It’s the middle of the year, and we thought you, our readers, would enjoy some insight into our works in progress as of today. And I do mean works in progress — Mike and I have a couple different burners going, with all the best fiction we can offer simmering. So here’s what we have […]
King in Yellow
Sketches from the next Challenger Confidential book
While we work on the final proofreading for The Dismal Tide and preparations for PartyCon, Michael Clark Munson has been hard at work illustrating some scenes from the next Challenger Confidential book. Check out the amazing detail of his inks! If you’re intrigued, you ought to check out the first book in our Challenger Confidential series, […]
It’s not a dystopia!
Imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger from Kindergarten Cop screaming the title of this post and you get a sense of how I feel whenever someone describes one of the Ascension Epoch stories, or the setting itself, as dystopian. Now don’t misunderstand me. There’s nothing inherently wrong with dystopian fiction and I don’t take it as an insult. […]
The Spiritualist Case Against Capital Punishment
On #AnnotatedTuesdays, we will share a quoted passage from some public domain source that has informed the Ascension Epoch universe, followed by commentary on how we used it. Reading the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the small joys of my life, and it seems a great many people feel the same […]
Copper Knights gets a facelift
We’ve just released the Third Edition of Copper Knights and Granite Men, and Shell and I have done a lot of work to improve it. Some of you are probably wondering what we could have possibly done to improve a superhero book based on the King in Yellow, with the comedic sensibilities of Army of […]
Free House of Refuge, The Yellow Sign, and other news
I just wanted to remind everyone that House of Refuge is available for free today until Monday on the Kindle. That’s “free” as in beer. It was always “free” as in Linux. If you want to know more about our award-winning short story of life and death on the seasteads of the South Atlantic, you […]