Byron Gordon's Blog: Marie Ab Mare
May 25, 2012
It’s been nearly two months since anything new has been published, mostly due the demands of the day job. However, we’re getting back up to speed and are happy to announce our latest release “Business or Pleasure“! This is a new Gunner Long short story, building the road to a full length novel (tentatively scheduled [...]
March 22, 2012
Thank you to all who participated in the Cover Art Poll! Option 2 emerged the winner and Stark Salvation has been submitted for publication on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. The Smashwords edition is already available, and I'm expecting the Amazon or Barnes and Noble editions to be available by this weekend. Thank you [...]
March 17, 2012
I'm considering two separate covers for the upcoming release of a new short story, "Stark Salvation" and have a poll on my Facebook page here. If you have a moment, please consider looking them over and throwing your vote into the poll machine. Thank you! BG Filed under: Contest, Cover Art, Review, Short Story, Uncategorized
March 2, 2012
I thought I would post a quick overview of the numbers from my first year of self publishing. Nothing amazing or mind blowing, but in their small way I find them encouraging. The titles involved in this analysis are short stories, novellas, and one poetry collection. These numbers range from when I started last March [...]
January 26, 2012
Have you thanked a service member today? This poem is about what it means to be a member of the Earth's premier life saving service. And the Coast Guard pulls that off while conducting SIX other primary missions to boot! It is really rather quietly impressive. So I offer a tribute up to the men [...]
January 19, 2012
Choices of One By Timothy Zahn A Review Choices of One is the follow up book to Allegiance (which was excellent) and takes place between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. It links up with the events of all three of these titles, as well as tying in superbly with Mr. Zahn's Thrawn [...]
January 15, 2012
The disgruntled, cynical retired bounty hunter is back and on a new case! Though normally abstaining from working for free, Gunny is willing to help out a friend in need and travels across the gap between worlds to investigate Gordon Thelb's new flame. Is she an honest girl or a devious minx toying with the [...]
January 13, 2012
After a twelve hour shift at work, some things come naturally to me. Nonsense poetry is just one of them. Now this poem definitely is not 'slithy toves gyring and gimbling in the wabe' but I'm working up to it. In case anyone was wondering, the picture on the left is a rendering of slithy [...]
January 5, 2012
Treasure laughter. Focus on what you can do, not what you cannot. Celebrate every victory, no matter how small, and laugh in the face of grim defeat, for this will fill your soul with courage and your life with joy. It's good to remind ourselves of this every so often, so I tried to capture [...]
December 29, 2011
This is the first thing I've written in eight days. It's one of the paradoxes of life that when I write on a regular basis I don't realize how it affects me. The act of composition improves my mood provides a tremendous release of stress. The urge to write compose has been steadily building over the past week, but [...]
