What People Are Saying On this page we'll be collecting links to blog posts and articles about this project. If you talk about The Painted Darkness, www.DownloadTheDarkness.com or this giveaway, etc, on your blog or in a news article, be sure to email webmaster@cemeterydance.com so your link can be added here. Thanks! Articles & Interviews: Fangoria: 'The Painted Darkness' Gets Advance E-Book Release Examiner.com: 'The Painted Darkness' Gets Advance E-Book Release Examiner.com: Give it away now: Freeman discusses 'The Painted Darkness' Blogs, Websites, Media Reports, and More: "...people called him crazy for giving away the e-book and audiobook of his novella The Painted Darkness before the paper edition is even available. I say that sort of insanity is a great idea." "Cemetery Dance experimenting w radical marketing: Giving away ebook & audio of Brian James Freeman's PAINTED DARKNESS" "Check out this book - It's great...!!!" "His writing oozes with classic Stephen King style. Brian’s pacing and storytelling were spot-on, invoking a sense of fear and chills as I read, and in the end he took me by surprise with a refreshing twist." "Quite possibly one of the darkest, most beautifully written books I've seen this year." "Freebie for grownups right here! Download the PDF eBook or stream the audiobook for The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman here. The eBook has bonus features and an afterword by the author about giving away his book for free." "More than 10,000 readers have downloaded the free eBook or audiobook editions." "The two parallel well, especially in scenes where both the younger and older character are exposed to extreme cold conditions. Check it out — it’s free and it’s entertaining!" "Furthermore, reading of The Painted Darkness, we find that Freeman is a talented author." "In a move relatively unheard of in the publishing world, THE PAINTED DARKNESS, the new book by Brian James Freeman, will be released as a free e-book for a limited time four months before it hits hardcover." "Author Brian James Freeman has a new book, The Painted Darkness, set for release by Cemetery Dance in November, but he's not going to make you wait that long to read it." "As you might expect, Bradbury is hostile to ebooks and much of modern technology, so the publisher is being quite clever to include Bradbury's hostility as part of the ebook itself." "I am the first one in line when it comes to getting a free book, so I jumped on the site right away and downloaded my copy. It is a short book, but is an interesting creepy ride in the life of one man. I really enjoyed it, and am going to purchase the hardcover as well." "However, because at the moment my wallet cannot sustain such a weight lost I was very happy to find that on DownloadtheDarkness.com Brian James Freeman offers the opportunity to the readers to download “The Painted Darkness” for free as an ebook and as a streaming audiobook for a limited time." "Mr. Freeman has done a wonderful job of writing a horror story that both dedicated horror fans and casual readers can enjoy. It’s an easy read and you’ll find yourself losing time as you don’t want to put the book (B&N nook in my case) down." "What do y’all think? Will people still buy the print book? Will it be like review copies and just drum up advanced business for the book? Personally, I think the last one has some merit. I’d love to hear you thoughts." "The story is a very imaginative piece and the marketing is brilliant. Since this isn’t the type of genre I usually read I never would have been introduced to the author Brian James Freeman unless I would have been given this book for free." "Publisher Cemetery Dance, who recently released the first international publication of Blockade Billy, will be publishing Freeman's new novel, The Painted Darkness in hardcover this fall. BUT! As an incentive to demonstrate just how kick-ass Freeman's writing is, CD is currently offering the ebook AND streaming audio for free. FOR FREE." "Yesterday Brian Keene’s blog brought to my attention another publishing event — one on a small press scale but no less interesting. So, let’s look at what’s going on with a horror novella called The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman." "You can grab either the PDF or get streaming audio from downloadthedarkness.com, the ebook's got a code for $5 off the hardcover, and I really can't see a downside to this... No, really free. Like, Cory-Doctorow-levels-of-free. No signups, no e-mails, no hiccups." "And before you ask the obvious question: yes, they’re really giving this book away for free. No strings attached." "But occasionally (and hopefully more often quite soon), I get to work on fun, creative projects with multimedia, and today one of those projects was posted by Cemetery Dance Publications. They needed a book trailer for Brian James Freeman’s book The Painted Darkness, so I worked on that for them... A trailer is to pique your interest, and, if it does it’s job well, should get you to follow where it wants to lead you." "Writing introductions and afterwords are something I don’t do much of these days, due to time constraints, but when I read this novel, I made an exception to my own rule. It’s a wholly engrossing and satisfying read." "One of the bonus features of the ebook is a roundtable discussion with authors running the gamut, like Stephen King and Jodi Picoult. (What would their love-child-book be?)" "This novel by Brian James Freeman sounds like a psychological horror story in the tradition of Stephen King. It will be published in hardcover in the fall, and is actually available for pre-order on Amazon. But to drum up promo and pre-publication interest, it’s being given away for FREE for a limited time both as a downloadable PDF file (I’ve checked this and the publishers have awesomely coded it in such a way that it looks great on a 6-inch screen like the Kindle or even on the iBooks app on the iTouch)" "Cemetery Dance is offering The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman as a free pdf download and audio stream for a limited time." "The ebook below is in PDF format—don’t worry, it’s formatted quite well—and will work on virtually any ebook reader... Follow the link for the audiobook as well; it streams from the website. The narrator sounds slightly like Adam West. Spooky." "Apparently you can download The Painted Darkness by Brian James Freeman in ebook form or stream the audiobook for free. No need to even sign up for a mailing list or give any information of any kind." Early Reviews & Praise: "The tone and building dread reminds me of classic Stephen King. Great velocity and impact, and super creepy. Don't go in the basement!" "Brian James Freeman's evocative tale about the dark corners of an artist's imagination is elegant and haunting. This beautifully designed book with splendid illustrations by Jill Bauman is a pleasure to read and a joy to hold." "Spooky stuff!" "The Painted Darkness is a dark, terrifying, and deeply moving gem of a novella. Brian James Freeman managed to both scare me and move me to tears." "Wonderfully reminiscent of the quiet horror of Charles L. Grant, The Painted Darkness takes readers on a gently chilly walk through the forest of fears both conscious and subconscious. With Straubian lyricism, Brian James Freeman evokes not only the irrational terrors of childhood, but addresses the roots of creativity and the vital importance of art. A very impressive achievement." |
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