A fan just shared this in the comments.

http://supervikes.blogspot.com/

As a mini painter, I approve. That is pretty nifty stuff.

And he’s right. Mini sculpting is damned hard.

Here is Part 2 of that podcast I did for Baen about Son of the Black Sword http://www.baen.com/podcast/podcast.asp

Son of the Black Sword is doing pretty darned good. I was curious how my first foray into epic fantasy would do compared to my regular urban fantasy, but it has been really solid, steady sales for months now. Audio especially has been great. It appears that this is my best reviewed book yet. Plus many of my regular fans were surprised that I could get all literary nuanced and shit.

But anyways, Son of the Black Sword made the LA Times holiday picks:

http://www.latimes.com/style/holiday/la-jc-holiday-books-guide-fiction-20151104-html-htmlstory.html

And it made BuzzFeed’s best of 2015 list:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/best-fantasy-books-of-2015?utm_term=.inLkOvjPk#.fbJDAnQ1D

It is kind of funny. I’ve gone my whole career without hardly ever being mentioned in any of the mainstream review places. That’s been true for most Baen authors. But not this year. Now we’re popping up all over the place. Go figure.  🙂

And Son of the Black Sword was picked as one of the best audiobooks of the year:

http://www.audible.com/mt/Best-of-2015-Fantasy((Holy cats that’s a long link! Written link has been shortened to help mobile users. Just click anywhere in here. Even with these words it’s shorter than that link!- Jack))

So in the fantasy category, my book with a Jim Butcher cover blurb, came in only behind Jim Butcher. Because Jim Butcher wins at life. When notified of this (mostly by me typing CURSE YOU BUTCHER!!! on facebook) Jim told me I need to add a dog, because people love dogs.  Note to self. Add dog to next book. This time, don’t have werewolf eat it.

Behold the awesome.

Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge

This is for the pre-order. The book will be out next summer. No. It doesn’t do you any good to ask for the eARC yet. 🙂

What are the Hugo Awards?

Nailed it.

So last night I got a message from my sister. She’d been watching Jeopardy and I guess this one kind of took her by surprise. Thanks to her heads up fans got screen shots and video when it aired in the next time zone. (it was the first time in years that I’ve regretted cancelling cable)

Originally, because my sister didn’t have a chance to catch the exact wording, fans were asking on Facebook if the question was biased. My response was that I doubted it, because unlike most of the news media, Jeopardy still has fact checkers.

Some Puppy supporters didn’t like how it was phrased, with “scandal” having negative implications. Personally, I like it. Especially the part where they used “Rocked”. Damn right. Rocked you like a hurricane. The scandal was the part where the CHORFs ran a lying media smear campaign, and handed out wooden butt holes, while block voting No Award to keep out barbarian Wrongfans having Wrongfun.

But the awards totally aren’t biased. They’re prestigious. Move along. There’s nothing to see here.

Someone else on FB wondered if former Jeopardy champ, Social Justice Warrior, and all around douchebag Arthur Chu would have something stupid to say about this? Probably… But everything Chu says is stupid, so that won’t be surprising. Luckily this happened when he wasn’t on, because then Chu would’ve had to call in a fake bomb threat against Alex Trebek or something.

My original goal was to expose the bias, insular, cliquish realities of the supposedly prestigious awards to the rest of the world. We’re on Jeopardy… Yeah… Going to say that worked. 😀

But did the contestants get it right?

EDIT: Oh look. Our inevitable link back from File 770, as Glyer-50-Hugos hopes desperately for relevance and traffic. Hey, everybody. Wave at the doofuses. 

How many doofi… Let me check the stats… Top 10? Keep scrolling. Top 20 referrers? Keep scrolling. Holy shit. How lame is your traffic, Glyer? No wonder you keep linking to everything I write! 😀