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Book Birthday!

 by Fëanor

Hey, just dropping a note to celebrate the official release of my new book, Sea and Sword: A Stranger World Adventure, in hardcover! Yay!



Right now it's available only in hardcover, and only online at Barnes & Noble. If you'd rather not fork over the big bucks for a hardcover edition, I get that! I'll be releasing paperback and ebook versions later on this year on Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Google Play Books, and Apple Books. I will definitely post more about that when the time comes.



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Reading My New Book!

 by Fëanor

In celebration of it being on pre-sale, I read the first chapter of Sea and Sword on YouTube. It's below.



Also, the first book is currently on sale! Use the coupon code BNPSTRANGE75 and you can grab the eBook version of Tree and Beast for 75% off.





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Tagged: A Stranger World, Books, Sea and Sword, Tree and Beast

Scum and Villainy in Bricks

 by Fëanor

I built the Master Builders Series Mos Eisley Cantina! Here's a video about it.





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Tagged: LEGO, Star Wars, YouTube

New Lego Video on My YouTube Channel

 by Fëanor

Thought I'd drop a note here that there's a new video on my YouTube channel! This one is a look at a LEGO Star Wars set: the AT-ST Raider from The Mandalorian. Like and subscribe and all that...





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Tagged: LEGO, Star Wars, YouTube

Kirkus Review Live

 by Fëanor

Hey folks, the Kirkus review of my first Stranger World novel, Tree and Beast, is now live! Go check it out. Wee!

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Tagged: A Stranger World, Books, Tree and Beast

Fixy Fixy

 by Fëanor

I noticed that the Facebook "Like" buttons on my blog got messed up somehow or other - the ends were cut off - so after an hour or so of painful struggle, I think I've got them fixed so you can see them properly again. It's been a while since I had to do front-end web design, and man, I forgot how frustrating fighting with css can be! Good times.



Anyway, as always, let me know if you see anything around here that looks weird, or you find something broken, and I'll see what I can do. T...

I'm a Goodreads Author!

 by Fëanor

Hey, I have an author profile on Goodreads now! Both my published books are on there, too, so if you use Goodreads, I'd really appreciate it if you'd add my books to your shelves, rate and review them, and maybe even recommend them to other folks. (Also let me know if my author photo is too ridiculous; I thought it was funny.) I added some Goodreads widgets to my website, so it should be easy to do. Thanks!

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An Apology, Among Other Things

 by Fëanor

The great thing about self-publishing is that you can publish whatever you want, whenever you want! The bad thing about self-publishing is that you can publish whatever you want, whenever you want. After waiting eleven years to publish my book, I got a little too eager and pulled the trigger too quickly. I noticed when preparing the manuscript for another online store (more on that soon, I hope) that it had some errors. The great majority were formatting issues, although there was also...

My Book Is Out!

 by Fëanor

I'm gonna do this like one of those online recipes, with the big long story up front and the stuff you actually want at the end, so feel free to scroll down to the bottom now; I'll never know.



It's November! November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. The idea behind NaNoWriMo is to jumpstart your writing by giving you a challenge: write 50,000 words (the minimum word count for a novel) in a single month. That means an average of almost 2,000 words a day. It's like climbin...

On the Viewer - Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker

 by Fëanor

I meant to see Rise of Skywalker again before I wrote about it, but... whatevs. It's a pretty good movie - certainly a better movie than any of the prequels - but it's also often very silly, sometimes in a good way, sometimes in a bad way.



I mean, right off the bat (and I don't think this is a spoiler, given the trailers and the opening crawl and all), they bring back the Emperor. Which is like, what? That is frustrating. We killed that guy. He was the bad guy for six movies, but then...