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Authors You Should Be Reading – Part 1: R.R. Virdi

Courtesy of the author’s website

“Who the fuck is R.R. Virdi?” you might be asking yourself, having stumbled upon this website at 2:00AM while doom-scrolling social media (it’s cool, we’ve all been there). I’m glad you are here asking that very question. Because if you’re not asking, well, it’s probably that you’ve already read his stuff!

WHY YOU SHOULD READ HIM

I came across R.R. Virdi sideways — I met him at a convention a few years before his first novel from Tor, “The First Binding,...

Amazon’s Recent Royalty Pay & Price Change

Recently, Amazon dropped this on those of us who use KDP to handle our indie stuff:

Now, this normally doesn’t affect me too much (I sell more ebooks than print, like most authors who publish through KDP), but it did cause me raise the price of A Christmas Surprise from $8.99 to $9.99 per print copy because of this. I hate doing that, partly because I priced the kids book low so, you know, parents might actually be interested in buying it for their kids. Weird concept here, but I want to s...

Expectations

Not that I have a lot of them for myself, mind you… well, okay. I do, yet I don’t.

Yes, that makes zero sense at all. Let me explain.

One of the weird things about growing up in state-run group homes for roughly 80% of your childhood is the lack of expectations they have for you. The very first home I was at a cranky staff worker lined us up (we were misbehaving or something, I don’t even remember what precipitated this) and walked past us and started labeling us one by one. “Dead, Jail, o...

Appearances and Other Updates

I added a few new conventions to the coming 2025 Summer of Jason’s Relative Insanity schedule. August and September are looking pretty busy at the moment. Throw in infusions, plus writing, plus the regular jobs… yeah, insane is a good word to use.

Wrapping up Book 1 of the Quintus Fox series, Bounty Hunter, and realized the cover did not match the book. Fortunately, I had a few extra covers I’d purchased from Laercio Messias to use for future Quintus Fox books and Jamie swapped things over, a...

Imadjinn Award Finalist (and Convention Schedule Update)

Last year, Larry Correia and I won Best Urban Fantasy Novel at the Imadjinn Awards for our novel Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever. If I remember correctly, I also was a finalist for Best Anthology for Chicks in Tank Tops, but lost out on that one.

This year, I’m happy to say that I’m a finalist in three different categories! Mountain of Fire is up for Best Horror novel, Salvage Purgatory (coauthored with Kevin Steverson & Nick Steverson) is up for Best Science Fiction novel, and Side Hustle:...

Just A Boring Update

Been busy the past month moving stuff around at the office and two infusions in February, so I didn’t have a lot of energy to spare for anything outside of a bit of writing.

Melissa Olthoff and I finished our edits for Book 1 of our new series, and last night we detail outlined Book 2. We have a rough sketch of what’s going on in Book 3, so the opening trilogy is pretty much set. We’ll have more news on that in the coming weeks. We also finished our short story for Jamie Ibson’s next Baen ant...

Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2025

Yeah, every writer is still a reader (at least, usually), and we’re fans of other people’s writings. 2025 promises to be a good year for readers, and here are the top 4 books I’m really looking forward to reading in 2025.

SHADOWS UPON TIME by Christopher Ruocchio (DAW Books, Book 7 of the Suneater series) — this is pretty much on everyone’s to-read list, since this is the final book in the series which began back in 2017. 8 years, 7 books, and one epic masterpiece, this series explores the ...

Confusion and Anger

“Jason’s been…. snippy lately. Ready to bite people’s head off. Even angry.”

Well, yes.

On January 11, sometime between 9:00AM and 11:00AM, the only man who’d ever tried to be a dad to me passed away in his sleep. He was 87 years old and has been battling health issues the past few years. In spite of our relationship being contentious at times, we understood one another.

I went to live with Max Overholtzer as a foster kid when I was 12 after spending the previous 7 or so years bounc...

Two Cover Reveals!

Yep, I’ve got not one but two cover reveals this week! Best of all, they’re in the same series!

Some longtime readers might recognize the name Quintus Fox. I’ve written… 7 stories now in his vast universe but, until recently, never really got around to writing him a novel. That all changed over the weekend (bad immunotherapy infusion session on Friday got me thinking…) and now I’ve got two Quintus Fox books in the pipeline for 2025. The first, QUINTUS FOX: BOUNTY HUNTER, will be dropping in J...

2024 Year in Review

I’ve been pretty good about doing one of these every year the past few years. 2023 was a banner year, with one of my highest words written count ever at over 537,000 words written, and 7 published works. I thought I wasn’t going to be able to replicate that in 2024.

I didn’t repeat them. No, I sorta crushed those word count numbers.

In 2024 I had 7 published works once again — two short story collections (Side Hustle: Vol 1 and Side Hustle: Vol 2), sold a story I wrote years ago to be repr...