Infractus . . . Get ready for it!

We are very excited to reveal the cover for upcoming Dystopian Fantasy Infractus and welcome its author, Sarah L. Johnson, to Driven Press. This amazing story will be released October 1, 2017.

Blurb

The end of the world begins with a baby.

Abandoned as a newborn, a boy grows up in an orphanage. No one knows who he is or where he came from . . . except for an invisible presence that steals his sleep and gobbles his dreams.

The boy roams the city, a mouse on the streets of Vancouver, living by his own rules under the wing of a charismatic grifter. When a terrorist attack destroys the global supply chain, it turns cities into wastelands. Society bleeds into anarchy, and to survive, his rules need to change.

Panopticon rises to power, a shadow regime exercising control through surveillance and the occasional act of erasure. The mouse is now a man, recruited as an invisible assassin in their fishbowl world. It’s an almost perfect life for him, becoming whoever they need him to be. Until he’s nearly decapitated by a strange woman with an even stranger proclamation of looming Armageddon. She offers him a choice: help her destroy Panopticon or watch the world sink into oblivion.

The assassin is used to being alone--prefers it actually--after all, he’s been a very bad man, but somehow along the way he’s accumulated a bunch of misfits he’s started to care about.

In the shadows, the presence has bided its time, armed with a secret. A name that will invite a reckoning.

Infractus . . . available for pre-order soon. Stay tuned!

More info:

www.drivenpress.net

and 

Goodreads

Author

Sarah L. Johnson lives in Calgary with her noisy family and two bewildered cats. She runs ultra marathons, does daily battle with curly hair, and writes fiction that pokes its nose into a variety of genres: literary, sci-fi, fantasy, noir, horror, and once a romantic comedy that was so very terrible it shall be blasted from the obelisks of recorded history. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies including Room Magazine, Shock Totem, the Bram Stoker nominated Dark Visions 1 (Grey Matter Press), and Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2 (Comet Press). Her short story collection Suicide Stitch was released in 2016 by EMP Publishing. 

Find Sarah on twitter @leadlinedalias or at www.sarahljohnson.com

Working Stiffs - Scott Bell - Cover Reveal

Today we welcome author Scott Bell to Driven Press. Scott's latest novel is Working Stiffs. We are happy to reveal the cover art for this wonderfully unique sci-fi story to be released March 21, 2017.

Blurb

At a time when civil liberties have been eroded and unemployment has exceeded Great Depression levels, nanotechnology provides the ability to reanimate the recently dead. Far from zombies, but nothing like their former selves, “Revivants” are a ready source of cheap labor able to perform simple, routine tasks. Great news for some sectors, but for many, the economic and social impact is devastating.

Enter Joe Warren—an unemployed college dropout, who is self-absorbed and disinterested in the world’s problems. All Joe wants is a job, food on his table, and a cure for his girlfriend’s lingering illness. What Joe gets is a stint in jail with a bunch of self-proclaimed freedom fighters, and coerced to become an informant by federal government agents.

Joe is forced to examine his me-first attitude, and in the process learns that some things just might be worth fighting—or dying—for.

Working Stiffs . . . available for pre-order soon. Stay tuned!

More info:

www.drivenpress.net

and Goodreads:

Author

Scott Bell holds a degree in Criminal Justice from North Texas State University, and has enjoyed careers in both asset protection as well as sales. With the kids grown and time on his hands, Scott turned back to his first love—writing. His short stories have been published in The Western Online, Cast of Wonders, and in the anthology, Desolation. Yeager's Law, published in 2015, was his first novel, with its sequel, Yeager's Mission, published in 2016. April's Fool was also published in 2016.

When he’s not writing, Scott is on the eternal quest to answer the question: What would John Wayne do?

Find Scott at:

www.snapshooter4hire.com

Cover reveal . . . The Maddest Kind of Love

Driven Press is excited to reveal the cover for our latest upcoming release

The Maddest Kind of Love

The Maddest Kind of Love, from Australian author Christine Hillingdon, available 14 August 2016.

Blurb

When Carissa and Jaye fell in love, it wasn’t their time. She was planning a wedding and he was already married. Now, twenty years later, they find each other again, but he is planning a funeral and she is married. Cyberspace becomes a confidant to Carissa and Jaye’s staggeringly honest emails about themselves. Things they’ve never shared with anybody. And despite everything, Carissa falls for Jaye all over again.

Their affair is renewed, fraught with guilt and the dangers of being caught. This time it’s so different. Cancer, menopausal sex, and getting to know each other is frustrating, exciting, and exhausting, both mentally and physically. Life is more complicated. Is this the right time?

The Maddest Kind of Love will be available for pre-order soon.

Stay tuned!

Author

Christine Hillingdon was born in England and migrated with her family to Adelaide, South Australia in 1963.

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She has been writing since school days and received a highly commended prize for a short story in her final year of high school. Since then she has had many short stories and poems published in a variety of literary magazines on and offline. Christine has won a few competitions along the way, including Poems for Passengers. This was a joint initiative between TransAdelaide and the Department for the Arts and Cultural Development, South Australia.

In 2011 Christine self-published a book through Peacock Publications about her twenty-seven years working as a psychiatric nurse at Hillcrest Hospital, South Australia. In May 2016, her children’s book titled The Girl From Far Away was published through Gnome On Pig Productions.

Her first novel of women’s fiction, The Maddest Kind of Love, is through Driven Press.

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Find Christine at:

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Introducing The Doll Harvest

Driven Press is very happy to reveal the cover for our upcoming release

The Doll Harvest

The Doll Harvest, from Ron Savage, will release in the northern summer, 2016.

Blurb

The twins say I’m perfect and rare. “We had to look very hard to find someone like you.” I am admired.

On the steps of her quiet brownstone, Nettie Harnell smells the sickly sweet scent of chloroform moments before she is abducted.  When she awakens she’s in a dark basement chained to a post with nothing but memories of her mother and Paris to keep her company while she awaits her fate.

There is a shortage of medical donors in Philly, not that Carl and Vern Wachoski consider it a problem--it’s another business opportunity. Taking without permission has turned out to be incredibly lucrative, especially with Carl’s motto being “waste not, want not.” But Carl’s arrogance could cost them everything if they don’t watch out.

Dutch Harnell is no stranger to depression since the tragic and violent death of his wife and son eleven years before. Now it’s time for Dutch to pull himself together to save his one remaining family member, Nettie. With the help of Kapil Talpur, a young graduate student who witnessed the abduction, he finds himself drawn deeper into a world of greed and intrigue, where they can trust no one but themselves.

The Doll Harvest will be available for pre-order soon.

Stay tuned!

Author

Ron Savage worked under the title of Senior Staff psychologist at a state mental health facility in Virginia and also had a private practice. Ron is the author of seven novels and two volumes of short stories. He has published more than 125 stories worldwide, and he is the recipient of the Editor’s Circle Award in Best New Writing and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Ron is a member of PEN America and has also been a guest fiction editor for Crazyhorse. Some of his publications can be found in Film Comment, the North American Review, Shenandoah, the Baltimore Review and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Find Ron Savage at:

http://www.ronsavage.net

Facebook:

  http://www.facebook.com/ron.savage2

http://www.facebook.com/novelboy.ron.savage

Twitter:

@DoctorRonz