Archive for the 'Books' Category

Personal Effects: Dark Arts

I’ve been a long time fan of JC Hutchins and this new project sounds like he’s once again jumping in and bending genres and doing cool stuff on the cutting edge of story telling. Horror may not be your bag, but if it is, check this out.

“Personal Effects: Dark Art” Book Trailer #1 [...]

Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

My review of Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment. I listen, so you don’t have to! It’s not that it was bad so much so as it just wasn’t good. This cements the notion that I need to write some YA fiction. Surely if Patterson can pump this out, win [...]

Scott Sigler Interview

Horror Podcaster Scott Sigler interviewed on Internet Superstar by Revision3. Great interview by an excellent podcast author.
The things he’s talking about are why I am podcasting Archangel and will be podcasting my fiction for the forseeable future.

Pitcher’s Pendant – A Review

The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery by Tee Morris is a book I’ve been looking forward to for quite some time. It’s the sequel to Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword, a podcast that I listened to and was completely captivated by last year. [...]

Double Trouble is Today

Double Trouble is the brilliant marketing push that Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine have put together to push their books up the Amazon chart. At 11:00 am EST (which should be now if this works right) you should go to Amazon and BUY THEM! If you’re a fan of fantasy at all I [...]

Samson and the Pirate Monks

I read Samson and the Pirate Monks: Calling Men to Authentic Brotherhood as a result of our men’s retreat back in April. As a result of my struggles several books have been recommended to me and none of them really spoke to me the way this one did.
It turns out [...]

Little Brother

I blogged about this before and it looks like I was right. You can get a free thirty minute audio excerpt and a free pdf version. Check Sigler’s site for info.
BONUS: 30-minute audio excerpt from Cory Doctor’s new novel LITTLE BROTHER

A Shareware Short Story: “How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story”

John Scalzi is doing something pretty cool. He is releasing a shareware short story. Called “How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story”. Basically you can download the story, pay for it if you want to, don’t if you don’t. Now granted this isn’t particularly a new [...]

What Book Am I?

I am Siddhartha.

You’re Siddhartha!
by Hermann Hesse
You simply don’t know what to believe, but you’re willing to try
anything once. Western values, Eastern values, hedonism and minimalism, you’ve spent
some time in every camp. But you still don’t have any idea what camp you belong in.
This makes you an individualist of the highest order, but also really lonely. [...]

Infected

Full, free PDF of INFECTED | Scott Sigler is giving away a pdf of his book Infected. It’s been free as a podcast. Crown Publishing picked it up and prior to its debut it’s available at the above link. You can get it between now and the 31st and can buy the [...]