On the Nature of Roller Coasters
Hey again. This is Alesia, checking in with a little progress report. Here’s the tl;dr version: Still Being, Here That truly is a huge reason to be thankful, because it was close. No, seriously, don’t just glance over that. I mean it. It…
We’re Back
As you likely know, if you’ve been by here at all in 2016, we’ve been MIA. That’s because we’ve had to restructure everything here in order to keep functioning at all – gotta have money here in this western world – and…
The Final Hours
We’re into the final hours, and Dead Man’s Trigger is still holding its own at #2 in Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Fantasy – but we’d sure like to see it go back to #1 on the last day of its KDP Select…
Try Before You Buy
Have a sample chapter from Raven’s Tears. Here’s one from Dead Man’s Trigger. The reviews have begun to come in, and they’re fabulous! There’s just about a day and a half left on the ebook giveaway. You’ve got that…
The ARC and the Covenant | Beta Readers
In our frantic search for replacement beta readers for Dead Man's Trigger a few months ago, I was asked about making advance reader copies, or ARCs, available to a selected audience before publication. At the time - neck-deep in a troublesome manuscript…
Regreetings!
From Alesia: Hello, everyone! Regreetings! I'm sitting in a vacation rental with my bestie of 23 years, who is also a fantasy fiction writer and a role playing gamer. We're in southern Oregon, on the Rogue River, enjoying our yearly retreat from our…
ICYMI: The Monday Report
ICYMI: The Monday Report: Here's a quick round up of what's been going on here at Metaphor Publications. Michael's first novella from Menelon's Great War, entitled Operation: Fire Mission 1: Bagedaan (see the right column) is on sale for the rest of this…
MFGCast Interview with Authors Alesia and Michael Matson [link]
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…
Raven’s Tears: The Final Days
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…
Intricately Folded Pages Transform Hardcover Books into Standing Sculptures
Anyone writing fiction wants to use good imagery in their books, but to transform hardcover books into standing sculptures is a new one on us. http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/yuto-yamaguchi-orufun-book-folding-sculptures H/t to MyModernMet.com.…