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Good morning world!

I feel like I'm barely beginning to catch my breath. It has been a pretty hectic month for me, with a lot of progress, and exciting changes!

Two weeks ago, I was finishing Lunacy, my upcoming novel about a manned MARS mission's struggle to stay on course after a crew member is bitten by a werewolf. It's like Alien, only much more violent and sexy.

The day I finished draft one of that massive undertaking was also important in another regard. After I put the draft down, I had to finish getting ready to marry Nolie, my meanest beta reader, and closest friend.

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A week after that, I'd finished another read-through of Dag, hopefully my second-to-last one. If this all seems fast, blame the woman. She is a drill sergeant. Or a skilled negotiator, depending how you look at it.

Anyways, the cover for Dag has been finalized, and I'm getting ready to send the novel out into the world with love. It's been a crazy month, and I'm sincerely hoping life slows down a little, soon. I still have a few last minute touch-ups on another short story collection, to be released along with Dag.

A little later this week, I'll put together an introduction for Dag, and the first collection of my short stories, Ghost Dust.

Stay tuned! April 22nd is the big day for Dag and Ghost Dust, but we'll have a lot of fun getting there! Excerpts, cover reveals, and random tidbits to come!

Dag follows Dagney Morgan, a sarcastic Department of Agriculture employee with an affinity for paperwork, has a chance run-in with a farmer covered in toxic chemicals, and walks away with a genetically modified baby, along with the seeds of a military-industrial conspiracy. Dagney and her makeshift family scramble to stay ahead of artificial soldiers and megalomaniacal businessmen long enough to reap the truths behind an international web of corruption and intrigue. They also stop for pie, at one point.​




Check back as it gets close to release, for excerpts.

From April 22nd-26th(Earth Day through Arbor Day), Dag will be available for $.99, normally $1.99.

Lots of big news this week. Ghost Dust, a collection containing 15 short stories, and Dag, my first full-length novel are now available.

Check nicolaswilson.com for an updated list of e-tailers carrying my books. Dag hasn't quite made it to Kobo, B & N, etc.

Stay tuned this week for a pile of authorly conversations, while I run down the last of my social energy. I'll probably be pretty cloistered on Nexus for the next few months.

Dag on Amazon
Dag on Smashwords


Ghost Dust on Amazon
Ghost Dust on Smashwords
Ghost Dust on Kobo

Dag is $.99 through April 26th, so grab it while it's cheap! Ghost Dust is as free as I can make it. Feel free to tell Amazon there's lower prices elsewhere, or to grab it from Smashwords or Kobo instead.

Available at his blog. Lots of fun stuff on my favorite parts of writing (including my embarrassing revision habits)

Though anything can inspire the concept, the story and the drive to finish it comes from my characters. Although I write a lot of absurd stuff (I pitched a novel to my wife as "werewolves in space"), it has to be focused on the people living through that concept. It's not just about the big scary werewolf attacking people; it's about the man trapped in a can with a big scary werewolf attacking his friends, with only a ding dong wrapper between him and the vacuum of space, and it's about his friends' claustrophobia as they flee through the confines of the shuttle, their confusion over whether it's right to kill the beast, knowing their friend is still inside it... That monster has to be as real to me as it is to them, or it's just the literary equivalent of a Roger Corman flick- which doesn't sound too bad, actually, but I think without cheesy special effects, Corman just wouldn't be Corman. But I really enjoy getting in their heads. When I'm writing the crisis out, I don't want to stop.

For my second time interviewing with VWI, we focused on Dag, my second novel. Here's a taste.

I tend not to be an author who thinks about themes, which is weird to admit. But I think the themes are never self-evident to me in a story until I’m a draft or two into it....

It’s basically a story at its core about how people need each other, because people who don’t allow themselves to need each other and to help each other become terrible, selfish, basically mutated imitations of human beings.

Read the full interview here.