While I’m getting the Kickstarter editions of Bad Times in Dragon City out to my backers, I’m also prepping the files for the release of the standard edition of the book. At the moment, that’s scheduled for March 5, and I hope to have print-on-demand options ready by then too. To whet your appetite, here’s a look at the book’s cover, along …
Gambling with Alas Vegas
My pal James Wallis is a tabletop gaming legend. Among many other things, he co-created the wonderful Once Upon a Time card game; he wrote and published one of the first story-driven roleplaying games, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen; and he launched the much-loved Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming. He’s been off doing other things for a while, but he’s …
Don’t Buy Hard Times – Yet
Setting a firm release date for an ebook is a big challenge with today’s tools. I can submit files and details to the various ebook retailers, but it can take anywhere from hours to days or longer for the files to be posted and actually ready for sale. I’m in the process of releasing Hard Times in Dragon City – the first …
Please Don’t Pirate My Books (Unless)
Over at his website, Chuck Wendig’s been writing a lot about the pirating of ebooks, and he declared today to be Please Don’t Pirate My Book Day, asking authors to pitch in a post about the subject. So here’s mine. I don’t worry about piracy all that much. I want people to pay for my work, but I don’t tear …
BNW Omnibus at DriveThruFiction Too
I wasn’t planning to sell the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Omnibus anywhere else but here on my site, but my pals over at DriveThruFiction.com asked so kindly I couldn’t refuse them. Honestly, they’re fantastic people, and I’ve known the people behind the site since before ebooks were even twinkles in their eyes, so when they started promoting the release for me …
The New Newsletter
I just launched a newsletter to promote my next Kickstarter, mostly because I was smacking my best fans with four emails at a time every time I sent messages out through Kickstarter. You can read the whole thing online too. It also talks a bit about the release of the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Omnibus and the sale that’s going …
(Cover) Credit Where It’s Due
My friend Joe W. Martin oversaw the principal photography of the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World short that debuted at Gen Con a few years ago. It’s a great piece of work, and you can see it below. Joe dropped me a note today to ask if he’d been credited for the photos on the covers of the books. I checked to …
The BNW Sale Is On!
I’ve been so focused on writing books lately I’ve let selling them slip. That’s changing today. I just posted the Matt Forbeck’s Brave New World: Omnibus in the ebooks store on this site. That includes all three ebooks in the trilogy, zipped up into one big file, at a fantastic price. Normally each ebook goes for $4.99 for a total of …
12 for ’12: One Year Later
Checking back, I started writing the 12 for ’12 novels back on this day in 2012. As you might remember, this was my crazy plan to write a dozen 50,000-word novels over the course of 2012. I managed to fund four trilogies through Kickstarter drives, which was the biggest hurdle. (Thanks, backers! I don’t know if I’ll ever be able …
Leverage: The Con Job Is on Sale Now
My latest novel, The Con Job, hits shelves today – December 31, 2012 – all across the land. It’s the first novel based on the hit TV show Leverage, which sadly aired its final episode on Christmas night, ending a wonderful five-year run. Two others are slated for later in the year: The Zoo Job by Keith R. A. DeCandido and The Bestseller …