Fun with giveaways
Mike Allen / July 29th, 2014 / No Comments »Sharing some of the entertaining consequences of my big ole Goodreads/Kindle giveaway (details here):
Read More »Sharing some of the entertaining consequences of my big ole Goodreads/Kindle giveaway (details here):
Read More »My slugline there isn’t hyberbole if you understand that I’ve comparing this one to all the other giveaways I’ve personally done. There’s five more days to go in the Goodreads giveaway for my upcoming short story collection Unseaming: twenty paperback advance reading copies are
Read More »Recently I was recruited for back-to-back “MindMelds” at SF Signal, in which assorted panelists of authors are asked to riff on sometimes esoteric topics. In the first, “Our Favorite Food and Drink From Scifi and Fantasy!” I talk about the cooking and eating of
Read More »The Tales to Terrify horror fiction podcast has returned after a two week hiatus (while host Larry Santoro took care of some pressing deadlines.) The new episode contains my first “Tour of the Abattoir” audio column of 2014, in which I talk about horror music,
Read More »Last year this time I was ill and bedridden. This year, I’m simply inconvenienced thanks to a kaput computer. I consider this a step up. In fact I was so sick at this time in 2012 that my year-end summary didn’t turn up until
Read More »The week before Christmas, a power surge took out my computer and our stove. The night of Christmas Eve, I learned that once again the excerpt from my novel The Black Fire Concerto was the most read story at Black Gate Magazine — Olyssa and
Read More »Over the Thanksgiving holiday I was delighted and pleasantly surprised to learn that the excerpt from my novel The Black Fire Concerto was October’s most read story at Black Gate Magazine. Black Gate overlord John O’Neill told me the excerpt not only won the
Read More »It’s different from writer to writer and from novel to novel. The Bull Spec blog has a series called the “The Hardest Part” in which writers confess what was most difficult about scribbling out their books. Samuel Montgomery-Blinn generously invited me to share what made
Read More »This notice is mainly for those associate and active SFWA members who have access to the private forums. I’ve made all of the following available there for those looking for material for Nebula consideration. #SFWApro The Black Fire Concerto (novel, by me!) PDF,
Read More »The Roanoke launch party for The Black Fire Concerto took place this past Tuesday (Oct. 22) in a cozy space at the Raleigh Court Library. (Technically this is the second launch party for the book; the first one happened in July at ReaderCon.) Since I
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