I’ll be signing books at the Layton Barnes & Noble, Saturday October 2nd from 2-5. Though I’ll probably be there at noon. This is my local store, and I’m pretty sure they’ve sold more copies than any other B&N. So drop by and say hi.

Brad Torgersen is a friend of mine. Fellow Utah writer, Army Warrant Officer, and all around great guy, Brad has won the very prestigious Writers of the Future award, and has been having a lot of solid commercial fiction sales this year.  Brad is like me, in that we’re in the highly-opinionated/conservative end of the writing business. In order to get some more name recognition/exposure, he’s taking a page from my handbook and doing an online fiction serial. (kind of like Mike Kupari and I did with Welcome back, Mr. Nightcrawler before the MHI launch). 

Brad is launching a new online serial. It is mil-SF, and I do believe my readers will enjoy it. Go check it out. 

http://bradrtorgersen.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/emancipated-worlds-saga-prologue/

Okay, I got the books Tuesday, signed them all Tuesday night, and then Baen had them picked up by UPS… OVERNIGHT and Uncle Hugos got them late yesterday. Don and the gang have started filling orders so you folks that ordered autographed copies should be getting yours over the next few days.

Why did Baen send over 30o pounds of books overnight? Because they LOVE you.  Baen is awesome. 

In related news, I did a symposium at UVU yesterday. It went well. I think everybody had a good time.

MHV has still be hanging out in the 300-500 range on Amazon, which is excellent. I found out my Nielsen Bookscan numbers for the week ending the 26th, and they were great. I’m eagerly awaiting the stats for the period ending the 28th.

In local news, my kids found a mouse swimming in my wife’s glass jug of left-over cooking oil.  They freaked out. Welcome to Country Livin’ my little suburbanite children.  I’ve got yard deer and house mice and nothing between me and Wyoming but a mountain and a bunch of trees.  Life is good. I eagerly looking forward to the winter, when most of my neighborhood gets a case of the Yard Moose.

The rough draft of Monster Hunter Alpha is DONE. I need to go through and do a bunch of little continuity edits, then it is off to RFA. Probably next week, depending on what I can get done this weekend. I’ve got a book signing at the Layton B&N, and I love that particular store, so I’ll be there for a good chunk of Saturday.

Okay, it looks like Simon & Schuster should be giving me the books for Uncle Hugos today. I’ll sign all of them tonight and have UPS pick them up tomorrow.  I’ll post here when they arrive.

MHV kicked butt all day yesterday and made the movers and shakers list over on Amazon. We got into the top 300 last night and teens in fantasy, but I was asleep when it happened and didn’t get a screen shot. Yes. I know. I have a problem. The first step is admitting it.

Here is an interview that I did with Elitist Book Reviews. I think it came out really well:  http://elitistbookreviews.blogspot.com/2010/09/interview-with-larry-correia.html

I was supposed to be on Dungeon Crawler’s Radio last night, but had to postpone until next week. I had to go to the hospital to visit a friend who was in an accident. It has been a really bad week for some of my friends, health-wise.

EDIT:  Still trending very well:

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#20 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 2:  MHV breaks into the 300s

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#19 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 3!

UPS just showed up with the books for Uncle Hugos! Yay! I’m going to sign them all tonight and send them on to Minneapolis tomorrow.

EDIT 4, my heck this is addictive:

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#18 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

It is hard to climb much higher in contemporary fantasy with all those Sookie Stackhouse books on there ahead of me. Hmmm… I need my own cable TV show. That’s the ticket.

EDIT 5.  I’m signing the Uncle Hugo books now. That’s a LOT of books.  But in the meantime, thrill to the awesomness of:

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#18 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

  BAM!

EDIT 6: Holy crap, we are now higher than MHI ever got during it’s release week, and that’s with 300 blog followers ordering from Uncle Hugos instead, and last time I got a plug from Instapundit.

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#15 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

It is in stores now!  Please, tell your friends. Tweet it, Facebook it, carrier-pigeon, post it on your blog, whatever, but Monster Hunter Vendetta is out now.

If you like it, please post a review, especially on Amazon. If you don’t like it, then don’t post a review, because you will be wrong, and then nobody will like you on the internet anymore. Yay! 🙂

I’m still working on the Uncle Hugo’s orders. Simon & Schuster is the one at fault, not Uncle Hugos. I’m trying to see what I can do to expedite getting those out ASAP to you guys.

EDIT: I’m sticking this here for historical purposes, since Amazon updates every hour. I like to save the good ones. 🙂

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#30 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 2:  Elitist Book Reviews just posted their review of MHV. They totally get it. http://elitistbookreviews.blogspot.com/2010/09/monster-hunter-vendetta.html

EDIT 3:  Because it is awesome.

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #743 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#26 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 4: Because I’m a dork. 🙂

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#24 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 5:  Just… Can’t… Stop.  Have to… Look…

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#24 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

Sweet. The highest MHI ever made it was to the mid-300 range. But that was after InstaPundit plugged me. I know… I need to go harrass all the bloggers I know!

EDIT 6: This is not madness! This is UTAH!

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#23 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 7:  WILL THE MADNESS EVER STOP?

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#20 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary

EDIT 8:  The OCHO.

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #429 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

#17 in

Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Contemporary