Living Dangerously: SEAL Team 666 Crossover

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Weston Ochse is a former intelligence officer and special operations soldier who has engaged enemy combatants, terrorists, narco smugglers, and human traffickers. His personal war stories include performing humanitarian operations over Bangladesh, being deployed to Afghanistan, and a near miss being cannibalized in Papua New Guinea. His fiction and non-fiction has been praised by USA Today, The Atlantic, The New York Post, The Financial Times of London, and Publishers Weekly. The American Library Association labeled him one of the Major Horror Authors of the 21st Century. His work has also won the Bram Stoker Award, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and won multiple New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. A writer of more than 26 books in multiple genres, his military supernatural series SEAL Team 666 has been optioned to be a movie starring Dwayne Johnson. His military sci fi series, which starts with Grunt Life, has been praised for its PTSD-positive depiction of soldiers at peace and at war. Weston likes to be called a chaotic good paladin and challenges anyone to disagree. After all, no one can really stand a goody two-shoes lawful good character. They can be so annoying. It's so much more fun to be chaotic, even when you're striving to save the world. You can argue with him about this and other things online at Living Dangerously or on Facebook at Badasswriter. All content of this blog is copywrited by Weston Ochse.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

SEAL Team 666 Crossover - Opening Paragraph

People have been begging me for more SEAL Team 666. Some have hinted at the possibilities of a cross-over. I've even had power writers like Jonathan Maberry ask if maybe Joe Ledger and Triple Six might do something together. And why not? It's a popular trilogy. It's cool. It's fun.

Well, finally I can offer you all a fix so you can stop jonesing so much. Really, it's a shame to see you like that in public. Have you no shame?

So, Joe Nassise is editing an anthology called Urban Allies to be published by Harper Voyager sometime early next year. The idea was to create an anthology of stories and partner two writers with their own universes together to create each special story. I've been partnered with the cool-as-hell David Wellington. We decided to cross-over Jack Walker from Triple Six and Laura Caxton, Pennsylvania Vampire Hunter. You can visit him at his website if you click this sentence.

This Be David Wellington

We don't have a title yet, but this will entice you.

And oh yeah, this takes place right after the events in Reign of Evil (SEAL Team 666 Book 3) so if you haven't read the book, don't read this paragraph.

URBAN ALLIES STORY

By Weston Ochse and David Wellington

Grief can take on many forms. Sometimes it’s a granite headstone in a cemetery. Sometimes it’s a shrine by the side of the road. There’s a noble sort of grief in the elderly man sitting alone on a park bench. There’s the respectful grief for a soldier, his boots resting atop his coffin as his unit files by, reverently saluting. Grief can be a source of fuel someone can tap into to accomplish something they wouldn’t have ordinarily been able to accomplish. Grief can actually be a power for good. Or grief can simply be a crazed man wielding a bloody coat hanger, beating the shit out of a ghost hanging on the wall who won’t stop moaning in the voice of his dead girlfriend.

So are you caught up with SEAL Team 666 or David's Vampire Hunter Series? You better be by the time this anthology hits the streets or you're going to feel left behind. (And no, not like Nick Cage in The Rapture)