Pulse-pounding high adventure, painstaking attention to detail, carefully drawn characters who step off the page and into your life. Stephen and Anne MacEachern are the authors of over eighty internationally published novels (with sales in the tens of millions of copies) and numerous short stories. Excitement, realism, and profoundly personal involvement with the story’s outcome are the hallmarks of their fiction. Stephen has also written over a thousand articles, columns, features, and interviews for magazines and newspapers. At one time, he served as associate editor of two national magazines, one a trade publication. Stephen is currently writing columns each month in three national magazines and has a blog on Down Range TV. He has written, produced, and performed over five hundred radio programs, these at one time syndicated across the Southeast.
Anne cut her writing teeth working on the house organ of one of America’s largest and most influential corporations. Thousands of Anne’s color and black & white photos have appeared in a wide range of magazines in the United States and in Europe. Anne, assisted by Stephen, has produced and directed informational videos, magazine format videos, and a music video which was broadcast on the old Nashville Network. Stephen, alone or in conjunction with Anne, has appeared as a guest on various radio and television call-in and interview programs. They have frequently appeared on panel discussion groups, covering topics as diverse as writing, futurism, firearms and social philosophy, as well as their books.
They were commissioned by Dino DeLaurentiis to write two screenplays (un-produced). Their Horror Writers Award nominated short story, “Silent Pace,” was twice optioned as a film property and – the third time the possible charm – they have just inked another option deal for this property.
Their books continue to be quite successful as downloadable E-Books and as audio books. The newest of these latter are fully dramatized and soundscaped audio.
Stephen has interviewed Arnold Schwarzenegger, Roy Rogers, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, John Bianchi, Steve Kanaly, Louis L’Amour, and vampire researcher Dr. Stephen Kaplan.
Stephen is considered a leading expert on concealed carry techniques, personal small arms, and personal edged weapons. He has lectured extensively before general audiences, police, civic and writing groups on these and various other topics.
Their books have been published in English (USA, Canada, Great Britain), French, Japanese, Spanish, German, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, and Portuguese, as general fiction, adventure, science fiction and fantasy. They have published one non-fiction book and are completing a second.
Stephen and Anne were high school sweethearts. Married in 1968, they are the parents of two grown children and have five grandchildren. Natives of Chicago, Illinois, they have resided in northeast Georgia since 1978.
Stephen MacEachern (penn name) is a science fiction author best known for his post apocalyptic survivalist series The Survivalist. The books in this series are heavy with descriptions of the weapons the protagonists use to survive and prosecute a seemingly never ending war amongst the remnants of the superpowers from pre-apocalypse times. The series centers around the attempts of Dr. John Thomas Rourke, an ex-CIA agent to preserve his family. In the first book, a nuclear war begins while Rourke is returning from a business trip. After surviving the crash of an airliner in the Southwest United States, Rourke fights his way across the chaotic horror of the post-war United States to his hidden subterranean survival retreat in Georgia, where he eventually reunites with his family. Survivalist #10 begins a new phase: it takes place after Earth's atmosphere has been destroyed and Rourke and his family have been in cryogenic sleep for 500 years.
LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED
U.S. Only with first publication date
THE SURVIVALIST Series from ZEBRA BOOKS (including two Super Survivalists). Also published in U.K., Japan, France, Canada and Poland. Also available as E-books via the Internet. Soon to be available as dramatized soundscaped audio.
#1 TOTAL WAR (1981)
#2 THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS (1981)
#3 THE QUEST (1981)
#4 THE DOOMSAYER (1981)
#5 THE WEB (1983)
#6 THE SAVAGE HORDE (1983)
#7 THE PROPHET (1984)
#8 THE END IS COMING (1984)
#9 EARTHFIRE (1984)
#10 THE AWAKENNING (1984)
#11 THE REPRISAL (1985)
#12 THE REBELLION (1985)
#13 PURSUIT (1986)
#14 THE TERROR (1987)
#15 OVERLORD (1987)
--- MID-WAKE (1988)
#16 THE ARSENAL (1988)
#17 THE ORDEAL (1988)
#18 THE STRUGGLE (1989)
#19 FINAL RAIN !989)
#20 FIRESTORM (1990)
#21 ...TO END ALL WAR (1990)
--- THE LEGEND (1991)
#22 BRUTAL CONQUEST (1991)
#23 CALL TO BATTLE (1992)
#24 BLOOD ASSASSINS (1992)
#25 WAR MOUNTAIN (1993)
#26 COUNTDOWN (1993)
#27 DEATH WATCH (1993)
THE DEFENDER Series from Dell (including Super Defender). Also published as audio books. Also available as E-books.
#1 THE BATTLE BEGINS (1988)
#2 THE KILLING WEDGE (1988)
#3 OUT OF CONTROL (1988)
#4 DECISION TIME (1989)
#5 ENTRAPMENT (1989)
#6 ESCAPE (1989)
#7 VENGEANCE (1989)
#8 JUSTICE DENIED (1989)
#9 DEATHGRIP (1990)
#10 THE GOOD FIGHT (1990)
#11 THE CHALLENGE (1990)
#12 NO SURVIVORS (1990)
SURGICAL STRIKE Limited Series From Berkeley.
#1 SURGICAL STRIKE (1988)
#2 ASSAULT ON THE EMPRESS (1989)
#3 INFILTRATOR (1990)
TRACK Series from Gold Eagle. Also published in Brazil.
#1 THE NINETY-NINE (1984)
#2 ATROCITY (1984)
#3 THE ARMAGEDDON CONSPIRACY (1984)
#4 THE HARD WAY (1984)
#5 ORIGIN OF A VENDETTA (1985)
#6 CERTAIN BLOOD (1985)
#7 MASTER OF D.E.A.T.H. (1985)
#8 REVENGE OF THE MASTER (1985)
#9 THE D.E.A.T.H. HUNTERS (1985)
#10 COCAINE RUN (1985)
THE CALL ME THE MERCENARY Series from ZEBRA BOOKS. By "Axel Kilgore." Also published in Russia (in hard cover). Also available as E-books via the Internet. Was also published as audio.
#1 THE KILLER GENESIS (1980)
#2 THE SLAUGHTER RUN (1980)
#3 FOURTH REICH DEATH SQUAD (1980)
#4 THE OPIUM HUNTER (1981)
#5 CANADIAN KILLING GROUND (1981)
#6 VENGEANCE ARMY (1981)
#7 SLAVE OF THE WARMONGER (1981)
#8 ASSASSIN'S EXPRESS (1982)
#9 THE TERROR CONTRACT (1982)
#10 BUSH WARFARE (1982)
#11 DEATH LUST (1982)
#12 HEAD SHOT! (1982)
#13 NAKED BLADE, NAKED GUN (1983)
#14 THE SIBERIAN ALTERNATIVE (1983)
#15 THE AFGHANISTAN PENETRATION (1983)
#16 CHINA BLOODHUNT (1983)
#17 BUCKINGHAM BLOWOUT (1984)
RODEO Series from Pinnacle Books (prior to Zebra ownership). By "Red Mitchell." Also published in Serbo-Croatian editions.
#1 RODEO (1981)
#2 SLAYRIDE (1982)
NICK CARTER Series from Ace Books By "Nick Carter."
THE TURKISH BLOODBATH (1980) er
DEATHLIGHT (1982)
INDIVIDUAL NOVELS
werewolveSS Zebra/Pinnacle (1990)
THE FREEMAN Bantam (1986) Also E-books
MIAMIGRAD Pocket Books (1987) Also published in Spain
THE YAKUSA TATTOO Pocket Books (1988) Also published in Germany
THE KAMIKAZE LEGACY (Sequel to above title) (1985)
THE TAKERS Gold Eagle Books (1984) Also published in U.K, Brazil and published as E-book and as audio book
THE TAKERS/RIVER OF GOLD (Sequel to above title) (1985) Also published in Brazil and published as E-book.
THE GOLDEN SHIELD OF IBF Baen Books (1999)
"Siege Perilous" in GRAILS: QUESTS, VISITATIONS AND OTHER OCCURRENCES (Unnameable Press, 1992)
"Roll Call" in CONFEDERACY OF THE DEAD (ROC Books, 1993)
"Silent Pace" in PHOBIAS (Pocket Books, 1994)
"The Vampire Killer" in WEIRD MENACE (American Independent Press, 1994)
"Siege Perilous" reprinted in DARKER GRAILS (ROC Books, 1994)
"...For I Have Sinned" in MORE PHOBIAS (Pocket Books, 1995)
WORKS IN PROGRESS
THE ILLEGAL MAN (Novel)
WRITTEN IN TIME (Novel)
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