Doing well on the Kindle today (due in large part – i.e. entirely – because of this post on Kindle Nation). Sandwiched between these guys makes me happy:
This is weirder though, and amusing:
Discovered another iteration of “American Book of the Dead – a play called “An American Book of the Dead – The Game Show.” Interestingly, the cover looks similar:
About:
Plucked from the audience, three contestants live and die their way through a myriad of American incarnations as they compete for the ultimate prize, perfect enlightenment. The entire [...]
New interview with me at the Kindle Author blog. For some reason, this escaped me in other interviews, but it’s true.
The plot came about in a dream—no kidding. The book’s in part about a writer working on a novel who starts dreaming about people who turn out to be real. In the dreams he’ll see [...]
Just received an email from a reader saying that he wanted to put his review of my novel up on Amazon, but he chose not to, so as to not alienate potential readers of his own books. So I’m posting it here. He titled it “A Wake-Up Call.”
If you’re not a death-cult end-of-days [...]
There’s a new interview up with me by Todd Keisling, in which I get into my grand, unrealistic plans for the novel.
TK: Let’s talk about the writing thing. Why do you do it?
HB: I want to change how people think. I have grand megalomaniacal plans – most of which won’t play out. But [...]
Nice short review at Ebookism:
This book developed and changed as it went on, in ways that kept me thoroughly engaged. Intelligent and thoughtful, while at the same becoming increasingly surreal and worthy of a Dali painting. SF meets some very strange headspaces here….
To help matters along, the novel itself becomes a central [...]
I’m going to be posting part two of The American Book of the Dead in (more or less) real time as it’s written. I’ll be using Scribd to embed new chapters. Subscribe at Scribd if you’re interested.
Attention thieves: novel’s now available in bittorrent.
Also available from ManyBooks and Feedbooks.
1000 or so downloads in the past 5 days. Why didn’t I do this sooner? Good question.
Listen to my podcast interview on Alterati with Joseph Matheny, where I talk about conspiracies and reveal something about myself that I’ve never actually revealed in public. I’ll be getting into that in Part Two of The American Book of the Dead, which I’ve started writing and will likely post here in pieces. You’ll have [...]
Just found out I won a Gold IPPY award (top honors, like the Olympics) in the category “Visionary Fiction.” To be perfectly honest, I chose Visionary Fiction because I knew there’d be less competition than Science Fiction/Fantasy, but also the book falls a little to the left of space-based sci-fi, which would probably comprise many [...]