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Hope everybody is having a good summer or, if it's currently cold where you are, winter! I have two upcoming events to share with you and an update on the Incident series prequel short story.

First, I'll be at CONvergence, here in Bloomington, in early July. Look for me on a couple of panels and at the "mass book signing":

New Writers HOWTO Thursday, July 2, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Group Signing Saturday, July 4, 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Dystopia in Humor/Humor in Dystopia  Sunday,...

The Bellbottom Incident is now available both in paperback and on Kindle! You can find the book here in the US Kindle store, here in the UK store, and here in Canada. I've started to get some sales in Australia (*waves hello to Australians*) so I'm going to add that link as well.

Launch days tend to be somewhat of a bittersweet occasion. You've done all you can for the book and it's now time to send it into the world and hope it finds its wings. That's not quite true, of course,...

Psst! 

A bit of news just for my mailing list subscribers (well, and for anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook, and possibly some places I've forgotten my feed goes to...) Anyways, here it is: The Bellbottom Incident paperback has gone up on Amazon TEN DAYS EARLY. The Kindle version is still on track for release at the end of this month, March 31. But as of today, you can find the papeback for sale on Amazon US and on Amazon UK. 
Hope you...

Amazon's algorithms sent out the "Coming Soon" email this morning, sooner than I expected, so this isn't exactly a cover unveiling as everyone can already see it on the Kindle preorder page.  But here goes anyway. Ta-da:



The Far Time Incident, the first book in the series, had a cover that was on the light side, off-white and gray. The Runestone Incident cover was mostly black with some red accents. So for this third one we went with lots of color, which also happened to ma...

Season's greetings and best wishes for 2015! May the upcoming year treat you and yours well, and may any and all surprises be good ones.
I’m going to skip the obligatory recap of last year, as I feel it’s always better to look ahead than to sneak glances backward. Book-wise, here is where things stand going into the new year:The publishing train for The Bellbottom Incident, the final book in the Incident series, is right on track, chugging on. We are in the middle of the copyediting stage and...

Today I welcome Charlie N. Holmberg to the blog -- her just-released young adult debut, The Paper Magician, is already rocking the Kindle bestseller lists! Charlie stopped by to talk about one of the less glamorous tasks faced by a writer, designing promotional materials, and how things didn't quite go according to plan. Read on:
The making of the bookmarks for The Paper Magician was fun, but also ended up being quite a handful! This is namely due to my publisher’s decision to c...

Today on the blog we have one half of the writing duo of Michael Tinker Pearce and Linda Pearce. The couple's second novel, Rage of Angels, a military science-fiction story, is now available on Kindle. Michael stopped by today to talk about fictional alien invasions of Earth, and how they often seem to involve aliens that aren't exactly the brightest bulbs in the galaxy. Read on: 


Earth is maybe the luckiest planet in the cosmos. Sure, we keep getting invaded...

I've had a couple of readers email asking me when the final book in the Incident series will release, so here's a quick update:

There's a working title (ta-na!): THE BELLBOTTOM INCIDENTThe book is in the developmental (content) editing stage at the moment.Depending on how long the editing takes (and obtaining permissions for any quotes I include in the text, cover design, etc) the expected publication date is sometime this winter, that is to say, late 2014 or early 2015. Also, t...

Today I welcome Scott James Magner to the blog. He's a "writer, editor, designer, developer, and world builder" who has worked on everything from science fiction novels to card games to radio ads. In between all that, he found time to answer a few questions. Read on:



Neve: Scott, you’ve written science fiction novels, novellas, serials, magazine pieces, text/stories for video games and table-top games… Have I missed anything? Where do you recommend readers start in getting to know yo...

My thanks to everyone who came to Uncle Hugo's this past Saturday or preordered books -- I had a great time, met some lovely people, and even got to sign a T-shirt! Here are some pictures:



There are a lot of books behind me. There are a lot of books at Uncle Hugo's.