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#Saturday Scenes – A romantic interlude for Valentine’s Day
#SaturdayScenes is a weekly event where writers post scenes from their stories online for others to read and comment on. These scenes are usually no more than 1,000 words and can be from published works or works-in-progress. The event is especially popular on Google Plus. I have been participating in #SaturdayScenes on and off for […]
Join us at the Great Philadelphia Comic Con
Shell and I will have a table at the Great Philadelphia Comic Con, from Friday April 3rd through Sunday April 5th. The show is at the Greater Philadelphia Convention Center in Oaks, PA. As usual, we will be hawking our Ascension Epoch books (including custom illustrated Artist’s Editions), T-shirts, artwork, and more. Despite actually living […]
OnlineBookClub.org reviews “Copper Knights and Granite Men”
Following on the heels of the review of After Dark, OnlineBookClub.org also reviewed Copper Knights and Granite Men. Here are some of the highlights: It starts off sounding like some kind of groan-worthy joke – three superheroes walk into a museum – but the result is anything but terrible. Any adults who are fans of […]
OnlineBookClub.org reviews “After Dark”
Speaking of reviews… The first East End Irregulars novel, After Dark, was reviewed over at OnlineBookClub. I’m happy to say it’s a positive review! Here are some highlights: …the reader not only meets a cast of compelling characters but also encounters a futuristic dystopia* complete with hovercraft, the future’s smartphone, and variant political divisions across […]
Write a Review, Help an Indie Author
One of the best ways to help any independent author is by writing a review of their books. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who feel like they just can’t write a review, or would like to but don’t know what to say. We’re not going to tell you what to say, because we […]
“What’s with the appendix?”
I get this question once in a while. No, they’re not asking about the vestigial organ you had removed when you were 12. The appendix (actually appendices) at the back of the Ascension Epoch books. At the back of each book that we currently have out, there is an appendix featuring background information about the […]
Population of Loss: Free starting this Thursday
If you haven’t read our short story anthology Population of Loss yet, you’ll be able to download the ebook for free from Amazon, beginning on January 22, 2015. The promotion runs to the 26th. Normally it’s $0.99. Population of Loss contains four short stories set during the Martian invasion of 1898-1905. The stories run the […]
You can’t possibly live long enough…
There’s nothing like a brush with death to give you fresh perspective! I received this pearl of wisdom after gorging at the local Chinese buffet a few weeks ago. Rarely does a fortune cookie attain a profound personal meaning, but this one hit me right in the gut, so to speak. No, I didn’t think […]
Unsolved Haz-Mat Mystery that inspired ‘Miasma’
This article was originally published on July 25, 2014. Now that After Dark is out, I can share one of my favorite tales of High Strangeness from my local area. But first, a scene from the “Miasma” chapter of After Dark to set the mood: “I must have missed something,” said Sebastian Pereira as he […]
