As I noted in my last post, Bad Moon Books will be releasing a trade paperback omnibus edition of the Templar Chronicles trilogy.  When I initially announced the title, I didn’t have a release date but I’ve recently heard from Roy at BMB and he tells me that we’re looking at having the books available by the end of July/early August!

Typesetting on the volume is nearly finished and it will be going to the printer shortly after that, which means pre-orders will start in just a few weeks.  What this space for more information as we get closer to the date.

For now, though, let me leave you with the gorgeous cover art created by Kip Ayers.  He’s done a marvelous job and I can’t wait to hold a copy of this book in my hands!

Well, I’m happy to say that another small press publisher has stepped up to the plate!

A trade paperback omnibus edition containing all three books under one cover will be available before the end of the year.  In fact, I’ve already seen the finished cover art, which I think is gorgeous.  This is going to be a nice looking book.

Even better, we’re doing our best to keep it affordable.  Right now we’re looking at a price of about $29.95, which means you get all three Templar Chronicles novels – The Heretic, A Scream of Angels, and A Tear in the Sky – for about the same price as a typical hardcover.  That’s not a bad deal!

I’ll be posting more information as I’m at liberty to do so.

As a big proponent of digital media and the ability it gives authors to expand their reader base, I wanted to do something special to help celebrate “Read an E-Book Week” that runs from March 7th through March 13th. I’ve been planning a digital launch for the English language editions of the Templar Chronicles books for some time now and what better time to do it than during “Read an E-Book Week”?

So, starting today, and continuing throughout the week, I’ll be making the three books in the Templar Chronicles trilogy – The Heretic, A Scream of Angels, and A Tear in the Sky – available in a variety of formats through Smashwords at a discount price (25% off). After that, the books will be available at various online distributors, including right here at this website in the new Digital Store, at the usual rate.

THE HERETIC: Book One of the Templar Chronicles

Centuries after the Knights Templar were presumed destroyed at the hands of King Phillip and Pope Clement V, the Order resurfaces as a secret military arm of the Vatican, charged with defending mankind from supernatural threats and enemies.

Of the Orders’ enemies, the greatest are the Fallen, supernatural beings that claim to be fallen angels and are devoted to wreaking havoc on earth. It is contact with one of the Fallen that led to Knight Commander Cade Williams becoming a Templar.

When a cabal of necromancers tries to claims the legendary powers of an ancient holy relic for their own ungodly purposes, it will be up to Cade and his famed Echo Team to stop them before it is too late.

Praise for The Heretic:

“First-rate, stylish work from Mr. Nassise, with a steady escalation of the story’s speed that makes it almost literally breath-taking.” — Clive Barker

“With HERETIC, Joseph Nassise kicks off his TEMPLAR CHRONICLES in fine, swaggering style. This book bobs and weaves like the young Muhammed Ali, keeping us off-guard and entertained with its every surprising move.” — Peter Straub

Visit Smashwords to read a sample or purchase your copy today!

Available formats: Kindle, ePub, PDF, RTF, LRF, Palm, and Plain Text

(Use coupon code RAE25 at check out to save 25% off the price of the book)

Book Two, A Scream of Angels, will be available tomorrow and book three, A Tear in the Sky, will be available on Wednesday, so come on back and check out the rest of the series!

Full Moon Press

Joseph Nassise’s “Templar Chronicles”

We are very pleased to announce that we are sending out contracts for Joe to sign for all 3 “Templar Chronicles” novels this week!

We will have artist announcements and a preorder link for “Heretic”, the first book in the series next week and we will have a very cool promotion for this series as well!

These books are international bestsellers and we expect them to be very popular FMP titles!

More details will follow next week!

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I’m very grateful to Full Moon Press for making the decision to publish all three of the Templar Chronicles books in English. At long last, all of my original fans will be able to read the continuing adventures of Knight Commander Cade Williams and his Echo Team comrades.

Now, that said, I can’t stress how important it is for the first book in this series to sell well. I know just about everyone out there has read it and that you are all anxiously awaiting books two and three. But the publisher and I wanted to do this as a complete three-part set and sales of the first book are clearly going to impact how quickly we get the next two out to the market.

So it would be great to see a good number of pre-orders come in next week when Full Moon makes the announcement that things are ready to go. I can guarantee you won’t be disappointed – these books are going to be beautiful!

If you haven’t signed up for the free Full Moon Press newsletter, you can do so at their website so you won’t miss the announcement when it happens next week. (I will be echoing the announcement in my own newsletter as well.)