Grunge will be on sale at bookstores everywhere next week.

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

I’ve told the story before of how Grunge  came about before, but basically Ringo had read the MHI novels, loved them, and got inspired to write a story set in that world. It kind of blew up from there. Because Ringo writes books in epic fast binges, by the time I knew about the first one, he was finishing the second.

At this point I was already opening up MHI to be a shared universe, I was collaborating with Sarah Hoyt on the outline of Monster Hunter Guardian, and gathering a bunch of authors for the MH anthology of short fiction. When I asked if Ringo would be interested in kicking in a short story for the anthology, it was more like, well, I’ve got a story already, but I wouldn’t call it short…

I read it, liked it, agreed he should publish it, but there were things that needed tweaking for it to fit better into the existing established canon–seriously, there is a ton of stuff in this universe that I’ve only hinted at–and at that point it turned into a collaboration.

The Memoirs are different than the regular series in that they are the recently discovered journals of one man, Chad “Iron Hand” Gardnier, and his experiences as a monster hunter. The first book is set in Seattle, and the second and third are set in New Orleans.

The eARC has been getting great reviews, and the physical books will be on sale at bookstores everywhere next week.

If you would like an autographed copy, they are shipping me several cases to sign for Uncle Hugos  http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-correia-larry.php However, that’s my signature only. You’d have to catch John somewhere else. He will be signing at DragonCon, but unfortunately that is the same weekend this year as Salt Lake City ComicCon, and I’ll be there. (we were both at LibertyCon this month, but sadly, the books weren’t out yet!)

The second book in the spin off series, Sinners, is available now for preorder. It will be out in December.

The third spin off series book is called Saints, but I do not know the release date on that yet. I am a faster writer than I am an editor, and I have to finish the next solo Owen novel (MHI #6) before I can work on Saints.  MHI #6 will be released 4th quarter 2017.

I’ve talked about the Weaponized Hell a little bit before. It is a team up story where my Agent Franks teams up with Jonathan Maberry’s Captain Joe Ledger. And then lots of stuff gets murdered.

Weaponized Hell is available in the Urban Allies anthology. The idea behind Urban Allies is team ups between various characters with their own urban fantasy series. When Joe Nassie, the editor, first contacted me about this and was listing off other authors who had agreed to be in it, I stopped him at Maberry, and was like whoa… He got a partner yet? Then I immediately called Jonathan and said dude, bring Ledger? And he responded with sure, if you bring Franks.

Jonathan is a Franks fan, and has written a Franks story for the upcoming MHI anthology too (Franks vs. Nazis in WW2, though in a totally unexpected way). I think the Ledger DMS novels are fantastic reads. And I wrote a Rudy story for the upcoming Ledger anthology. (he does a psych eval that gets really weird).  Yeah, that professional writer thing where you keep seeing recognizable names in other authors’ various anthologies? It is because we are all big dorky fans at heart.

I haven’t gotten to read the other stories in this anthology yet, but considering the characters we brought together, I bet ours is the most violent. 🙂

The next Monster Hunter Nation Book Bomb will be for Bob Defendi’s Death By Cliche. It will run on Thursday, August 4th.

Everybody in my local writer nerd community knows Bob. He is man, myth, and legend. He has a voice like thunder. When Bob is at something, I’m no longer described as “the big one.” And he’s also funny as hell, and this is a great comedy.

This is it. There are only a couple of days left to nominate for the Dragon Awards. The nomination period closes on the 25^th.

http://awards.dragoncon.org/

Since this is the first year that they’ve done this they want as many fans as possible to get involved. It doesn’t cost anything, and is open to everyone.

For authors, artists, and creators, DragonCon wants you to tell your fans. They want you to spread the word and get out the vote. This isn’t some namby-pamby gentleman’s agreement, wink and nod, cliquish politicking behind closed doors fan award. This is a celebration of nerdery. If you’re proud of your stuff, and you’ve got fans, let them know.

I’m voting for Son of the Black Sword for best fantasy, because I’m obviously biased. 🙂

There are a ton of great categories, and this is a great chance to let your voice be heard. This is the first year, but DragonCon is a gigantic, epic convention. So those numbers are going to grow in the future. Get in on the ground floor.

EDIT: This is a message from the administrators if you are having any trouble registering: Hey folks, if you are having issues or you haven’t received your confirmation email from us, please email us at (dcwards AT dragoncon.org).  We’ll either get the registration process restarted for you or deal with it in the database manually. Thanks – Dave Cody, Dragon Con

E-ARC! E-ARC! E-ARC!
http://www.baen.com/alliance-of-shadows-earc.html

The time has come! Here is the last book in the Dead Six trilogy. Now you can finally know what happened to Lorenzo at the end of Swords of Exodus.