Prelaunch Purchase Blitz

One of the sneaky things big publishers due to manipulate the sales of their books is to purchase a bunch of the books themselves. This leads to the books moving onto bestseller lists, like the NY Times. It’s a little underhanded but it works because the book then gains some Read more…

Just us Boys

Well, the day finally arrived. My wife had to go back to work. So, for the entire day, it’s just me and my son. I’m not sure how the day will go. Already, this blog post has been interrupted by a hungry baby.  Attempt two is occurring right after he goes Read more…

Godly Spies

There’s a nice article about the upcoming Civ 5 expansion on IGN highlighting the new features. Each religion gets to pick a single Founder Belief, two Follower Beliefs and an Enhancer Belief (the Enhancer and second Follower Belief are established with a second Great Prophet later in the game). The Read more…

Aristeia Blog Tour

To help get the word out about the launch of Aristeia: A Little Rebllion, I am organizing a blog tour. If you have a blog and would be willing to help out, check out the options below. If you do, you’ll be receive five entries into the Aristeia Launch Contest. Read more…

Happy Mother’s Day

I just wanted to say Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s out there. Especially my own mother; thank you for raising me and loving me. And to my wife, mother of my son. Thank you for giving me a child and being the wonderful mother that you are.  I Read more…

SciFi Fantasy Saturday- May 12

In honor of the announced release date, June 1, 2012, for Aristeia: A Little Rebellion, here’s another sneak peek snippet from the upcoming sequel to Aristeia: Revolutionary Right (which is still on sale for $2.99). “You know, if you wanted, we could just disappear and take off for parts unknown,” Read more…

Presidential Support

Yesterday, President Obama made clear his support for gay marriage.  After seeing VP Biden, and Secretary Duncan made similar comments over the weekend, I had suspecting something like was going to happen. I just didn’t think it would happen so soon. Not to put a wet towel onto this announcement, Read more…

Avengers Assemble!

Got to see the Avengers this past weekend. It is one of the first movies I was anticipating seeing this year (Dark Knight Rises, Bond being the others). Now, I’m not a comic book reader, so don’t know much of the backstory for most comic book movies. But this one Read more…

Gone Quiet

I’ve been quiet here the last few days.  My parents were in town to see the baby, and my wife and I took advantage of that to get away for a night. We went down to Galveston and managed to get a full nights sleep, the first time in almost Read more…