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Anthology Pre-Order

It’s Anthology Pre-Order time! I’ve got stories in two anthologies coming out in October, and both are available for pre-order on Amazon in eBook format. Print pre-orders will come soon, and I’ll post about that then. In the meantime, here is some information about both anthologies and my stories in them!

My story “Q-Be” will appear in Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology. Take the horrific freemium model apps and games use these days and toss in college students’ dependence on their phone and...

Series Worth a Year of Your Life

What Series is Worth a Year of Your Life?

As part of author Andy Peloquin‘s book birthday & release of Lament of the Fallen, I was on an online panel with Jaime O. Mayer, Andy, Kristy Carey, and Rachel Marks about what series are worth a year of our lives (as readers and writers).

It’s posted on Facebook as a video but not on YouTube (at least not yet). For now, you’ll have to go to Facebook to view the panel. Click on the image below or HERE to view.

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TT: The Broken Crown

This week’s Throwback Thursday: The Broken Crown by Michelle West

What I Love about This Cover: This cover carries the culture of the East without being insulting. It’s also incredibly gorgeous.

What I Don’t Love about This Cover: I’m not huge on the fleur-de-lis around the word The at the top of the book.

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What I’m…Update

It’s been a while but I’ve finally updated the What I’m…. pages.

What I’m Playing— Pokemon, Minecraft, Smash Squad. At least in terms of video games.

MNG: Eldritch Moon

This week’s Monday Night Gaming / MNG: Eldritch Moon (Magic: the Gathering)

Recently, Wizards of the Coast released the next expansion in its ever-running Magic: the Gathering game entitled Eldritch Moon. Due to my convention/events schedule, we didn’t get the opportunity to participate in a pre-release draft tournament, but we did buy a box and do our own mini-draft post-release.

These 205 cards make up set 2 of 2 of the Shadows over Innistrad block. While mechanics such as Escalate and Delir...

Anglicon Wrap-Up

One of the things I most love about the Seattle area is that we have a Doctor Who/British convention. What’s not to love about that? Toss in my ability to be a panelist and vendor and I’m sold!

This past weekend was Anglicon 2016, where I served on 5 panels, ran a game show, and co-ran a booth in the dealer’s room as Books & Chains. We arrived on Friday morning with 5 crates, most of which contained books. It took us about an hour to set up our booth, which was in a great location.

Oddly enoug...

Bibliophilia Review

Walking into a project like Bibliophilia, I had no idea what to expect. I’d seen Comedy Sportz Seattle perform improv before (and quite comically), but perform my book Class-M Exile?

Lucky for me, I had one of the best improv groups around to bring Class-M Exile to life on the stage.

After a wonderful welcome, Word Lit Zine‘s editor-in-chief, Jekeva Phillips, did a short interview with me about my book, my writing, and the perilous traffic jam that turned a 35 minute drive into an almost three...

Anglicon 2016!

Just a reminder that Anglicon 2016 is this weekend! If you’re curious about Anglicon and why you should come, I was recently on the Comedy Sportz Seattle’s After Party alongside Dan & Keith from Anglicon’s Con Com! Give it a listen here: http://seattleafterparty.com/episodes/2016/8/1/anglicon-after-party-66

I’ll also have a table in the Dealer’s Room (as Books & Chains) as well as a panelist. See my schedule below!

FRIDAY–AUGUST 5

David Tennant: Serious, Creepy, and Everything-in-Between
Northwes...

Bibliophilia Improv Tonight!

Just a reminder that tonight at the The Pocket Theater in Greenwood (Seattle) is evening one of Bibliophila.

On Thursday, August 4th, I’ll be reading the opening to Class-M Exile, complete with Texas accent, while improv actors act it out. From Word Lit Zine—

The first chapter is life and death for a book. It’s where you get hooked, it’s where you fall in love, and it’s where a world unfolds before you. At this event, an author reads the first chapter of their novel, and then a group of improv...

TT: The House of the Scorpion

This week’s Throwback Thursday: The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

What I Love about This Cover: Gritty. Scary. I want to know more just looking at the cover.

What I Don’t Love about This Cover: Other than knowing it probably has a darker story line (based on the gritty cover), you don’t really know more about the story from this cover.

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