Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Forty years ago today - April 1976.

First up, I'm contractually obliged to mention that my legendary fourth novel Keep Those Things Away From Me has now hit the bookshelves of Amazon's Kindle Store. It's 92,000 words of unlikely sci-fi goodness. So shocking are its contents that, already, Hollywood is refusing to film it - just as it's refused to film any of my previous novels.

You can find it at your local branch of Amazon, such as Amazon UK, Amazon.Com and various others.

In another mind-numbing development, after fifteen years, Harper/Collins have finally got round to releasing my first two novels on Kindle. Should you choose to, you can find them here and here and at the various other Amazon sites around the world.

In the meantime, let's take a look at what our favourite Marvel heroes were up to in this month of forty years ago and see if it can possibly compare to such power and drama.

Conan the Barbarian #61, Belit

At last, Conan takes on his deadliest foes yet.

Moths.

Possibly more importantly, he comes up against Amra, the titanic Tarzan-alike whose identity, I believe, he ends up adopting for himself.

Captain America and the Falcon #196

It's the one where Captain America and the Falcon find themselves in a deadly skateboard derby.

Is this the one where Cap loses his shield and pretty much has a total psychological meltdown over it? It's always struck me that it wasn't a very dignified response to something that happens to him almost every time he sets foot out of the house.

Daredevil #132, Bullseye

I think I might have had this one.

Sadly, I can't remember anything that happened inside it.

I do wonder if Bullseye's devoted any thought at all as to what he's going to do when gravity kicks in and he has to start coming down from being fired from that cannon.

Fantastic Four #169

I assume this is the issue where Power Man replaces Benjy in the FF?

Tragically, I don't think I've ever read any of the Power Man Fantastic Four issues.

Incredible Hulk #198, Man-Thing

At last, it's a comic where I know what happens in it.

The Hulk and the Man-Thing tackle the Collector and, in a manner somewhat reminiscent of the Captain Omen story, it has a not altogether happy ending for some of its participants.

Iron Man #85, the Freak

I'd love to know what the promised dramatic new change is in Iron Man's armour.

It's not him getting rid of his nose-piece, is it?

Amazing Spider-Man #155

Spidey does the Ellery Queen routine as he turns super-sleuth.

I remember watching the first episode of the 1970s Ellery Queen show and - when they stopped the show to challenge you to work out who the murderer was - concluding that Ellery Queen was the murderer.

In my defence, I didn't realise it was a series and that, therefore, the star wasn't likely to be the murderer.

Unlike Murder She Wrote, where we all know Jessica Fletcher was always the murderer.

Thor #246, Firelord

I must confess that Firelord is high on my list of annoying Marvel characters. His head might have been on fire but he never seemed to be too hot between the ears.

X-Men #98, the Sentinels

Hooray! The Sentinels are back, in a tale that gave me much pleasure as a youth!

My love for Dave Cockrum's X-Men was beyond measure. I even had a dream about them once. They went to Ireland and, as they were flying around, a mountain suddenly shot up and hit their plane. I have no recall as to what happened after that but am sure it was suitably dramatic.

Avengers #146, the Assassin

The Assassin's still up to no good.

Friday, 13 September 2013

Adventures By Moonlight.

Stephen Walker, Adventures By Moonlight, short story collection
Hooray! Adventures By Moonlight is my new collection that gathers together all the short stories I published in 2011 and 2012. It also features a specially written story called Adventures In The Moonlight, which I like to think of as the tale that Robert E Howard never dared tell.

That means it's packed with 71,000 words of supernatural doings and occurrences. Thrill to the adventures of occult investigator Liz Sanford as she battles with the forces of darkness - and with her own workmates. See a Victorian super-sleuth who refuses to follow the script. Find out what happens when a metaphorical being loses her lucky hand. All this and a whole lot more besides.

Features the stories:
ADVENTURES IN THE MOONLIGHT.
WAITING FOR THE WIREMAN IN 1974.
LEAVING THE CIRCLE.
THE WEAKEST LINK.
CARRYING.
SEND ME YOUR HORROR.
THE MUMMY SHRUGGED.
STONE.
THE STRANGE CASE OF THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DOG.
WHEN DROMGYDDRU GETS HERE.
WHO THE HELL IS DOMINIC PINE?
STONE DREAMS.
THE DOWNWARD SLIDE.
DON'T MAKE ME SHOOT YOU, SANTA!
GETTING OUT.


You can download Adventures By Moonlight from:
Amazon.Com, Amazon UK and all other good branches of Amazon.

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Who the Hell is Dominic Pine?

Who the Hell is Dominic Pine, Stephen Walker, Liz Sanford, Occult Investigation, eBook,Amazon, Kindle,Stephen Sloan
Hooray! The world of literature is saved, as my latest eBook hits the shelves of Kindle faster than you can say, "Holey Moley!"

It's another adventure for this land's most put-upon occult investigator Liz Sanford, as she finds herself having to bodyguard the idol of millions.

And, right now, it's yours for just 99c or 77p from Amazon.

Thanks to Canadian animator Stephen Sloan for supplying the cover. You can find out more about Stephen at his site: http://www.uponanimation.com/Bio.html

As for you, thanks for your time. And, remember, you don't need one of those fancy Kindle machine-thingies to read it. Thanks to Amazon's free software, you can also download it direct to your PC/Laptop/Netbook.

Who the Hell is Dominic Pine is available from:
Amazon.Com, Amazon UK, Amazon France, Amazon Germany, Amazon Spain and Amazon Italy.

Monday, 9 January 2012

Leaving the Circle.

Leaving the Circle, Stephen Walker, Amazon, Kindle, download, purple, snow, mountains, short story
Holey Moley! Can it be that I actually have a hit on my hands?

Before I've even told anyone it exists, my latest story on Amazon's Kindle Store's already started selling!

How that happens, I don't have a clue, but thank God it does. Perhaps one day my dream of not having to fight off the local foxes to get all my meals from my neighbours' wheelie-bins can come true.

And there was me thinking my decision not to call it Nightmare Horror Citadel of Doom, Death Terror, Argh! might turn out to be a mistake.

Anyway, it's true. It's here, Leaving the Circle. It's 1934, and an entity from Other Realms discovers there might be more lurking beneath the snows of, "The Roof of the World," than first meets the eye. But, now it has that information, what's it going to do with it?

Leaving the Circle can be downloaded at the following places (and remember, you don't need a Kindle-machine-thingy to download it or any of my other legendary tales. It can be downloaded straight to your computer):
Amazon.com. Amazon UK, Amazon Germany, Amazon France, Amazon Italy, Amazon Spain.

Cover image credit: Fitz Roy 2 by Prissantenbar (Public Domain), fiddled-about-with a fair bit by me. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Thanks for your time and tolerance ~ Steve.

Saturday, 10 December 2011

Fatal Inheritance. Bunging up the Plug Hole.

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With my recently plugged short stories doing so well that they're actually matching sales of my hot cakes step-for-step, it's the perfect time to announce I now have a full-blown novel on Kindle.

In Fatal Inheritance, when her flatmate is left a house that brings death to all who own it, occult investigator Liz Sanford goes into action.

Can she find out what deadly secret the house contains?

And, if she does, can she stay alive long enough to celebrate that success?

Personally I think it'd make the ideal Christmas present.

That is of course assuming you know someone who likes spending their Christmases reading about people being killed by the forces of evil.

I know I do.

That's why I'll be reading Fatal Inheritance.

Actually I won't. I've already read it, so I'll be watching Mary Poppins.

But don't let that put you off.

The might and majesty of Fatal Inheritance can be downloaded at the following places:
Amazon US   Amazon UK  Amazon Germany   Amazon France   Amazon Italy   Amazon Spain.

Thank you for your time. And please don't forget to vote for Iron Man's greatest ever foe.

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Lies! Lies! Buy your cheap lies here!

While the world queues up to nominate its favourite Iron Man villains, I might as well take this lull in blogging proceedings to shamelessly plug my alternative ventures.

As you may know, in the past I've been known to dabble in fiction. My novels Danny Yates Must Die and Mr Landen has no Brain (HarperCollins/Voyager) are still spoken of in hushed whispers wherever people have laryngitis. Likewise, my short stories were once scattered around genre periodicals, like chaff.

Years ago, however, I gave up the lure of lying for a living, to concentrate on telling the unvarnished truth in blogs like this one.

But a man can only resist making things up for a limited spell, and now I'm back in the making-things-up department, with three short stories available for download on Amazon's Kindle Store. At last I know how Stan Lee and Jack Kirby felt all those decades ago when they started a shocking new era in publishing by launching issue #1 of the Fantastic Four on the world.

Not only do these stories have words in them but they're as cheap as the bloke who wrote them. Who says this isn't the Steve Age of Bargains?

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First published in the award-winning The 3rd Alternative magazine, the dark fantasy Waiting for the Wireman in 1974 discovers just what two children might get up to on a dark October night when the scarecrow fails to scare and there's a storm a-brewing.

Available for download at:
Amazon US.  Amazon UK.  Amazon Germany.  Amazon France. Amazon Italy.  Amazon Spain.

Stephen Walker, Carrying, short story, moon, relentless heliotrope, dark, fantasy, amazon, kindle, download
Carrying sees a "woman" known only as the Relentless Heliotrope stumble across a mystery on the thirteenth floor of a building that's only meant to have twelve.

Just why has the man she finds there been sat alone for so long?

Why has his expected visitor never arrived?

And what is the secret of the shoebox he's meant to have delivered all those years ago?

Available for download at:
Amazon US.  Amazon UK.  Amazon Germany.  Amazon France.  Amazon Italy.  Amazon Spain.

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In a lighter vein altogether, a complimentary sausage and her boss's incompetence plunge occult investigator Liz Sanford into an unlikely mystery involving a big night out, her self-declared arch-enemy, and a cabinet minister.

Just who is behind the least likely award nomination of all time?

Will Liz Sanford finally get to use that coffin with her name on it?

And who is that woman in the cupboard?

Available for download at:

Thank you for your time - Steve.

Cover image credits:
Carrying:
Self-Portrait by Moonlight by Alessandro Zangrilli (self-made for wiki) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
&
Moon at its Fullest a Few Minutes Before the Lunar Eclipse of 20 Feb 2008 by Thom Rains [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Waiting for the Wireman in 1974:
Noche de luna llena by Luz A. Villa from Medellin, Colombia (Noche de luna llena - Full moon night) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

The Weakest Link:
by moi.