Downtime is an excellent time to ponder things. Some people fish to relax, some play golf- some subject themselves to hot weather and grueling training to become more effective shooters. This week hosts/authors Steve Diamond and Larry Correia discuss a recent gun training event they attended and share their insights in regards to both writing and in life. 

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This week’s episode brought to you by Schinder Lab’s application- Riemann’s Lens.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1976310/Riemanns_Lens/

Explore a wormhole!

Riemann’s Lens simulates the non-euclidean geometry and strange visual effects associated with a Riemannian wormhole. While it is unknown whether these objects exist in nature, nothing prevents us from investigating their properties and consequences with our computers.

Riemann’s Lens is an interactive virtual art display that allows you to fly around and through a wormhole, with simple scenery rendered in the euclidean space on either end. The size and geometry of the wormhole can be adjusted.

Custom scenery can be defined with a scripting language.

We don’t do current events often, but every once in awhile it’s appropriate. This week hosts/authors Steve Diamond and Larry Correia discuss a recent event in which a world famous author was savaged for using the right words in the wrong order. 

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This week’s episode brought to you by Joseph L. Kellogg’s Blood Pressure.

Exsanguinated. Not a word any cop wants showing up in his report. But when a drained body falls from a skyscraper across national borders, the case lands on the desk of Agent Reylic Antali at the Trans-Metro Police, and it’s up to him and his team to figure out who the killer is, and what they’re after.

In a city where four magical races coexist under an uneasy unity, tensions flare up as more bodies land in the morgue. The city seems on the verge of tearing itself apart as Reylic and his Old Magic Task Force race to find the culprit. But what they find may change the nature of magic as they know it…

Available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/3Gxiphw or on the author’s website at https://josephlkellogg.com/

In addition to being a successful author in his own right, guest Dave Butler is also an editor for Baen Books. This week hosts/authors Steve Diamond and Larry Correia dive into it with Dave and explain how best to pitch your book to a publisher and get acquired.  

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This week’s episode is brought to you by Dave (D.J.) Butler’s Abbott in Darkness (available now on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3kXsr1x )

John Abbott is all in.

He’s up to his eyeballs in debt to pay for school, and he’s just moved his small family forty light-years from Earth for a plum job with the wealthy interstellar corporation, The Sarovar Company. John’s first assignment is to discreetly investigate possible corruption at the remote Arrowhawk Station, where Company traders buy the famous Sarovari Weave from the three-sided, crablike Weavers.

John finds evidence of theft and worse, but when the guilty parties realize he’s getting close, they come after him and his family. Can John catch the thieves and end their corrupt trade? Can he head off a war between the Company and the Weavers? Can he make a life for his family in this remote wilderness without corrupting himself?

With no way back to Earth, the only direction for John Abbott and his family to go is forward—into danger.

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A few months back I plugged an audiobook novella called Dead Acre. I know a bunch of you picked it up and enjoyed it. The first book in the series is out today.

Cold As Hell (Black Badge Series Book 1)

I enjoyed this one. It’s weird west, supernatural, Witcher meets Tombstone. And it is narrated by the actor who played Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption.

https://www.baen.com/no-game-for-knights-earc.html

The No Game For Knights eARC is out now!

Stories by: Laurell K. Hamilton, Larry Correia, Christopher Ruocchio, Michael Haspil, D.J. Butler, Kacey Ezell, Griffin Barber, Robert Buettner, Sharon Shinn, Craig Martelle, Chris Kennedy, S.A. Bailey, G. Scott Huggins, Nicole Givens Kurtz, and Rob Howell.

This is a collection of noir fantasy and sci-fi stories from some truly amazing authors, edited by me and Kacey Ezell. It’s the follow up to Noir Fatale.

The actual book release is in a couple of months. If you aren’t familiar with what an eARC is, that’s an Electronic Advanced Reader Copy. This is what most publishers send out to reviewers. Baen makes it so that you can get an early production version of the ebook if you don’t want to wait. It’s a win-win, and you get to see our fun typos. (to be fair, not a single one of my eARCs has ever had a major change from the final because I turn in pretty clean manuscripts).