EXTREMES: NO SAFETY IN NUMBERS

This post is a bit ass backwards, given a playlist for the book it’s all about has already been created and posted, but anyway, never mind. Here’s the ‘official’ post announcing the release of the latest book in the Extremes collections series.

Most folks who keep up to date with this poorly neglected site or any of my other social media sites or other places I regularly post book news will no doubt already be aware of the fact Extremes: No Safety in Numbers is out (and has been for just over a month), but just for the hell of it, I’ll dedicate a post just for it.

If Extremes, More Extremes, and Greater Extremes constituted one trilogy of sorts, albeit in no way connected in terms of stories, moreso in template, story arrangement, cover art and so forth, then one can consider the next set of books to comprise another trilogy. Which is precisely what they do, in fact in more of a cohesive manner than the first trio of books did. At least when it comes to the overall arc. Not so much themes, hell no, they are as wildly varied and off-the-wall as always, but definitely in terms of what ties them together.

Where the first lot of Extremes books were originally merely collections of my more extreme tales that by good fortune happened to all end up revolving around certain themes (mind you, very loosely), and that was in itself all accidental, the next lot are deliberately arranged to match.

Couples (which still happens to be my biggest moving and most widely read of all my books) is pretty self-explanatory. It features stories which cycle around assortments of different pairs, of all varieties, some with multiple couples in the same tale. That, as most will be quite aware of was the first book in the new set, and while it might have made sense to go with a book featuring solo protagonists/antagonists/what-have-you, when has anything I have done bookwise made a whole bunch of sense?

The book that does exactly that is going to be the last one in the new ‘trilogy’, and for those with any care to know, that’s the one I’m working on right now.

Because of course, the second of the set, is focused on groups of characters, bunches of people who are forced to go to extremes. Thrown as a collective (some small, some larger) into horrendous situations and made to deal with whatever bloody mayhem and hideous repercussions come their way.

Hence, Extremes: No Safety in Numbers.

Like Couples it follows the same story template in the sense there are six pieces which make up the book rather than the eight that featured in the first three Extremes books. The reasoning for this is pretty simple. Most of them are rather long fucking affairs, some bordering on novella length. In fact, most of the stories in No Safety in Numbers I could publish as standalone novellas, but hell, why not put them all together and give bloodthirsty readers a bit more value. After all, unlike some of the stories from earlier publications which were gleaned as reprints or whatnot, the vast majority of these lengthy (and occasionally grueling) tales were specifically written for the Extremes series.

It would be all to easy to have a fuckload of these longer tales slapped up on Amazon as standalone novellas, novelettes, etc. etc. but’s that not really how I like to do things. If I write a novella for that purpose, then that’s what I’ll do, but this shit is specifically for Extremes, so let’s keep it that way.

So with that said, the middle book of the new trilogy is out now, in both Kindle and paperback format. Extremes: No Safety in Numbers. Soon to be followed by the final one of that set, Extremes: Lone Wolves.

Where I go with it after that I’m still mulling over, still debating on whether to further this particular set or create an entirely new one.

What I do know, is that if time allows, I will angle to have a special Halloween themed one just in time for that auspicious event itself, focusing solely around horror tales of All Hallow’s Eve, but again, we’ll see. Since I’m trying to concentrate on getting the stories done for Lone Wolves, time may run a bit short. Who knows? Whatever the case, there’s a hell of a lot more to come from the Extremes phenomenon, so beware. Stay alert. Stay afraid. Stay alive.

Go To Extremes. With a partner. Or with a group. Either way, it doesn’t matter.

There’s No Safety in Numbers regardless.

Swimming up out of a murky swamp of darkness and depravity comes yet another entry in the world of Extremes, wallowing in the bloody excesses of those emerging prior.
Safety in numbers. A common belief that folks will be safer when they are part of a group, rather than left to fend for themselves alone. Less likely to suffer harm and danger when surrounded by so many others.
The groups here are about to discover it’s all an illusion. A misconception.
They’re going to be cast into situations and driven to Extremes in ways they could never have imagined, and being part of a larger group is ultimately meaningless.
The horrors about to be revealed, perpetrated upon them, and strewn with wanton brutality all around them, care little for any adage, or any notion that a bunch of souls are more likely to withstand the nightmares than any solitary figure.
After all, how will it make any difference when the horrors are going to be unleashed on every single one of them?

These are stories of the gruesome and the grisly, of monstrous souls and monstrous deeds.
As statistically correct as it may seem, everybody here going to Extremes as part of a collective is about to find it just isn’t the case.

There really is No Safety in Numbers.