Aaalmost there ... the NDV Kickstarter will soon be live, reachable via a redirect at neurodiversiverse.com.
-the Centaur
Pictured: A set of print items in one of our reward tiers.
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Hey folks! This is a "sticky" post up for the next week or so to remind you that I will be Author Guest of Honor at Clockwork Alchemy - and that we're running a Kickstarter for The Neurodiversiverse! Please check out the Kickstarter - and click to be notified when it goes live, I'm told that helps "the algorithm" when it launches.
I was selected as Clockwork Alchemy GOH not just because of the Jeremiah Willstone steampunk series, comprising one novel and a dozen stories featuring the rayguns-corsets-and-aliens world of Victoriana, but also because I've been involved in Clockwork Alchemy since its inception. Please visit us at the con!
At Clockwork Alchemy, I will be joined by my Neurodiversiverse coeditor and friend Liza Olmsted. Our schedule at the event is the following - including a Tea with the Author on Friday and the debut of the audio drama "Jeremiah Willstone and the Choir of Demons" on the anthology panel on Saturday:
Friday, April 19
- Own Voice Stories - 2:30pm / Synergy 5 - Liza Olmsted, M.D. Neu, Sumiko Saulson, Emily Flummox
Why promoting and celebrating 'own voices' stories is imperative! - Tea with the Author Guest of Honor - 4pm / Synergy 2-3 - Anthony Francis
Come have tea with me! Ask your questions. I don't promise enigmatic answers! - Author Signing with Anthony Francis - 6pm / Convene Lobby
Come get your books signed!
Saturday, April 20
- Steampunk Vehicles - 1pm / Inspire 1 - Anthony Francis and Michael Tierney
We'll talk about airships, land walkers, behemoths, and time machines! - Author Signing with Anthony Francis - 4pm / Convene Lobby
Buy more of my books in Author's Alley, and I'll sign them too! - Bringing Anthologies to Life - 5:30pm / Synergy 5 - Anthony Francis, Liza Olmsted and Dover Whitecliff
We'll discuss the challenges of bringing anthologies to life, and debut the very first Jeremiah Willstone audio drama, "The Choir of Demons"
Sunday, April 21
- Favorite Steampunk Books - 10am / Synergy 5 - Anthony Francis, Madeline Holly-Rosing, Dover Whitecliff
What are the greatest steampunk books and series? We have opinions! And will share. - Author Signing with Anthony Francis - noon / Convene Lobby
Buy more of my books in Author's Alley, and I'll sign them too! - Author Signing - Last Call with the Author's Alley - 4pm / Convene Lobby
Buy more of ANYONE's books in Author's Alley, and we'll all sign them! Or sign our own. Whatevz.
Finally, for the duration of the campaign, neurodiversiverse.com will link through to the Kickstarter! We're campaigning to get enough funds to pay our authors full "pro" SFWA rates, and if we surpass that, the funds will go to the planned second book in the series: The Neurodiversiverse - Binary Stars! Back and share, folks!
-the Centaur
Well, it's that time of year again ... 65,000 of my closest friends have gotten together in five hotels and two convention halls in Atlanta to celebrate all things science fiction!
My schedule is below. I worked right up to the start of the con, so am just now posting this two days later, but for the benefit of the time travelers in my audience, I'll include the first two panels:
- Thursday
- 8:30pm - Start Now, Research! - Hyatt Embassy EF
How much research is enough? How much is too much? When do you stop doing research and start writing?
- 8:30pm - Start Now, Research! - Hyatt Embassy EF
- Friday
- 7:00pm - The People Who Live in Your Book - Hyatt Embassy EF
Characters rise off the page and become people--if they're well-crafted. Discover ways to make this happen in your fiction.
- 7:00pm - The People Who Live in Your Book - Hyatt Embassy EF
- Saturday
- 10:00pm - Stories Needed: Get Yourself Invited into an Anthology - Hyatt Embassy EF
There's an anthology being published that might just work for a story you have in mind. Or, when you hear about an anthology and KNOW you have a story for it, what do you do? Get some professional help from our pros.
- 10:00pm - Stories Needed: Get Yourself Invited into an Anthology - Hyatt Embassy EF
- Monday
- 10:00am - Writing About Star Trek - Hilton Galleria 2-3
There are thousands of worlds within Star Trek, and thousands of topics to talk about. Where do we start? Join a panel of published writers to discuss what's worth discussing in Trek books, articles and more
- 1:00pm - Where Do You Get Your Ideas? - Hyatt Embassy EF
This is a question that every writer gets asked by everyone they know. What is the answer to that question? - 2:30pm - Predicting the Future - Hyatt Embassy EF
Where in the world is fiction headed? Do the old tropes still work? What's fresh and new for the future?
- 10:00am - Writing About Star Trek - Hilton Galleria 2-3
At each panel, I'll be giving away signed copies of the writing inspiration book Your Writing Matters by my friend Keiko O'Leary. This is the latest release from Thinking Ink Press, and we're very proud of it! No matter where you are on your writing journey, I think this book can probably help you, so come on by!
See y'all tomorrow!
-the Centaur
So a number of sales are running this month featuring stories about Dakota, Jeremiah or Nicole.
First off, Dakota: on February 16-28 of this month, BLOOD ROCK will be back on sale for $0.99 wherever fine eBooks are sold - for example, Amazon and Barnes and Noble. BLOOD ROCK continues the story of Dakota and her weretiger daughter Cinnamon, facing their greatest challenge yet: getting Cinnamon into a good middle school. Oh, and there may also be magic graffiti, deadly fires, cranky werewolves, magical police investigators, and vampire romance. You should check it out.
Second, Jeremiah: the LATER series anthologies are on sale at DriveThruFiction through the 11th. Each features pairs of stories set in Jeremiah Willstone's time at Liberation Academy. We're adapting these for audio, so I feel this is a good way to get into this universe early!
- TWELVE HOURS LATER: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/359389/Thirty-Days-Later-Steaming-Forward-30-Adventures-in-Time
- THIRTY DAYS LATER: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/347455/Some-Time-Later?term=some+time+later
- SOME TIME LATER: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/271326/Twelve-Hours-Later-24-Tales-of-Myth-and-Mystery
Finally, Nicole. Everyone's favorite killer computer's debut story, SIBLING RIVALRY, is also on sale at DriveThruFiction: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/372242/Sibling-Rivalry .
Also, a few of my friends who are published through Thinking Ink Press also have books on sale at DriveThruFiction:
- Vincent Scott's THE HEREAFTER BYTES ebook is on sale for $3 https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/372228/The-Hereafter-Bytes?term=the+hereafter
- David Colby's DEBRIS DREAMS ebook is on sale for $2: https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/269628/Debris-Dreams-Lunar-Cycle-1
- Marilyn Horn's BEYOND THE FENCE is on sale for 50 cents! https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/187702/Beyond-the-Fence-A-Short-Collection-of-Stories
The DriveThruFiction sales ends February 11, so strike while the iron's hot!
-the Centaur
P.S. Also, while I'm under the hood, let me point out that the new WordPress editor continues not just to suck, but to get worse over time, as it was markedly harder to write a blog post on the Library of Dresan than the Jeremiah Willstone and Dakota Frost websites, both on older versions of WordPress. It's harder to edit text, insert links, navigate texts, add lists, or add tags, and the tags no longer show the relative category sizes. "Modern looking" is not a substitute for usability, and never will be. End of rant.
Good news, Edgeworlders! FROST MOON is on sale through the 15th!
FROST MOON is my first novel, the tale of Dakota Frost, a woman who can bring her tattoos to life, and her very first encounter with the sharp edges of the Edgeworld she's been dancing around all her adult life. She meets vampires and werewolves, weretigers and faerie, and soon is on the ride of her life when the police warn her about a serial killer attacking the magically tattooed near the full moon ... right when a werewolf asks her to tattoo a design on him. Is he the killer ... or the next victim?
Go check it out on Amazon, Kobo, Nook or wherever fine ebooks are sold!
-the Centaur
Hail fellow adventurers! My first steampunk novel, Jeremiah Willstone and the Clockwork Time Machine, is on sale through the end of the month! The Ebook is only $0.99, so now's a great time to instantly gift yourself with a trip to Victoriana! You can find it at Amazon, Nook, Kobo, Apple, Google Books, or wherever fine books are sold. If you like action, adventure, corsets, rayguns, or a peek at an alternate history where women's liberation happened a century early, check it out!