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Nicholl News

Soooo I wasn’t planning on sharing this (because I don’t want to jinx myself), but my adoring wife convinced me that I should, *ahem*, “Share it while you still have the opportunity.”
 
Translation: “Are you freaking kidding me, hubs? You haven’t told anyone yet? Share that letter now before you get cut in the next round and this news doesn’t mean diddly squat!”

Side note: She really does believe in me, people. ;) At the heart of my screenplay, The Grave of Lainey Grace, there is a writer wh...

Lainey Grace & The Orange Sticker

Sooooo just saw this happened.  #hardworkpaysoff #justkeepbelieving

Got These Bones...

Indiana Galvin strikes again, people!

Some of you may recall my not-so-archaeological discovery last September when I investigated our dryer vent to learn what was blocking it up.

Well, friends, it's starting to look like I'm like a magnet for these kinds of crazy awesome finds. The wife, kiddos, and I took a trip back to our Indiana roots this month to visit our families and friends. It's been almost a full year since we'd been back and I'd been promising my oldest daughter that we would g...

Crazy 'Game of Thrones' Predictions

Game of Thrones is back! We're two episodes into the seventh season and, with only a dozen episodes or less remaining, why not make a few crazy, off-the-wall predictions that will inevitably look rather foolish in hindsight.

Here's your spoiler warning if you haven't watched the series through this past Sunday's episode, "Stormborn."

Let's dig in! Right, so the fun in this is that I'm gonna throw out wild, off-the-wall predictions that will in all likelihood be crazy wrong in hindsight. That'...

Compete With Yourself

"If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you continuously compete with yourself, you become better."  --Anonymous

Reader Emails and Trolls

After sending my latest newsletter, I had a reader (and aspiring writer) email me and ask what it's like to be an indie author/publisher.

I sent them this. #funnycauseitstrue  :)

Limited Time Giveaway -- 30 Free Books

Heyo! Back again with another big summer giveaway!
For this week only, InstaFreebie is giving away a hand-picked selection of fantasy titles...and Salted is one of them. :)
Click here, (or the Urban Fantasy banner above), and it'll redirect you to the giveaway on author Elicia Hyder's website. Then you can scroll through the book covers and click to claim as many as you like.
Again, the giveaway is for this week only so share, share, share. 
http://www.eliciahyder.com/giveaway/free-ebooks/
H...

June FREEBIE Giveaway

Heyo! Are you ready for summer and a bunch of reading?

Me and my fellow indies have banded together to give you some fantastic science fiction and fantasy reads. The giveaway lasts the whole month of June, so please help spread the word and let all your friends know where they can download FREE books!

Here's the link to the giveaway page to get your freebies and we'd love it if you added your support to our giveaway on Headtalker to help us reach even more readers. Please feel free to sha...

The Orange Sticker

Boom.
After three years of working, I finally get to cross off another goal on the publishing bucket list -- The Amazon Orange Sticker status.
Better than that? My daughter's reaction.   The scene: Aaron is wrapping up the edits of his next book in the Salted series, Above The Salt. Taking a break, he decides to jump on over to Amazon for a quick peek at the bestseller charts and sees the attached screenshot. His eldest daughter, Little Miss, wanders into the office just as her de...

Gifts From Readers & The L.A. Times Festival

Whenever aspiring writers ask me for advice, I tell them they should 'listen to the voices' in their head.
Lenny, Rebecca, Trixie, Bishop, Ferd, Chidi -- they're all voices that eventually made their way onto the page and there's a hundred (thousand?) more behind them, waiting for the same chance. Strange as this might sound, I'll often find myself fighting with those characters/voices as well.
Whenever I tell people such things, half think I'm crazy, the other half gets it because they too hav...