The first draft of my sec­ond nov­el is done. If The Noth­ing With­in was rur­al-dystopi­an post-apoc­a­lyp­tic fan­ta­sy-like sci­ence fic­tion, this new sto­ry is Mid­west­ern mys­tery-like sci­ence fic­tion with a dash of hard­boiled meta­physics. The sto­ry con­cerns a Har­mo­ny “Bibi”…

Fan­ta­sy Book Crit­ic is a promi­nent (and excel­lent) book review site focus­ing on fan­ta­sy nov­els as well as oth­er spec­u­la­tive fic­tion. FBC is a col­lec­tive of sev­er­al review­ers from a wide range of back­grounds. It’s a ven­er­a­ble pres­ence in the book blog­ging world,…

Head­ing into the sea­son’s final stretch (only one com­pe­ti­tion left to go!), The Noth­ing With­in has received anoth­er award. Writer’s Digest hosts one of the most ven­er­a­ble com­pe­ti­tions for self-pub­lished authors. In its 28th Annu­al Self-Pub­lished Book Awards, The…

The Noth­ing With­in is a semi­fi­nal­ist in the Self-Pub­lished Fan­ta­sy Blog-Off (SPFBO). A big “thank you” to The Cri­tiquing Chemist for giv­ing it such a pos­i­tive review. Some­how I’m still pleas­ant­ly sur­prised every time some­body enjoys it. About the Con­test In case…

Great news: The Noth­ing With­in has been named the best sci­ence fic­tion book of the year by the 14th annu­al Nation­al Indie Excel­lence Awards (NIEA). The NIEA rec­og­nizes works pub­lished by small press­es, mid-size inde­pen­dent pub­lish­ers, uni­ver­si­ty press­es, and…

Gosh. The Next Gen­er­a­tion Indie Book Awards have named The Noth­ing With­in the best indie-pub­lished sci­ence fic­tion book of the year. Some peo­ple have called Next Gen­er­a­tion Indies the Sun­dance of the pub­lish­ing world. Appar­ent­ly a medal is on the way. Like, an actual…

Award sea­son is here! Late last month, I announced that The Noth­ing With­in was named a final­ist in the Fore­word INDIES Book of the Year Awards. (The final announce­ment of win­ners is pend­ing.) This week, the Eric Hof­fer Book Award announced its hon­orees. The Nothing…

Back in Decem­ber, Tan­tor Media bought the audio­book rights for The Noth­ing Within—and now the audio­book is out. It’s avail­able in all the usu­al places: Ama­zon Apple Audi­ble Audiobooks.com Google Play Over­drive I’m very hap­py with the pro­duc­tion. Many thanks to…

Cool beans. This week, The Noth­ing With­in was rec­og­nized as a final­ist for the 22nd annu­al Fore­word INDIES Book of the Year Awards. You can see the nom­i­na­tion on the Sci­ence Fic­tion cat­e­go­ry page. (Also, see that pho­to mon­tage at the top of this post? Looks below and…

Some excit­ing news today. Tan­tor Media Tan­tor Media is an audio­book pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny. Their library includes many award-win­ning books and New York Times best sell­ers, and they work with a pool of over 400 expe­ri­enced audio­book nar­ra­tors. What hap­pened Ear­li­er this…