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Meet the Cast of The Italian Screwjob

With the release of The Italian Screwjob just one week away, I thought it might be fun to both remind you all of who our principal players are and introduce you to a few of the many, many, many new characters that will make their appearance in this book. I hope you’ll love (or hate) the newcomers as much as I do! Now, without further ado, let’s meet the cast of The Italian Screwjob!

 

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[Please note… if you have not read the previous books in The Many Travail...

The Subtitles of The Italian Screwjob

The Italian Screwjob is the fourth book of The Many Travails of John Smith. That means more adventures for our affable everyman, more supernatural hijinks, more drama, trauma, and Obama (technically, anyway… the book is set in 2015), and especially more of the chapter subtitles readers know and love.

You know what I’m talking about:

 

I’ve written in the past that a part of me regrets ever having used chapter subtitles for this series1, but the fact is, readers like them, and I’m always here f...

The Pricing is the Thing…

“…by which we’ll prick the conscience of the king” – Shakespeare, probably

A subject that pops up from time to time in self-publishing circles is pricing. How much is too much? Is there even such a thing as too cheap? Do readers treat free books differently than they would books they have to buy? And is there even such a thing as a consensus opinion these days?

The truth is that there are a lot of factors that go into a pricing decision and many of those factors are external in nature. With the ...

The Italian Screwjob: Cover reveal

I know… I know. ‘But Chris,’ you’re thinking, ‘the cover for The Italian Screwjob has been up on Amazon for literally months!’

And… you’re not wrong. Longer pre-order periods means cover reveals are mostly a thing of the past. Especially since I like to share the artwork as soon as I get it. But the truth is, I was planning to have a full blog post entry up this week, and the intended topic just never came together. So, here we are.

Luckily, there is one version of the cover that you haven’t se...

2021: Year in Review

For a while now, I’ve started and ended each year with blog posts detailing my writing goals for that year. Making those goals public has been a way to both let you all know what’s coming and hold myself publicly accountable.

Unfortunately, the whole thing has gotten a little bit stale. So, this year, I’m going to skip the usual end-of-year report card and just look back at how things went. Sound good?

Photo by engin akyurt on UnsplashA Year in Review

Ignoring political, social, economic, and ...

Signed Books

 

For the past few years, I’ve had numerous people reach out to me and ask about getting signed copies of my books, but I’ve always been more focused on writing the next book instead… or perhaps too daunted by the idea of dealing with e-commerce, storefronts, and shipping to want to even try. Thankfully, my angel-wife has depths of get-shit-done that have always greatly exceeded my own, and I’m happy to announce that we are now selling signed/personalized copies of my books via the Ghost Falls ...

One Tin Soldier’s Release: Looking back… and forward

It’s been ten days since One Tin Soldier‘s release, which somehow means Thanksgiving is less than a week away, Christmas is less than five, and it’ll be 2053 before we know it. As ever, time has no real meaning anymore.

Still, it seemed like a good time to look back at the release and to discuss what’s coming down the pipeline in the future. Not counting flying cars… I’ve given up on those ever becoming mainstream.

This will contain spoilers, so if you haven’t read the book yet, please stop read...

Where is the One Tin Soldier audiobook?

I’ll have a longer post next week, with a retrospective on One Tin Soldier’s release, but I’ve had a number of people reach out to me already asking where the audiobook is.

And rightly so! Our narrator, Joe Vernon, did a fabulous job with the first two books, and I really, really want to hear him narrate the third one too.

The good news? That will happen. As I’ve mentioned once or twice, Joe officially signed on to narrate the audiobook for One Tin Soldier last month.

As for when the audiobook w...

One Tin Soldier is now available!

Release day

Today, roughly 1,882 days after I sent my angel-wife the initial opening to See These Bones, saying: ‘I don’t know… what do you think?’, the trilogy is finally complete. It’s still hard to wrap my brain around that fact, but I am so excited. Excited that I’m done, excited that I like the final product, but most of all, excited that all of you will soon be reading One Tin Soldier for yourselves and telling me how I did.

Because of the magic of timezones, some of you are already readi...

The Stats Behind One Tin Soldier

With the release of One Tin Soldier just five days away, I thought it would be fun to once again share some quick, mainly ridiculous, stats about the book.

All numbers provided here represent my best guesses after a less-than-careful review of the manuscript, and I reserve the right to be proven utterly incorrect by eagle-eyed readers. I’ve also tried to keep things spoiler-free.

 

Words, words, words…

# of words in One Tin Soldier: 117,757 (including the two most important words: the end)

# o...