I’m going to have some print copies of a couple of my books available soon(ish!) so I’m trying to think out a good giveaway.

I was thinking about giving out 1 print copy and 4 ebooks, or something like that. I’ll probably run the giveaway through Goodreads, that or I’ll run two giveaways.

Anyways, I’ll have to think about the step-by-step process, since this will by my first time 🙂 Yep, I’m a giveaway virgin. Some lucky reader out there will get to pop my literary cherry. Very fancy.

Panoply at Amazon

I think it would be kind of cool to make some of my stories free podfics, but unfortunately I have the voice of a small child and I just don’t have the money to spend on paying someone to record them for me.

My brain runs with so many ideas, but there’s not a whole lot I can do about it. It’s just one of those “If I had a million dollars…” type situations. Though if I had a million dollars, while I would still write, I would happily live off of my money.

I would probably also have a pony. That or I would commission my own chickenosaurus (featured in a back issue of Wired magazine.)

Witch King at Amazon

The transient nature of time itself is a wonderful poetry all its own. Lyrical melody that crawls into your brain through your ears and completely rearranges the ambient full-point of your brain. Leaves you trailing, yowling and wailing as you’re plunged deep into the fondant depths of depravity.

You go from a state of pure energy and goodness, a blank slate filled by the things around you. As time passes by you absorb the powerful rays and it drowns you in sound and light and FURY you cannot express in any kind of words. You die a little, only to be brought back–reborn!–from the vapor trail you left behind, the matter flexing and bending away, losing most of its solidity.

And thus you become adult, having shed most of the lightness and brightness of your younger years. In return you are imbued with the spongelike ability of absorbing ambient energy left behind by other stars. A sun alone, you twirl and burn, streamers of pyrotonic silk flaring out from your very being. A heartbeat pulsing against the backdrop of velvet night, twinkling and shining, birthing and dying.

To shed seedlings around yourself, each a little life all its own. Possibility wrapped up in a shell of fragility, cracking out of it to become just like you. Half your light, and half another, they echo what has come before.

You shed matter and energy, your light dimming before going out. A star dying in the heart of a man, you are nothing and no one, you fade into bliss.

And the universe is left a much lesser place.

Uramichi Oniisan 01 at Amazon

I’m such a gigantic nerd that I was flipping through the print copy of my own book and was like, “Hey, this is pretty good.”

I think that once I write something, my mind completely shifts away to other things and I kind of blank out on what I wrote. So even though I have a general idea of the story, I forget the details.

Here’s Chapter Nine from “Heroes & Villains”:

CHAPTER NINE