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The Starship Grifters Universe is expanding!

August 25, 2016 Rob 0

The Starship Grifters Universe Kickstarter is fully funded! We’ve raised over $5,000 for more books in the Starship Grifters universe. That means a novel-length sequel, a novella, and a revised version of “The Chicolini Incident.” We’ve still got 14 days to go, so I’ve decided to add a few stretch goal awards to encourage people to pledge (or increase their pledge!). If we reach $6,000 in the next 2 weeks, I will send posters with the cover art for The Yanthus […]

WorldCon goes full CHORF, bans panelist for wrongthink

August 23, 2016 Rob 17

The CHORFs running WorldCon have really outdone themselves this time. I’m not going to get into the whole Sad Puppies/Rabid Puppies/Hugo Awards thing, but suffice it to say that there’s been a long-running controversy in the “scifi community” (I use quotes because it’s really more a clique composed of elitists in the industry and their hangers-on) about the deleterious effect of political correctness on the Hugo Awards and on the quality of science fiction in general. One man who has strong […]

Help me make Space even bigger!

August 16, 2016 Rob 0

Most of you probably know this already, but I figured I should do a blog post to make it official: I’m hoping to vastly expand the universe of my 2014 novel Starship Grifters. In particular, I’m going to: Revise and re-release “The Chicolini Incident” (prequel short story) Publish a prequel novella called The Yanthus Prime Job, starring Pepper Melange Publish a full-length sequel to Starship Grifters called Aye, Robot Starship Grifters was a blast to write so I’m really looking […]

Want some cheap Kindle scifi books?

July 22, 2016 Rob 1

I love to read. I also love to get books for super-cheap. As a result, I’m always on the lookout for deals on Kindle books. Sometimes I share these deals on Twitter and Facebook, and since I’m an Amazon affiliate, I make a few bucks here and there when somebody buys something using my links. Because of the capricious, ephemeral nature of these social networks, however, not many people actually see these posts. So, since I’m doing the work of […]

Self Publish Your Novel Part 8: Cover Design

July 15, 2016 Rob 0

This post is part of a series of posts about self-publishing. I’m revising my book Self Publish Your Novel and posting the chapters as I finish them. If you’d like to be alerted when the new version of Self Publish Your Novel is available, please click here. You can probably do most of the work of self-publishing your book yourself. One task for which you will probably want to seek outside help, however, is cover design. Being an amateur […]

A sale… and a sequel?

July 5, 2016 Rob 3

Recently I wrote about some of the struggles I’ve been through over the past few years, and how those struggles culminated in the writing of my latest novel, The Big Sheep. Pivotal to that course of events was another book I wrote called Starship Grifters. Starship Grifters still holds a special place in my heart. I think it’s my funniest book, and was definitely the most fun to write. Readers seem to like it too; currently it has 134 reviews […]

Self Publish Your Novel Part 7: Paperbacks

July 2, 2016 Rob 0

This post is part of a series of posts about self-publishing. I’m revising my book Self Publish Your Novel and posting the chapters as I finish them. If you’d like to be alerted when the new version of Self Publish Your Novel is available, please click here. Why Hard Copy? Most successful self-published authors sell far more ebooks than paperbacks. At present, over 90% of the sales of my self-published books are ebooks. Given the fact that it’s […]

Outside the U.S.? Want a copy of The Big Sheep?

July 1, 2016 Rob 0

Recently I’ve had several people in faraway lands ask how they can get their hands on a copy of The Big Sheep. Currently foreign rights are under negotiation, so it’s difficult to get the book outside North America. If you’re not in the U.S. and you’d like to get a copy of The Big Sheep, please fill out this form to let my publisher know! The more people who express an interest, the better the odds of getting an edition […]

So I have a new book out today.

June 28, 2016 Rob 21

I had planned to do a big promotional post about my new novel, The Big Sheep, which is out today, but frankly I’m a little sick of all this marketing crap. So instead, I’m going to talk a little about myself and what this book means to me. About two and a half years ago, my life fell apart. I lost my job, had a book deal fall through, got separated from my wife, was forced to sell the house that I […]

Get Distopia for only $.99!

June 22, 2016 Rob 0

For a very limited time, my lighthearted epic fantasy Distopia is only $.99 on Kindle! A fearsome dragon roams the Land of Dis, and only one man can stop it: an awkward young missionary named Wyngalf. Accompanied by a beautiful stowaway named Evena and an oddball goblin who has been shunned by his clan, Wyngalf wants nothing more than to prove himself to his superiors in the Church of the Noninity. But Wyngalf is continually thwarted in his attempts to […]