I wager that most of us have had some pretty bad customer service at big chain stores, especially Wal-Mart. I sure have. But I bet you’ve never been accused of “stealing artwork off the web” for ordering prints of your own characters! Today I visited the St. Clair, Pennsylvania Wal-Mart to pick up a series of prints that we’d […]
Author: Mike DiBaggio
99-cent Sci-Fi Summer Book Sale is On
Twenty-six science fiction and horror books by ten authors are now on sale for $0.99/each, just in time for the long Memorial Day weekend. Kick off your summer the exciting and intelligent way by buying books and supporting independent authors! All six Ascension Epoch books are included in the sale, so hurry on out and pick […]
Ascension Epoch coming to Shore Leave, Itz-A-Con
We’ve booked some more conventions over the last couple weeks, including Ascension Epoch’s very first appearance at a con outside of Pennsylvania! On June 18th, the week after Sci-Fi Valley Con, we’ll be in Allentown, PA for the second annual Itz-A-Con. We were there last year for the inaugural run and it was a fun […]
Big 99-cent novel sale starting May 18-20
Beginning next Wednesday, May 18th, eight libertarian fiction authors (including yours truly!) are joining forces to give you the most bang for your summer reading budget. A whopping 20 e-books, including all six Ascension Epoch books, will be available for less than a buck a piece! This selection includes a couple of great science fiction […]
Announcing ‘Valiant, He Endured’ …and a new Martian War tale
A new libertarian science fiction anthology has just been published. Entitled Valiant, He Endured: 17 Sci-Fi Myths of Insolent Grit, this collection features an Ascension Epoch story set during the Martian Invasion. ‘Unwholsome Victuals’ is a short story of Victorian Apocalypse set during the War of the Worlds. Consumptive invalid Jonathan is stuck in Baltimore during the last days […]
St. Florian’s Feast Book Giveaway
This coming Wednesday, May 4th, is the Feast of Saint Florian, patron saint of firefighters. In his honor, we will be giving away free e-book copies of our science fiction adventure short story, Salamander Six, right here on our website. Salamander Six is the tale of veteran fireman Florian Archambeault and the daring airborne blaze battlers […]
Bad Day at the Library
This entry to #SaturdayScenes is a true web exclusive. It’s something I was originally going to put in the appendices for The Dismal Tide, but never got around to. It concerns itself with the mysterious ‘Man in Black’, Mr. Gentry, the creepiest character that the East End Irregulars have encountered to date. Astute readers may notice […]
The Moral Inversion of Netflix’s Daredevil
The Daredevil of the (admittedly excellent and highly entertaining) Netflix series is a bad guy, but it’s got nothing to do with being a vigilante. In fact, despite the way he continuously looks down on them, he’s worse than Punisher, Stick, and Elektra. Why? Because while they merely kill people, Daredevil tortures people. And I […]
Book Review: Dark Roots by R. R. Hunsinger
Dark Roots was the best experience I’ve had with short fiction in long months. It is a collection of three short stories following members of the Reese family through the ages as they match wits, brawn, and steel with an assortment of supernatural foes, from demons to Tory wizards. Each story is a whirlwind of […]
Emergency News! Find Shelter Immediately!
Several weeks ago I commissioned Colin Richards, one of our favorite monster artists, to design and draw some more giant monsters. In Ascension Epoch, the name for such creatures is Boojum. Boojum was originally an emergency code word used to designate an unusual threat that cannot be successfully defeated through normal means. Over time, it has come […]
