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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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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Some brilliant news: New Star Rising, book 1 of The Indigo Reports series, has hit #1 in Space Opera on Amazon.ca and Kobo books. It reached #4 on Amazon.com, too. It’s rather humbling to see my book ranking above Dune!! And on Amazon.ca: So New Star Rising has an orange #1 tag. It’s
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The deals are tripping over each other at the moment, thanks to the BookBub Featured Deal that starts in a few days. But in the meantime, Severed, the penultimate book in The Imperial Hammer series, is due out early next month, and we’re ramping up for that release with a discount for the first book
Two quick notes for today: Now Out in Print Edition The print edition we had such issues with has now been fixed and uploaded. And it is huge. Nearly 800 pages! It is available at the following venues; AMAZON.COM AMAZON.UK AMAZON.DE AMAZON.FR AMAZON.SE AMAZON.IT AMAZON.JP AMAZON.CA If you prefer to buy your print editions elsewhere,
The print edition for INDIGO is out, and a 99c short term deal. Read More »
The boxed set of The Indigo Reports was released first thing this morning, and everyone who pre-ordered should have their copies by now. Enjoy the read! For those of you who were waiting for the print edition, I’m afraid it will be a few days longer before I can upload that. I was a victim
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I’ve been reading all the social network posts about the Covid19 lockdowns and social distancing, and the many ways people have discovered or invented to keep themselves occupied. Singing opera on balconies, building Lego cities…there’s been some amazing ideas (here and here for some of them). My own response has been very cliched: When I
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When I was still “just” a reader, (I’m still a reader, it’s just not all I do anymore), I used to marvel at what I thought were the complexities of the publishing world. I mean, how did they figure out what stories to publish? How did they set up the type in books so
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