The latest installment in the How to Succeed in Evil saga is now live on Amazon. You can get it right here: http://www.amazon.com/Consultation-Vampire-Succeed-Evil-ebook/dp/B006XY68Y4 It’s a novella-length prequel to the first book. Agnes is alive and Topper, well, he’s still Topper. The set up is this: Edwin is approached by a vampire for advice on how…
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NaNOPE — 49,070 in 30 days.
So I missed 50k in November, but it was worthwhile nonetheless. It’s really hard to write that many words while editing. I ran into some pretty serious problems along the way, but came up with some pretty good solutions. That’s great for the work, but not so great for the word count. I call it…
What I’m Writing — NaNonNoWriMo Progress
So I’m NOT writing a novel this month. But, in the spirit of NaNo I’m cranking out 50,000+ words anyway. On what you may ask? Rewrites on the sequel to How to Succeed in Evil, Hostile Takeover will take up some of that. So will a HtSiE novella called “Consultation with a Vampire.” I’m happy…
Okay, I’m in. NaNONNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo is such a good thing, I can’t resist. I wrote 1,800 yesterday, so I’m off to the races already. But there’s a twist. I’m not going to write a novel. Which makes it NaNONNoWriMo for me. I’m going to put up 50,000+ words in November. And I’m going to count editing the HtSiE novel…
E-book Pricing and the Elasticity of Demand
(a guest post of mine that originally appeared on the Creative Penn) As a writer raised by Economists, I have some perspective that other’s don’t have, and maybe don’t want. (There’s a reason it’s called the dismal science after all.) But when approaching the question of how to price an e-book, sound economic theory (not…
A Giant Laser in Space — No, Really.
It’s one of those classic tropes of SuperVilliany — the GIANT LASER IN SPACE. An idea so ridiculous that it could only exist within the frail pages of a comic book or a pulp novel. Or so I thought. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2032057/Laser-assisted-water-condensation-used-create-rainfall.html If you’ve read How to Succeed in Evil, you’ll know I spend a bit of…
A Learning Experience?
So, obviously, I’m very happy about the recent success of How to Succeed in Evil. It’s fun, it’s exciting, it’s… it’s… a learning experience? Very much so. I’ve practiced a couple arts in my time, and there is a commonality between all of them. Progress equates to learning. When I realized this I became very…
UPDATE — How to Succeed in Evil e-book
How is my little book doing? The short answer is AWESOME. Better than I ever expected. It’s been up for two months now. There was, of course, the initial bump upon release, then sales died down. Or so I thought. It’s steadily been picking up steam and is currently averaging 18 books a day. By…
An excerpt from HtSiE: Hostile Takeover.
Just a little peek at a bit I’m really liking from the big soupy pile of words that is any (and especially my) first draft. Edwin making a video. As rule, Edwin avoided the spotlight, but as CEO and primary owner of Omdemnity Insurance, there were certain figurehead roles that he needed to fill. You…
Announcing HtSiE:Hostile Takeover
Okay, it’s officially begun. Or since I’ve just crossed the 50,000 word mark on the sequel to How to Succeed in Evil, maybe it’s more appropriate to say, “It has already done been begotten.” (Ah, scratch that, that can’t ever be appropriate to say. Verb tense, anyone?) Anyway, the sequel is coming and it’s title…
How to Succeed in Evil on Kindle
Yup, it finally happened. I’m very excited that the whole book can be yours for mere pittance. 99 cents. Why, for less than the price of a cup of coffee you can have, all the antics of Topper. All the sinister brilliance of Edwin. All the prim and proper efficiency of Agnes (or, if you’ve…
The Babies Come From Storks Explanation.
It’s another excerpt from the upcoming How to Succeed in Evil e-book. I spend enough time editing this thing and I might convince myself I don’t completely suck. There are those who think that the business of the law is conducted in the open air of the courtroom. That every discussion and decision is held…
Should I Write a Book About these Gods?
From How To Succeed in Evil: He is praying, to whatever committee of dark gods bureaucrats pray to in their secret, inefficient hearts, that Gus will pull through.
Cracking Myself Up, Part II
You certainly don’t have to turn a sentence like this to tell a good story. In fact, I think my urges to do things like this have made it harder for me to learn how to plot. The crafting of lines get in the way of the action. But still, I just giggled again. He…
Cracking Myself Up
Finally knuckling down and preparing How to Succeed in Evil for it’s Kindle edition. Which is very interesting because I don’t remember the writing much at all. Sure, I remember the story and the characters and what happened, but the sentence to sentence minutiae of how I got from point A to point B… no…
An Open Letter to Terry Pratchett (11 reasons to allow Americans into your contest)
So Sir Terry Pratchett is having a contest for unpublished novels, but you can’t enter if you live in the U.S. This sucks. Especially for me. Because How to Succeed in Evil is an unpublished satire/parody that uses the superhero genre in a similar way that Sir Terry uses the genre of fantasy. He doesn’t…
How to Succeed in Evil in a nutshell.
Okay, boys, this is the week we knock over the barn. Uh boss? Why a barn again? Because that’s where the blue bag is, you idiot. Remember: everyone wear suits, so we’ll stand out in a rural setting. Then we’ll meet up right under the big metal grain chute. And there it is, “Why a…
I AM CORRUPTING YOUTH!
Some fine folks that I don’t know posted this video to YouTube of their adorable child. In the comments, they mentioned that the audio in the background was Patrick E. McLean’s “How to Succeed in Evil.” I’m not sure how to feel about my voice screaming obscenities and hilarities at a child, so I will default to AWESOME!…