EDIT: Disregard what you read earlier. That was apparently a SECRET sneak peak. Whoops. My bad. I jumped the gun.
There is nothing to see here. No such thing was communicated and I shall not speak of it anymore… until next week. When I totally can talk about it. 🙂
I just got the Nielsen Bookscan numbers for the week ending October 3rd. Monster Hunter Vendetta was #4 in fantasy, nationwide. Bookscan works likes the Nielsen TV ratings with a whole bunch of stores, and all of the big chains (except Walmart) reporting numbers weekly.
Holy. Friggin’. Crap.
Uh… Yeah. Ahem. Moving on then, lots of good stuff going on here. I’ve been super swamped, so haven’t been posting much blog fodder that hasn’t related directly to the MHV release. Surprisingly, a book release consumes a giant chunk of your time. There are exciting things afoot.
Saturday, October 23rd at the Tempe Marketplace B&N from 1-3 PM.
Sunday, October 24th at the Poison Pen in Scottsdale at 2:00 PM. This is their Halloween bash and will have 5 authors there. http://www.poisonedpen.com/event-calendar/correia-larry-1 Signing at the Poison Pen is kind of a big deal. The week before me is Vince Flynn and F. Paul Wilson. These guys pull in the Big Guns.
More mil-SF goodness from my friend Brad: http://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/
He is doing this as a serial. Brad has won Writers of the Future (which is a pretty darn big deal), and has books in at different places (some that I happen to, you know, write books for) So the more he can do to build name awareness, the better.
Brad has also already managed to offend lots of people by being very opinionated politically. For some reason I think that will be right up my reader’s alley. 🙂 So, other bloggers, if you like Brad’s serial, please spread the word.
Okay, weird request. Do any of you happen to have a GI Joe sized (the little GI Joes, not the big Barbie sized) guns laying around? Things that you bought for your kids, but they left them on the carpet for you to step on too many times so you don’t want them any more? Very specifically, I need a Thompson subgun. Preferably a GI style, but a 1928 style will do too. Also I need a lever action rifle. Anything that looks like a Marlin or Winchester would be perfectly close enough.
This is super geeky, but inspired by my friends that paint miniatures, all the custom action figure people on the internet (I think Silof is the most impressive), and the fact that all of my family except for me do some sort of geeky crafty thing, I’m trying to build/paint my own custom MHI action figures. Don’t worry. I’ll put up pictures. (of any that turn out good).
This isn’t business. This is hobby. This is also extremely geeky. But inspired by my friends that paint miniatures (like Howard Tayler and Kirk Pfau) and by pages like http://www.sillof.com/C-Steampunk-ESB.htm I’m going to try and build myself some custom MHI action figures.
I’ve got a few hobbies (shooting, but that is very time intensive), and writing consumes almost all my free time, but I’ve not done anything artisticaly creative in a really long time. I’ll post pictures of the ones that turn out okay. 🙂
The Thompson is for Earl. The lever gun is for Sam. Both of those are already shaping up pretty well. I’m actually already very proud of my Gretchen and Skippy.