1.99 at Amazon.

McFALL

"If Evil had fortified secret strongholds across the globe, the red church was certainly one of them."

When wealthy developer Larkin McFall moves to the small Appalachian Mountain community of Barkersville, generations-old tales of supernatural phenomena, sudden deaths, and odd disappearances resurface. Larkin laughs off the stories as superstition, while promising to bring a bright new future to the dying town.

Sheriff Frank Littlefield senses a diabolical motive in McFall’s good intentions. High school friends Bobby Eldreth and Ronnie Day also suspect that an evil menace has invaded Barkersville, but both soon fall under McFall’s spell. Has the sinister presence that once infiltrated the abandoned—perhaps haunted—red church spread to the community as McFall turns the family property into a luxurious subdivision?

When those who oppose Larkin McFall’s ambitions begin to die horrifically—or even worse, become the man’s biggest supporters—Sheriff Littlefield’s investigation uncovers a man with no past and no fingerprints.

A man who destroys people by giving them exactly what they want.

Scott Nicholson is giving away 25 copies of AFTER: THE SHOCK

It is no secret I am a Scott Nicholson fan. He writes children's books, young adult, graphic novels, horror, suspense thrillers and the occasional teacher's note. He is an excellent writer. I have never been disappointed by anything he has written... well, there was that limerick on the bathroom wall... 

The second book in his After trilogy The Shock just released. I was so engrossed in the action that my eyes started to burn because I hadn't blinked! I reviewed the first book After: The Shock (here) and gave it 4 Sheep. Book 2 The Shock gets 5 "I forgot to blink" Sheep. A formal review will be coming soon. 

Point is... Scott is gifting a free copy of After: The Shock through amazon to the first 25 people that leave their email in the comments. If you aren't one of the first 25 don't worry. You can buy it for only $.99 right now!

A massive solar storm kills billions and wipes out the technological infrastructure, and the few survivors learn that some among them have...changed.

AFTER: THE ECHO
(Book #2 in the After series)
It's six weeks after the shock.

The smoke on the horizon has diminished, and Rachel Wheeler and her two traveling companions head toward the mountains where Rachel's grandfather Franklin has built a survivalist compound.

However, the strange mutated people known as Zapheads seem to be changing from bloodthirsty killers into a force far more menacing. A secret military installation holds the key to rebuilding civilization, but Franklin doesn't trust their intentions.

A massive solar storm erases the world's technological infrastructure and kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them are...changed.

The many faces of Scott

Scott Nicholson

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Author Scott Nicholson has written 15 thrillers, 60 short stories, four comics series, and six screenplays. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where he tends an organic garden, successfully eludes stalkers, and generally lives the dream.

Nicholson has written hundreds of songs and poems and was a musician in a former life. a newspaper reporter, he won three North Carolina Press Association awards. He's had the usual collection of odd jobs: dishwasher, carpenter, painter, paranormal investigator, baseball card dealer, and radio announcer. Now he haphazardly trades words for magic beans and uses "haphazardly" as often as possible while decrying the overuse of adverbs.

Entering the digital era with a vengeance, Nicholson is releasing orginal titles and collections while conspiring to release interactive books in the near future, building audio files, video, and collaborative fiction projects. He also launched eBookSwag to embrace the future of free ebooks.

Nicholson won the grand prize in the international Writers of the Future contest in 1999. That same year, he was first runner-up for the Darrell Award. He studied Creative Writing at Appalachian State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been an officer of Mystery Writers of America and Horror Writers Association and is a member of International Thriller Writers and inaugural member of the Killer Thriller Band.

Unfortunately, they never taught him to write: he had 105 rejections before his first story sale and over 400 before he sold a novel. He hasn't learned much from his mistakes but thinks he'll probably improve with practice. If nothing else, he's become a better liar.

His website www.hauntedcomputer.com features author interviews, articles, and fiction excerpts. Bad relationship advice. Humor. Gardening tips. Subliminal tricks to sell his books. That sort of thing.

GIVEAWAY

This giveaway will end once we reach 25 or March 28th. This is a great chance to try a Scott Nicholson at his best.

Just leave your email where Scott can gift it to you through amazon.

Book Review: After: The Shock by Scott Nicholson

After: The Shock by Scott NicholsonA massive solar storm erases the world's technological infrastructure and kills billions. While the remaining humans are struggling to adapt and survive, they notice that some among them have...changed. Rachel Wheeler finds herself alone in the city, where violent survivors known as "Zapheads" roam the streets, killing and destroying. Her only hope is to reach the mountains where her grandfather, a legendary survivalist, established a compound in preparation for Doomsday.

Other survivors are fleeing the city, but Zapheads aren't the only danger. Rogue bands of military soldiers want to impose their own order in the crumbling ruins of civilization. When Rachel discovers a 10-year-old boy, she vows to care for him even at the risk of her own life.

And the Zapheads are evolving, developing communal skills even as they lay waste to the society they will eventually replace.

Look for the sequel, AFTER: THE ECHO in early 2013!

There have been a ton of post-apocalyptic books coming out lately and zombies have been the most popular reason for the downfall of civilization. All these stories have pretty much the same premise… a big OH CRAP moment, survivors try to… well, survive, ad they find out the scariest thing isn’t the (insert vehicle of destruction) but humans. What makes a post-apocalyptic book stand out from the crowd is how well-written it is and the stellar cast of characters. Long story short, Scott Nicholson’s After: The Shock stands out and is worth a read.

The book picks up two weeks “After” a major solar flare zapped all technology back to the stone age and everybody as well. Most people died instantly, others appeared to have their brains “altered” (I have my own ideas of what happened to their brains, but don’t want to spoil) and are going around in a rage killing everything, and an even smaller number of people survived with no apparent ill effects. Scott has created some very interesting characters that are trying to survive in a world crumbing apart. There is no way to avoid some of the stereotypical survivor archetypes, but stereotypes are around for a reason and in NC these characters are pretty much true to form. Scott has managed to make these characters interesting, despite relying upon common character archetypes. We follow the journey of several small bands of survivors who seem to be fated to meet in later books. My favorite characters are Devontay, a young black man with a glass eye and a radical survivalist up in the NC Mountains. There is also a young woman named Rachel who is traveling with Devontay. She is a devoted Christian and is trying to hang onto her faith in this time of trouble. The only problem I had with her character was when she contemplated doing something that was VERY out of character for her. It didn’t make sense and I can’t be more specific cause of spoilers <G>. Also there is a Mexican immigrant and his family, which you normally don’t see in post-apocalyptic stories

There is action, character development, a little dark humor, great pacing and it is all set in my home state of NC. It was kind of strange reading about the characters trekking through areas I am connected to, but cool at the same time.
After is going to be a trilogy and the ending of this first book kind of snuck up on me. The characters and action were at a stopping point, kind of like the end of a TV series, but no previews for next week’s show <G>.

Solid well written story that will have you turning pages! Looking forward to After: The Echo coming early 2013.

4 "Zapped" Sheep

Sharon Stogner (edit by Kalpar)
also check out:
Sheep interview with Scott
Sheep Review of Scattered Ashes by Scott 

best author pic ever!

about the author:
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Nicholson has written hundreds of songs and poems and was a musician in a former life. a newspaper reporter, he won three North Carolina Press Association awards. He's had the usual collection of odd jobs: dishwasher, carpenter, painter, paranormal investigator, baseball card dealer, and radio announcer. Now he haphazardly trades words for magic beans and uses "haphazardly" as often as possible while decrying the overuse of adverbs.

Entering the digital era with a vengeance, Nicholson is releasing orginal titles and collections while conspiring to release interactive books in the near future, building audio files, video, and collaborative fiction projects. He also launched eBookSwag to embrace the future of free ebooks.

Nicholson won the grand prize in the international Writers of the Future contest in 1999. That same year, he was first runner-up for the Darrell Award. He studied Creative Writing at Appalachian State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been an officer of Mystery Writers of America and Horror Writers Association and is a member of International Thriller Writers and inaugural member of the Killer Thriller Band.

Unfortunately, they never taught him to write: he had 105 rejections before his first story sale and over 400 before he sold a novel. He hasn't learned much from his mistakes but thinks he'll probably improve with practice. If nothing else, he's become a better liar.

His website www.hauntedcomputer.com features author interviews, articles, and fiction excerpts. Bad relationship advice. Humor. Gardening tips. Subliminal tricks to sell his books. That sort of thing.

The Home for Halloween - Scott Nicolson

The Home for Halloween Giveaway

Enter the Rafflecopter to win your choice of a Kindle Fire, Nook HD, or Kobo Glo, as well as signed books and audiobooks in The Home for Halloween giveaway from author Scott Nicholson.

The giveaway celebrates the launch of paranormal thriller The Home. Experiments at a group home for troubled children lead to paranormal activity—and the ghosts are from the home’s dark past as an insane asylum. In development as a feature, it’s available in ebook at Amazon US, Amazon UK, BN.com, Kobo, and Smashwords.

EXCERPT: THE HOME

By Scott Nicholson

(From Chapter Five)

“Shoo. Hey, Dipes, did you drop a load or something?”

Freeman looked at the boy who had spoken. The teenager had a broad, beefy face and a crew cut. His eyes were small and piggish, gleaming with that cruel cunning that Freeman had seen in dozens of faces in group homes across the state. The porcine gaze was fixed on a thin, pale boy who looked to be about ten.

“I didn’t do nothing, Deke,” the thin boy said, a reaction so quick and rehearsed that Freeman could tell he had been the target of Deke’s bullying before.

“Sure, Dipes. Better go change yourself, or we’ll have to get the nurse to do it.” At the word “nurse,” Deke had launched into a mocking, effeminate tone. “Don’t want her to see your stinky, do you?”

Since the boys had come into the Blue Room, Freeman had said nothing. He’d been sitting on his cot, pretending that the other boys didn’t matter. One of the guys gave him an appraising, new-kid look, and another started to wave, but Freeman turned his attention to the book he’d swiped from Bondurant’s office. The book was boring, one of those inspirational and motivational hardbacks that told you how to prosper with the help of the Lord. But holding the book allowed him to watch the room out of the corners of his eyes while trying to size up the pecking order. Deke seemed to be the biggest pecker of them all.

Deke began dancing around the thin boy, making a motion as if he were wiping himself with toilet paper. A few of the others were watching, and Deke grew bolder in front of his audience. “Come on, Dipes. Don’t be a poopie pants.”

Laughter rippled across the room. The boy who had tried to wave to Freeman was biting his thumbnail, glancing nervously at the door. Freeman wondered where the house parents were. He’d been in enough group homes to know that the children were never supposed to be left unsupervised, though it happened way too often.

Dipes retreated from the teasing, passing Freeman’s bunk. Deke pursued his quarry, giving Freeman a smirk that said, “Watch me have a little fun.”

Freeman quickly turned his attention back to the words on the page, searching for vapid inspiration. He felt sorry for Dipes, but his best bet was to stay on the sidelines for now. Maybe Deke had enemies among the kids, but the odds were just as good that Deke ruled the roost with no opposition. And survivors didn’t survive by turning into Defenders of the Weak.

A tall guy in an olive army jacket, who had enough of a hint of facial hair to be fifteen, followed Deke like a second lieutenant. Dipes reached the corner and cowered as the two older boys jabbed at him and sneered. “Dipey wipes, dipey wipes,” said Deke, his taunts somehow made even more obscene by his singsong chanting.

A couple of the other boys gathered behind Deke, making noises in imitation of passing gas. Three kids sat quietly on their bunks. From their expressions of relief, Freeman figured they were glad that Dipes was the victim this time instead of themselves. Then Freeman made the mistake of meeting Dipes’s eyes.

Help me, those small dark eyes implored.

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.

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Book Review: Scattered Ashes by Scott Nicholson

Scattered Ashes by Scott Nicholson

A collection of Scott Nicholson's best short stories from 2001 to 2008, including three original new works and an afterword.
Exclusive introduction by Jonathan Maberry
Art by M. Wayne Miller

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Timing Chains Of The Heart
Dog Person
The October Girls
Murdermouth
Sung Li
Silver Run
InThe Family
The Night Is An Ally
Work In Progress
The Endless Bivouac
She Climbs A Winding Stair
Watermelon
The Meek
The Weight of Silence
The Hounds of Love
You'll Never Walk Alone
Penance
Sewing Circle
Scarecrow Boy
Last Write

Little rant on why you should read horror

I have always been a fan of the horror genre and I know what some of you are thinking…”yuck! Gross! I don’t like horror!” Somewhere along the line the horror genre got a bad rap because of all those slasher movies like Saw or Hostel. The horror I grew up with, which still exists by the way, wasn't about the gore. Not to say there wasn't gore sometimes, but it was about watching people just like you and me doing disturbing things in response to extraordinary situations. The horror aspect comes when you realize that, given those same conditions, you might do terrible things too. It is about watching others find that dark place and realizing you have one too, as well as understanding the “monster” and sympathizing with it. Scott Nicholson can write good old-fashioned horror in the form of a traditional ghost story or an urban legend, and he does that in Scattered Ashes, a collection of thought-provoking, spine-tingling short stories that remind me of the Twilight Zone or Tales from the Crypt.

Review

I enjoyed every one of these stories and wish I could tell you about all of them! But that would take a while so here are a few of my favorites.

The Meek. This story is about zombie Sheep…enough said!

“The herd was closer now, stampeding into Wadanetta, a hundred haunted bahs bleating from bottomless mouths.”

Dog Person was probably the most moving of all the stories. The ending isn’t what you expect, but then again it is. Sorry for being so vague, but I don’t want to spoil.

Murdermouth is a zombie tale from the POV of the zombie.

Last Writes is a clever ghost story set in a lighthouse and stars a well-known historical horror writer.


The Weight of Silence is a murder story with a twist at the end you don’t see coming.

Silver Run will remind you of the train engineer ghost story everyone heard growing up and what happens to ghosts when the world moves on.

Another thing I really enjoyed was the section at the end where Scott talks about the inspiration of each short story. Nice little touch that creates a connection with the author. And I just got to say, the cover ROCKS! It depicts the first story Timing Chains of the Heart.

Scott is a master storyteller and with the ability to put those words on paper. I haven’t read a Scott Nicholson story I didn’t like yet. Might be time for you to give horror a chance.

4 1/2 "spooky" Sheep

SharonS (edited by BAK)

The many faces of Scott

Scott Nicholson

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Author Scott Nicholson has written 15 thrillers, 60 short stories, four comics series, and six screenplays. He lives in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, where he tends an organic garden, successfully eludes stalkers, and generally lives the dream.

Nicholson has written hundreds of songs and poems and was a musician in a former life. a newspaper reporter, he won three North Carolina Press Association awards. He's had the usual collection of odd jobs: dishwasher, carpenter, painter, paranormal investigator, baseball card dealer, and radio announcer. Now he haphazardly trades words for magic beans and uses "haphazardly" as often as possible while decrying the overuse of adverbs.

Entering the digital era with a vengeance, Nicholson is releasing orginal titles and collections while conspiring to release interactive books in the near future, building audio files, video, and collaborative fiction projects. He also launched eBookSwag to embrace the future of free ebooks.

Nicholson won the grand prize in the international Writers of the Future contest in 1999. That same year, he was first runner-up for the Darrell Award. He studied Creative Writing at Appalachian State University and UNC-Chapel Hill. He has been an officer of Mystery Writers of America and Horror Writers Association and is a member of International Thriller Writers and inaugural member of the Killer Thriller Band.

Unfortunately, they never taught him to write: he had 105 rejections before his first story sale and over 400 before he sold a novel. He hasn't learned much from his mistakes but thinks he'll probably improve with practice. If nothing else, he's become a better liar.

His website www.hauntedcomputer.com features author interviews, articles, and fiction excerpts. Bad relationship advice. Humor. Gardening tips. Subliminal tricks to sell his books. That sort of thing.

Big Kindle Boogie Giveaway

Bestselling thriller writers J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, J. Carson Black, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson team up to give away 10 Kindle Fires, 75 ebooks, and a $500 library donation.

Those crazy ebook authors are at it again! This time giving away 10 kindle Fires and 75 ebooks over the two day event (Feb 1-2)

very easy to enter check below for details

WIN A KINDLE FIRE IN THE BIG KINDLE BOOGIE

Entries for 10 free Kindle Fires are already underway at http://bigkindleboogie.blogspot.com. On Feb. 1-2, bestselling thriller authors J.A. Konrath, Blake Crouch, Scott Nicholson, Lee Goldberg, and Scott Nicholson are making 75 Kindle books free on Amazon. They are also making a $500 donation to the local library of one Kindle Fire winner. Contest is international, no purchase necessary. You can also join the Facebook party at http://www.facebook.com/BigKindleBoogie.

Three easy ways to enter:

• Use the entry counters at http://bigkindleboogie.blogspot.com
• You can also enter manually by tweeting: 10 free Kindle Fires. 75 free ebooks. http://bit.ly/xWOoKN #bigkindleboogie RT to enter for a Fire!
• You can email bigkindleboogie@yahoo.com ONCE PER DAY with "Boogie entry" as subject line

Good luck!

List of all the free books

LEE GOLDBERG

Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/author/leegoldberg

WATCH ME DIE http://www.amazon.com/Watch-Me-Die-ebook/dp/B003BLPGZO/

MY GUN HAS BULLETS http://www.amazon.com/Gun-Bullets-Charlie-Willis-ebook/dp/B002HK35IU

ADJOURNED http://www.amazon.com/Adjourned-The-Jury-Series-ebook/dp/B002KMJPFM

GUILTY http://www.amazon.com/Guilty-The-Jury-Series-ebook/dp/B002OHD2XO/

PAYBACK http://www.amazon.com/Payback-The-Jury-Series-ebook/dp/B002RWJOSS/

THE JURY SERIES http://www.amazon.com/Jury-Four-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B002OL1XCW

DOUBLE HEADER http://www.amazon.com/Double-Header-Complete-Novels-ebook/dp/B004NIFT24

J CARSON BLACK

Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/J.-Carson-Black/e/B001KE3IXQ

The Desert Waits http://www.amazon.com/The-Desert-Waits-ebook/dp/B005JEDRE8/

Darkscope http://www.amazon.com/Darkscope-ebook/dp/B004E9U6U2/

Dark Horse http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Horse-ebook/dp/B004K1F8M0/

The Bluelight Special http://www.amazon.com/The-BlueLight-Special-ebook/dp/B005L76RU4/

The Devil's Hour http://www.amazon.com/Devils-Hour-Laura-Cardinal-ebook/dp/B003XVYHHK/

Dark Side of the Moon http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Side-Laura-Cardinal-ebook/dp/B003VIX140/

The Laura Cardinal Novels (omnibus) http://www.amazon.com/The-Laura-Cardinal-Novels-ebook/dp/B005PYI9TA/

BLAKE CROUCH

Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/Blake-Crouch/e/B001H6U8X0

*69: http://www.amazon.com/69-ebook/dp/B003UNLK8A/

Bad Girl: http://www.amazon.com/GIRL-Lucys-Prequel-Serial-ebook/dp/B003FMUVKO/

Break You: http://www.amazon.com/BREAK-YOU-Novella-Prequel-ebook/dp/B004MPRE9E/

Locked Doors: http://www.amazon.com/LOCKED-DOORS-Prequel-Stirred-ebook/dp/B00452V72O/

Four Live Rounds: http://www.amazon.com/FOUR-LIVE-ROUNDS-ebook/dp/B003BEEAD0/

Fully Loaded: http://www.amazon.com/FULLY-LOADED-Complete-Collected-ebook/dp/B004IE9VN6/

On the Good Red Road: http://www.amazon.com/GOOD-RED-ROAD-ebook/dp/B003UNLKIK/

Perfect Little Town: http://www.amazon.com/PERFECT-LITTLE-TOWN-ebook/dp/B003CJU1B4/

Remaking: http://www.amazon.com/REMAKING-ebook/dp/B003UNLKEY/

Serial: http://www.amazon.com/SERIAL-ebook/dp/B0045OUR0K/

Serial Killers Uncut: http://www.amazon.com/SERIAL-KILLERS-UNCUT-Complete-ebook/dp/B004YDNNK8/

Serial Uncut: http://www.amazon.com/SERIAL-UNCUT-Extended-Edition-ebook/dp/B003CFB4DW/

Shining Rock: http://www.amazon.com/SHINING-ROCK-ebook/dp/B003UNLKM6/

Six in the Cylinder: http://www.amazon.com/SIX-IN-THE-CYLINDER-ebook/dp/B004I6D4TQ/

The Meteorologist: http://www.amazon.com/THE-METEOROLOGIST-ebook/dp/B004I1L62I/

The Pain of Others: http://www.amazon.com/THE-PAIN-OF-OTHERS-ebook/dp/B004I6D6FS/

Thicker Than Blood: http://www.amazon.com/Thicker-Than-Blood-Complete-ebook/dp/B0050VK5M2/

Unconditional: http://www.amazon.com/UNCONDITIONAL-ebook/dp/B004L621MY/

Hunting Season: http://www.amazon.com/Hunting-Season-Love-Story-ebook/dp/B00614F28E/

JA KONRATH

Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/J.-A.-Konrath/e/B000BCH4EM

65 Proof - http://www.amazon.com/65-Proof-Daniels-Thriller-ebook/dp/B00264H2VI

Birds of Prey - http://www.amazon.com/BIRDS-PREY-Psycho-Thriller-ebook/dp/B004XJ6Y1S

Babe on Board - http://www.amazon.com/Jailbait-McGlade-Daniels-Mystery-ebook/dp/B004U341M6

Be the Monkey - http://www.amazon.com/Be-Monkey-Self-Publishing-Between-ebook/dp/B004SV2IPC

Crime Stories - http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Stories-ebook/dp/B003AOA73I

Dumb Jokes - http://www.amazon.com/Dumb-Jokes-Vulgar-Poems-ebook/dp/B0026FCI8O

Horror Stories - http://www.amazon.com/Horror-Stories-ebook/dp/B003AOA6BG

Jack Daniels Stories - http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Daniels-Stories-ebook/dp/B003AKY6GG

Planter's Punch - http://www.amazon.com/Planters-Punch-ebook/dp/B00264GKWA

Symbios - http://www.amazon.com/SYMBIOS-ebook/dp/B004P1JMK4

Shapeshifters Anonymous - http://www.amazon.com/Shapeshifters-Anonymous-ebook/dp/B004P1J2U4

Shot of Tequila - http://www.amazon.com/Shot-of-Tequila-ebook/dp/B00267T4H0

Street Music - http://www.amazon.com/Street-Music-Phineas-Mystery-ebook/dp/B005EO8OXW

Suckers - http://www.amazon.com/Suckers-ebook/dp/B00267SYZS

Newbies Guide - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003I6496Y

Truck Stop - http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002G99RRK

With a Twist - http://www.amazon.com/Twist-Daniels-Locked-Mystery-ebook/dp/B005ES6U9I

Killers - http://www.amazon.com/KILLERS-Sequel-Serial-ebook/dp/B004OL2MHU

The Screaming - http://www.amazon.com/The-Screaming-ebook/dp/B004P1J1UU

Wild Night is Calling http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Night-Is-Calling-ebook/dp/B004P8JMNY

Exposed http://www.amazon.com/Exposed-Thriller-Chandler-ebook/dp/B005R9RP7A

Konrath German Book:

Truck Stop DE (German) - http://www.amazon.com/Truck-Stop-Rastplatz-Grauens-ebook/dp/B005MN2E86

Scott Nicholson

Author Central: http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson/e/B001HCX30O

Scott Nicholson Library Vol. 1 http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson-Library-Boxed-ebook/dp/B006889PVS

Scott Nicholson Library Vol. 2 http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson-Library-Boxed-ebook/dp/B0068NOD2O

Scott Nicholson Library Vol. 3 http://www.amazon.com/Scott-Nicholson-Library-Boxed-ebook/dp/B0069BFPL8
The Skull Ring (Bonus Edition) http://www.amazon.com/Skull-Ring-Bonus-Screenplay-ebook/dp/B004EEOO6E

Creative Spirit (Bonus Edition) http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Spirit-Bonus-Screenplay-ebook/dp/B006AG3VOA

Burial to Follow http://www.amazon.com/Burial-To-Follow-ebook/dp/B0031RHNZY

Crime Beat http://www.amazon.com/Crime-Beat-ebook/dp/B004IK8FRI

BAD STACKS http://www.amazon.com/BAD-STACKS-Story-Collection-ebook/dp/B0070P96SA

Drummer Boy http://www.amazon.com/Drummer-Boy-ebook/dp/B003F77EP4
Disintegration (Feb. 1) http://www.amazon.com/Disintegration-ebook/dp/B0048EL5M6

Curtains http://www.amazon.com/Curtains-Mystery-Stories-ebook/dp/B0044R8ZZC

Gateway Drug http://www.amazon.com/Gateway-Drug-ebook/dp/B004LLIGMI

If I Were Your Monster http://www.amazon.com/If-Were-Your-Monster-ebook/dp/B004G095PG

October Girls http://www.amazon.com/October-Girls-Crystal-Bone-ebook/dp/B00433TD0I

The First http://www.amazon.com/The-First-ebook/dp/B0037KM1F2

The Indie Journey http://www.amazon.com/Indie-Journey-Secrets-Writing-ebook/dp/B0050I5TXA

Ida Claire http://www.amazon.com/Ida-Claire-ebook/dp/B007249ZGC

Zombie Bits http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Bits-ebook/dp/B003WJRICE
Flowers http://www.amazon.com/Flowers-ebook/dp/B0036TH3IO

Scott's UK Only

Solom (UK) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Solom/dp/B00408ANTG

Troubled (UK) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Troubled/dp/B003ZDO438

The Gorge (UK) http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Gorge/dp/B00472O79W

Scott's One-days

Speed Dating (Feb. 2) http://www.amazon.com/Speed-Dating-Dead-ebook/dp/B003TZLWTG

The Dead Love Longer (Feb.2) http://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Lovers-ebook/dp/B004LROVS0