Amazon has put up the hardcover. More or less. They have a page, and you can order, but they list it as “Temporarily out of stock.” Still, I’m sure if you do order they’ll ship in a couple of days…
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In keeping with my goal of keeping you all informed about every little detail of the creation process — which you readers probably don’t care about but my writer followers might — I had to create a Flash ad for The Darkening…
The hardcover proof came in yesterday and it looks awesome! Now I just have to get it up on Amazon. As it’s printed via LightningSource this might take a few days. And I’m also running a giveaway of twenty free books…
I want to give you all warning that the price of my novel, The Darkening Dream, is going to rise shortly to $4.99. The hardcover is almost ready and I’m about done with the introductory period. So grab it now!
The The Darkening Dream’s hardcover mechanical came in and I submitted a proof. This is the third version of the book, the e-book and the trade paperback already being for sale.
In constructing The Darkening Dream I wanted a meta-story that at the high level, played off conventional tropes. Broadly, a cabal of ancient supernatural beings has sent one of their number to recover an artifact needed to destroy the world. But as preposterous as this scenario is, I also wanted to ground it in real history and legend. Read about how…
I’ve official “sold” all 100 tickets in ROUND ONE of the Naughty Dark Contest and randomly selected a winner! Plus, there’s been another special prize winner in the meantime.
I got the latest proofs back from CreateSpace for my novel, The Darkening Dream, and they are looking great. While there are perhaps a few little tweaks possible to make them perfect, the presses are ready to roll, so I turned it on.
The “beta” of The Darkening Dream‘s Trade Paperback cover has come in and I submitted another proof. With any luck I might get it on sale next week, the week after for sure. The interior layout has been complete for…
The final version of The Darkening Dream cover is finally ready!
The first round of the crazy Naughty Dark Contest already has not one, but two special prize winners! Both winners also wanted signed copies of the original Crash Bandicoot. Thank you!!
The Darkening Dream is now for sale at Barnes and Noble and the Google bookstore.
This is the kickoff post for my new experimental — and hopefully permanent — giveaway program. Via this contest you, dear reader, will have the opportunity to win signed copies of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter games as well as my…
Even after the product launch has begun, I’m still tinkering. My current cover now has an awesome image, but the overall effect isn’t quite bookish enough. So in the interest of total transparency I’ll continue to let you in on every intermediate step of the creative process.
Gaming site Kotaku has run a quick little feature on The Darkening Dream today. What do you do after founding and retiring from one of video games’ most successful development houses? If you’re Naughty Dog co-founder Andy Gavin, you write…
Pastor John Parris is the junior of my two point of view villains in The Darkening Dream. Given the kind of occult woodblock look I’ve been developing I tend to focus on the character’s magical nature to develop their icon. With Parris…
1. It’s a great book.
2. It’s only $2.99 — but the price might go up soon.
3. You loved Crash Bandicoot.
4. The girl on the cover is really cute…
As a surprise move, I’m stealth launching The Darkening Dream — right now! — although only the Kindle edition. If your stocking has been stuffed with a brand new Kindle, or you already have one, or you read on the…
In the process of developing the interior look of my book, The Darkening Dream, I wanted to create glyphs to represent each point of view character. In general, despite my big library of occult titles, I find a lot of references on…
The new cover for The Darkening Dream is almost done! It still needs a few tweaks and real titles, but it’s real close. As I’ve discussed before, I commissioned a new cover a couple weeks ago from artist Cliff Nielsen, worked through a whole batch of ideas and sketches, shot the model in the studio, and voila!