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.
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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!
On Sunday we shot the live model for my new cover for The Darkening Dream. The artist, the amazing Cliff Nielsen, works out of a 1903 former power station! This was totally awesome given the 1913 setting of The Darkening Dream. The…
With my novel The Darkening Dream steaming along toward release, it’s high time that I offer a taste of the book itself. So to that effect, I’ve put up the first two chapters as a sample.
I got a concept sketch back of the new cover I commissioned for The Darkening Dream. Compare to the old homebrew version and see what you think.
I’m aggressively soliciting online book bloggers for reviews of The Darkening Dream. I’d be happy to trade you a free advance copy (electronic or paper) for a review to any legitimate book bloggers.
After nine days of solid crunch I’ve finished the fourth (and hopefully final) draft of my second novel, Untimed (read more about it here). This involved reading the book three whole times in one week. Ug! But the book is…
The Darkening Dream just got it’s first pro review, from Kirkus Reviews. Highlights include: “A vampire novel with actual bite” and “wonderfully twisted sense of humor.”
I deployed a new video game topic page yesterday. This was a good chunk of work. I use a modified iThemes Builder child theme and so continued to use their custom layout and variable widget systems to build out a special page…