Pattern Black by Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant Outsourcing Criminal Psychology to Technology What if Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse was in charge of the for-profit prison system of the future? It might look something like HR022, the city-sized prison with little oversight, a snitch economy, and virtual reality immersion Chamber Therapy in Sean Platt and…

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Once Upon A Crime by Nolon King The Grimm Brother’s Gruesome Fairytales Brought to Life What makes a serial killer tick? How do detectives know which clues to follow? Once Upon A Crime is the first book in a new crime thriller series by Nolon King that follows a new serial killer called The Grimm…

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Sterling & Stone couldn’t be happier to announce that the TV adaptation of our Best-selling novel Fat Vampire by Johnny B Truant has been sold to NBC/Universal for development at SYFY. Fat Vampire is Johnny’s first adapted novel. The core series is six books long and boasts a side series called The Vampire Maurice. Johnny…

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Sterling & Stone has long been known for our fun, funny and lovable unscripted podcasts, and following our move out of education and into full-time storytelling two years ago we are now delighted to announce a brand new fiction-focused podcast network launching in January 2022. We love audio-fiction and know how much audiences do as…

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Lori Taylor, Founder of TruDog®, has been a long time friend of the studio. Back in the day, she and Sean worked together to create some incredible direct response campaigns. Until they went their separate ways about a decade ago: Lori to found TruDog® and Sean to found Sterling & Stone, but they’ve never stopped…

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Reviews are everything for storytellers. Good stories do well in the marketplace because of the readers who love, review, and share them. Sterling & Stone is inviting YOU to join our Advance Reader Crew, to get advanced copies of new novels from your favorite author in exchange for an honest review when the title launches.…

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While many of our readers know and love us for our wild and inventive genre fiction (Unicorn Western, anyone?) over the last few years as Sterling & Stone has stepped further into new storytelling arenas, we’ve also been exploring new genres and story types. Sean and Bonnie have been writing literary dramas for more than…

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After many years of consistently putting out a podcast every week, we’re taking a short hiatus from The Story Studio Podcast (previously known as The Self-Publishing Podcast). We recently shifted from an ongoing format to a “seasons” format in order to deliver a tighter, more consistent experience and a deeper dive into the topics you…

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Bestselling author Stacy Claflin is partnering with Sterling & Stone to create a new psychological thriller series, Dead for Good, as part of our Nolon King thriller line. Stacy is best known for her Alex Mercer series (starting with Girl In Trouble), but she also is prolific as a romance author. Dead for Good will…

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Sterling & Stone has a new thriller line coming to our bookshelves soon. Genre fiction has long been our trade. Most of our stories so far had some kind of sci-fi, fantasy, or horror elements. And while a large number of our books and series could be considered thrillers (and several of our stand-alone novels,…

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