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Book and Jewelry Giveaway Winners!

Book and Jewelry Giveaway Winners!

Thanks to the wonders of random number generators, we have our winners for the book and jewelry giveaway, celebrating the debut month of my fantasy novel THE PURIST.

The two formal runners-up are Green Dragon Artist and Stephanie D. You get a choice of THE PURIST in the ebook formats of Mobi or EPub. (If you’ve already bought it, I can send you either a copy of the related-but-not-quite book…

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Jewelry & Book Giveaway Now Closed

Jewelry & Book Giveaway Now Closed

September 7th has arrived and left. That means I’ve now closed the jewelry and book giveaway I started a month ago. I’ll be turning the entries into numbers tomorrow, then letting a random number generator do its thing.

I’ll post the results on this blog and get in touch with the winners soon!

Thank you for hanging around during the debut month for my odd fantasy novel THE PURIST.

Sales have been…

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Meta fiction! Character studies! Cheesy writing!

Meta fiction! Character studies! Cheesy writing!

I had toyed with the idea of doing some side-character interviews during the debut month of THE PURIST, and I still might.

But today’s offering is an old, mad, bit of fanfiction that spawned out of my on-and-off-fanfiction obsessions from 1991 to present.

As I say in the disclaimer, from what I’ve seen from far better writers than myself: the phenomenon of Musefic happens to all of us. The moment…

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A Lonhraverse Glossary

For the (very few) readers who haven’t run screaming from this page already, here’s a link to a new glossary of people, places, and things from my Lonhra Sequence books and short stories.

I don’t include much pronunciation for these entries (maybe later). You can, if you squint hard enough, see a couple of overlaps between the world of THE PURIST, BLOODSHADOW, and ‘Out of Omiesh’ and the world of

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Purist countdown!

In a little less than a month, I will be able to aim you lovely people at buy links for THE PURIST, my upcoming fantasy novel from NineStar Press.

I’ve seen the final cover version. It rocks. It rocks so damn hard, in fact, that it could comfortably fit into the catalog of any of the Big Five SFF presses where I briefly considered submitting it in the last few years. It has none of the…

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The Purist

We have a publishing date for THE PURIST: August 6, 2018!

I’ve seen the first draft of the cover art from NineStar Press Natasha Snow, and it’s *freaking gorgeous*.

I’m waiting on some final copy editing and lining up blogs and reviews.

If anyone wants to see a close-to-final version of the first chapter, with some art I did back when I planned to self publish this book, it’s here on Wattpad.

Wh…

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Leaving Wattpad

At the end of June, my fantasy novel Bloodshadow will be unpublished from Wattpad.

The book has been visible on the display site Wattpad since late 2015, and had over 2200 distinct ‘reads’. It received some lovely comments and votes. So why am I removing it?

Wattpad is a sweet, fun place, but it’s not a great platform for hermits like me. I don’t interact that much with the Wattpad community,…

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'The Purist' has a home with NineStar Press

‘The Purist’ has a home with NineStar Press

I’m contracting THE PURIST to NineStar Press for a release date sometime in 2018. It almost certainly *won’t* have this cover, and possibly not this title, but I look forward to seeing what NineStar does with it.   Way back in 1996 or 1997 I wrote a 6K short story set in my Lonhra Sequence fantasy universe: a secondary-world riff on the Orpheus myth where Persephone and Eurydice combined into one…

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