Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

Here’s a set of links to our book intro posts for our contestants in SPSFC #5! Welcome to the initial round, and let the games begin! Our books, Part 1 Alternative Science Chad Eastwood Dragon City Iryna Karban Empyreax The Rise of Ca Ra Scott Frost...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

New Art for IzzyI commissioned an artist to create new cover art for my latest fantasy novel, The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar, and I really love how it came out. I was looking for something that would have more of a comedic feel, because th...

Here are the judges of Team 1.21 Gigawatts, our judging team for the 5th annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. For all the updates and links you could want, please check out our team homepage here. Allison Alexander Allison Alexander is...

An evening of book-related improvI had a really great time at my one-of-a-kind mystery book improv show at The Idiot Box, the comedy club where I've been performing for the past 20 years. There was a great audience, and we did a lot of fun and funny...

Comicon Greensboro!I had the opportunity to go to Big Lick Comicon in my hometown, Greensboro NC, on October 4th and 5th. I shared a booth (see above) with Mike Mollman, who's a fantasy and sci fi author, and who runs a popular YouTube show for indie...

Kenai is free!Kenai, my award-winning space opera story, is free as an ebook until Friday. If you haven't read about Jess and the mysterious world of Kenai, please have a copy on me and enjoy! Here's a universal link to grab it no matter where you ar...

Red Eye (from the BBC, on Hulu) was a bit of a mess. I’m always a sucker for airplane action shows, but they work better as movies, because there’s just no way to sustain tension on a plane for more than a couple hours. Last year’s Hijack (AppleTV) w...

Over the last couple months, I’ve been thinking about doing something to try to give indie authors a chance to see how they’re doing relative to others. It’s always interesting to me that indies are exponential. By that, I mean I look around the indi...

This is my last review of a full read for the Peripheral Prospectors judging team for the final round of SPSFC#4. For more information about the team and our progress, please go to the team update page here. The book is Accidental Intelligence by Bry...