MJG Spring update – Newsletter April 2

Mike GristLast Mayor, Life, Writing, Zombie Ocean

Well well well. The Zombie Ocean/Last Mayor series is finished, and now it is Spring. The old things are dead and it’s time for some new growth to creep in – and what better way to keep the zombie theme alive than with a zombie book… But not about zombies. Though actually there are zombies in this book, just in an epic fantasy setting, but the point is the book itself is sort of a zombie. What am I blathering on about? The Rot’s War, book 2 of the Ignifer Cycle – more below. Also I have epic news about …

The Light – Last Mayor 9

Mike GristBooks, Last Mayor, Zombie Ocean

The Light is Book 9 in the Last Mayor series, bringing the series to its end. From the darkness comes the light. Ever since the world broke apart, ‘Last Mayor of America’ Amo has known what kind of world he’d like to build. Until now. Now there is no light at the end of days. Only darkness. And darkness will rule over all. The end is here. The Light is the heartbreaking final book in the Last Mayor survival horror series.     The Light, Book 9 of the Last Mayor series, is available as an e-book now. – Amazon …

Ha ha OF COURSE Walking Dead s8 mid-season finale was terrible, but…

Mike GristReviews, TV, Walking Dead

Ha ha ha – of course the Walking Dead season 8 mid-season finale ‘How It’s Gotta Be’ was terrible!! It is not even interesting to talk about the bad things in it because they are basically all of it! So now I am going to pick out the good things: ? – When the trash heap wankers scuttled away at the first sign of trouble. Yes! F off back to the shitheap you came from, and stay there until Rick comes round (again) to kill your stupid spiked walker. Like a goddamn metronome… ? – When Carl listened to the …

The Saint’s Rise – Ignifer Cycle 1

Mike GristBooks, Ignifer Cycle

The Saint’s Rise is Book 1 in the Ignifer Cycle. No heroes endure… Three thousand years ago the world fell into darkness, when the great black mouth of the Rot savaged the land. Only a single child survived the devastation; an infant with a prophecy carved into his skin, promising the rise of a hero powerful enough to slay the Rot for good: the Saint. Now that child is a young man, beginning to question the meaning of his many scars… Now those scars are hunted by a jealous King, ruler of a bizarre industrial city, where a thousand strange …

Walking Dead season 8 premiere review – ugh!

Mike GristTV

Saw Walking Dead season 8 premiere. Ugh. ? SPOILERS ? I didn’t like it. The old feeling that they were just barely scraping by, and surviving by the skin of their teeth, has been long gone. Seems they just take actions in a vacuum now. It was damn easy to take out those watchmen. Why not do it earlier? It was damn easy to roll up to Negan’s gates with an army, and he didn’t even know what was happening? Why did he not have a garrison at each of those settlements, watching over them? He has dudes in the …

Appendectomy and stellar SF/fantasy deals… Oct NL 2

Mike Gristnewsletter

Hello from windy London, Perhaps my biggest news is there in the title – this week I had an appendectomy! It was all rather sudden, with me getting admitted to hospital on Monday after work, tested and operated on on Tuesday, then released on Wednesday. Now I’m recovering at home, doing some pottering around, and putting finishing touches to my upcoming epic fantasy The Saint’s Rise. I’ve got news on that after this – a whole slew of excelent deals I want to tell you about. Deals – This is your last chance to join the SFF Book Bonanza 52 …

Why are scars a sentence to death? Oct NL 1

Mike Gristnewsletter

For today’s newsletter I’ve got a sweet deal, and a free deal, and a big smile. Here’s the big smile. 🙂 Well, it’s a normal smile. If you move your head closer to the screen it’ll be big. I’ve also got an update on my epic fantasy novel The Saint’s Rise. Sweet deal Here’s the sweet deal – 100 novels for 99 cents each, all Sf and fantasy, on only Oct 7 and 8 (today). My book Mr. Ruin is included. For myself, I picked up Keith Soares’ On a Black Wind Blows Doom – the 3rd book in his …

MJG Newsletter Oct 2017a

Mike GristLife, newsletter

Hello Ocean fans! For October’s first newsletter I’ve got some news about the epic fantasy novel I’m revamping, a couple of holiday snaps, as well as a special offer on my favorite collection of short stories, which I’m confident you won’t want to miss! First up, the epic fantasy: Epic Fantasy revamp. For the past month I have been hard at work revamping the novel once titled Saint Ignifer’s Rise, the very first book I wrote, and the first I ever published! I always loved it, but after promoting it a few times after launch (way back in 2014) I …

The Lies – Last Mayor 8

Mike GristUncategorized

The Lies is Book 8 in the Last Mayor series. 7 billion dead. 1 truth. The apocalypse killed almost everyone on Earth. Only 700 out of 7 billion people survived. It began with love, and loss, and lies. It will end in blood. The end is coming. The TV show ‘LOST’ hammers into the end times in this unrelenting thriller, oozing dystopian pseudoscience and blood-soaked punishment for the wicked. A tale of post-apocalyptic survival mystery that brings the Last Mayor series up to the precipice, to be completed in the final Book 9. Burning questions will be raised and answered, …

The Lash – Last Mayor 7

Mike GristBooks, Writing, Zombie Ocean

The Lash is Book 7 in the chilling Last Mayor series. 7 billion dead. 1 war. Twelve years after the apocalypse ravaged the world, Amo’s dream lies in ruins, obliterated by the great white eye. New LA is forever gone, and with it any hope of peace. All that remains is the lash. Every drop of blood drawn shall be repaid tenfold. Every atrocity meted out shall be answered in kind. The vengeance will be epic, and brutal, and good. What kind of world will survive? The Lash, Book 7 of the Zombie Ocean, is available from these sellers: – …