The Monster Story Bundle Is Here

Over at StoryBundle.com, Kevin J. Anderson has put together a killer collection of monstrous stories by a murderer’s row of authors. Pay at least $5, and you get six books. Chip in $15 or more, and you get all twelve books. They show up in whatever ebook format you prefer, all DRM-free. You even get to divvy your money up with regards to how much goes to …

Monster Academy and Storium

The folks over at Protagonist Labs have been blazing through their inaugural Kickstarter for their debut game, Storium. It’s an intriguing new kind of game that blends online forum gaming with more traditional roleplaying game elements, and it lends itself to being played in all sorts of different settings. They explain a bit of it in the pitch video below, and …

The Crossing the Streams 2014 Winners!

As I mentioned back on February 19, me and a dozen and a half other authors joined up once again under the auspices of the amazing Ari Marmell to run a multi-author contest called Crossing the Streams. We did this back in 2012, and after taking a year off, Ari spearheaded the effort once more, to a rousing success. The …

Crossing the Streams, AGAIN!

Back in 2012, Ari Marmell came up with this great idea for a bunch of authors to run simultaneous contests to help promote each other’s books. He called it Crossing the Streams, and it involved each author running their own contest, plus a united contest that gave a book from each writer to the grand-prize winner. It was both successful …

Monster Academy Debut Day Roundup

Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People had a monster of a debut day yesterday. Spurred by the premiere day sale price of only $2.99, it leaped to the top of the DriveThruFiction.com charts and reached as high as #17 on Amazon’s Children’s Sword & Sorcery Fantasy Books list. (That sale price ends tonight, by the way, so snag the …

Why I Love Monster Academy

Back when I ran the Kickstarter to fund the Monster Academy trilogy, Jennifer Brozek asked me to write a guest post for her site, letting people know what I love about the series. I had a lot of passion for the series already, but putting it down for that essay refined it for me and helped me focus my thoughts on …

Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People on Sale Now!

The first book in the Monster Academy series–I Will Not Eat People–is available now! GO GRAB IT! QUICK! BEFORE IT GETS AWAY! Ahem. You can purchase the ebook direct from me, or if you prefer, you can also buy it through: Amazon Barnes & Noble Smashwords DriveThruFiction.com I’ll add other venues as they come online. I’ll have print-on-demand copies available through DriveThruFiction.com later this …

Monster Academy: I Will Not Eat People Releases February 4

On February 4, the first book in the Monster Academy series–I Will Not Eat People–will be released to the general public. It’ll be up first on Amazon, BN.com, DriveThruFiction.com, and even right here, with other venues to follow soon after.  I’d like to give this launch a boost, so I’m going to set the introductory price at a dirt-low $2.99 for …

Monster Academy 1 Finished!

This week, I put the finishing touches on the first Monster Academy novel, I Will Not Eat People. This is for the last of the four 12 for ’12 Kickstarters I ran, and I’m finally getting around to shoving it out the door. (See the previous two posts for some of the reasons why.) My backers should start getting ebooks this …

The Monster Academy Kickstarter Is OVER!

Wow. I didn’t know if it would happen, but we had a great surge of backers and bumpers at the end of the Monster Academy Kickstarter, and we knocked it clear past all of the stretch goals I set up. This means: Every backer at $50+ gets the BNW ebooks for free. Every backer at $75+ gets the Shotguns & Sorcery ebooks for free. …