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Soul Cycle Casting Call Part 1: Nethereal

Readers frequently tell me that they'd love to see movies based on my books. While I find these comments highly flattering, before any film adaptations of the Soul Cycle could happen, I would need: A) the six million reader fan base that's required to financially justify turning SFF books into…
November 2, 20163 Comments

The Secret Kings, Soul Cycle Book III and Call for Beta Readers

Attention, fans of Niemeierian fiction: The first draft of The Secret Kings, Soul Cycle Book III is now complete at 125,000 words! You can check out a preview of SK here. Note that the preview poses a moderate spoiler risk if you haven't read Nethereal. Having draft one of the…
October 24, 20166 Comments
Twitter and New Novel Update

Twitter and New Novel Update

Wrestling Twitter Regular readers will know that I've been having problems with Twitter since the beginning of August, culminating in what is playfully called a shadowban. Based on reports from my followers, what the shadowban has done is secretly force their accounts to treat mine as if they've blocked it.…
October 17, 2016
Quantum Mortis: A Man Disrupted

Quantum Mortis: A Man Disrupted

By way of welcoming me to the Castalia House family, Lead Editor Vox Day recently gifted me a copy of Quantum Mortis: A Man Disrupted, his military science fiction/noir techno-thriller co-authored with Steve Rzasa. Synopsis The novel's protagonist is Chief Warrant Officer Graven Tower of the Military Crimes Investigation Division on Rhysalan--a…
October 11, 201610 Comments
Castalia House Reviews Nethereal

Castalia House Reviews Nethereal

Castalia House Blog proprietor and Hugo-nominated Appendix N mastermind Jeffro Johnson brings his encyclopedic knowledge of classic SFF to bear on Nethereal. If you want to understand the sea change event that’s currently transforming the science fiction and fantasy scene, then this is basically required reading. The most striking thing about it…
September 21, 20162 Comments
The Puppy of the Month Book Club Reviews Nethereal

The Puppy of the Month Book Club Reviews Nethereal

Nathan Housley, Jon Mollison, and The Frisky Pagan have chosen my first novel Nethereal as their inaugural entry in the Puppy of the Month Book Club, which they explain thusly: The Puppy of the Month Book Club is a collection of science-fiction and fantasy fans who favor the open minded diversity…
September 12, 2016
Souldancer Makes Amazon’s Top 100 Free eBooks

Souldancer Makes Amazon’s Top 100 Free eBooks

Yesterday I kicked off a free giveaway in support of my Dragon-nominated SF/horror novel Souldancer. The idea was to make my book available to Dragon Award voters much as Hugo voters receive a free packet containing many of the works nominated for that award.. Giving voters easy access to nominated…
August 24, 20164 Comments
Souldancer Is Free on Amazon

Souldancer Is Free on Amazon

The only good reason to become a professional writer is having stories that you are maniacally driven to share with people. The only way to stay a pro author is to write for your fans--not for editors, not for critics, and not for yourself. Most authors are insecure introverts who…
August 23, 201618 Comments
Grow or Die

Grow or Die

Where does food come from? If you said "Wal-Mart", you're probably beyond help and can stop reading now. Go in peace and spend the remainder of your days in whatever fashion seems best to you. If you said "from a farm" or, even better, "my back yard", I have the…
August 9, 20167 Comments
Console Wars: The Secret History of Gaming

Console Wars: The Secret History of Gaming

I just finished reading Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation. This intriguing book's subtitle is somewhat misleading for two contradictory reasons. First, it doesn't only deal with Sega and Nintendo, but touches on almost every industry player worth mentioning from the 1983 video game crash…
July 4, 20165 Comments