Synaptic Misfires

Night Shade Books has placed SOUTHERN GODS on its own product page and is offering it for pre-order. The good news is that if you act now, you can buy the book for 50% of the normal cover price. And any of their other books.

Now that's a great deal.

So go here and pre-order your copy of SOUTHERN GODS and save some money.

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I've joined a blog of Night Shade authors. All of us will talk about our books, the paths to publication, our thoughts on writing, our belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

You should go to The Night Bazaar, EVERY DAY, to learn about our exciting and interesting stuff. If you don't go every day, then make sure you visit on Thursday, when it's my turn and they relinquish the soapbox to me. Don't worry, I will notify you on the Twitter (or Twatter as Steve Weddle calls it) and the Book of FACE!

Tomorrow, I tell the bastardized version of how SOUTHERN GODS came to print. It's informational and entertaining.

INFOTAINMENT!

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So, I'm getting really antsy seeing all these folks with Kindle books out there making millions of dollars. And I've got this novel, see. And it's made a long run at the publishers but with no bites. Okay, bad news but I can handle it. And it has zombies. Publishers don't want to sink anymore money into zombie novels. I can dig that. No sweat. Doesn't hurt my feelings.

But the deal is, the reading public still has a big appetite for zombie novels, as much of an appetite for those kind of books as say, zombies have for the reading public.

Kindle, baby. I need some every-day-walking-around money. A little copper in my pocket to keep the steel in my spine, you know?

Yeah, but the zombie novel is still on submission.

Okay. Gotta wait.

I just sure hope people are still throwing money at Kindle books by the time THIS DARK EARTH is available to catch all that money.

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I don't get heavy metal. Don't like it, with the exception of Clutch and a few classics. I especially don't understand its relationship with horror and horror novels. That shit is stupid. I can play you a beautiful song that's darker and more bleak than all your Slayer and Prong.

Don't believe me?

Here goes.



Two lines. "Endless Numbered Days" and "The night that finds us all". That song gives me goosebumps.

But all you heavy metal fans, spare me your rationale. You like it. Fine. Like Bobby Brown sings, that's your prerogative. My condolences that you were born without taste.

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I am depressed. Very depressed.

My father has decided to sell Whiskey Tree, our cabin, because he got in an argument with one of the land's co-owners regarding usage. Which means, I no longer have a writing hidey-hole I can flee to and drink good booze and stare at a fire.

I can't express how sad this makes me.

I must earn more money so I can replace it.

Sigh.

Damn.

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Oh, that cover is not the official Night Shade cover for SOUTHERN GODS. It is just something I came up with a couple of years ago. Do NOT worry. The Night Shade cover will be AWESOME.

This one is okay, but doesn't say scary.

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Have I mentioned that everything in publishing moves like glaciers?

I have?

It bears repeating. (But I am NOT complaining!)

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That is all. Fare well, my friends and neighbors.