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Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
461
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 05:45 pm: |   |
I am holding copies of my new paperback from Black Death Books BULLETPROOF SOUL at last. As I prepare to autograph a slew of these and send them for sale at SHOCKLINES, I wnat to say the quality of the books are very good. I work in the printing industry and am impressed...down to the trim.
If anyone wants to see this or order one, here are some links. The ones on SHOCKLINES are autographed 
BDB
http://www.khpindustries.com/bulletproof.html
SHOCKLINES
http://store.yahoo.net/shocklines/noname1.html
Soon to be listed on B&N and Amazon....it is already listed on INGRAMS etc...
Shrews...doing the happy SLAM dance... |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
780
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 06:18 pm: | |
Steven,
I am happy for you that you are quite satisfied with the product and binding of the books. May they sell millions. It is good to know that there are some publishers that put out good product and take pride in the workmanship.
Claudia |
Matt Dinniman
Wandering Member
Post Number:
122
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 06:52 pm: | |
I'll be getting a signed one via shocklines |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
464
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 07:16 pm: | |
I even scrawled the MAJESTIC credo on a few of them... |
Brian T. Seifrit
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
621
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 07:59 pm: | |
Ada boy! Right on Steve congrats. I'm with Claudia... "may ya sell millions!" Talk to ya... :^)
Brian T.
http://seifrit.ineedabook.net |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
465
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 05:24 am: | |
Hey, I'd be happy with just a bunch....but I am about to get into promo overdrive here... |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1041
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 05:48 am: | |
As soon as I scrounge up some loose change, I'll be heading to my local store and getting myself a copy...considering it's been on my newsletter's "to-read" list for the last few months... :-) |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
466
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 04:30 pm: | |
I was leafing through it...dang...I wrote all them words? Some rough stuff, but alot of funny lines as well... |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
481
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 19, 2004 - 06:01 pm: | |
BULLETPROOF SOUL debuted at #2 on the SHOCKLINES bestseller in stock item list!
http://store.yahoo.net/shocklines/besinbook.html
Order one, they are autographed... |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
487
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 02:25 pm: | |
BULLETPROOF SOUL is now listed on AMAZON if that is your choice
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974768006/qid=1074798797/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-3704940-2923837?v=glance&s=books |
Jennifer Lynn
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
993
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 02:28 pm: | |
Congrats Steven.
Ever Forward..
Jenn |
D.R.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
15
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 06:42 pm: | |
Hey guys,
We all know that spelling errors are "inevitable".
That is why it is so important that we correct our are own sepling.
Speling erros are so bad in the mayjor publkishing insdtry that it it is soo difficult for edotros to edit manuscriptss.
drbennett.2ya.com
http://www.drbennett.2ya.com |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
488
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 07:41 pm: | |
Um, thanks for the tip, D.R.
Perfection would be a bitch to live with.
BULLETPROOF SOUL...Dack Shannon returns in 20 tales of horror, msytery and bloodshed...
BDB
http://www.khpindustries.com/bulletproof.html
SHOCKLINES
http://store.yahoo.net/shocklines/noname1.html
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D.R.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
16
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 22, 2004 - 07:47 pm: | |
All things aside,
It is Truth that we want. Truth in the publishing industry and Truth in ourselves.
Truth in our lives is what we really want.
We want what's true, yet it's nice to delve into fantasy once in a while.
And who says that fantasy is not true?
Truth is relative to whatever you believe to be a lie.
Check out the Truth at http://www.drbennett.2ya.com
and call me at my office (1) 480-474-8211.
Talk to me about truth.
http://www.drbennett.2ya.com |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
489
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 05:30 am: | |
Pilate asked Jesus "What is Truth?"
But Jesus was interrupted and never got a chance to answer... |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
496
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, January 26, 2004 - 07:48 pm: | |
My Dack novel BULLETPROOF SOUL is now available on www.amazon.com if that is
they way you like to order books.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974768006/qid=1074798797/sr=1
-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2806837-0522246?v=glance&s=books
Also available from the publisher at the links below or signed copies at
SHOCKLINES.
http://www.khpindustries.com/bulletproof.html
http://store.yahoo.net/shocklines/noname1.html
www.stevenshrewsbury.com
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Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
501
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 04:23 pm: | |
Bulletproof Soul is now on B&N!
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=37V4BJCQTB&isbn=0974768006&itm=2
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D.R.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
26
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 10:07 pm: | |
Right on Steven. This is awsome!
http://www.drbennett.2ya.com |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
503
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 04:59 am: | |
Laurel Johnson of Midwest Book Review has written a review of my new
paperback BULLETPROOF SOUL. It can be read at this link:
http://www.stevenshrewsbury.com/reviews/bin/bps_laurel_johnson.php
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2570
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 08:21 am: | |
Bulletproof Soul was very good. Like everything Steven writes, the plots are creative and imaginative and his lead characters well developed and appealing.
I meant what I said in the review. I prefer genres other than the ones Stven chooses to write, but he is winning me over one amazing character at a time. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
504
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 07:52 pm: | |
I hope I can live up to your words, LJ.
I am writimg a tale about your fave, Elijah Blackthorn called THROUGH A MESSIAH DARKLY... as we speak... |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2572
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 01, 2004 - 05:21 am: | |
I'm waiting for a full length book about Elijah like the one about Dack Shannon. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
507
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, February 02, 2004 - 05:41 pm: | |
Laurel, I am trying to get through the first draft of a novel about Blackthorn. I probably have enough tales with him to get an antho together, but I have templates for 3 complete novels dealing with him. Now, to stop time... |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
513
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, February 07, 2004 - 06:57 pm: | |
ETERNAL NIGHT-UK has reviewed BULLETPROOF SOUL.
To read the review by Shawn Madison, click here
http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/books/s/shrewsburystevenl/bulletproofsoul.html
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LisaLawrence (Unregistered Guest)
Work-in-progress guest
Posted From: 65.193.91.99
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 - 02:30 pm: | |
ordered bulletproof soul today shrewsman
reviews look good ;)
take care of your heavy self |
S.F. Falkner (Unregistered Guest)
Work-in-progress guest
Posted From: 204.246.5.17
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 10:45 am: | |
Steven,
Ok, almost two months have passed since "Bulletproof Soul" came out, and I'm just curious: Are you happy with Black Death/KHP??
Honestly curious.
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Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
521
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 07:17 pm: | |
Well, certainly happier than with PA.
Quality and cash are much better.
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Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
545
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2004 - 11:45 pm: | |
Yes, I totally agree. Bubonic plague is preferable to PA.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1031
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 12:09 am: | |
ROFLMAO.. no comment, nope uh uh... |
Violet Towe
Wandering Member
Post Number:
231
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 06:10 am: | |
Fred, that one liner was funny. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
522
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 04:34 pm: | |
Yeah, it is a completely different animal.
I do not pretend to understand this industry completely, but every step is educational, that is for sure.
Mimes have talked with me more than PA. |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1135
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, February 19, 2004 - 04:41 pm: | |
Is anyone writing down these one-liners? Hee hee... |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
523
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, February 20, 2004 - 07:29 pm: | |
I see that BULLETPROOF SOUL is now on sale at BLACK DEATH BOOKS for 12
bucks! If you haven't secured a copy, head over there and order one at
http://www.khpindustries.com/bulletproof.html
I see there is a discount to get the new SLAYER version with BS for 28 bucks
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Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
538
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 02:38 pm: | |
David Wilbanks at HORRORWORLD has reviewed my new paperback BULLETPROOF
SOUL. I think he was very fair.
http://pluto.spaceports.com/%7Emot/octreview.htm#BULLETPROOF
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Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1169
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 05, 2004 - 04:51 am: | |
Lest I forget to mention, Bulletproof Soul was reviewed in the latest edition of "In This Corner", along with an interview with the author...
Check it out...
www.geocities.com/toddmhunter
(under the In This Corner link) |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
599
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 01:36 pm: | |
Forgot to give a good THANK YOU out to Todd for his review and interview of me on his newsletter
On the BDB forum I saw that there was a contest of some sort...a certain # poster would get a free BD book. Steve Vernon, a writer & a swell guy (if he is a fan of Robert E. Howard, how can he NOT be a swell guy?) won and chose BULLETPROOF SOUL. Hope he likes it...
Laurel's review
http://www.stevenshrewsbury.com/reviews/bin/bps_laurel_johnson.php
To read the review by Shawn Madison, click here
http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/books/s/shrewsburystevenl/bulletproofsoul.html
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Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2733
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 01:53 pm: | |
Yes Steven, maybe you should point out that I am not very experienced with the horror genre. But thanks you you and Shawn and others, I'm learning.
Or trying to learn, anyway. |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1265
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 06:21 pm: | |
No problem, Steve...
I enjoy promoting folks...through giving reviews and interviews, and info...
(though for the most part, all the folks I've reviewed up to this point are people I know (though there have been others I don't), so we all know what that means...) |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
606
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 04:52 pm: | |
Primo mag DARK REALMS # 14 reviews my new paperback BULLETPROOF SOUL
BULLET PROOF SOUL
by Steven L. Shrewsbury
Black Death Books ($20.00) Softcover
Bullet Proof Soul is Shrewsbury's latest
collection of stories about Dack Shannon,
secret agent for a covert intelligence
agency known as Majestic Services. Dack
is a total bad-ass. This six-foot-five albino,
clad in a long, black, bullet-proof trench
coat, is Majestic's lean, mean killing
machine-with a soul. He has absolutely
no amount of pity for terrorists, drug
runners, child molesters, and the other
dregs of society, and dispatches them with
cold, calculated ferocity.
Dack is not alone in his righteous
quest for vengeance; his comrades-inarms
include his former partner, Thor (a
good ole' boy type, but cunning and
ruthless to the extreme), and Brittany
(a beautiful, feisty red-head who gathers
intelligence for Dack while working
undercover as a stripper), among other
mysterious figures from his past. Dack's
adversary, Marty Milner, is a rouge agent
from Majestic's Remote Viewing division
and is hell-bent on wrecking havoc.
Bullet Proof Soul is action-packed
from start to finish with 20 tales of dark
intrigue, horror, sci-fi, and suspense.
Every story in this book is compelling
and well-crafted. Steven Shrewsbury's
delightfully vicious character, Dack
Shannon, is one of the coolest vigilantes
since the Crow. Highly recommended.
- Christine Filipak
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Tony (Unregistered Guest)
Work-in-progress guest
Posted From: 24.31.215.202
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 09:14 pm: | |
Congratulations on the review, Steven. I'm not too familiar with Dark Realms. Though I guess I should be since it sounds like they review my genre! Are they big, small, offline, online?
Congrats again. |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
608
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 11:13 am: | |
Here is a link to explain all
http://www.monolithgraphics.com/darkrealms.html |
EricC (Unregistered Guest)
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2004 - 12:45 pm: | |
Shrews, bulletproof soul was good. I wished that it was longer. When is new dack shannon book coming out? What else is in the hopper? wish depths of savagery was paperback. any new fantasy books coming out? |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
635
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 01, 2004 - 06:32 pm: | |
Ok, that is alot of stuff to answer.
STRONGER THAN DEATH is the next full Dack Novel. It is supposed to be out late this year from BALCK DEATH BOOKS.
Ok, I wish Depths of Savagery were a paperback as well. there have been a great many positive reviews of it. A pal of mine may help me produce a pb version from LULU with extras added in. I will let you know if that becomes available.
Lots of stuff in the pipeline. Writing a couple of new novels, lots of tales, the usual.
Trying to find the correct pub for a few fant epics.
www.stevenshrewsbury.com |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
646
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 11:50 am: | |
Justice from a .45 Magnum
Reviewer: Author Phil Henry from Coleraine, Northern Ireland
Dack Shannon, for those of you who don't know, is a six-foot-five
albino agent for a shadow agency of the government called Majestic Services.
This anthology is populated with so many larger-than-life characters and
conspiracies that you are hooked from the outset. Dack's justice is swift,
harsh and sometimes brutal, but you can't help feeling that it is still
just. His religious upbringing has given him a clear sense of what is right
and wrong and Majestic Services have given him a gun...a lethal combination.
The book consists of twenty tales from this dark avenger and there are
some brilliant twists and explanations to the unexplained. Among my
favourites are a story called Batch of Lies, which has a brilliantly
appropriate ending, and Damnation Angels, which is such a bizarre, inventive
and clever story that it is just crying out to be made into a movie.
Hollywood: take note.
The twenty stories become far more than the some of their parts. With
each story you gain a little more insight into Dack and his colleagues. By
the end you have built up a clear picture of why his vengeance is delivered
without remorse. Dack protects the innocent, by any and all means at his
disposal and in this age of slippery lawyers getting criminals off with a
smack on the wrist, he's a welcome dose of justice.
www.stevenshrewsbury.com |
Violet Towe
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
341
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 01:29 pm: | |
Steven, that's a great review! |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1355
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, April 03, 2004 - 02:33 pm: | |
Personally, I thought Hellraisers was the best story in the book...second to that was the final tale in the book, Resurrection...
At least in my opinion...
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Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
648
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, April 04, 2004 - 06:34 am: | |
I appreciate the comments. Hellraisers was quite personal for me on a number of levels, as was Resurrection. At times when one has a passion to explode out, it shows in the writing. Whereas I labored on a work like Damnation Angels or Thunder underground, tales like Resurrection and Agent Aqua just popped out.
www.stevenshrewsbury.com |
Steven Shrewsbury
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
675
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2004 - 06:38 pm: | |
THE HORROR FICTION REVIEW
BULLETPROOF SOUL: A DACK SHANNON ANTHOLOGY
by Steven L. Shrewsbury (Black Death Books) ISBN 0-9747680-0-6
Review by Steve Vernon
The first sound a reader hears as they open this collection is the
business-like cracking of a young man's neck.
Steven Shrewsbury means business.
I've been enjoying this collection. There doesn't seem to be a lot of
continuity, so it's the sort of anthology you can read at your leisure;
picking a story at random, or working your way methodically through the
book. I don't always finish anthologies. I prefer novels. Still, Dack
Shannon kind of wormed his way into my heart, like a well sharpened
stiletto.
This is a solid trade paperback collection, with twenty no-nonsense
shoot-em-ups. Dack Shannon mixes it up with spies, drug dealers, zombies and
mad scientists. A lot of folks have compared Shrewsbury to Robert E. Howard.
I think of him more as an Edward S. Aarons. Dack strikes me, (and everyone
within fist-swinging distance), as a cross between The Shadow and Sam
Durell. The dialogue's a little stiff in spots, and I'd like to know a bit
more about Mr. Shannon, but this was a darned enjoyable read. Take it to the
beach and wear your darkest sunglasses and tackiest Bermuda shorts. Potato
salad and fried chicken, no caviar allowed.
www.stevenshrewsbury.com |
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