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Giveaway Winners!

Congrats to our giveaway winners, Melissa in Michigan and Matthew in Illinois. They won autographed copies of Amaskan’s Blood and autographed posters of the cover art in the Goodreads Giveaway.

Would you like your chance to win a print copy of the book & a poster? Stay turned as we’re going to have another contest very soon! This one won’t be limited to Goodreads (it’ll be via this site) and it’ll be open to all countries.

Goodies heading to the post office!

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What I’m… Updates

It’s that time of the month where I’ve updated the What I’m Reading, What I’m Writing, and What I’m Watching for those curiously inclined to check.

Lots of unique reading, zombies, and murder going on!

I also added a new page called What I’m Playing. Rather than focusing on tabletop, which I cover in the Monday Night Gaming series, this will chat a bit about what video games I’m playing.

Happy Reading/Writing/Watching/Gaming!

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Riley the Party Cat

Completely off topic post on Riley the Party Cat.

The Doubleclicks, being the wonderful geeks that they are, called for people to send in cat pictures with particular words for their new video, Cats at Parties.

If you watch the awesome video, you’ll see our wonderful cat, Riley, at 1:03 in (he’s the orange cat with the word EVERY). You’ll also see our friend Elise with her three kittens at 0:14 and Patrick Rothfuss at 1:17.

Watch the vid and then have a party with cats!

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Monday Night Gaming: Penny Arcade

This week’s Monday Night Gaming: Penny Arcade The Game–Gamers vs. Evil.

Erik gets a bad hand!

If you’ve followed my weekly tabletop reviews, you know I’m a fan of deck-builders. For those who aren’t familiar with the term,Deck Building is a mechanism where players begin the game with a pre-determined set of cards and add & change those cards over the course of the game. Most deck-builders give some form of currency used to “buy” other cards for your deck. The new cards tend to expand the player...

Scrivener Saturday #4

This week’s Scrivener Saturday is on Backups.

If I had a dollar for every time an author lost their project/novel, I’d be rich. We’ve all lost something due to hard drive crashes or corrupt USB drives. One of the things I love most about Scrivener, is the ability to use it with Dropbox to ensure you never lose your writing again.

Scrivener can be set up to do automatic backups:

Choose Scrivener –> Preferences (Tools—>Options in Windows)
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Flashforward Friday: Comets!

This week’s Flashforward Friday: Comets!

If you’ve been living in a cave, you might have missed the wonderful news that we landed on a freaking comet. Imagine throwing a dart and hitting a bulls-eye over a million miles away. Yeah. That’s freaking awesome!

XKCD has an awesome series of comics they did live during the landing, which you can check out here: http://xkcd1446.org/#7

Even cooler is the sound the Rosetta Comet was/is making–some folks say it sounds a lot like Predator.

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Book Cover Throwback: A Door into Ocean

This week’s Book Cover Throwback: A Door into Ocean.

A Door into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski is one of my favorite books in feminist literature, and I love the reprint cover from 2000.

Here’s a nice close up of the image by Alan Pollack.

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Novella Done!

YAY!!

Members of the mailing list will rejoice (as well as others) that I just finished the promised story, Class-M Exile. It morphed from a short story to an 18,000 word novella.

I still have some editing yet to do on it before I release it to my wonderful list, but the draft is at least done from start to finish.

Woot!

Now on to writing Book II, Amaskan’s Honor.

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Monday Night Gaming: All Things Munchkin

Ah Munchkin!

One of my favorite cards.

That glorious game. The ultimate PvP (player vs. player) game that encourages bad behavior and foul language. What’s not to love?

This week’s Monday Night Gaming is on All Things Munchkin. My husband and I are huge fans of this game series. In fact, we have a wooden briefcase that holds all of our collection. I’ll have to post pictures later when I’ve actually painted the damn thing.

Our collection currently consists of:

Munchkin Base Game (1-4)
Star Munchkin
M...

Pre-Orders & Contests

Amaskan’s Blood is up for eBook pre-order over on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple (iBooks). I’ll post when print pre-orders go up.

Also, you can win an autographed copy of Amaskan’s Blood before release, along with some swag, over on Goodreads. See the giveaway details here.

Important!

Hurry though, the contest ends on 11/17/14.

I was also interviewed by the awesome Stuart Thaman. Check it out at: http://www.stuartthamanbooks.com

Have a great rest of your weekend and happy reading!

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