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EDEN by Phil Rossi – Amazon Chart Rush, Thursday December 8

December 5, 2011

The tree is beautiful and they call her Eden. Her branches reach for the stars. But this tree does not sprout from the dirt. Eden fills the sky, high in orbit above the blue expanse of Uranus. Eden changes humanity’s very concept of extraterrestrial life. Dr. Malcolm Green is sent to Eden to audit a [...]

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DMP December 2011 Open Submissions – Guidelines

November 10, 2011

Thanks for your patience! The December 2011 Open Submissions guidelines are now up at dragonmoonpress.com, where they will remain through the month of December. The rules are slightly different this time around. Most notably, DMP is ONLY seeking fantasy (traditional fantasy, sword and sorcery, epic fantasy) and urban fantasy. DMP is solid on science fiction [...]

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Praise for TRIPTYCH by J.M. Frey

November 7, 2011

I don’t have any children, so I’ve never been the parent of an honors child. But, I’ve been an acquiring editor for a while now, and I think the pride and joy I feel when one of my book-children does well are probably the same buzz that a parent gets when a child wins some [...]

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Goodreads Giveaway Winners!

October 31, 2011

First, a big thank you to all 669 readers who participated in our first WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME giveaway on Goodreads! Congrats to our winners, Gabriel and BL834 — your copies are in the mail! Thanks again, everyone who participated! As a reminder, the Kindle edition is only $3.99. And keep an eye out [...]

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Lightbringer

October 27, 2011

LIGHTBRINGER by K.D. McEntire Pyr kicks off their new Young Adult line with LIGHTBRINGER by debut author K.D. McEntire, releasing on November 15. This was a FUN book to work on, and I’m excited to see the early reviews starting to come in! “Lightbringer is a superb unforgettable young adult romantic urban fantasy filled with [...]

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Listen to Me and Ed on SF Signal!

October 7, 2011

Ed Greenwood and I sat down for a great chat with Patrick Hester (@atfmb) about all sorts of things, including anthology editing, Forgotten Realms, WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME, and (I neither confirm nor deny) bubblegum. It was a great time, and you can listen to episode 083 here.

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Secret Projects

August 25, 2011

SECRET PROJECT #1 A long while back, I tweeted this photo of a secret non-writing project in progress: Guesses started to pour in; the most common was “seahorse.” In actuality, it was one of these: It was a secret because I was making it as a gift for Ed Greenwood, to celebrate the release of [...]

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GenCon Wrap-Up

August 9, 2011

I got back from GenCon last night. Instead of relaxing and decompressing, I ended up launching right into a game of Power Grid, which made for a nice transition home. I spent most of the con at my booth, selling When the Hero Comes Home. If you purchased it this weekend, thank you! If you’ve [...]

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Jennisodes Podcast Interview

July 25, 2011

Jenn of the Jennisodes RPG Podcast interviewed me and Ed Greenwood about WHEN THE HERO COMES HOME. Ed says wonderfully insightful things, and I ramble a lot and stumble over my words. Hopefully I say a few insightful things too. :) Have a listen! Thanks for having us, Jenn!

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The Punk in Steampunk

July 7, 2011

Today I’m working on copyedits for Book 2 of Andrew P. Mayer’s Society of Steam series, Hearts of Smoke and Steam, for Pyr. Rather than post my own thoughts, I’ll direct you to a great interview that Andrew has just done with SF Signal. He says interesting things about writing the book, and about what [...]

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