Justin Gustainis: Scary Scribe

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Finally! At last!

Black Magic Woman (see book description) was released in the U.S. and Canada on January 29th. This follows the highly successful launch in the United Kingdom and Australia on January 8th.
The chain bookstores have it, as well as a lot of independents. And its Amazon rankings keep getting better and better—but I don't check more than 20 times a day. A writer friend of mine told me, "Amazon rankings are the writer's version of crack." And he had it exactly right.

You can help the rankings even more by ordering your copy from Amazon today. Simply go to...
Amazon Orders for Black Magic Woman

This just in!

Arriba! Arriba!

Spanish translation rights to Black Magic Woman have been sold to a publisher based in Barcelona. I'm not sure when MUJER MAGICA NEGRA will be hitting the shelves—probably sometime in 2009.

Today Spain, tomorrow the world... MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!

The P.R. folks at Solaris tell me that Black Magic Woman has spent 5 weeks (so far) on the bestseller list of Fantasy trade paperbacks compiled by the American Booksellers Association.
Go team Quincey!

Exciting News!

My publisher, Solaris Books, has released the cover of Evil Ways, the second Quincey Morris Supernatural Investigation. Pretty cool, no? The thing with the bats will make sense when you read the book—promise.
Publication date: January, 2009.

In addition, Solaris has taken an option on two more books in the "Quincey Morris" series. 

When I gave this news to a friend of mine, he congratulated me and then said, "Now all you have to do is write 'em."

Gulp.

Black Magic Woman Book Description
Occult investigator Quincey Morris and his "consultant", white witch Libby Chastain, are hired to free a family from a deadly curse that appears to date back to the Salem witch trials. Fraught with danger, the trail finds them stalking the mysterious occult underworlds of Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York, searching out the root of the curse. After surviving a seris of terrifying attempts on their lives, the two find themselves drawn inexorably towards Salem itself—the very heart of darkness.

"Dennis Wheatley meets Kim Newman! Voodoo and Muti and old Salem witches! Shout outs to Jack Crow and Harry D'Amour! I Loved it!
  Justin Gustainis is a first class writer. He's smart and he's fun. He moves quickly and he takes corners at speed. Every time you think you know where he's going, he makes a point of going somewhere else. His characters are sharp and vivid, his dialogue crackles with wit and tension, and when it comes to the scarier corners of the magical underworld, he know his stuff.
This is a novel that's packed with story and engaging characters and I can't wait to read the next one."
— SIMON R. GREEN, author of A Walk on the Nightside 

"Family vendettas abound in an intriguing tale that pits a descendant of Bram Stoker's Quincey Morris against two kinds of dark magic—an inherited curse and Zulu fetish witchcraft. As much as I enjoy walking in a Wiccan wonderland, stories that explore other witchcraft traditions are a treat. This one's a real page-turner and a solid start to a new paranormal detective series."
— ELAINE CUNNINGHAM, author of Shadow in the Darkness
and Shadows in the Starlight

Black Magic Woman Available Now		The Hades Project Available Now

"...provided a lot of entertainment. A very good book, and I'll look forward to reading another one in the series."
— Charlaine Harris, author of Dead Until Dark and Ice Cold Grave

"Black Magic Woman  is a heady witch's brew of extraordinary characters, ruthless spells and take-no-prisoners prose ... Gustainis combines a rogue's gallery of villans (and heroes) with great action and epic storytelling. I couldn't put it down ... and I didn't want it to end."
— Rachel Caine, author of "Weather Warden" and "Morganville Vampires" series

"Black, white, and red all over? That would be a whole mess of magic with a few human sacrifices thrown in for good measure. Black Magic Woman is a fantasy, a mystery, and one helluva compulsive read."
— Rob Thurman, author of Nightlife and Moonshine

"Urban fantasy lovers who enjoy the works of Km Harrison, Tanya Huff and Jim Butcher will thoroughly appreciate Black Magic Woman. Justin Gustainis must own a magic word processor..."
— Harriet Klausner, Speculative Fiction Reviews

"Smart, sexy, and supernatural—Black Magic Woman goes for the throat and doesn't let up until the very last page. I wish I'd written this book; it's a hell of a ride."
— Lilith Saintcrow, author of Working for the Devil and To Hell and Back

"Dracula, voodoo, the Salem Witch Trials—Gustainis mixes all of these into a thrilling, addictive brew. A great way to spend a page-turning night!"
— Chris Marie Green, author of Night Rising and Midnight Reign

"...recalls Mulder and Scully of The X-Files"
— Publisher Weekly

"A taut, well-written thriller."
— Jeanne C. Stein, author of Blood Drive and The Watcher

"Black Magic Woman is probably one of the best books by an author new to the urban/dark fantasy genre that I have read in a long time... Fans of the Dresden Files and early Anita Blake should check this book out."
— Urban Fantasy Reader.com

"Dark and delightfully disturbing. The Hades Project is a story that literally burns through the pages. Highly Recommended."
— M.R. SELLERS, author of the "Rowant Gant Investigations" Series

"As dark, disturbing and dangerous as anything by Koontz, Justin Gustainis' The Hades Project is tightly crafted, explosive and entertaining. You'll read it fast, but it may haunt your dreams forever. One of the best horror novels I have read this year."
— PHILLIP TOMASSO III, author of Adverse Impact and Johnny Blade 
 

Evil Ways Available in January 2009

 Contact author Justin Gustainis
at justingustainis@yahoo.com