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Weekend Buys 2/8/14

“Each weekend I recommend three books. Some are books I’ve read and some are books I want to read. Some have been written by my friends. Or maybe I’ll just post a good deal I saw online. Just a little something to expose you to the kind of books that interest me.” The Shambling Guide
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Short fiction now on iTunes

I finally got around to uploading the Powder Mage short fiction to iTunes. You can now get your hands on both Forsworn and “The Girl of Hrusch Avenue” if you do your reading on iBooks. There was a small problem with “Hope’s End” which I’m still trying to figure out. In other news, Beneath Ceaseless
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Weekend Buys 2/1/14

Each weekend I recommend three books. Some are books I’ve read and some are books I want to read. Some have been written by my friends. Or maybe I’ll just post a good deal I saw online. Just a little something to expose you to the kind of books that interest me.   Not only
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Surprise! More Powder Mage Short Fiction

The newest episode of the Hugo-nominated Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine is out today, and guess what? It contains a brand new Powder Mage novelette! Taking place two years before the events in Promise of Blood, “The Face in the Window” relates the story of Taniel’s trip to Fatrasta and his first meeting with a mysterious
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Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines

I’ve wanted a remote control helicopter since I was a little kid. There was this cool old guy my family knew who had big, gas-powered RC vehicles (boats, hovercrafts, and planes). I never got to see him drive them but I did get to see his work bench where he built them and I though that
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Photo Contest Results

A while back I announced a photo contest to win copies of Promise of Blood. Here are the winners. Miles, Garland, and Jason: if you haven’t heard from me within a couple days it means I can’t find your email address and you should contact me for your prize. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to
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Weekend Buys

Some book recommendations for you guys this weekend:   Breach Zone, the third book in the Shadow Ops novels by my friend Myke Cole, will be out on January 28th. I read his first book, Control Point and really liked it. The second book, Fortress Frontier, got amazing reviews and a lot of people whose
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It’s my birthday and I’ll give stuff away if I want to…

Today is my 28th birthday so I thought it would be fun to give away one of my short stories to anyone who wants it! For Saturday and Sunday you can download a free copy of “Hope’s End.” Get it here:   If you want to do a little something for me (and get yourself
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Forsworn: A Powder Mage Novella

Forsworn: A Powder Mage Novella is now available for purchase. You can currently get it directly from me via paypal on this page. I’ve uploaded the files to Amazon, Nook, and Kobo but they now have to approve them all and that takes anywhere from 12 hours to three days. I’ll add links to those
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Tabletop Games 2: Table Harder

People seemed to really like my last tabletop games post so I figured I would go ahead and do another as I plan for a birthday game night with friends. Here are some of the games that I’ve played previously (though not necessarily recently), as well as my thoughts. Munchkin is a great deal of
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