Ricardo Bare's Blog, page 2
July 10, 2013
Jack of Hearts Giveaway — Done!
Over the last thirty days we did a giveaway on Goodreads of my debut fantasy novel, Jack of Hearts. Today was the last day of the contest. 1001 Goodreads people participated in the giveaway which is great. Thanks to everyone who signed up, congrats to the 10 winners. Your book will be in the mail soon. I hope you enjoy it!
June 10, 2013
Jack of Hearts Giveaway
Click the “Enter to Win” link for a chance to win a copy of Jack of Hearts.
And if you already have a copy and have read it, I’d be forever grateful if you would write a review on Goodreads, Amazon, etc! :)
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Goodreads Book Giveaway
Jack of Hearts
by Ricardo Bare
Giveaway ends July 10, 2013.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
May 15, 2013
Book Blather
YA author Marilee Brothers has a blog where she interviews authors and discusses books. She was kind enough to invite me over to answer a few questions a few days ago. I talk a little about Roger Zelazny, Gene Wolfe, and C.S. Lewis and other fun stuff. You can check out the discussion here:
Marilee is the author of the YA series, Unbidden Magic, about a teenage girl with weird psychic powers, guardian angels and witches for neighbors. You can learn more about her books at her website here:
May 12, 2013
Michael G. Manning, Mageborn
Michael Manning, the author of the very successful Mageborn fantasy series was kind enough to read my book, Jack of Hearts, and post a recommendation. Pretty cool! You can check out his comments here:
https://www.facebook.com/MagebornAuthor/posts/521914327845685
Also, go check out his books here: Mageborn.
May 5, 2013
Altered Memories and Trading Hearts
Alexa Ray Corriea from Polygon did a really cool write up about me and Harvey Smith and our respective novels. Go check it out.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/3/4287156/dishonored-arkane-harvey-smith-ricardo-bare-fiction-writing
Jack of Hearts Available for Kindle and iBooks
Jack of Hearts is now available for download in the Kindle store at Amazon! Technically, it was available starting April 30th but … I’m a little slow with updates.
https://authorcentral.amazon.com/gp/books/book-detail-page?ie=UTF8&bookASIN=B00BWTUF1W&index=default
It’s also available for iBooks here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/jack-of-hearts/id643027118?mt=11
You can order the paper version from my publishers website here:
http://www.bellebooks.com/shopexd.asp?id=253
Soon it the print version should be available on Amazon and over and B&N. Stay tuned.
March 7, 2013
BAFTA and PAX East
Holy crap, Dishonored won a BAFTA for best game in 2012. I think I can safely say that no one on the team was expecting this. Which is why our office went bananas when we heard the presenter Danny Wallace say “Dishonored” into the microphone (we were watching the live stream). I’m incredibly grateful to be a part of the team at Arkane and to have the opportunity to make the kind of games that Arkane makes.
You can watch the acceptance speech by my excellent teammates here: BAFTA 2012 Best Game
In a few weeks I’ll be attending PAX East, which is a first for me so I’m looking forward to that. While I’m there I’ll be on a panel for ‘Narrative Design’ moderated by the amazing Austin Grossman. Should be fun.
Line editing on Jack of Hearts continues in the wee hours of the morning.
January 16, 2013
Jack of Hearts Lives!
I should have made an official announcement a long time ago, but things got a little hectic last year. There was this little game I was working on at the time called Dishonored, and it made thinking about anything else really difficult. But now the game is finished and out, and if you’re a gamer I hope you get a chance to play it. I’m really proud of it and all the work the team at Arkane did. I work with some really incredible people.
So, what I should have mentioned last year is that my first novel, Jack of Hearts, is going to be published. That’s right. Achievement unlocked at last. This is something I’ve been striving toward for a long time. Something I dreamed of as a kid, looking for Tanelorn with Prince Corum, visiting the Silent Planet, and following the Black company among others. It’s been a long grueling road, put off for years at a time, and I couldn’t have gotten here without the support of my amazing wife, a cloud of exceptionally talented and inspiring friends (some of them fellow game developers at Arkane Studios), and extended family. You know who you are and you rock.
Jack of Hearts is coming out in the spring of 2013 and will be published by the wonderful people at Belle Bridge Books. Click here to read more about the book.
I realize that many things which lead to our successes or failures are beyond any one person’s control, and so I feel incredibly blessed and grateful.
One last thing. As you might know if you’ve seen the site before, (or know me) I like to sketch as a I write. So, here’s a quick sketch I did of Jack the other night.
April 14, 2011
Of Salmon’s Tails and Green-Eyed Girls
They also did an audio version of the story, which is something new for me. It’s both fun and a little strange to listen to a recording of someone reading your work.
March 20, 2011
Shock Totem Review & Other News
Nathaniel Katz posted a new review of Shock Totem #2 on his blog, The Hat Rack. My story, The Rat Burner appeared in that issue. I enjoy seeing how people react to something I’ve written. Even if negative, it’s always a chance to learn something new. In this case The Rat Burner is noted as one of the stand out tales, along with the work of Leslianne Wilder (fellow Austinite, I believe), Grá Linnaea and Sarah Dunn.
In other news, I’ve been polishing up several of my stories that take place in Cedar Park. Yep, that’s right–I looked outside my own front door at the benign suburban landscape spreading along the edge of Austin, and tried to see it in a different way. A drain hole at the bottom of reality sort of way, where all the weird-shaped bits get stuck on the grate. Hopefully you’ll be seeing them pop up in a few places soon. More on that in a while.
And in the deep background, the sequel to Jack of Hearts is simmering.
Adios.
