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And now for my nefarious objective: to post a link to an interview I gave recently which has just gone live on SFFWorld.com, one of my little homes away from home on the internet. Click here to read on...
Greetings, all. Hope this fits here, but anyway, here we go. There is a wonderful new group for writers, and those with an interest in the writing Craft. It's primarily for steampunks, but they welcome any sort of 'punk who has something to bring to the writers' table. ~ http://thesteampunkempire.com/group/s... ~ Anyone can read, but before you can join, you must first join the Steampunk Empire. That's free, and the button should be in the top right corner when you visit. It takes a couple of days for them to process you in, but once you are in, joining Scribblers' Den happens the second you click the button. Drop by for a look. It's amazing!
I think that can slip by the board, Jack...
Andrew wrote: "I think that can slip by the board, Jack..."
Whew! Thank you, sir.
Whew! Thank you, sir.
I've been working on some Weird Western tales this year and I'm going to be self-pubbing those (and a mix of other genre fiction) in 2015. The first two books will both be WW, one containing a pair of unnatural revenge stories set post-Civil War, the other a coming-of-age novella about a Native American youth who undergoes a powerful transformation - of a sort. Here's the cover art for book one:
I've just uploaded that to Amazon, though I'll be putting it out through Goodreads as well. Because it's only available for pre-order at the moment you can't read a sample on the page, but I blogged an excerpt yesterday if anyone fancies taking a look at my writing style.
End Trails (on Amazon)
The Lying Room (an excerpt, on my blog)
Quick heads-up: my steampunk novel
The Glass Sealing
is available for free, today only, from my publisher's website... I'm totally okay with y'all taking advantage!
Happy New Year!A quick heads-up: my first self-published title, the small weird western collection mentioned above, comes out tomorrow - and anyone who is on my mailing list before then will be able to get a copy for free! Here's the link, if you're interested:
http://eepurl.com/-IvoH
I thought I'd share some blogging I did over the last couple of weeks in support of an ebook I'm publishing next Monday: Dark Matters: Absences, which contains two examples of what I'm choosing to call "intrapocalyptic fiction" (my label for not-quite-post-apocalyptic, which you're welcome to use!). The Birds, The Birds, and No More Birds
This is about du Maurier's short and Hitchcock's adaptation, and how they inspired the first story in my collection.
The Death of Grass, No Blade of Grass, and Just a Single Blade
This is about the John Christopher novel, and how it inspired the second story in my collection.
COMING SOON – “The lines, the trees, the cliffs, the eaves”
This is an excerpt from story one, and...
COMING SOON – “The Blade”
...yes, this is an excerpt from story two.
There are pre-order links on the last two posts in case anyone is interested. Unlike Dark Matters: Two Tales of Crime and Madness, the first book in this series (unlike almost all my books, in fact), this one actually has some pre-orders already... o_O
I'm looking forward to utterly pwning all of Amazon on April 6th!
Bit of an unusual promo coming up:I'm serving as the editor of an anthology of ecological scifi and fantasy called ECOTONES . This is a pro-am project: we've got stories from nine up-and-coming writers, two more established SFF authors, and three head-liners for the cover in Tobias S. Buckell, Lauren Beukes and Ken Liu - who gave us an original, unpublished piece!
Ecotones will be published next month, but right now we're running a Kickstarter campaign in the hope of sharing low-price copies with as many readers as we can (and maybe to let us pay our contributors a bigger fee as well). Backers can get hold of a copy for 20/40% less than the release day price, and we're also offering bundles containing our three previous anthologies and other goodies that may be of interest to writers too.
The campaign is running until December 1st, and the DRM-free ebook comes out on the 15th - just in time for Xmas. We hope you'll give us a look, and maybe your support!
Quick heads-up to say that, with just under 48 hours still to run, the
Ecotones
Kickstarter campaign has succeeded!That means two things:
1: you still have time to back it, if you want a copy of the book for less than it will cost on release date (and there are still some author-benefit rewards remaining); and
2: it's a sure thing that you'll get what you ask for!
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Dark Matters: Absences (other topics)Dark Matters: Two Tales of Crime and Madness (other topics)
Consider this thread available to anything not directly commercial - author interviews, updates or pre-release news about member projects, that sort of thing!
NOTE: I've edited this thread to slacken the rules a little - it wasn't being used much, and we didn't have a good place for writers to post anything about their work that wasn't sales based.