blueshift - Episode #5!

Alright folks! Another blueshift episode is up. You know what? I might have episode #6 up sometime next week. The newest episode, or chapter is called "Sensing Things". Each episode has its own chapter title. If you would like to see this series be turned into a podcast or audiocast/book email me at epistlepublishing@gmail.com and let me know.

In the future I am thinking about turning this into a series of printed comics with art work and also maybe an audio book. But that's into the future. For now, I'm taking it one episode at a time. It's turning out to be interesting. I never thought that free-writing would work for me after my terrible bouts with Writer's Block when I was young. We'll see where it goes. It seems to be headed in a good direction. I like it.

Check it out here! Oh and by the way, my new short story will be coming out by next weekend. So look for The Prototype then! :)

Free Extra Content: from The Red World, a new short story and a new blueshifters episode all coming soon!

Well summer is nearing its end (boo!) and I've had quite a bit of promotion to do. That's winding down. The MG Blog Tour was great and a lot of fun, thanks Crystal! I really loved the Other Realms promotion tour as well and I want to give a shout out to Willo for organizing that over on Kboards. I hope to do something like that again some time. Really cool. Check it out because there is so much great content over there! Those of us writing scifi and fantasy who are indie authors have ultimate control over our stories adn we can tell them how we want to.

That's what Tolkien did. He wrote the kinds of stories he liked to read. We all have that power now and I like it. That's a very good thing.

Speaking on that, sometimes when you do promotions and other projects you create extra content, content that can't be found elsewhere. This is what I did for the Other Realms promotion and the MG Blog Tour and I think this is cool content that people reading the blog would like so I am going to post it (the extra Red World content) here and also send it out to the mailing list. Some of these are merely excerpts from the latest Red World novel but some of it is new. The new red world content can be downloaded from the link at the end of this post! I call it the Chialis Travelogue.

Other new content - it's time to get back into the swing of things and I've done so and I'm excited! I am currently editing a new short story called The Prototype. That shoud be out by the end of this month and it will be free for a short time. If you are subscribed to the mailing list it will most certainly be free for a long time. If not, it will be made free for a short time. It may become a space opera sci-fi series in the future. Who knows?

Also, the big one! I am gearing up to begin work on the last book of the Red World trilogy, Rise of the Red King. I will be starting the outline of this novel this weekend so I will be quite busy this month. Also, I have another episode over at blueshift fiction that I will post this month. Look for that at the end of September. There is also the new poetry book that I was talking about. Still working on it, haven't forgotten it. That may come out in October. 

Anyway, thought I would give you a few things to start off the fall year (where I am the new year has "started" because school is newly in session) because after September I will not be posting an awful lot until I can get a break from writing. I will be busy so this is to let you know there will be some free content up here and at my other blogging spaces.  

Content is always good. Especially free stuff.  :)

Download and enjoy! ---> Chialis Travelogue

Other Realms: Diverse Worlds in Speculative Fiction

I am participating in some exciting things this month! One of them is the Other Realms project. Other Realms is a cool project, a book portal, that will showcase an array of speculative fiction stories; it is also a broad and inclusive way of looking at speculative fiction. The project will be open to readers starting August 20th and will be open until September 5th.

Often, spec-fic does not have much in the way of diverse characters either in race or culture, in how characters and cultures are displayed or written about. Other Realms is for those of us who write speculative fiction stories with unusual heroes or unusual and/or minority characters. My own first fantasy series had a bi-racial girl as the heroine and in my current fantasy trilogy the characters are patterned mostly after those of Middle Eastern, African and Some Southern European peoples and cultures.

Enter the realm by clicking the link and get immersed in a very different and expansive world - a way of looking at fantasy and science fiction through different lenses and every bit as fun! We are also hosting the works associated with Other Realms either free or at discounted prices. Free and discounted content (books), folks! Go and search and explore and I'm sure you'll find something you'll like! So click the link and get started on your journey and find some really cool and intriguing work. I have offered excerpts of my own Red World trilogy as part of the Other Realms project for exploration and there is new content there from the Red World trilogy not posted anywhere else or even in the books. So check it out! Other Realms!