A really good review of the upcoming Alliance of Shadows, by me and Mike Kupari

https://elitistbookreviews.com/2016/08/02/alliance-of-shadows/

The eARC is out now from Baen. The book will release in October.

It is BOOK BOMB time!

For those of you new to Book Bombs, the goal is to get as many people as possible to buy an author’s book on the same day. The more books sell, the higher it gets in the rankings, the more new people see it. If it is something that you would be interested in reading anyway, getting it the same time as a bunch of other folks pushes it up in the ratings, which means more publicity, exposure, and new fans. Success breeds success, and a good Book Bomb can get an author hundreds of new fans. We steer people toward Amazon for this because it is big, has lots of eyes on it, and has an constantly updating sales rank, but if you prefer to purchase somewhere else go for it, because the most important thing is that the author GETS PAID.

So please spread the word and tell your friends.

This month’s Book Bomb is for Bob Defendi’s Death By Cliche

I’ve known Bob for many years. He’s an all around good dude, and fixture in the Utah writer nerd community.

My first exposure to this book was as a dramatic reading. Bob has a voice box that makes my Range Officer Voice sound like a church mouse, so once you read this book just imagine the All State guy thundering DOOM! DOOM! and you’ll get an idea what it was like.

Death By Cliche is an epic saga of every game night gone wrong.

The tavern smelled like a urine-soaked gym sock after it had passed through the digestive tract of a water buffalo. Damico hadn’t noticed it at first; it sort of snuck up on you like a squad of Navy SEALS, or worse, normal seals, the kind carrying clubs and out to prove humans aren’t the only creatures on the planet that like to wear a coat once in a while.

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Hraldolf sat in a hall of immense power. Beneath him cowered a throne made of blackened bones. Behind rose a xylophone of glimmering ribs arching off a backbone that would make the most honest chiropractor start shopping for a boat. It culminated in a tail that snaked into the air. The seat was to vertebrates what the Bikini Atoll test was to firecrackers.

He rose with far more dignity than a man with his name had any right to possess. He moved with the grace of a ballerina. His feet caressed the stairs down from his throne as they crossed one in front of the other, in dainty slippers. Finally they stopped, and Henchman the Junior stared up at stockinged legs that would have made Louis the XVI bitch-slap a nun.

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So please spread the word! Tell your friends! BOOOOOK BOMB!

Here are the opening stats:

Because the ultra reliable Guardian newspaper has repeatedly predicted that Larry Correia has “irreparably damaged” his career as a hack writer of pulp trash, this is a screen shot from last night’s Amazon top 100 ranking of all authors in books sales across all genres. Larry Correia can’t even beat a guy who has been dead for 400 years! What’s your excuse, Correia? It isn’t like Shakespeare has any new releases!

And to further demonstrate the complete and utter ruination of Larry Correia’s career, he can’t even get to the top of his genre. Sure, he’s lumped in the same ultra competitive, mega selling genre as Sexy Mummies/Scottish Time Travel romance, but the new MHI spin off novel released the same day as a new Harry Potter book. You can guess how that shook out.

Curse you, Rowling! CURSE YOU! (shakes fist at sky)*

*(for the record, because I made a joke on Facebook yesterday about JK Rowling booting me from the top again–Robert Galbraith was revealed as her pen name the same week as Warbound came out, so I ended up at #2 on Audible that week–some humorless mopes assumed I don’t like JK Rowling. On the contrary. I think she is awesome, makes her fans happy, GETS PAID, and got millions of kids to read. Also, the sorting hat put me in Slytherin and my patronus is a manatee).

Just a reminder post that tomorrow is the next Monster Hunter Nation BOOK BOMB.

This time we will be Book Bombing Bob Defendi’s Death By Cliche, which is really funny.

The goal of a Book Bomb is to get as many people to buy a book in one day, which spikes it in the Amazon ratings, which gets it on bestseller lists for its genre, which gets it in front of new potential readers. So the author gets more exposure, and most importantly GETS PAID! 🙂

Grunge is on sale now!

The Monster Hunter Memoirs series is a spin off of the regular MHI novels, set in the 1980s.