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Winning a 20 year bet

I made a bet with my best friend in 1995 that I was going to make him famous. It was made after an epic session of Dungeons & Dragons, the kind of idle boast you know will never come true. Only this one did.

Back then I was an aspiring novelist, and I joked that I was going to make Trevor my protagonist. He told me that it was impossible, and I bet him a quarter I could do it. Honestly, I can’t even remember why that made us giggle so much, but we spent many inebriated hours laughing about how cool it would be.

This morning No Mere Zombie went live. See that guy on the cover? Does he look at all familiar?

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3. shotgun no smileMeet Trevor ladies and gentlemen. Trevor and I have gamed together for two decades, from Dungeons & Dragons to Shadowun to Starcraft and everything in between. We camped in line together for the first Star Wars prequel and spent entire weekends playing Magic The Gathering.

So this post goes out to my best friend. It took two decades, Trevor. Check mate. You owe me 25 cents.

Celebratory Sale

No Mere Zombie comes out on Friday. Holy. Crap. My second novel is about to go live.

I’ve decided to put the ebook version of No Such Thing As Werewolves on sale for 99 cents to celebrate, and when I say celebrate what I really mean is to goose the Amazon algorithms to raise the book rank so more people see the sequel.

If you know someone who hasn’t read it (or haven’t read it yourself) please take a peek! It’s a 450 page novel on sale for a buck =)

If you don’t laugh at this you have no soul

I’ve attached a link to Ryan’s ‘audition’ for No Mere Zombie. I put audition in quotes, because all narrators are forced to audition even though we all know Ryan’s got the job. He’ll be doing all my books, because he’s awesome and we all know it!

Anyway, the first section of the audition is a tongue in cheek ‘previously on deathless’ section I put in to remind people what happened in the last book. I figured that would be handy for those of you who haven’t read book 1 in a while. Enjoy, and let me know what you think!

No Mere Zombie is complete

I just submitted the final draft to Amazon, and will be uploading it to iTunes tomorrow. I’ll update the links on the fiction page accordingly.

If you haven’t bought it yet I’d hold off until April 24th, because I’ll be putting it on sale for a couple days as a way of saying thank you to all the people who’ve helped me get this book DONE.

I’m unbelievably excited. So much so that I am going to lay down and take a well deserved nap!