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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #105 on: March 29, 2011, 03:25:52 PM »
Allo all :)

I'm actually in both threads for different categories, Author in Progress for the novels (curses upon thee, 72 hour work week and dodgy power/internet!) and here for a table-top RPG, of all things. Not sure if that counts, per se, but I am the writer and lead game developer (the latter against my will) for Dark Nova Games. The Dark Nova RPG comes out in May (debuting at Comicpalooza in Houston, where I'll be chained to a table next to our lead artist for the amusement of the rotten-vegetable-hurling public... kinda like the stocks for artists and authors), for which I wrote the entire setting, designed the races, most of the ships and vehicles, and wrote the four starter missions included in the main manual. Since I JUST got back CONUS and completed my last contract for a while, I have subsequently been chained to a laptop and ordered to work on the second book in the RPG series by my whip-cracking masters ..errr, bosses :D . There is no end to the torment, however, for upon completion of my work my family and friends take up their whips and demand that I finish the novels and submit them. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel? :D

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean....started as a fiction writer on the Battletech line, and gone on to some writing for an upcoming battletech product. Hope to expand beyond that soon enough.

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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #106 on: May 16, 2011, 01:58:17 AM »
Aaaaaaaaaaaand I finally officially published :D the RPG hit the printers last night, publisher should have it out in two weeks :)
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #107 on: May 16, 2011, 01:59:21 AM »
Congratulations Breandan - way to go.

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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #108 on: May 31, 2011, 10:47:41 PM »
As I mentioned in the other thread, I finally got to see the finished product today... and we now have an RPG manual thicker than most college textbooks:o

Perhaps I was a bit TOO verbose, since my writing- the setting and descriptions- takes up 2/3rds of the book :D
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #109 on: August 07, 2011, 12:33:41 AM »
I wasn't sure whether to introduce myself as an author in progress or a published author.  I've yet to publish a novel, but have sold 4 short stories and am a member of SFWA.  You can read stories of mine here, here, and here, and the fourth one's out later this year in Electric Velocipede.  I'm in the process of writing an urban fantasy novel now, which is what brings me into Jim Butcher's orbit.  That, and I interviewed him a couple weeks ago for the Clarion Blog.

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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #110 on: November 05, 2011, 11:38:08 PM »
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #111 on: February 06, 2012, 08:45:00 PM »
One of the downsides of being a published author, book-signing hell


Stack one of the pre-ordered hard-cover books I have to sign, then an in-person signing at a game store. My hand is going to fall off! Jim, how do you do it?  :o
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #112 on: May 28, 2012, 01:44:21 AM »
I'm in Mishell's category even though I have only one story published in  "Strange New World's 10". A Star Trek contest anthology. Fourth best story in the book.

http://www.amazon.com/Strange-New-Worlds-Star-Trek/dp/1416544380/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209012784&sr=1-1

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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #113 on: August 27, 2012, 11:44:59 AM »
I guess I'm promoted now from the Author In Progress thread to this one!

My first novel, Locked Within, is availble to pre-order now on Amazon.

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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #114 on: September 04, 2012, 08:02:42 PM »
One of the downsides of being a published author, book-signing hell


Stack one of the pre-ordered hard-cover books I have to sign, then an in-person signing at a game store. My hand is going to fall off! Jim, how do you do it?  :o
But they are so pretty! 
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #115 on: September 04, 2012, 08:03:51 PM »
I wasn't sure whether to introduce myself as an author in progress or a published author.  I've yet to publish a novel, but have sold 4 short stories and am a member of SFWA.  You can read stories of mine here, here, and here, and the fourth one's out later this year in Electric Velocipede.  I'm in the process of writing an urban fantasy novel now, which is what brings me into Jim Butcher's orbit.  That, and I interviewed him a couple weeks ago for the Clarion Blog.

Nice to meet everyone!
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #116 on: September 09, 2012, 11:58:26 PM »
Way too long since I was here...too busy writing.   :D

Now all the way down to the bottom.   

I got a HM, no pay but they published it. Had to describe a color in 50 words or less.


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I can see why the first place got First  but not the third place story...it seems on the same level as the three HMs.
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #117 on: September 14, 2012, 07:19:28 PM »
In honor of the release of my second book Admiral's Gambit.  I'm availing of the amazon free promo for Book 1: Admiral Who?

So get Admiral Who? while its free.  I know you'll be hooked!  I've given away over 300 free copies in the last 12 hours.



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Admiral Who?:
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Admiral's Gambit:

http://www.amazon.com/Admirals-Gambit-Spineward-Sectors-ebook/dp/B0099RQCHU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1347499090&sr=8-3&keywords=admiral%27s+gambit


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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #118 on: September 22, 2012, 02:05:04 PM »
Got my first royalty payment from Amazon today--a whopping 17 bucks! :)
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Re: Published Author On Board
« Reply #119 on: September 22, 2012, 05:50:37 PM »
Got my first royalty payment from Amazon today--a whopping 17 bucks! :)

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