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New Story – Perdition’s Posse

A new Sinner’s Tale is done, and is now up at the Free Story page.

If you’re not familiar with Seth McAllen, also known as “The Sinner”, you might want to track down a couple of the older stories that have appeared here at Mad Poet Files – specifically, “High Moon” and “The Devil’s Due”, available in e-book formats at bn.com or at Amazon.

With this story, I started taking some of the things I’ve been learning about actual US History and weaving them into the Sinner’s old west. There were a ton of changes, of developments that happened in the Old West in and around the end of the Civil War and the years immediately following.

This is a preview of New Story – Perdition’s Posse. Read the full post (405 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)

MPF 2.07 – Norris Tilney and the Docks of Dover

New story time!

This one’s been kicking around for some time. Last year, Scott Roche and I co-wrote a novellette we called “The Battle of Wildspitze“. I’ve been trying to decide how to explain that world to people, and I think I have a concise way of summing it up.

  • Harry Potter.
  • But everyone knows about magic.
  • And it’s 1910.

And that’s basically it in a nutshell. One of us had come up with an idea for a short story regarding dragon-riding pirates raiding airships, and we started writing. I had originally thought that this would be a parallel world, no really recognizable people in it, until Scott introduced Baron Richtoffen as one of the pirates. That single character nailed the setting, the attitude, and the timeline for me.

This is a preview of MPF 2.07 – Norris Tilney and the Docks of Dover. Read the full post (197 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

GSG NaNo Gaiden #6

From Jim Butcher, (h/t Monica Valentinelli - BTW, you should read her blog. She is awesome).

YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD WHO CAN KILL YOUR DREAM.

In particular, this is a good reminder for those of us who may have been writing for some time, and are having a difficult time finding our audience. It can be frustrating. Maddening, even. But I’m not giving up. Taking today to rest and recover, to recuperate and regroup.

And tomorrow, I am going to write like crazy. CRAZY, I TELLS YA!

Go write!

Download GSG NaNo Gaiden #6

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Trust30 – #6 – Faith

Our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion, we have not chosen, but society has chosen for us. We are parlour soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate, where strength is born. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I’ve said on recent Galley Table podcasts (available at flyingislandpress.com/flagship), I made a committment to bring a completed manuscript to Balticon next year. And failure would mean… DIRE CONSEQUENCES. This is a scary thing. On many levels.

This is a preview of Trust30 – #6 – Faith. Read the full post (276 words, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)