http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439134626/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=survivalcom-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399369&creativeASIN=1439134626 

Hey everybody. I should have posted this last night, but my brain was still recovering from DragonCon.  Atlanta is very moist.  So returning to zero humidity at 6,000 feet above sea level makes you a little bit loopy. However the Yard Moose seemed very happy to have me back.

My friend and fellow Baen author, Mike Williamson, has just released his latest novel. Most of you have heard of Freehold, and this is set in the same universe. Thing big sci-fi universe, big ideas, lots of politics, and then take it down to the nitty gritty dirty, punch the other space ninja in the face level. Full disclosure, I’ve not read this one yet, but I enjoy Mike’s work, and he has improved with everything he’s written.

Here is the synopsis:

Kenneth Chinran commanded the elite unit assigned to take out an entire planet in a terrible war.  Millions died; billions more perished in the aftermath.  One doesn’t send a sociopath on such a mission.  A sociopath might not stop.  Chinran did stop – but in the process nearly lost his sanity and his soul. 

But one of Chinran’s men was a sociopath going in.  Now he’s a trained sociopath with the knowledge and firepower to take out entire tactical teams, evaporate through security cordons and change identity at will. Who do you send after a killer like that?  There’s only one answer:  the man who trained him.  The man who made him.

Like I’ve explained before on book bombs, the key to getting on bestseller lists is all about velocity. The biggest number of sales in the shortest amount of time. So if this is something that you would be interested in picking  up anyway, this is totally the week to buy it.  If you think putting me on the NYT ticks the literati-elite off, imagine putting the dude that wrote Freehold (the Libertarian Space Manifesto) on there!

I’m back from DragonCon. Report to come later. It was AWESOME.

I’ve got 297 emails to read in my inbox. I will get back to you.

I’m out of patches. I thought I had more than I did, but should have another box arrive soon. So if you ordered in the 2nd half of August, they will be late.

No. There are no more DragonCon MHI hats. We handed out all 500 of them. I kept one for myself.

http://www.cafepress.com/monster_hunters 

Check it out. We have added a bunch of new stuff, including MCB gear (W.W.A.F.D?), Enchanted Forest Trailer Park, Bubba Shackleford’s Professional Monster Killers, and more.

Also, if you’ve ordered patches from me recently, I went to fill all those orders and discovered that I had a lot fewer patches than I thought I did. So there will be a delay for another week or two while I wait for the new ones to arrive.

We will be giving out these hats:

At every event and panel I’m on, I will have hats with me. All you have to do is come up and ask to get one. Or from 2-3:30 on Friday go to the DeepSouthCon 50 Table in the Sheraton Hotel among the fan tables in the exhibit area. (look for the people wearing the hat above).

And then be a part of the first ever, Monster Hunter Nation Flash Mob! Details will be distributed with each hat. (but let us just say that you should be around the Marriott lobby at 1:30 on Saturday)

And here is the nifty flyer about me.

Correia half page DragonCon[1]

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

Knowing that Mike would be in Afghanistan during the release of Dead Six made having copies autographed by both of us really hard. But we thought ahead. Using the awesome Kurt Miller D6 logo artwork as the background, we both signed a few hundred Dead Six bookplates. So if you want a copy of D6 autographed by both of us, this is really about the only way that is going to happen before Mike comes home. (unless you are planning on taking a trip to beautiful southern Afghanistan sometime soon).  🙂

Also, I did 300 tip in sheets for hard covers of Spellbound through Uncle Hugos. A tip in sheet is when I actually signed a page, before it was bound into the book! So when you open to the title page, my signature was there before the printing. (which I still think is totally awesome). So, even though Spellbound won’t ship until October, if you want to preorder one of the limited signed tip-in hard covers, this is it.

And tell your friends! I really want to get a non-MH book onto a bestseller list. Preorders are a great way to accomplish that.