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News This Third Week of October

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My thanks to everyone who posted...

The Feline Affair -- Release Day

The release day for The Feline Affair is here! The novelette is available only as an e-book on Amazon for now, but you can read it on pretty much any device. So if you don't own a Kindle, no worries. You'll still be able to read it on your computer, laptop, tablet, or cell phone -- you'll just need to download a free Kindle app first (instructions here). 

Mid-month, I sent out the advance MOBI/pdf copies to everyone who requested one. If you request...

Cover Reveal: The Feline Affair

There's news to report on the Incident series novelette front. The official publication date is August 25 and the title is (ta, da!)...The Feline Affair. My multi-talented friend Cynthia L. Moyer has whipped up a simply wonderful cover:  


The novelette has gone up for preorder on Kindle, but I'd like to send complimentary copies to my newsletter subscribers. (That's you!) Just reply to this email letting me know if you'd prefer a mobi format (which can be read on your Kindle/iPad/tab...

News This Third Week of June

Hope everybody is having a good summer or, if it's currently cold where you are, winter! I have two upcoming events to share with you and an update on the Incident series prequel short story.

First, I'll be at CONvergence, here in Bloomington, in early July. Look for me on a couple of panels and at the "mass book signing":

New Writers HOWTO Thursday, July 2, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Group Signing Saturday, July 4, 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Dystopia in Humor/Humor in Dystopia  Sunday,...

Launch Day: The Bellbottom Incident

The Bellbottom Incident is now available both in paperback and on Kindle! You can find the book here in the US Kindle store, here in the UK store, and here in Canada. I've started to get some sales in Australia (*waves hello to Australians*) so I'm going to add that link as well.

Launch days tend to be somewhat of a bittersweet occasion. You've done all you can for the book and it's now time to send it into the world and hope it finds its wings. That's not quite true, of course,...

The Bellbottom Incident - paperback available early!

Psst! 

A bit of news just for my mailing list subscribers (well, and for anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook, and possibly some places I've forgotten my feed goes to...) Anyways, here it is: The Bellbottom Incident paperback has gone up on Amazon TEN DAYS EARLY. The Kindle version is still on track for release at the end of this month, March 31. But as of today, you can find the papeback for sale on Amazon US and on Amazon UK. 
Hope you...

Cover Reveal: The Bellbottom Incident

Amazon's algorithms sent out the "Coming Soon" email this morning, sooner than I expected, so this isn't exactly a cover unveiling as everyone can already see it on the Kindle preorder page.  But here goes anyway. Ta-da:



The Far Time Incident, the first book in the series, had a cover that was on the light side, off-white and gray. The Runestone Incident cover was mostly black with some red accents. So for this third one we went with lots of color, which also happened to ma...

Farewell 2014 Welcome 2015

Season's greetings and best wishes for 2015! May the upcoming year treat you and yours well, and may any and all surprises be good ones.
I’m going to skip the obligatory recap of last year, as I feel it’s always better to look ahead than to sneak glances backward. Book-wise, here is where things stand going into the new year:The publishing train for The Bellbottom Incident, the final book in the Incident series, is right on track, chugging on. We are in the middle of the copyediting stage and...

Guest Post by Charlie N. Holmberg, author of The Paper Magician

Today I welcome Charlie N. Holmberg to the blog -- her just-released young adult debut, The Paper Magician, is already rocking the Kindle bestseller lists! Charlie stopped by to talk about one of the less glamorous tasks faced by a writer, designing promotional materials, and how things didn't quite go according to plan. Read on:
The making of the bookmarks for The Paper Magician was fun, but also ended up being quite a handful! This is namely due to my publisher’s decision to c...

Guest Post: Michael Tinker Pearce Talks Aliens

Today on the blog we have one half of the writing duo of Michael Tinker Pearce and Linda Pearce. The couple's second novel, Rage of Angels, a military science-fiction story, is now available on Kindle. Michael stopped by today to talk about fictional alien invasions of Earth, and how they often seem to involve aliens that aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the galaxy. Read on: 


Earth is maybe the luckiest planet in the cosmos. Sure, we keep getting invaded...