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YOUNG JUNIUS Special Edition Pre-Order Page

Front Cover by Jerry Scullion

MAY 5th IS CINCO de JUNIUS!

What is it: Tyrus Books and I are printing a limited run of numbered, signed special edition copies of YOUNG JUNIUS for you, the die-hard Palms Family fans. This edition will have special art by my boys Jerry Scullion and Bob Ostrom, photos of some of the book's locations, special embossed dust-jacket, cover art, all-cloth covers, and much more!

When can you pre-order this? May 5th is when the pre-ordering begins. We're looking at a run ...

YOUNG JUNIUS Special Edition Launches May 5th - Cinco de Junius!

Art by Jerry ScullionThis May 5th, be right here to get your special-edition, limited, signed, numbered copy of the new Tyrus Books YOUNG JUNIUS!!

That's right! May 5th, we're calling it Cinco de Harwood!

or Cinco de Junius!

We're piloting a special Sigler-inspired program of author and publisher collaboration to work with you, the fans and introduce a special, signed, numbered, limited-edition, fan-only, pre-sale-only version of YOUNG JUNIUS that you can only buy HERE this May! This edition...

YOUNG JUNIUS and Palms Sunday on the way!

Hey Palms People!!

It's yer boy and I'm BACK!!!

Been a while.

Two exciting things are about to happen: First, next Sunday is Palms Sunday, a day that we both know means a lot around here. It's now two years since we busted Amazon in the chops and got NYC publishing to recognize us! Since then, we got Jack Wakes Up out from Random House, selling well, and my second book, YOUNG JUNIUS is on the way, coming out in the fall from Tyrus Books!!! (More on that in a min.)

First, let's celebrate this...

10-Min Free Video Lesson on Revision

Hey folks, here's a short video taken from my online class where I talk about the revision process I'm currently using on YOUNG JUNIUS and JACK PALMS 2: This Is Life. Here I take you into the lab, talk about how I'm doing the work and show you the dirty behind the actual writing process. You KNOW this is going to make YOUNG JUNIUS a better book. I hope you're as excited as I am for the awesomeness of the upcoming Cinco de Harwood pre-sale event! More info on that coming VERY SOON!

And if you ...

New iPhone / iTouch / iPad Apps!

[image error]Now A Long Way from Disney and Jack Wakes Up are both available as iPhone and iTunes Apps. 

Yes! Thanks to my friend Brian Rathbone and White Wolf Press, you can now get A Long Way from Disney, the story collection as an iPhone app for $1.99.

Yes, the Kindle version is still available here for $0.99.

You can also get the stories on Smashwords and Mobipocket. Why? Because we love to bring you fiction for however you want to read it.

Also, a company not known to me, Iceberg Reader/ScrollMotion has ...

Author Boot Camp IV Now Enrolling

[image error]That's right: now is the time to sign up for the Fourth Round of the Author Boot Camp Class taught by myself and Scott Sigler. We're happy to be hosted yet again by Stanford University.

This Spring's class will be on two Saturdays, April 24th and May 1st. 10AM - 4PM in Palo Alto

Register here to get into this class before it fills up.

In today's publishing world, debut authors have to write well, but they also have to help sell their own work. Many agents and editors are looking for writers...

Sunday Speaking at Oakland Public Library - CWC

[image error]This Sunday: Feb 21st Oakland Public Library 2-4:30PM

I'll be spreaking at the California Writers Club Berkeley Branch chapter meeting on the topic of finding your audience before you pitch your book to publishers and agents. I'll also cover how I got my audience by serializing my crime novels as free, serialized audiobook podcasts.

This event is free and open to the public. I'd love to see you there!

I'll be signing/selling copies of JACK WAKES UP as well.

Where: Oakland Public Library - 125...

Hot Tub Cast™ 16: Ben LeRoy interview - Part II

Ben and AlisonBehold: to your left you see Ben LeRoy and Alison Janssen, publisher and senior editor of Tyrus Books, who'll be bringing out Young Junius in the fall.

Listen here for the second of my two-part interview with Ben. Here we chat about the future of publishing, ebooks, Kindle and other readers, what makes for good writing, good candy and plenty more!

Ben talks about the history of Bleak House Books, how it became Tyrus Books, and what he sees in the coming publishing landscape.

Enjoy ...

If I tell you how I'm feeling...

I'm in the middle of a big revision on my second Jack Palms novel, This Is Life.  I'm at a point where I can see the end of the revision and the trees all around me. Yet I have no idea if what I'm working on is junk or good. My instincts point toward junk, but that seems more about me than about the book. The one thing I know now is that my instincts and current confused feelings about what the book looks like as a whole (particularly in terms of quality) are not to be trusted.

That's the...

Hot Tub Cast™ 15: Interview with Ben LeRoy - Part 1

[image error]Ty Cobb going in cleats, ninja-style!What's up, champs? I'm more than happy to have on Ben LeRoy this week, the publisher and founder of Tyrus Books, the company who'll be publishing Young Junius this fall.

Ben's a hardcore publishing/literature/crime fiction devotee and having him on here is tantamount to having on a publisher-version of what I've been trying to be as a writer. We get into some great topics this week in the first half of this interview: Tyrus's history, Andy Griffin, Young...