Fifteen year old Tommandros must survive the road where brigands wait to steal his powers—or take his life—in order to reach the Summoner’s trials where he must prove himself worthy of his Calling or lose the legacy he never knew he had.
Happy Friday Everybody,
It's fourth of July weekend. More importantly, it's CONvergence week! Yes, I will once again return to my old stomping grounds of Minneapolis and St. Paul (mostly Minneapolis, stomping is frowned upon in St. Paul, especially after nine p.m.) in order to attend the Convergence Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Bloomington, Minnesota.
And lest you think I'm going empty handed...
That's right con goers, prepare to find one of these bad boys on counter tops, taped to walls, and shoved under the doors of your convention hotel room, because I ordered a lot of them and my apartment isn't that big.
I won't just be going person to person promoting my book, however. I'll also be be promoting my book to groups of persons, a practice known in convention parlance as "paneling." I will be discussing "Building Worlds for Fiction" on Friday at 3:30 and finding ways to write jokes into the malevolent future societies that await us in the "Dystopia in Humor/Humor in Dystopia panel at 9:30 Sunday morning. Because nothing says comedy, like an AM panel on a convention weekend. There will also be stacks of postcards for all who attend.
And don't miss my fellow writers and performers from Our Fair City as they perform our live radioplay "The Archibald Funnypants Variety Hour" at 4 PM on the mainstage before the closing ceremonies. Music! Molepeople! Live foley! You might even see me onstage, very briefly.
It's going to be a big weekend. So if you or anyone you know or might have known or will might have known in an alternate timeline that was currently erased from existence are in Minneapolis this weekend, swing by CONvergence and say hi. Who knows, there could even be a postcard in it for you.
For more information about CONvergence visit http://www.convergence-con.org/
Good morning everybody,
It's the final day of the Sword and Laser contest. At midnight PST, all of this comes to an end and whether or not this book is published will finally be decided. I expect a bumpy ride to the finish line; a day full of jumps from all the books as we make last minute pleas and pushes.
Again, if you have not preordered yet. Do it now! Seriously, right now. I'll wait...
If you have bought a book, you are a wonderful person. Also, tell a friend to buy a book. Or recommend it, using the recommend button. Or like a passage. Did I mention how cool and attractive you are?
In case you need some incentive, here are some things that await you if this novel of mine (which, just to be clear, is long since finished) is published: more fun with the Puritans, the perils of modern New Amsterdam (or whatever they’re calling it these days), a vampire club, a werewolf bar, an Irish trickster shade, redundant terms like Irish trickster, a resurrected coma patient, corrections on what to call soda (pop), Proper Vampirism™ Revised Edition 7, the lost city of Akkad, a Chinese hopping vampire, a West African plague vampire, a Spanish Inquisitor, the Aztec god of night and magic, and much, much more...
So if you want to learn what any of that means, you know what to do: Preorder! Recommend! Like!
And as always...thank you all.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to obsessively update the Top Ten page every 30 seconds until 2 AM CST.
On. Off. On. Off.
Amanda let the revelation of her house’s ownership wash over her.
On. Off. On. Off.
It was one thing to appear at a window claiming to be a vampire. Turning up again and attacking her brother was pretty awful too. But claiming to have owned a suburban house for over three hundred years was insane, stupid, and utterly inconceivable.
On. Off. On.
“Could you stop that?” she said, her patience snapping as she c. . .
Happy Friday Everyone,
Hope everyone's having a good Memorial Day. Sorry to interrupt it, but...
...Update, update, everyone's got an update...
It's the last week for the Sword and Laser Contest. By this time next week, we will know which books get published and which do not. In our favor, we broke 300 preorders! Hooray! I honestly did not think any of the books (beyond Cinnabar, that rapscallion) would go above 300, but here we are. Thank you one and all (especially all, you'll ALL-ways be my favorite) for ordering my book and making this happen.
That said, other books have made huge jumps in preorders over this last week which means An Unattractive Vampire is now perched precariously in the 5th spot. If we can hang on here, we get published, but we could very easily get bumped down, so we need to do what we can to get more orders. If you have a few extra credits from already buying a book, throw them into a second copy for a friend. Or just spread the word. Tell people about An Unattractive Vampire. Post the link on Facebook or Twitter. Force people you're blackmailing into buying a copy. That last one I can't LEGALLY condone, but hey, I don't have to know.
Some groups that have shown An Unattractive Vampire some love this last week:
The Blurry Photos Podcast: A great podcast for monsters and mysteries, they cover everything from Baba Yaga and Spring-Heeled Jack to Tiwanaku and The Hinterkaifeck Murders. I steal so much inspiration from these guys and will continue to do so, unapologetically. You can find them on iTunes or at http://www.blurryphotos.org/
Four Humors Theater: A critically acclaimed Minneapolis comedy theater. If you are in or visiting the Twin Cities and you have the opportunity, go see a show. I cannot recommend them highly enough. You can find them (and possibly pictures of me with actual hair) at www.fourhumorstheater.com
And of course there's my comrades over at Our Fair City, without whom, I would not have been consistently writing for the past six years. If you listen to just one post-apocalyptic audio drama featuring molepeople, mad science, and bureaucratic corporate overlords, make it Our Fair City. Available on iTunes and at www.ourfaircity.com.
I will post more updates and excerpts soon. Until then, go out there and LEGALLY get people to buy my book. In LEGAL ways. That are totally LEGAL. *WINK*
