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…
99 cent Novella Sale
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…
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.…
Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write | The Guardian
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…
In Case We Missed It
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…
LIVE Tonight on Rolecasters!
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…