Brian McClellan's Blog, page 37

Signed Copies of Crimson Campaign

Most of you know that I sell signed copies of Promise of Blood through my website. I had held off selling copies of Crimson Campaign myself for a couple of reasons, but in light of this whole Amazon-Hachette kerfuffle and the uncertainty and unreliability of getting the hardcover from Amazon, I've decided to go ahead and put them up.  To start off I'll have some US and UK hardcovers as well as some C-Format paperbacks. The sales will be via Paypal and include media mail shipping. You can get them by clicking here.
Don't have Paypal? You can get signed copies of Crimson Campaign from Goldsboro (UK), VJ Books (US), or order one directly from my local Barnes and Noble (US).

Bees

To step away from my books for a moment, I took a short video of my beehive entrance this afternoon and thought you guys might like to see it. I’ve opened the entrance reducer (the little wooden bar whose name I forgot in the video). The entrance reducer allows me to adjust the size of
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Bees

To step away from my books for a moment, I took a short video of my beehive entrance this afternoon and thought you guys might like to see it. I've opened the entrance reducer (the little wooden bar whose name I forgot in the video). The entrance reducer allows me to adjust the size of the entrance which makes it easier for the bees to keep warm during cool days and guard the hive from robbers.
I've been quite worried about the hive all spring. I took two supers (wooden boxes where the comb is) off the top at the end of winter and there was evidence of starvation. But after a diet of sugar water the last couple weeks, and a smaller hive to protect and keep warm, the bees seem to be rebounding. It'll be 80 degrees tomorrow and I might put a super back on the top so they have room to expand.

You can watch the video below or directly on Youtube.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDE_P...

In Case You Missed It

Last week I got to hang out and chat with rockstar epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson. We chat about the writing process, education, characters, and all sorts of fun stuff. You can watch the video now!

Contest. With a Twist!

I have twenty free download codes from Audible.com for the audiobook of my Powder Mage short story “Hope’s End.” I’ve been trying to figure out how the heck to use them and I finally have it! To celebrate this week’s launch of The Crimson Campaign, I’ll be giving away those twenty free download codes to
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Forsworn Now in Audio!

As some of you may have noticed over the last few months, I’ve been having my Powder Mage short fiction turned into audiobooks. The final one, Forsworn, is now finished! You can pick it up on Amazon, Audible, and iTunes, narrated by the excellent Julie Hoverson. I’m very pleased with how they all came out
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Catch Up

A few items that may interest you all as we grow nearer to the launch of The Crimson Campaign. I apologize in advance for the slew of links. First, to celebrate my book launch the Powder Mage short story “The Girl of Hrusch Avenue” is a free download over on A Dribble of Ink for
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Contest Results

I have picked the winner of last week’s review contest for an early copy of The Crimson Campaign. Congratulations to Jason Montgomery for his review of Daniel Abraham’s Long Price Quartet (a series that I also greatly enjoyed). Jason, I’ll put your book in the mail in the next day or two and send you
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The Importance of Pre-orders

We all know that sales are good for an author. I mean, of course we do. Sales get money to the bookstores, the bookstores pay the publisher, the publisher pays the author. Or in the case of self-pubbed authors, sales get money to the distribution channel (Amazon, Kobo, etc) and then the distribution channel pays
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SFF World and Gemmell Awards

A couple of cool items this morning. First is that Promise of Blood was voted by the fans of SFF World (a reasonably large online fantasy community) as their fourth favorite book of 2013, behind big names Mark Lawrence, Scott Lynch, and Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson. Pretty dang cool. Thanks to all the fans who voted,
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