Michael McClung's Blog

 I remembered that I have a blog!Let's just pretend that I've been updating this regularly, shall we? We can avoid any embarrassing, uncomfortable questions, like 'what have you been doing all this time' or 'where's that money you owe me' and such.The only solid info I have for you is that all the Amra Thetys books now have a hardcover edition. Well, they call it a case laminate edition. You know

Hello everybody. The world is a tire fire right now, and
what I’m up to, writing-wise, is rightfully way, way down anybody’s list
of concerns. But a few people have checked in, and so I thought it a good idea
to give y’all an update.



I’ve got several book in the works – most writers I know
like to work on one thing at a time, because most writers I know are smarter
than me. Or more normal.

Hello all- Halloween will soon be here (my absolute favorite holiday). That's it. That's the post. No, but seriously,  I've got a new book coming out on December 3rd, and it's a little bit different. It's still fantasy (though perhaps a bit darker than you're used to from me) but it's in the dungeon core subgenre. Those of you familiar with Gamelit and LitRPG will know what that is, and I

(This blog post has been adapted from a Twitter thread at the request of Carrie D. Miller, whose latest book, Copper Pennies, is out as we speak.) * * * Hi friends. Today I want to talk about the post book release blues. Not every author gets it, nor is it the same for every author, but it's a real thing. Having just seen The Thief Who Went to War out the door, it has been heavily on my mind.

Well. It’s, uh, been a while since we least heard from Amra and Hogren. According to Amazon, the first publication of Thief Who Wasn’t There was on June 5th, 2015, so at the time of this writing, it’s been four years and two days. That’s a long time to wait for a sequel. Not GRRM long, not Patrick Rothfuss long, but long. Too long. And for that I’d like to apologize and explain a bit. When I

The fifth episode of the final season of Game of Thrones brought rioting from its fans. I’ma talk about it. As if you didn’t already know, spoilers ahead. The scene was set thusly: The Iron Fleet is burning. The city’s gates are breached. The dozens of scorpions that line the city’s walls have been reduced to ash and splinters by the creature they were designed to kill. The allied troops of

It's hard to give crunchy updates, ones that can objectively measure progress on a novel. The most obvious one is word count, and it is a useful measure, of course; a book is a collection of words, after all, and the more of them there are in a draft, the closer it likely is to being finished. Currently Amra 5 is sitting at just over 11,000 words. Averaging the other Amra books, we'd get a word

Hey, everybody. Long time no talk, yeah? *nervous chuckle* So, um, I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, whether you celebrate or not, and I hope that the very rapidly approaching new year treats you better than the old. Speaking of the end of the year, many of you may be aware that I made public noises with my mouth (or rather fingers, I guess, but let’s not muddle our metaphors

So sometimes a character will demand more screen time. Theiner (Moc Mien) from Amra #3 and #4 has been making it known to my subconscious that he has some things he wants to do in front of you folks. They are bad things.  This is a little exploratory writing I did for him, just a snippet. It might end up as a short story, or as a complete novel. (I'm still hard at work on

I've been working with an Amazon customer service representative the last few days, trying to get Amazon to push out the updated ebook to everyone who has already bought it. They were reluctant to do so as it would mean folks would lose their notes and highlights and such, which is fine and reasonable. Instead, if you'd like, you can go to your 'Manage Your Kindle' page (or it might appear as '