Robert E. Howard Readers discussion

We now have several members who are Goodread's Authors, so I thought I'd set up a topic where they can, if they wish, promote and discuss their books. A few rules:

1. Promotions and Discussions should relate to works that link in some way to REH and his themes. As he was fairly wide-ranging, this shouldn't be too onerous a restriction.

2. Promotion of your writing is to be confined to this topic.

3. Discussion of your writing is to be confined to this folder.

4. I will ask you to repost here any promotion of or extended discussion of your works that are posted in other threads. Persistent infraction of rules will result in deletion of non-compliant posts.

I don't have much to say about my writing (which was for the Conan RPG by Mongoose Publishing), but if anyone has questions about my writing, I'd be happy to answer them here.

This month I launched my ebook pulp fiction serial, Rock Band Fights Evil. #1, Hellhound on My Trail, is only $0.99 on Amazon or Smashwords; #2, Snake Handlin' Man, is also available and #3, Crow Jane, is coming soon. The stories of Solomon Kane are one of the major inspirations for this series.

Here's the Amazon blurb for Hellhound:

Heaven doesn't want them. Do they stand a chance in Hell?

Bass player Mike Archuleta is down on his luck in a major way. The shattered survivor of a misspent youth, he is haunted by the ghost of his dead brother, and is now driven to planning his suicide. Halfway through the show that's supposed to be his last, a hellhound bursts into the club and attacks the band. The band members pull out karate moves, guns, and even a sword... and then things start to get strange.

Can Mike survive the show? What can he do about his brother's ghost? And what kind of band is this, anyway?

Hellhound on My Trail is the first installment of Rock Band Fights Evil, a pulp fiction serial by D.J. Butler.

Congrats! You should put in a link, D.J.. If it is available in any other formats, that would be nice to know, too. For instance, I have a Sony ereader & it doesn't do Kindle format. I can convert the Kindle file if it isn't locked by DRM, though. Still, that doesn't always work perfectly, so an author supplying alternate formats helps.

Good advice. Here's the Smashwords link, where you can get it any of the major formats:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

And here is #2, also on Smashwords:

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/...

Thanks!

Oh, thank you! Good pro-tip.

Dark Continents has just published my Weird West novella, Ujahwek, for Kindle and Nook.



http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008LKE8UE
Amazon UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B008LKE8UE
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ujahw...

Got a cool review from a reader (unknown to the author) ... who mentioned the great REH (though he got the name reversed).

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ISEDPA...




As God created Man in His own image, so too did Lucifer create the Ujahwek to prey upon the fleshed manifestations of his enemy.

For years Randall Montgomery swung a sledgehammer in a coal mine, as if pitting himself against a mountain would replenish a soul depleted by the Civil and Indian Wars. With the onset of black lung and middle age, he journeys west to visit an old army buddy before starting life anew. Instead of a friendly reunion, he finds a burgeoning terror last encountered in North America by early humans. A threat bent on claiming all who draw breath in the Wyoming Territories.

For ages the dark spirits of the once-feared Ujahwek have waited, ravenous and expectant ... until a banished female shaman of the Blackfoot tribe is drawn to Skull Cliff in the Owl Creek Mountains. The shaman embraces the spirit of Xotaena, Ujahwek high priestess, and unleashes the means to resurrect the unholy species. Immediately they hunt their prey: humans. Xotaena selects Randall Montgomery for possession with the soul of her mate. To survive he must battle in both the physical and mental realms, or get dragged into the depths of humanity lost.

congrats, man!

Congrats, John.

Thanks very much, Charles and Jim!

Salutes to you, John. Your tale looks most interesting. I really need to delve more into the Weird Western genre.

Most appreciative, Ó Ruairc. Weird West adds an interesting setting to the tried-and-true.

Forgive me if you've seen this elsewhere. I've cross posted it in several places, and I know a lot of you are on various related groups and on facebook. But anyway, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is up online today with a story by me in it. The tale is called “A Whisper in Ashes,” and is the first heroic fantasy/Sword and Sorcery piece that I’ve written in a while. It features a character named Krieg, who, if I had to describe him in terms folks would recognize, is kind of a cross between REH’s Conan and Karl Edward Wagner’s Kane. I hope you’ll check it out. I’m very proud of it. http://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/

I've got a new Sword and sorcery kindle release out from Beat to a Pulp. This story is called Mage, Maze, Demon. Sword and sorcery featuring a character named Bryle. You can't escape Howard's legacy in stories like this. Only 99 cents, so I hope you check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Mage-Maze-Demon...

Here's the Goodreads page for it. Thanks to Seth Lindberg, who set this up: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I got it. Thanks for letting us know Charles. All your stuff is 5 Stars!!!

Michael wrote: "I got it. Thanks for letting us know Charles. All your stuff is 5 Stars!!!"

Thanks, man. I appreciate that!

Today my book of epic fantasy poetry released on Amazon. It was inspired quite a bit by REH's Solomon Kane poems.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Paperback is available on amazon, but ebook will be available within 72 hours

Free Preview of first chapter can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OCPoetry/com...

Blake wrote: "Today my book of epic fantasy poetry released on Amazon. It was inspired quite a bit by REH's Solomon Kane poems.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...?..."

Good luck with it Blake and nice poem!

I recently became an author & now know first hand just how true my assertion is that authors shouldn't read reviews of their books. Inkle Loom Design & Construction is a fairly obscure subject. I've avoided marketing (pestering friends), checking sales, & reviews.

Yesterday, I was in a meeting with a vendor. I'd sold her an Inkle loom as a birthday present for her sister. She loved it, got the bug, & now wants to build a bigger one, so I told her about my book. That surprised both my boss & coworker who hadn't known I'd written it. The coworker manning the PC hooked to the projector googled it & brought up a glowing review (The only one!) on Amazon.

We all wound up reading the review together & everyone was thrilled. The joy I felt at all the accolades was similar to a drug high. Actually better since the feeling was earned. If it had been a bad review, I would have been severely depressed.

I must admit that when I see the few dollars that Smashwords & Amazon send me, I am somewhat discouraged. I have to keep firmly in mind that I wrote it to learn the subject as suggested by Eric Sloane, one of my favorite authors. He was correct, it's a great way to learn since it requires a thorough knowledge & ordering of thought.

I now understand on a visceral level the pride & pain authors go through with their creations. My comparison of a book to a baby was an apt one.