Our MFGCast interview covered the gamut from the uses of the modern metaphor to the nitty-gritty realities of indie publishing, but it turned out to be amazingly coherent! We got to talk storytelling in fiction and in tabletop gaming for awhile with Kurtis Amueller at MFGCast <--- click there to visit a list of their iTunes recording. Our episode was […]
Do you find yourself needing a heart-warming tale of a rag-tag crew of convicts and misfits fighting to survive a mission that's sure suicide? Oh boy, do we have a deal for you. It's 99 cent novella sale time! For the test of this month, the fantasy war novella Operation Fire Mission I: Bagédaan is only 99¢. Here's some peeks […]
It's Raven's Tears: The final days! These are the last six days of this book's life. And we're selling it cheap. The next book in the "fantasy urban fantasy" trilogy, DEAD MAN'S TRIGGER, is coming for your Kindles, Nooks, and Kobos in November. This one is leaving KDP Select after that - think of it as going into a witness […]
An interesting opinion piece on how e-readers and ebooks are changing modern literature. Our attention spans have shortened, we’re distracted, and authors have changed their style to suit, but these changes are part of the wider digital transformation Source: Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write | Comment is free | The Guardian
You read that right. We lost our office internet connection and were offline for most of last week. Michael is our Guru of All the Internet Things, and he eventually wrangled the configuration files back into submission. Once again, we have official access to cute cat videos and the freshest news on the latest in the culture wars as potent […]
Michael and I are going to be LIVE tonight on Rolecasters starting at 9pm EST, 6 pm Pacific, talkiing about Raven's Tears, the world of Menelon, the nexus of fantasy RPGs and fiction, and whatever else they'll let us get away with. We've never done a PG-rated live-stream before, I'm NSFW at the best of times, and it's all going […]
This week, we launched our second publication. So far, Michael's novella, Fire Mission I: Bagédaan has peaked at #3 in Amazon's "Action/Adventure - War" category. Well done! It's the last day of the giveaway. There's no better way to get an introduction to the fantasy world of Menelon than a FREE ebook, is there? Be sure to get yours before […]
Today, we live in air conditioned houses or flats in concrete jungles, and travel in air conditioned cars and buses and planes. Natural disasters not withstanding, weather is usually little more than a minor irritation or point of idle conversation. It didn't use to be that way. When it was cold, it was hard to keep warm. When it was hot, there were few ways to cool down. To travel, you had to be out in the weather. Weather was a fact of life - for everybody!
One last word cloud and I mean to be done until Dead Man's Trigger is ready to go. I needed, I just had to see how the intensity of the final scene in Raven's Tears came out as a word cloud. My jaw dropped when I saw it. Clicking on it should give you a larger image, so you can […]
