Just a gentle reminder that the next installment in the Wyrd West Chronicles, The Reaping, is coming out tomorrow. You might be interested to know this one is not a novelette, but a full-length novella! Today is your last chance to pre-order and your last chance to take advantage of my Wyrd West sale! You […]
Read More New Release in the Wyrd West Chronicles!Wizard and Glass by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Reading Challenge, the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Author! Author! Reading Challenge, the High Fantasy Reading Challenge, the Need to Reread Challenge,, and the Read the Sequel Challenge. This novel was nominated for the Locus Award, which qualifies […]
Read More Book Review: Wizard and Glass by Stephen KingBy Randy Ellefson Depending on your ability, creating names for people, places, and beings in fantasy books can either be fun or a pain. I’ve been doing this for three decades and will provide some tricks and thoughts to help. KISS KISS doesn’t really stand for “keep it simple, stupid”, but it’s a good principle […]
Read More Creating Fantasy NamesThe Waste Lands by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Second Best Reading Challenge; the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge; the Author! Author! Reading Challenge; the Need to Reread Challenge; and the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge. This book was a nominee for the Stoker Award, which qualifies it for the […]
Read More Book Review: The Waste Lands by Stephen KingThis year was my year for being stubborn. Frustrated with my inability to find a home for my Weird Western novelette, in part I assume because of its unusual size, in part because of its unusual subject matter, I decided to publish it myself, and proceed with the Wyrd West Chronicles serial idea I had. […]
Read More My Publishing Year in ReviewThe Drawing of the Three by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read (again) for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Author! Author! Reading Challenge, the Need to Reread Challenge, and the Read the Sequel Challenge. This is the second book in the awesome Dark Tower series. If you tried The Gunslinger and […]
Read More Book Review: The Drawing of the ThreeThe Gunslinger by Stephen King My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read (again) for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Author! Author! Reading Challenge, and the Need to Reread Challenge. I fell in love with this series many years ago, and this is my third read of it (don’t remember when the second one was, […]
Read More Book Review: The Gunslinger by Stephen KingTo celebrate the publication of Wyrd West Chronicles #5, “The Reaping,” on the Winter Solstice, I’ve decided to extend my introductory prices on the Wyrd West stories until it comes out. So right now, you can get the first three Wyrd West stories for $4 total. I’m also putting #4, “Way of the Gun,” on […]
Read More Last Chance to Get the Wyrd West at Introductory Sale Prices!Originally posted on The Toy Soldier Saga:
I have exciting news! “Mr. Midshipman Sunfall,” which was the first part of “A Few Good Elves,” will be published in the On the Horizon: Simple Worlds of Speculative Adventure Boxed Set on May 1, 2018! From the description: A collection of 22 Fantasy and Science Fiction full…
Pleased to announce that I am going to be in this outstanding boxed set! An international bestselling cast of 22 authors, and don’t let the stats fool you, that’s a dummy file, each one of us will be writing a minimum of a 40k word novel! You can’t beat our starting price for all of […]
Read More On the Horizon Boxed Set Announcement!
