Jack Wylder here. The ILoH asked me to repost the remainder of his schedule for the Son of the Black Sword North American Tour 2015. The beginning of a new Correia series is always a special time and this series definitely shows that whatever you might think of his politics the man can write! If you’ve never gotten to meet him in person and you’re in the area you should definitely swing by. If you have already met him, you probably don’t need any prompting. Oh and he didn’t mention it so I will; if you’ve read and enjoyed the book, please be sure to leave him a review on Amazon. If your town isn’t listed, keep in mind that Larry goes where the Baen PR folks send him so it’s nothing personal and he regrets not being able to visit your town this time around.

The next Monster Hunter Nation BOOK BOMB is going to be on November 3rd, for Mike Kupari’s solo debut sci-fi novel, Her Brother’s Keeper.

I’m going to try something a little different on this one. Now that Amazon has instituted a long delay (I’m guessing it is about 8 hours) before the sales rank changes, it has made it harder to get that awesome, wild west, crazy swing vibe that we used to get with BBs. And now the high point spike arrives in the middle of the night, when most people in North America are asleep.

So this time I’m actually going to stick up the BB post on the 2nd. The physical book actually officially releases on the 3rd. That’s our official date. So instead of having a 24 hour book bomb, it will be more like a 36 hour book bomb. That way hopefully we’ll see the cool number spike that day like we used to, instead of the day after.

I’m going to be on book tour during this, so I’ll update as much as I can. I’ll actually be in Seattle that day, but I should still be able to jump in occasionally to update the stats.

And please tell your friends and spread the word. I want this one to be a good one. Mike Kupari is a good man, one of my best friends, a damned good author, a vet, a retired EOD Tech, and if the purpose of Book Bombs is to give a deserving author who could really use a publicity boost, a boost, then Mike is the guy. Because life has kicked him in the nuts a few times, and this debut solo novel is an amazing opportunity to launch a great career.

Not to mention, the book is REALLY GOOD. I was one of the alpha readers. Honestly, what it most reminds me of is David Drake’s The Voyage (that is a good thing). It is an unabashed, people go into space and DO STUFF novel. It is world hopping space opera, where rocket ships land on their jets as God and Robert Heinlein intended.

So mark your calendars. The afternoon of the 2nd I’ll post the links, and then we’ll see how much of a boost we can give Mike.

So not only is the Kindle book out now, but I’ll be doing a live twitter chat with Publisher’s weekly tomorrow. It starts at 3 PM Eastern. I’ll be responding to  @PW_Connect but every tweet will contain #PWThursday.  So if you are on Twitter, jump in.

And this give away goes live on Friday.

https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/a84ff7ff10/?widget_template=55d5eb42f2187cd831053fac

My new novel is now available on Kindle. The hard cover will be in stores everywhere on October 27th.

Son of the Black Sword (Saga of the Forgotten Warrior Book 1)

I’m really excited about this one. It is my first attempt at epic fantasy, and I’m proud of how it turned out.

These are my book tour stops

Tuesday, October 27, 2015       Minneapolis, MN        Uncle Hugo

Wednesday, October 28, 2015        Albany, NY         Flights of Fantasy

Thursday, October 29, 2015     Milford, NH       Toadstool

Friday, October 30, 2015    Worcester, MA       Annie’s

Saturday, October 31, 2015     Cambridge, MA         Pandemonium

Sunday, November 01, 2015      Burlington, MA      Barnes & Noble

Tuesday, November 03, 2015   Seattle         University Bookstore

Wednesday, November 04, 2015     Portland       Powell’s

Thursday, November 05, 2015      San Diego     Mysterious Galaxy

Friday, November 06, 2015      Scottsdale     Poisoned Pen

Saturday, November 07, 2015    Salt Lake City/Layton   Barnes & Noble

I am going to be signing at Uncle Hugos in Minneapolis on the 27th. Because they do a lot of mail order, I fly in a day early so that I can sign all the books to be shipped. The cool thing is that on the order form you can specify any personalizations. So if you want a bunch of books for gifts, made out to specific people, or you want me to draw a cartoon in it or something, and you can’t make it to one of my events, this is the best way to get it.

http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-correia-larry.php

They’ve got all of my stuff in stock, but Don emailed me yesterday to tell me that he’s got his copies of Son of the Black Sword in. So if you want personalized copies of the new one, and you aren’t going to be at any of the other tour stops, this is the best way to get them. It is better to get your shipping orders early, because last year we had a bunch of people order Nemesis wait until a couple of days before the actual signing. Because of that I ran out of books at the actual signing. So if you want personalized copies shipped, order soon so he can get more in in time.

I used to sell and ship personalized copies myself, but that just got way too unwieldy to do out of my house. (many of you had not so positive experiences with my 11 year old daughter “shipping department” 🙂 )  So I’m glad Don offers this.