Angry Robot has posted a preview of Carpathia, which hits stores in the US today. Check it out below and read the first seven chapters for free! If that’s not enough to convince you, here’s another review that showed up this morning from Paul Simpson at SciFiBulletin, who gives the book an 8 out of 10: There’s plenty of …
Carpathia in the USA Today!
My latest novel from Angry Robot – Carpathia – hits stores in the US today, and is also available as an ebook directly from Angry Robot and for the Kindle in the UK. It should be on shelves in the UK on March 1, and in the Kindle and Nook (and hopefully iBooks and Kobo) in the US that day too. In …
Meeting in the World of Warcraft
Next Thursday, March 1, I’m going to hold an author talk in the most unusual venue I’ve seen yet. I’m slated to speak with a group of librarians, using World of Warcraft as the medium. It starts at 4 PM Central Time on the Saurfang (Pacific) realm, in the Ironforge Library. You can find details and directions here. Many thanks …
Good Cause: Fighting For Gwen
My friends Ryan Macklin and Jess Banks have teamed up to launch a fundraiser for Elizabeth Sampat‘s family. Elizabeth’s daughter Gwen is autistic, and as Jess says: Her family has had to pull her out of the public school where she’s been going since they moved to California because of its stubborn refusal to follow the Individualized Education Program (IEP) …
Marvel RPG PDF Out Today
My pals at Margaret Weis Productions have their new Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Game ready to hit stores on February 28 –coincidentally the same day my novel Carpathia comes out in the US – but DriveThruRPG is selling the PDF edition starting today. It’s already skyrocketed to the top of their Hottest Items chart. At only $12.99, I can see why. I worked …
Shotguns & Sorcery Cracks $4k
Over the weekend, the Shotguns & Sorcery drive on Kickstarter cracked $4,000! We took off like a rocket over the first few days and busted through the first goal in less than two days. Now, though, we’re in the middle stretch, during which most Kickstarters settle into a long, slow burn. Usually that all changes in the last week or …
More Carpathia Reviews
With the release of Carpathia only eight days off, more and more reviews for it have cropped up. Here’s a summary of those that I’ve seen over the past week or so. At the Opinionator, David Marshall enjoyed the book. He writes: Forbeck imparts a pleasingly relentless quality to the narrative as the humans slowly realise they may just have …
We Did It!
The Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter drive already smashed through its first goal of $3,000! Many thanks to all of the backers who chipped in to make that happen. We managed it in just under 32 hours, less than half as long as it took for the first 12 for ’12 Kickstarter drive. So! This means I have another novel to …
Shotguns & Sorcery Kickstarter Launched!
This morning, I pushed the “Launch” button on my Kickstarter drive for my next 12 for ’12 trilogy. It’s based in a new fantasy setting I call Shotguns & Sorcery, and well, I’ll let the video here tell you more about it. If that tweaks your interest, head on over to the Kickstarter page to learn more and to …
2nd Kickstarter Launches Tomorrow
I’m in the final stages of getting the second 12 for ’12 Kickstarter project ready. All I’m waiting on at the moment is the video, which my pal Darren Orange of Reactor 88 Studios is polishing up for me. You can go check out a preview of it now. There’s still time to make changes, right up until the moment …