A Box of Books

The mailman brought me a present last night. Now I have a big stack of the new StoryHacks and another of my new book on writing.

“What’s this?” You say. “You have a book on writing?”

You must have missed my rather haphazard and low-key release. In fact, I posted it on only one smallish facebook group. Then my buddy and StoryHack regular Jay Barnson saw that post and tweeted about it. Result? It shot up to number 3 on Amazon in its category for a bit!

Pulp Era Writing Tips is a collection of articles written for writing industry magazines taken from the 20s-50s. I’ve posted several of them here on the blog, and the book has 17 of them. Topics include editing, plotting, making more memorable characters, all sorts of useful stuff.

Does that sound like something you’d like to check out? Well, the ebook is currently only $0.99 on Amazon. Pulp Era Writing Tips

In other news…

A while back I wrote a middle-grade fantasy novel for my kids. I wasn’t exactly sure what to do with it, but last year on a whim, I decided to polish it up and submit it around. Long story short, it was picked up by Immortal Works, and it getting released NEXT WEEK. With everything that’s been going on, the release date kind of snuck up on me.

It is called Once Upon and Through the Mountain. I describe it as being Anne of Green Gables set in the Land of OZ.

I am extremely proud of how it turned out. So even though it is way outside my regular style and genres, it is worth checking out. Especially if you have daughters that need to be read to at night. Official release date is June 12th. More on this to come.