So. It's no secret, but my output (especially free stuff) has pretty much dried up recently. And, to try and get myself back on track, I'm launching a Patreon. Hopefully it'll both get me some support, and help me restructure my working habits. If you'd like to take a look, you can find it here: ht…
The book I co-authored with Anne Tibbets (http://www.annetibbets.com/), under the house pen name of Addison Gunn, is now available for purchase! The book is titled Extinction Biome: Invasion, and I'll let the blurb tell the story: THE EARTH WAS NEVER OURS Alex Miller trained for years in the Army,…
Okay, so. That sale? It went amazingly well. I was celebrating having sold a hundred books, and thanks to you all I'm now within arm's reach of having sold two hundred. That is astonishing. Thank you all so much! <3
I’m very pleased to announce that Dog Country’s just recently sold its one hundredth copy, and to celebrate, I’m very briefly making it available at a lower price. Until the end of Friday, you can buy it from Amazon.com and .co.uk at 99 cents! If you’re a little late to the party, it’ll be on sale…
Wow, so. Here we are, two weeks on from the launch of Dog Country, my debut novel. (See here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DJYMQQO/ ) Independently publishing it has been a heck of an experience. And, y’know what? It’s done great. With 60-65~ish sales (counting people using Kindle Unlimited’s read i…
It's finally out there in the world! My baby, my novel! <3 I hope you all love it, and if you can do anything to help spread the word, it's always hugely appreciated. Reviews are kind and amazing. You can get it from Amazon on Kindle here -> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DJYMQQO/ Peek at the cover no…
So. I've gone ahead and dropped the prices on all of my self-published efforts so far, War Dog & Marginalized Populations, Jane, Jill and Jasie, and Dangerous Jade, which are at $0.99, $0.99, and $2.99 respectively. Why am I doing this? Well, as I get more into self publishing stuff, it's pretty cl…
So. I've been laid up with pneumonia for most of the month, including a six day stay in hospital to receive treatment with IV antibiotics and ventilators after my lungs more or less decided to stop working. Thank heavens for the NHS and fie on any politician trying to pull it apart. Other than that…
TL;DR: I have an opinion on the Hugos/Sad Puppies thing, people who cry out 'we just wanna write good old fashioned entertainin' yarns!', and the state of Science Fiction as a genre. For context if you didn't know (and wow, are YOU out of the loop), a bunch of people hijacked one of the Science Fic…
So, yes. Time to shamelessly shill myself and ask all of you to do things for me. It's awards nomination time, and though I'd absolutely love a Hugo, I don't know that I quite run in that crowd (and it's quite a big crowd). But I would like to call your attention to the Furry Fandom's equivalent, t…
So. Happy holidays, and I hope the year's been absolutely wonderful to you and yours! My year's been ups and downs, like any good year should be. Just lately it's been spent running myself a little ragged, rewriting things and catching up after a double-dip spell of the flu which has left me with o…
Okay, so. After the whirlwind of August, my September was about settling down and getting back into the grind to work. Unfortunately this coincided with a decision to go over my outlines for the next work-for-hire, which briefly turned into an obsessive hunt for problems and trying to fix them whic…
Slow off the mark this month! So. I attended both LonCon 3 (Worldcon) and Eurofurence 20 last month, and, man. I did not expect things to be so tiring. I actually managed to give myself a fairly heinous foot blister by the end of Eurofurence, so, I've been taking the excuse to be fairly lazy the pa…
So. My novel Dog Country's done. Or, more accurately, it's as done as I feel like I can reasonably make it in the time available to me. In theory it's the second draft, or at least that's what I've got it numbered as, practically it's kind of a third/fourth pass. At some level I would like to try a…
The world is an unhappy place at the best of times, but lately it feels worse than usual. Planes crashing or being shot down, civilians being wounded and left starving in the crossfire of half a dozen wars across the Middle East, the Ebola epidemic ripping through West Africa, take your pick. It's…
So. Most of the previous month has been eaten up by edits on Dog Country, and I'm about twenty percent into the second second draft (it needed more than one second draft), but, annoyingly, I've spent a lot of that time planning out my edits rather than actually making them. Complete with a revision…
Okay. Time to begin the second second pass on Dog Country. ... You read that right. The first second pass, which went fairly well, felt a little too light. So, I need a second second pass, this time with some handy feedback from friends. So that is lined up to eat up the majority of my June, but wh…
Continuing my trend of making at least a monthly update, this month's big news is, of course, the release of Pavlov's House. (Read it on Strange Horizons here.) It's my first pro-level short fiction sale, and it is probably one of my best works to date. In brief, it's about one of the dogs from War…
Pavlov's House, my first pro-level short story sale, was published on Strange Horizons today! Go read it! Now! Immediately! In brief, it's one of my war dog stories, and while you might think the title refers to Pavlov the physiologist and his dogs, which it does, you might be interested to know th…
So. After doing some indulgent sideline writing about power armour to keep my hands moving, which is unlikely to see the light of day, I am now back on the Dog Country manuscript, taking the first pass of reacquainting myself with the text and cleaning it up. So far, I am feeling mostly happy with…
I think there're two lessons we've failed to pick up on, entirely, from the Jonathan Ross debacle that fired up and died down yesterday. (TL;DR - UK chat show host is announced as Hugo MC. Twitter explodes. He withdraws.) The first lesson is that people continue to believe that Science Fiction is a…
My writing career, to put none too fine a point on it, is screwy. But the first thing you learn, trying to make writing your business, is that everyone's career is screwy. Recently while playing MechWarrior Online (I play videogames! That's socially acceptable now!) I was talking to another player…
After mentioning it on and off for months now Orbital Decay, a novella by yours truly and commissioned by Abaddon Books, is now available for purchase in various electronic formats, and will appear in print later this year. What is Orbital Decay, you may very well ask? Orbital Decay is a story abou…
So. As those of you who follow me on twitter/generally stalk me are likely aware, I am currently working flat out on getting the first draft for Dog Country done. This has resulted in some thoughts, which I will get to in a moment. First up, things are getting finalized very rapidly on Orbital Deca…
With regards to the current 'drama' rolling around the furry fandom... Sexual harassment/rape/other activities in which one person becomes a 'perpetrator' and another becomes a 'victim' aren't some kind of social drama to titter about around the virtual water cooler. They're events in which people…
Dude. Weasyl is _trippy_. Apparently it's not impossible to upload stories via google drive? _Insane._ (Although I did accidentally submit a story five times in a row before realizing it'd uploaded. Whoops!)
