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Enter to win an autographed copy of Zeus Is Dead!

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Now available atAmazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes,and more!

Note: Actual book will be larger than this image. Do not take internally.

Are you on Goodreads? Do you like things that have been autographed? Have you ever wanted to drive a Lamborghini??? Then enter to win an autographed copy of Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure!

CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

The winner will be drawn* on February 27th!

(Oh, and the Lamborghini thing? It’s got nothing at all to do with this contest. I was just curious and didn’t know how to find out otherwise.)

*That’s “drawn” as in “picked.” Winners will not be sketched.

Farscape Rewatch: “A Clockwork Nebari”

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Warning: Spoilers abound, as usual.

Warning: Spoilers abound, as usual.

Season 2, Episode 18:
“A Clockwork Nebari”
***1/2 out of *****

“It’s going to be more real THAN real. It’s going to be super-3D Smell-O-Vision in Sensurround!”

It’s our first new Nebari sighting since Chiana’s introduction, and now they’re swarming Moya, injecting people’s optic nerves with pacifying drugs, trying to take over the galaxy, and just plain making all of us terribly uncomfortable. [Read more…]

Farscape Rewatch: “The Ugly Truth” (spoilers)

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farscape_sm14Season 2, Episode 17:
“The Ugly Truth”
**** out of *****

“We should just execute all of you. Then we could be sure the guilty party was punished.”

It’s been almost half a year since the last post in my Farscape Re-watch series, and part of the reason for that is that writing up this particular episode in a way that did it justice was a daunting task. I kept putting it off while working on other things (including writing and reading the Percy Jackson series for the first time) until the immediate memory of it wasn’t as fresh. I suppose that’s even fitting for this episode, come to think of it. [Read more…]

Norwescon 38: The Sci-Fi, The Fantasy, and Me!

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That sounds like a parody of “The Rainbow Connection” from The Muppet Movie, doesn’t it?

Come see me being all professional and junk.

Come see me being all professional an’ junk.

Norwescon 38 is coming this April! For those of you who don’t know, it’s the Pacific Northwest’s premier science fiction and fantasy convention. What’s more, I’m going to be there as a professional-type-person! I’ll be reading from Zeus Is Dead: A Monstrously Inconvenient Adventure, signing autographs, and serving on some of the conference panels.

I’m not entirely sure exactly which panels I’ll be on. That’s still being decided. What I can tell you is the reading will be at 1pm on Friday, April 3rd.

Oh, and George R.R. Martin will also be there, along with a bunch of exhibitors, awesome panels, and other professional weirdos just like me! That is, unless Martin slaughters us all. It could happen. The organizers have offered insurance.

It’s April 2nd through the 5th at the SeaTac Doubletree Hotel. Check out the Norwescon site for more conference information, grab some tickets, and come hang out with me and George R.R. Martin!

George R. R. Martin

He has no idea who I am!

Norwescon registration closes March 28th!

 

Writing Update: A Dragon at the Gate

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A Dragon at the Gate

No one still really knows WHAT is in that ship.
That will change.

My writing on A Dragon at the Gate, the third and final book in The New Aeneid Cycle cyberpunk series, proceeds apace.

Wait, am I using that word correctly? *looks up “apace”* Hmm. “With speed?” “Quickly?” Let me start this over:

My writing on A Dragon at the Gate, the third and final book in The New Aeneid Cycle cyberpunk series, proceeds semi-apace! [Read more…]

Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters – Ch 7

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Chapter 7

Another fine chapter you’ve gotten us into, Riordan!

Percy cleans with fire, Hermes dashes in, and Tantalus becomes an even bigger prat—all this and more on the seventh part of Michael Reads Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters…

I Accept Gifts from a Stranger

Though lacking in much actual action, this chapter shoves us onto the flight deck, fuels up the jet, and clears us for launch. (Aren’t metaphors fun?) Midway through I found myself a little down on things, but then I realized I was resisting some of Riordan’s Greek mythology updates only because they contradicted with my own in Zeus Is Dead. [Read more…]

Cover Reveal – Paradise Rot by Larry Weiner

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I’m pleased to be part of a cover reveal for the Booktrope edition of author Larry Weiner’s humorous horror-thriller (wow, and I thought Zeus Is Dead was  a mash-up!) novel, Paradise Rot!

Paradise Rot

Cover design by Greg Simanson, who also designed the Zeus Is Dead cover, so you know the guy’s got good taste in authors!

“Weiner writes with a smart, fun, electric style in the vein of Dave Eggers or Chuck Palahniuk.” –Kenneth G. Bennett, author of EXODUS 2022

Click here to learn more on Larry’s website, along with a chance to win fabulous prizes!