Up-and-coming science fiction author and Redlands, California native M. Scott Burgess reached 10,000 sales of his fictional serial e-book-series The Plague. The first episode of The Plague series was released in August 2011 and there are currently four episodes available for purchase exclusively on Amazon.com and The Nook for only $0.99 each.

The series includes The Plague: Dead Solstice, The Plague: Zombie Sickness, The Plague: A Man in the Darkness and The Plague: Empire of the Dead, which follow a small band of survivors trying to escape the zombie apocalypse that has turned their world upside down. Episode four, Empire of the Dead, follows the survivors through the Inland Empire, including Redlands, California, as they try to escape the atrocities in Orange County. The next volume, episode five of this 14-part book series, will be released in March 2012. Follow www.MScottBurgess.com for more information on upcoming volumes.

M. Scott Burgess’ episodic e-book series re-imagines and re-defines the zombie apocalypse genre. In the near future, the world has died. With no warning, technology and communication shut down and the dead began to rise. They feed on their victims, pulling more to their ranks as they spread at an impossible rate. But hope survives, as a small band of survivors work together to escape from Southern California in hopes of finding sanctuary from a zombie- infested world. Their goal is to find some remnants of civilization but the farther they venture, the more they become aware that the world as they know it has been forever broken. What they don’t realize is, there are things hiding in the shadows, things that are even far worse than the living dead.

For more information about M. Scott Burgess and his work, please visit www.MScottBurgess.com.