You can buy it here for the Kindle, here for the Nook, and here for other e-reader devices.  And here’s the story in a nutshell:   Stag the movie star was on a roll. But when he ignored a warning from his future self, he ended up dead. At least he made it to Heaven–but it’s a Heaven unlike any he ever imagined, filled with dangers, secrets, and an incredible cast of friends and foes. In Part 3, Stag faces eternal damnation and something even more stressful:  a celebrity awards ceremony of the living dead. A famous rapper pal tells him he’s been drafted for a revolution against the powers that be, but a bigger blast rocks Stag’s world when the actress hosting the awards show unveils a bombshell of a surprise.

This is the sequel to an earlier superhero e-book of mine titled Forced Retirement, in which the world’s most powerful hero comes down with Alzheimer’s and wreaks havoc. The two books are part of a series I call Forced Heroics.  A third volume, Forced Partnership, is coming soon to an e-reader device near you. The new series rated a mention in another recent post at Superheronovels.com, which you can see right here.

The story of Forced Betrayal goes like this: Who murdered the girlfriend of the World’s Mightiest Heroine? Super-powered Hericane will stop at nothing to find out who killed the woman she loved. But when she teams with Bonnie Taggart, internal affairs investigator for the Superhuman Protectorate, the search leads in unexpected directions. Fighting their way through the darkest corners of Isosceles City, Hericane and Bonnie tear the truth from criminal chimpanzees, crooked promoters, and hateful cops, only to fall prey to a terrible trap. The hunters become the hunted as Hericane and Bonnie go on the run, barely staying a step ahead of the super hit squads out to slay them. Solving the case is the only way to survive–but the secrets they unearth will jeopardize much more than their lives. Because exposing the truth might just lead to the greatest superhuman catastrophe of all time. A catastrophe that no one will walk away from.

You can buy Forced Betrayal right here for the Kindle, here for the Nook, and here for other e-reader devices.  The price is a mere $3.99.

Here’s a quick rundown of this latest chapter: Stag the movie star was on a roll. But when he ignored a warning from his own future self, he ended up dead. At least he made it to Heaven–but it’s a Heaven unlike any he ever imagined, filled with dangers, secrets, and an incredible cast of friends and foes. A Heaven that might just hold the key to a shocking destiny beyond anything dreamed of by man or god. In Part 2, Stag plunges into an explosive confrontation that blows the lid off a revolution in the making. He renews an old friendship that puts him at risk, then faces a final judgment that just might end his heavenly stay with a bang. If only he can survive and hold on, Stag might get to the bottom of it all in this place that’s so much more than what it seems.

Heaven Bent, Part 2 is on sale here for the Kindle, here for the Nook, and here for other e-reading devices. The price is a mere 99 cents. And you can still check out Part 1 right here for the Kindle, here for the Nook, and here for other devices, too.

I hope you’ll give it a try. It’s twisted, funny, and exciting, with plenty of cliffhanging shocks and surprises. If you like Lost, Alcatraz, Alias, or even Once Upon a Time, I bet you’ll like Heaven Bent, too.

What’s Heaven Bent all about? What’s with the heavenly imagery, the ominous logo, and the crashed helicopter? Well, here’s the story in a nutshell: Stag the movie star is on a roll. Oscar nominations and millions of dollars fall in his lap. So when the omens pile up, including dire warnings from his own future self, he blows them off. Ignoring the danger signs, the superstar does his own stunt for a huge action picture–and disaster strikes. His charmed life turns into a not-so-charmed afterlife, as Stag ends up in a Heaven unlike any he ever imagined. A Heaven filled with deadly dangers, terrifying secrets, and an incredible cast of friends and foes. A Heaven that might just hold the key to a shocking destiny beyond anything dreamed of by man or god. And only Stag can step up and get to the bottom of it all in this place that’s so much more than what it seems.

Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? Why not pick up a copy here for the Kindle, here for the Nook, and here for most other e-reading devices. Welcome to the great experiment!

You can find it here for the Kindle, here for the Nook, and here for the Kobo and Sony Reader. Coming soon for the iPad, too. And here’s a bit more about this book’s exciting plot:

All-out war engulfs a distant quadrant of space. Hardcore warriors clash in high tech Battlenaut armor, pitting the ultimate fighting machines in epic struggles on a planetary scale. In the heart of this raging hell, the sleep-deprived Redeye squad fights harder than anyone. Pumped up on drugs, wired to the max, the Redeyes tear through enemy forces like berserk Vikings. But fatigue takes a toll, as the Redeyes start to see things that don’t exist. And something that might exist after all–a terrible harbinger of doom, a legendary herald of the end of all things. Does the Black Battlenaut truly tower over the blood-soaked war zone? Is it a nightmare brought on by exhaustion, or an omen of infinite devastation? Either way, the Redeyes set out to stop it by any means necessary…even if their private war requires the ultimate sacrifice and more.

Happy Holidays!  Welcome to the annual Christmas Card Family Doin’s Form Letter!

Well!  It sure has been a busy, busy, busy year!  It hardly seems possible that we’re already at another Christmas season…but here we are!  And it’s a good thing, too!  Christmas is always a good thing!

Last year at this time, you may recall, Junebug and Capulet had just returned from their expedition! They never did find Bigfoot…but they came across something even more wonderful!  That’s right — love!  Those crazy kids went native in the woods near Seattle, then threw caution to the wind and joined a group marriage outside of Salt Lake City.  Two of the six wives are kind of scary sometimes, but Junebug couldn’t be happier!  As for Capulet — he finally has enough women to keep him in line!  His days of heroin addiction are over and done with!  Hurrah!

Junior’s latest birthday came and went without incident.  The next day was another story, though!  Can you believe it?  56 yeas old, and they still had to take him away in leg irons!  Didn’t stop him from taking down four of them with extreme prejudice, though!  Same old Junior…

Pip and Flit have had the best year ever!  Deciding that wishing was better than doing, the two rascals spent 10 months holed up in their burrow under the roots of Mama Sizzle’s hickory tree…and what do you know, it worked like a charm!  Every wish came true, every last one!  Of course, they only wished for what mattered most, and seein’ as there’s plenty of love and friendship to go around in Nibblekins Hollow, wishes comin’ true wasn’t all that far-fetched after all!

Stickman is certainly in the pink, thanks to his lawsuit and secret surgery.  You wouldn’t know to look at him.

Dizzy has a long way to go, but you know her!  She won’t quit till fourth grade is a thing of the past!  Her seven teenaged children are the most encouraging angels you’ve ever seen, especially Nodaddy and Lovechild.  When Dizzy’s down in the mouth, the seven kids dance like Indians, and she perks right up.  Jack Daniels does his part, too.

John Thomas is looking up, but we don’t think it will last.

Old Simple has beaten the hiccups, and his weight problem is finally under control.  He’s already at 350 lbs., and should tip the scale at 400-450 by New Year’s!  Join us in rooting for him to reach his target weight of 575 by St. Patrick’s!

Rothschild and Fabersham have finally kissed!  Could you just die!  It was a matter of some delicacy, accomplished beneath a trellis of hyacinth on a starry August eve in Roquefort.  Fabersham still blushes!  When next sly Cupid conspires, arranging blossoms and constellations for like enchantment, perhaps they shall — dare we hope? — kiss upon the lips!  We’ve crossed our fingers!  (Please don’t tell Aunt Goethe or Mr. Jobe the handyman!  Double swear it!  You must!)

Happy-Go-Lucky had a close shave, but fooled the kidnappers with ventriloquism and a banana.  He received a medal but let it go to his head, so we hired the very same kidnappers to beat him within an inch.  That took him down a peg.

Tubby keeps trying, but Romewasn’t built in a day.  We ask him where he’ll go when the flying saucer is finished, but he just laughs and points straight up.  We hear strange noises from the barn at night, but we figure that’s just ‘cause Tubby don’t have a girlfriend.

Buster is full of beans, as you can imagine!  He thinks Santa’s using magic to try to tell him something, but Doc Winslow insists there’s a medical reason for the scabs.

Suzy-Q turned some heads with her new hairdo.  Everything was fine until Punjab’s post-hypnotic suggestion wore off and she realized she was buck naked!

Radcliffe finished the Grand Tour last month, and had Toblerone for everyone!  There’s no place like home, he says, but he means it in a negative sense.  We all begged for stories of the Continent, so he recapped episodes of Hogan’s Heroes — but there was one anecdote
about haggling with a male prostitute inLuxembourg.  We’re happy to report he’s gone again!

Giblet and Fickle have gone into business!  Orders were slow at first, but the sales staff got rid of their finger-puppets and things picked right up.  We think it’s surefire and expect a jackpot.

Crawdad seemed bound for passion, until we found out her secret admirer was really her imaginary friend. We think the hoof-and-mouth disease took its toll.  Gooey and Steagle made her an offer, but she had her heart set on true love like in the romance novels, so she moved to historic Atlanta and changed her name to Heaving Bosom.

Baby Jasper turned out to be a mutant, but his super powers were limited to mind over matter and filling a diaper with unearthly speed and super-human quantities.  We cherish this latest addition to our family, except when the little dickens combines his two
super powers at one and the same time.

Godiva insists that Marxist socio-political theory is still valid, but Spitting Jack says she’s shooting blanks.  Poor Little Mistake got in the middle of their last argument, innocently asking if bolshevik’s some kind’a soup, and they both took a swing at her.  It’s the Cold War all over again, except with a trailer and beer bottles.

As for me…my ship has come in and it’s about time!  When Lulu left, I took a turn, but hate has healing powers!  As a psychic friend, I found my calling, except for my one bad day leading to fifteen suicides.  My new racket has to do with the laying on of hands, only I enjoy it a little too much.

When I think back over the year, it seems like no time’s passed at all, but maybe that’s because of the alcoholic blackouts.  Anyway, I hope you have a good year coming up, only not as good as mine.  Please remember me if you win some money or need advice.

Happy Holidays!

SMIDGEN THE SNACK CAKE, from The Love Quest of Smidgen the Snack Cake:  Though I have a supercreamy center instead of a heart, I still send you my love and wish you the best of the holiday season.  From my ultrachocolate frosting to my biobaked sentient snack cake matrix, I want only for you to GOBBLE ME UP, THAT’S RIGHT GOBBLE ME UP!  I WAS MADE FOR YOU TO DEVOUR ME WITH YOUR LIPS AND TEETH AND BUY MANY MORE SMIDGENS SO MY MANUFACTURER WILL BE HAPPY!  WOULD IT KILL YOU TO SERVE YOUR GUESTS SNACK CAKES THIS YEAR??  COME ON AND DO IT JUST DO…

BRAIN FART THE SUPER-HERO (with the up-and-down intellect), from Heroes of Global Warming:  Allow me to extend my heartfelt wishes for a most felicitous and extraordinary Christmas holiday, and…duh…Santa?  Me want a dolly and…duh…reindeer poop…and, ahem…excuse me.  As I was saying, I wish only the best and most delightfully gratifying good cheer to you and yours over this exquisite season of esprit noel, my very good friends!  And thus, as perhaps the great Dickens might say ‘pon this hallow-ed occasion…uh…duhhh…..

THE TINIEST MAGGOT, from Diary of a Maggot:  I wish you the most wonderful Christmas you can dream of!  Listen closely, and perhaps you will hear the secret chirping Christmas song of the merry maggots in the discarded scraps from your holiday feast.  Consider it our gift to you, for providing us with delicious homes and goodies to nibble and squirm around in all through the year!  Why do you think we come back to visit and zip around your homes to thank you when we turn into flies?  Remember, there’s no shame in tossing out some very sweet tidbits for all us tiny creatures who love the spirit of the season as much as all of you!
TOMMY PUKE, from Tommy Puke and the Boy With the Golden Barf:  Happy ho-ho’s, everybody, from me and Gertrude the skunk.  May this holiday be even ranker and more disgusting than the last.  Santa’s a man after my own heart, that tub o’ guts.  Every year, he leaves a sloppy freakin’ mess in your living room after wolfing down those cookies and milk.  So don’t tell me about how Christmas is all nice and neat and sweet!  How does your bathroom look after all the guests leave at the end of the night?  Case closed!  Let your puke flag fly and be a hog like me!  Maybe Rudolf will drop a little somethin’ somethin’ in your stocking to remember him by.  Ho ho horrrk!

As of today, Pie Press has 55 e-books for sale, all of which can be loaded on your device of choice.  That’s right, 55!  Just search for any of the authors on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, iTunes, Kobo, Sony E-reader, or Smashwords–those authors being Robert Jeschonek, Samantha Shepherd, and Jason Koenig.  Then pick whichever books look coolest and download them to your device…simple as that!

Pie Press offers stories and novels in a wide range of genres–children’s, crime, fantasy, humor, literary, mystery, science fiction, thrillers, and young adult.  There’s something for just about everyone, and I hope you’ll take a look-see.  Because Pie Press books are like nothing else out there.

You’ve heard of thinking outside the box?  Pie Press is all about reading outside the box.  So keep us in mind when you’ve got that new e-reader device in hand, and it’s shouting, “Fill me with cool stuff!  C’mon, please?  I’m so hungry!“  Your e-reader will thank you.