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…
Uncommon Catalysts: On the Nature of First Things
Metaphor Publications is pleased to present Uncommon Catalysts a series of guest articles sourced in the rich, yeasty intersection between fantasy fiction and role playing games (RPG, or RPG's). Irregularly, we'll be reaching out to irregular writers…
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…
Fire Mission I: Bagédaan
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…
Whether Or Not To Weather
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…
The Final Scene
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…
Revisualize Chapter One
Okay, so let's revisualize chapter one. Tagul Word Clouds are plenty awesome, too. May I present their version of the word cloud for chapter one of Raven's Tears. Wow. I may have to get that one done on a shirt, or mug. Michael and I had a moment as we…