Today, I’m going to spare a post to talk about Game of Thrones, because why not? The rest of the Internet certainly can’t stop talking about it right now. For that meager handful of you who haven’t read the books, watched the show, or somehow missed the inundation of memes and reactions that followed the [...]
Why I Gender-Flipped My Protagonist
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Hey, everybody. Today, I want to talk about my upcoming novel, Orison. I’m finally in a position where I have something to blog about. Namely, a completed draft in the hands of the editor. I didn’t see much point in talking about the process until I was certain I’d actually learned something along the way. [...]
Get BURN on Smashwords for Free!
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Hi again, it’s me. Remember me? What’s up? Yeah, I’ve been writing. Speaking of which… For those of you interested in my fiction, my short story Burn is available on Smashwords right now, for the price of zero dollars. I figure, if you find out if you like my writing style, you can pick up [...]
The Worst One-Star Amazon Reviews… Ever!
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Note: This is not a collection of hilarious one-star reviews, but rather a post on reviews that are not hilarious. Or useful. Or worth writing. I generally try to remain positive on this blog. Today, however, I’m going to be as negative and sarcastic as your average one-star Amazon reviews. I read a lot of [...]
Imperium Giveaway Results
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First of all, Merry Christmas to all my readers and the great writers and readers I’ve connected with on social media. You guys rock and have made a good year great. Second, today is the day of the Imperium giveaway. I rolled the dice like a good gamer ought to, and the winners came out: [...]
Book Review and Giveaway: Imperium (Nicholas Olivo)
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Since purchasing my Kindle, I’ve been consuming a steady diet of books by indie authors (in between heaping helpings of Steven Erikson’s Malazan series). As with traditionally published books, results have been mixed – a couple of turkeys, some serviceable-yet-forgettable first efforts — and then there’s Nicholas Olivo’s Imperium, which made me an instant fan. [...]
Box Set Recollections
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I imagine every writer has one indelible moment that defined their reading lives — a single book or reading experience that eclipses all the rest and becomes the moment of “that’s when I knew.” For me, that moment was my twelfth Christmas, when my mom bought me the Foundation Trilogy box set. I hadn’t yet [...]
Why Is Throwing Away Books So Hard?
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Like most writers I know, I have a room full of bookshelves, all of them overflowing. Some have been read. Many haven’t. Most, I consider indispensable. A few, I have resolved to get rid of, but that’s like saying I want to be the world’s first ham-juggling world champ. I can say it all I [...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kindle
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If you would have told me two years ago that I’d be a Kindle owner, I’d probably have laughed. My initial distaste didn’t stem from dead-tree Luddism (although I have been accused of such several times). I was reading e-books on my Palm Zire long before the Kindle came around. I was turned off by [...]
