Jeremy Robinson is the bestselling novelist of THE DIDYMUS CONTINGENCY, RAISING THE PAST, ANTARKTOS RISING and for the first time in his career, a new hardcover novel PULSE.

Jeremy lives in the beautiful state of New Hampshire with his family.

What you can expect is an insanely fast-paced story that I promise will have you turning pages fast enough to create sufficient friction that the book will burst into flames. Okay, so maybe not that fast, but the pages will definitely get warm.

PULSE is about a team of Delta operators (the best of America’s special forces tasked with anti-terror missions) known as the Chess Team (King, Queen, Rook, Bishop, Knight and their handler, Deep Blue) who finds themselves pitted against Manifold Genetics. The company is close to uncovering the secret to human regeneration and will sell the tech to the highest bidder, whether that is a brutal dictator or terrorist network. The armies of the future, thanks to Manifold, will be indestructible...and immortal. The plot is uncovered when Manifold abducts an archeologist who is an expert on a mythological creature that had perfected the art of physical regeneration. He also happens to be King’s friend. As the Chess Team pursues Manifold from the Amazon to the world’s most remote island to the deep woods of northern New Hampshire, they face off against a high tech security force, hordes of Manifold’s failed experiments known as “Regens” and the mythological creature reborn...and very hungry.

PULSE is the first of a three book series that certainly has the potential to continue beyond three books. I’m already working on future plot-lines, but after book three I would like to do book separate from the Chess Team series, just to mix things up occasionally. With a series like the Chess Team I’ll never be able to kill everyone on the planet, and as readers of ANTARKTOS RISING know, I like to do that and plan to do it in an upcoming, non-Chess Team book.

Honestly, I know it’s cliché to say this about the new book coming out, but PULSE is my favorite. In part because as I evolve as a writer, improving my craft, each new book is better written than the one before, but also because PULSE is just hard boiled fun wrapped in a book jacket. It’s packed with cool science conjured by myself and a leading geneticist. It has in depth military information and tactics supplied by two ex-Marines and a brigadier general. And some of the coolest mythology that, until now, has been overlooked by modern fiction. On top of all that it has a slew of scenes that are so action-packed, so awesomely gruesome, that the reader can’t help but smile, or laugh. Picture the quickly classic Joker pencil in the eyes scene from The Dark Knight and you know what I’m talking about. When Scott Sigler, NY Times bestseller of INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS was reading the manuscript, while on a plane, he e-mailed me to say that as he read one of the action scenes he was laughing out loud (while sitting in economy class no-less), I knew I had achieved my goal.

ANTARKTOS has always been hard for me to peg down for an actual, aha moment when the idea struck. The first piece of the puzzle came when I read the beginning of Genesis and somehow noticed these Nephilim guys that I had never noticed before and had never heard of. Then I read the line that sealed the deal for my imagination, “They were on the earth in those days (before the flood) and also afterwards.” So, according the Bible, these big nasty dudes, these half human half demon “men of renowned” might still be among us today. Great stuff. From there it was a matter of researching different ways they could have survived without us seeing them (they were giants). Once I came up with Antarctica it then became a matter of somehow thawing out the continent. So it was really a lot of research and mental baby steps as the entire story congealed into a single plotline.

I actually started out as an illustrator. Went to art school. Illustrated some indie comics in the mid-nineties and as a result, started writing them as well. It was this time that I realized what I most enjoyed about art and what I was doing with my art, was telling stories. I switched gears to screenwriting and pursued that for several years, moved to Los Angeles and had some success. During this time, I started toying with the idea writing a novel, so I wrote THE DIDYMUS CONTINGENCY and in 2005 self-published the book. It became a Barnes&Noble.com bestseller pretty quickly and I landed an agent shortly after that. I then started my own small press, Breakneck Books, published two more of my books and books by 10 other authors. Because of my success with Breakneck and the sales figures of my books, I was then able to secure the three book deal with Thomas Dunne books and the Chess Team was born!

I was a founding father of Variance and served as owner and operator for one year before leaving to focus on my writing, which has always been the dream. Variance came about because the success of Breakneck got the interest of an investor and the new company actually absorbed Breakneck as an imprint. I’m not sure what direction the company will take without me there, but I’m proud of what I was able to accomplish with Breakneck and my first year with Variance.

Ideally it would include me writing, all day, with lots of Wild Cherry Pepsi, chocolate chip cookies and whole milk. Perhaps some time to watch Godzilla and draw between chapters. Alas, I have given up caffeine, most sugar, whole milk and I spend more time marketing than writing these days, so time to watch Godzilla and draw is becoming hard to find! When I’m in the middle of a novel I spend the morning on marketing and the afternoon writing. But before and just after a book launch (like now) I spend 90% of my day on marketing and 10% TRYING to work on story concepts or research for the next book.

One of my all time favorites is James Rollins, not only because his books are awesome, but also because he has been my biggest supporter. Since I wrote THE DIDYMUS CONTINGECY he has blurbed four of my novels, including PULSE, and has given me some key advice over the years that helped get me to this point. In terms of absolute favorite novel, I would have to say THE DESCENT by Jeff Long and its sequel, DEEPER. Never before or since have two novels so pulled me into the world created by the author. I couldn’t get the books out of my mind for weeks after reading them. And I’m eagerly awaiting the third book in the series. Imagine my joy when Jeff Long provided a blurb for PULSE as well! Kid in a candy store.

I can tell you what I’ve been told. It’s scheduled to be released in Spring 2010, but has yet to go into active production...so that date is shaky in my mind. The producer is working with some of the guys who worked on Ghost in the Shell and they’re hashing out character designs. I haven’t seen anything yet, but you better believe I’ll be letting the world know when I do! I’m a huge anime fan, so I’m really excited to see this come together...even if its released late.

Yes, it’s true. I paid to have the audiobook narrated by the amazing Jeff Kafer, and am giving it away as a serialized audiobook (otherwise known as a podcast novel) that is available for download, in weekly installments, on my website, Podiobooks.com or via iTunes. The show will run for fourteen episodes, with the final episode finishing up the same week PULSE is released. In part, I wanted to reward my readers by giving them a quality product for free. At the same time, this is building my audience by reaching out to a new group of people AND it’s providing an avenue for me to promote PULSE. As the release of PULSE draws near, I will be able to insert an audio promo for PULSE into the KRONOS podcast so everyone listening, whether they’re on episode 1 or 14, they’ll hear the promo and, hopefully, snag PULSE. So it’s a mix or enjoying the ability to give people free and quality entertainment while hoping they stick around as fans and pick up PULSE.

After PULSE comes the next two novels in the Chess Team series. The second book is tentatively titled INSTINCT and the third book has yet to be named. After that I would like to step away from the Chess Team, kill everyone on the planet, and come back for another few rounds of Chess Team insanity.

If you really want to be a writer you must be insanely dedicated. Obsessed is a good word, but not in a creepy way. Focus your obsession on improving your craft. Write non-stop. Do NOT focus your obsession on editors, agents or publishers. They’ll get annoyed. And accept the consequences of this obsession. It took me ten years to get to the point when I made a living from publishing (as an author and owner of a small press) and another three before I could make my living from writing alone. Before that my wife and I were hovering just above the poverty level for years as I wrote and wrote and slowly got better and she worked to support what we both believed was a dream worth pursuing. I’m blessed to have a wife like her, but the point is, I gave up money, a ton of time and a life in general between the ages of 20 and 30 to get to this point. So, before you say, “I want to be an author” think about this and ask yourself if you would endure 10 years of poverty to achieve the goal. If the answer is yes, go for it. You might be a better writer than me and achieve the goal in six months. Who knows? BUT the average time for a writer to find success IS ten years.

Enduring the endless amount of marketing. I’m a writer so what I really want to do is write. Every day. But I also need to sell books. I’m a fairly new author so I not only need to sell books, I need to grow an audience. People who will come back for the next book. It’s a lot of work. Very time consuming. And its not writing! But it’s really just another step to achieve the goal and is not nearly as hard as living on Ramen Noodles.