Category: Promotion

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 9

    Trickster Noir: Snippet 9

    I’m at Millennicon in Cincinnati today, and I will be signing in the lobby from 11:oo am to noon… so come see me! It’s been an interesting, hectic weekend, trying to fit this into my usual busy schedule, but there have been rewards. I got to meet Mike Resnick and shake his hand. My First…

  • Trickster Noir: Snippet 7

    Trickster Noir: Snippet 7

    Returning you to your regularly scheduled Sunday Snippets, here is another section of the novel. Thank you to all of you who popped over and bought a copy of The Eternity Symbiote, and I hope that reviews will be kind when they appear in time! I have gotten a few beta reports back on Trickster,…

  • I am Indie

    I am Indie

    Hugh Howey, an author, businessman, and major advocate for independent publishing, published not a work of fiction, but a very important survey yesterday. You can find it here, and although lengthy, if you are looking into becoming published, it is well worth the read. The graphics, if nothing else, tell the story vividly. Indie authors…

  • Sugar Skull for Sale

    Sugar Skull for Sale

    The short story is available on Amazon and Smashwords, in an unprecedented display of coordination by Stonycroft Publishing, on the same day! Will wonders never cease… It’s only a dollar, you can’t even get a cup of coffee for that little any more, and this is a story for a dark night and to never…

  • Pixie Noir Smashwords Release

    Pixie Noir Smashwords Release

    Pixie Noir is now available through Smashwords in multiple formats, and will soon be available in other popular ebook retailers, as well. “To those of you who thought there was nothing new worth reading in Fantasy: Pixie Noir proves that you are wrong. The pace picks up throughout, so save this book for a weekend, or…

  • Teen Week Blog Hop with Special Guest!

    Teen Week Blog Hop with Special Guest!

        Please welcome Kim Mutch Emerson, author of teen read Digitus 233.  Why do you think Teen Read Week is important? It is important to me that we keep quality literature an option for all readers and that includes teenagers or young adults. Teen Read Week helps promote that end. How do you think…

  • Sunday Snippet: Pixie Noir #5

    Sunday Snippet: Pixie Noir #5

    If you haven’t read the previous snippets, you may want to start here. As always, enjoy! Pixie Noir will be released for sale in ebook and print version Dec 1, 2013, and until then, I will be posting snippets of it here on my blog. ##################### A cackling Raven in man form swung the door…

  • Interview with Archer Garrett

    Interview with Archer Garrett

    My weekly post at Amazing Stories Magazine is an interview with the very funny Archer Garrett. Enjoy, and then make sure you check out his books, I have the first one, but haven’t had time to open and read yet – I’ll let you all know how it is, but I expect it will be fun…

  • It’s Saturday, Right? Snippet up!

    It’s Saturday, Right? Snippet up!

    I had started out in Underhill, of course, safe at home, my feet propped on the hearth, a good pipe going, and book in my hand. All was right with my world. Then the summons had come, and dragged me all the way out to the end of the world. I knew, lying on that…

  • Saturday Snippet: Pixie Noir

    Saturday Snippet: Pixie Noir

    Pixie Noir is scheduled to be released Dec. 1, 2013. Now, that’s an exciting sentence for me. You might not understand it unless you read my blog regularly and know that it’s my second novel, and I’m really happy with it. Even better, my beta readers have liked it. Yesterday evening I sent it off…

  • Free Story, and a Review of a Story Collection

    Free Story, and a Review of a Story Collection

    First, this is the last day to get my story “Dwarf’s Dryad” for free. Download, share the link with your friends, and if you enjoy it, don’t forget to tip the author with a review! Also, I plan to put all my short stories on sale, in anticipation of the upcoming release of my new…

  • The Power of Free

    The Power of Free

    Cross-posted from Amazing Stories Magazine Harnessing the power of free has nothing to do with that scene in Braveheart where William Wallace hollers “Freedom!” although I will admit I get a shiver down my spine when I hear it (movie has issues, but I still like it…). What it does have to do with is…