We’ve updated our list of conventions for 2016. So far, we’re scheduled for five great conventions, including two we’ve never been at before. Our year kicks off in April at the Butler County Paranormal Conference in Western Pennsylvania, followed by our triumphant return to the Great Philadelphia Comic Con in Oaks a week later. In […]
About two weeks ago, I sketched out a very rough outline for the sequel to House of Refuge featuring the return of Justin Agnarsson and Sandra Vietes in a new adventure, this time pitted against an enemy even more monstrous than the Argentine sailors who murdered Sandra’s family. The new novella will introduce the reader to […]
Mindy Tavoularis, aka Hecate, once a member of the superhero group Roundtable, is a fearsome magic wielder who never quite managed to gain public acceptance. No surprise, considering her mother is the sadistic, sorcerous talent Sophia Tavoularis, and her demented siblings comprise one of the most notorious organized crime families on the planet. Here she […]
On the off chance you haven’t gotten fed up with hearing Shell and I interviewed about our books, you’ll want to tune into Anthony Caprio’s excellent Free Cities podcast, especially if you are of a libertarian persuasion. In this episode, we focus primarily on our non-superhero stories, House of Refuge and Salamander Six. We also […]
I was going to trumpet that The Dismal Tide got two more four-star reviews on Amazon, but I’m sure you’re tired of seeing posts about all our good reviews. Luckily, one of them gave me an idea for this blog post about the Irregulars’ sleep schedules. Reviewer Sean C. Duggan wrote, in part: I still like the […]
As you well know by now, the Ascension Epoch is rooted in public domain stories and characters. The most obvious and probably the most influential on the backstory is H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, but most of our other stories at least reference other public domain works, if they’re not based on them explicitly. […]
We got a couple more positive reviews in for our books from Readers’ Favorite. Let’s start with our newest book, The Dismal Tide (get it on sale for $0.99 right now!), which earned a five star ranking (just like After Dark, the previous book in the series, did). Reviewer Stephen Fisher says: The co-authors of this masterpiece […]
We received yet another positive review of our introductory book of superhero and Victorian post-apocalyptic short stories, “Population of Loss.” In the Ascension Epoch universe, the War of the Worlds actually happened and it changed the world permanently. Here’s what the reviewer has to say: Great concept, well executed I first stumbled across the “Ascension Epoch” universe while […]
Free Spirits is a short story (about 28 pages) set in the mid-2000s of the Grapple Gun Universe (GGU). If you’ve been following along in the series that began with Archers and whose most recent installment is The Eye of Horus, this is 30+ years in the future from the characters and events you’re familiar […]
Here’s the recording of last night’s Between the Covers podcast. We talked to YA author and fellow LFA member Tracy Lawson about The Dismal Tide, teen superheroes more generally, and why and how we decided to make Ascension Epoch open source.
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