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KINGDOM – The End is Here.

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Remember that pizza place you loved growing up? For me, it was Maria’s Pizza in downtown Beverly, and they’re still there! Imagine that you’ve gone back to that pizza place. Looks the same. Smells the same. You’re salivating before you can even order. I am, just thinking about it. You get your pizza, drive it home and then–life gets in the way. A pet emergency. A child suddenly needing to make a diorama. Montezuma rises from the depths of Taco Tuesday to exact his hot, spicy vengeance. Point is, that pizza you were looking forward to so much? It’s in the fridge, cooling off, waiting…congealing. For what feels like forever, you put out the fires of life. Through the night. Through the following day, until finally, the next night…you’re alone. You reheat that pizza–as you did a hundred times when you were young–bust out the root beer, and finally, ecstatically take a bite. THIS is the journey of KINGDOM, except the single day of life’s assaults was stretched out for years. But, the end has come. KINGDOM is here, reheated and ready for you to consume! Let’s get into it!

KINGDOM

The entire Jack Sigler series was born out of a strange confluence of events. At the time, I’d self-published THE DIDYMUS CONTINGENCY, RAISING THE PAST, and ANTARKTOS RISING. The editor at St. Martin’s Press, Peter Wolverton, noticed ANTARKTOS on Amazon, loved the cover (my design) and bought a copy. He loved the book and contacted me. The offer boiled down to this: “Can you write something just like this (action, military, monsters), but don’t mention religion?” I said yes, and delivered….INSTINCT.

That’s right, PULSE wasn’t the original Book 1.

The editor wanted a smoother launch for the team, and since I had killed both Knight and Bishop in that first version of INSTINCT, I needed to come up with a story where that wasn’t a possibility. The solution came from a movie script I’d written a few years earlier, titled HYDRA. It was the first screenplay I’d ever written and featured George Pierce as the main character. I retained a lot of that original story, including George, and made it part of PULSE, which became Book 1 and launched what would become my longest series. KINGDOM bookends the series with just as much action, monsters, and intrigue as that first book, and I’m proud of what the series has become–bigger than me. While I wrote those first three novels on my own, I was joined by Kane Gilmour and Sean Ellis for the rest of the novels, along with Kent Holloway, David Wood, Edward G. Talbot, David McAfee, and Ethan Cross. This series has been running for nearly as long as my career, and while I’m sad to see it end, it’s a worthy ending that is both…brutal…and like that trip back home for your favorite pizza. Enjoy the last slice, my friends!

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HELIOS is here!

For those new to the series, the first book, Herculean, took a group of characters from the Jack Sigler Thriller series and formed a new team. Joining the ranks of an ancient organization formed by the historical Hercules, they protect ancient relics, knowledge and creatures, from those who would destroy, pillage and use them. Even more important, they protect humanity from the ancient powers just waiting to be released back into the world. Now, the Cerberus Group is back, and this time the fate of the world is at stake.

SUMMARY:

THE BEGINNING OF THE END…

A deadly swarm of earthquakes shakes the planet. In the sky above, the sun appears to stand still.

While the world reels from the vast destruction, George Pierce and the Cerberus Group, a team of scientific and historical experts, uncovers an imminent threat straight out of history that must be stopped. But not everyone wants them to succeed.

An apocalyptic death cult made up of suicidal martyrs and true believers who will do whatever it takes to ensure the destruction of all life on Earth goes head-to-head with a billionaire tech-genius commanding an army of robots, on a quest to own the sun itself.

Caught in the middle, the Cerberus Group must fend off both sides while traveling to every corner of the map, and into the depths of myth and history, to find the holiest treasure on Earth–an artifact that can harness the power of creation. The prophecies are true.

…THE END IS NIGH.

Jeremy Robinson and Sean Ellis, the international bestselling team behind the Jack Sigler thrillers, including Cannibal and Empire, continue the new series that rewrites the way we see history. Rivaling the best of Matthew Reilly and James Rollins, Helios combines a blistering pace with fringe science and myths reborn.

THE END IS NIGH…For Series Novels

I’m going to preface this post by pointing out that I’m giving you all full disclosure about what’s happening and why (as I did with my 2016 health scares). I have a unique relationship with my amazing fans and I don’t like leaving people hanging. What follows will seem like bad news for some, but there is a silver lining, so read to the end for that!

Because I’m the proprietor of Breakneck Media, the small press that publishes most Jeremy Robinson, Jeremy Bishop and Jeremiah Knight novels, which I write, I have to wear multiple hats. I’m an author, first and foremost, but I also create most of the covers, art-direct the rest, design and maintain the website, create all the video trailers, create the marketing materials, and…run the business. That means, on occasion, I have to mentally sit down with myself, look at the numbers, and make some hard calls.

In that past, that’s meant leaving a publisher. Now it means shifting my focus from writing series titles to standalone novels. While a good number of fans will no doubt disagree with the outcome (I don’t like it, either) the numbers don’t lie. I’m also going to lay out a few reasons for each series’ decline, but then propose a larger, theoretical reason at the end. So if you’re interested in saving any of these series, read to the end.

THE NUMBERS

While I’m not going to reveal sales figures or revenue numbers, I am going to talk in percentages, and reveal which series are being affected, all of which have a core group of fans who are going to be disappointed. I wish it could be avoided, but continuing with these series is unsustainable for me. There are a few series for which I plan on publishing a series finale, and with those books I expect to either break even, or take a loss.

JACK SIGLER THRILLERS

Falling under this banner is the Jack Sigler Thrillers themselves, the Continuum series, and the Cerberus Group books. Does that mean you shouldn’t read Helios, the next Cerberus Group novel? Not at all. The finale for all these books will be linked together in grand fashion, bringing together characters that have been separated for many books now.

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CENTURION – The Final Continuum Novella is Here!

While 2016 was a rough year for me personally (outside of the dismay shared by the world last year), 2017 is already turning around. Last week, I was cleared of a brain tumor and life altering disease a doctor previously told me I had. The chaotic emotions that plagued my summer, caused by some kind of chemical imbalance, has faded. And big things are afoot…that I can’t yet talk about. What I CAN talk about is Centurion, the third and likely final Continuum book.

Why the last?

When things got rough over the summer, I realized I had been pushing myself too hard for a long time. In 20 years, I had taken exactly zero vacations. Over the next year (maybe two) all of my series will come to an end, mostly to create open patches in my schedule when I can relax, and to let me focus on standalone novels which are the more creatively rewarding (and better selling). More on that another time. Let’s get to the fun stuff!

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Prepare Thyself For Fictional Insanity

So, I release a good number of books every year, and 2016 is no different. BUT, it’s looking like it will be one of the most epic years for my novels. Not only are several series continuing, we’re also launching two new series and a stand alone of monstrous proportions. To celebrate the string of new novels, I’ve put together the video above, which reveals what’s coming and when (though all dates are subject to change). In order of release, the new novels for 2016 are:

Apocalypse Machine (a new stand alone Kaiju Thriller) – March 1

Empire (8th Jack Sigler Thriller) – April

Feast (Book 2 of the Hunger series) – May

Unity ( kaiju vs giant robot story ) – June

Centurion (book 3 of the Jack Sigler Continuum series) – August

Helios (book 2 of the Cerberus Group Thrillers) – September

Project Legion (book 5, and the epic finale of the Nemesis series) – October

Viking Tomorrow (first book in a new post-apocalyptic Viking Berserker Saga) – November

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