May 30, 2014 · 2:48 pm

Fat Vampire

Heh, you know, this looks absolutely incredible. I’ve never read a book by Truant (except Write, Publish, Repeat), so this might be my first.

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Fat Vampire By Johnny B. Truant

Plot:

When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn’t make fun of him, it’s just his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a thousand-year-old vampire. And when Maurice turns Reginald to save his life, it’s just Reginald’s own further bad luck that he wakes up to discover he’s become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever born, doomed to “heal” to his corpulent self for all of eternity. As Reginald struggles with the downsides of being a fat vampire — too slow to catch people to feed on, mocked by those he tries to glamour, assaulted by his intended prey and left for undead — he discovers in himself rare powers that few vampires have… and just in time too, because the Vampire Council might just want his head for being an inferior representative of…

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May 29, 2014 · 4:25 pm

A Rant On Being An Author

Russel Blake rants, love it:

A Rant On Being An Author.

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May 28, 2014 · 11:35 am

Marvelous interview with editor Harry Dewulf

I went sailing over the weekend with some friends of mine.  It was a 2 hour drive each way, and with time to burn I decided to listen to the Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast. I was completely blown away by the interview with Harry Dewulf. He really cares about his craft, and the lengths he goes for his writers are above and beyond what I thought was possible in an editor-for-hire.

I immediately sent the link to the podcast to various friends. I also emailed Harry. He’s a great guy, even offered to Skype with me about my current work in progress, for free.  I had to decline, mostly out of  shame that the project isn’t as far along as I wanted it to be.  But I also told him I’m going to try to get him to edit it when it’s done.

Link: Rocking Self-Publishing Podcast with Harry Dewulf

Link: Harry’s Website…

Link: Harry’s Blog…

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May 25, 2014 · 2:02 pm

Review: Bloody Zombies, by Victoria Leybourne!

Another hot tip from the Oracle of all things Indie, Lindy Moone. She hasn’t failed me yet, so looking forward to this sometime in the future, even though I “don’t read zombie books.” First time for everything.

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This is my first book review in ages… but I just had to say how much I love this tongue-in-cheeky little book set in a “hormone-soaked” all-girls school. The narrator — an English teacher — doesn’t just have awesome language skills; she has guts and brains and knows how to use them.

What do you expect from a lady whose given name is Boadicea? For one thing, you might expect her to wield a mean field hockey stick and cricket bat. And she does.

So when the sexy new science teacher invites Boadicea out, who will end up keeping their “Braaiinnnns”?

“Chaps and chapesses” alike should be amused by all the drooling, oozing goings-on.

As for me, I give Victoria Leybourne’s novella  5 gold stars. Or diamonds. Or whatever.

♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

Oh, and after I read the book, I invited her to contribute a story to the troll anthology. Nuf said?

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May 20, 2014 · 8:21 am

How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy

Reminder to myself to pick this up, it seems fascinating…

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How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy By: Orson Scott Card

From one of the all-time bestselling authors of science fiction and fantasy writing comes an excellent resource for beginners or pros. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card covers topics such as the creation of worlds and alien societies and the use and rules of magic, topics specific to the genre. Learn creative science fiction and fantasy writing from one of the masters.

Review:

Whatever you think of Orson Scott Card’s beliefs he is known for his science fiction so I thought it would be interesting to read his book.

I learned some things that I should have done with my Amelia Bennett Chronicles books, though I don’t think they’ve suffered and I can certainly use what I learned in future episodes.

I decided that I never wanted to write hard sci-fi.

I was just…

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May 17, 2014 · 11:15 am

Trick locks, hat tip to P.T. Hylton

I want one of these locks so bad it’s almost illegal 🙂

http://www.popplock.com/en/about-me.html

I learned about them by listening to P.T. Hylton’s spoiler-ridden Regulation 19 interview (was a fun video).

Anyone who buys me one of these $300+ locks will be my best friend for life…just saying.

**UPDATE: here’s an interview with Rainer Popp: http://seekingariadnesthread.com/2014/01/12/the-eighth-trick-lock-of-rainer-popp/ **

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May 16, 2014 · 12:56 am

Carol Kean: You’ve Got Fantasy in My Science!

I recommend the article below, by Carol Kean, to anyone interested in reading a fascinating literary rant  from a professional reviewer who reads over a hundred books a year.

In addition to being a great article, she actually mentions me (she read and reviewed “Kick” recently).

As Jim Butcher once said, “My gast has been thoroughly flabbered.”

http://www.perihelionsf.com/1405/article_3.htm

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May 13, 2014 · 7:44 pm

There are now 7 Fogland stories…

Kind of amazing.  Have you listened to any of them?  Imagine the fun of an audiobook without the time sink, nor the cost, and good authors to boot. Mix ’em all together and what’ve ya got?

http://www.fogland.net/episodes.html

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May 11, 2014 · 7:29 pm

“Kick” — eFestival of Words nominee “Best Horror”

I got nominated for “Best Horror” for the “eFestival of Words Best of Independent eBook Awards”. The finalists are announced on July 1st, and then it goes to the public for voting. I didn’t even know I’d been nominated, happy times.

Hat Tip to Caddy Rowland for alerting me to this (she’s also a nominee).

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May 10, 2014 · 11:21 am

Audiobook Giveaway!

Reblogging this awesome offer….

Carol Ervin's avatarCarol Ervin, Author of the Mountain Women Series

I have free coupon codes for potential reviewers of the audiobook version of The Girl on the Mountain. The code is to be redeemed on the Audible.com site, and the review posted on my page there.

Check out the listening sample on Audible.com, and tell me of your interest in a comment here (or email me – see the Contact page). If you’re in the UK, I can provide a code for the UK site.

Listen to the sample:  http://bit.ly/RcVtK6

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