At least a couple of years ago, a reader — let’s call him Jack— contacted me and asked in fairly demanding tones why I didn’t offer all my books as audiobooks. I politely replied that it was an expensive undertaking for indie authors, although producing audiobooks was on my list of things to do. (It still is, […]
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Dragon Con 2021 has opened the nomination process for their 2021 Dragon Awards. Have you seen these awards? They’re an intriguing design: The Dragon Awards are 100% fan-driven awards, giving readers a chance to recognize those authors who they feel deserve the applause. If you nominate, you can also vote. If you’d like to have
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Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again. Robert A. Heinlein. From The Notebook of Lazarus Long I always read this quote from Heinlein not as advice to indulge in anything that you fancy, but rather, the author urging the reader to take the other road whenever the fork appears. There is a
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There’s a ton of housekeeping and important stuff that we thought you should know about. “We” = the authors at Stories Rule Press. We’re writing this post collectively – more about that in a minute, along with a host of goodies and other stuff you’ll like. How We’re All Doing We’ve had a ton of
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This painting is simply amazing. [link] Not only is it an incredible canvas of many famous people gathered together in a sort of celebrity Where’s Waldo?, but when you hover your mouse over any individual — and some of the objects in the painting, too — you get a tag telling you who they are.
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We authors at Stories Rule Press are running our 20% off sale once more. Next month, we’ll be doing something different, so this is the last chance for a bit to massively save on your fiction. You can get 20% off everything in the store, even if it’s already discounted, including all boxed sets and
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In Season Three of Friends, Rachel discovered Joey’s copy of The Shining in the freezer. Joey put his books in the freezer because he found them too scary to read. I always smile because he ended up putting Little Women in the freezer, because he could tell that Beth was going to die and couldn’t
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Boundary Shock Quarterly is a SF anthology that <gasp> publishes every season. They have a core roster of authors and occasionally reach out and invite guest authors. I was invited to write for their “Lawmen and Crime Fighters” issue, which was released today. My story introduces a brand new character: Ptolemy Jovan Lane, a unique
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TL:DR note: Severed is out today. Scroll down for details if you’re short on time. Read on to find out why this book has surprised me. You know those writers with runaway best sellers who, in interviews, talk about how they worked themselves to the second knuckles, pouring all their heart and sole into this
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I was just so blown away by Altered Carbon If you are old enough to remember Blade Runner when it first came out, or you caught up with the sequel, and you liked the weird dystopian, dirty future that Ridley Scott envisaged, then you’ll love Altered Carbon. It’s a Netflix original, filmed in Vancouver (sorry,