There's a Brand New Fistful of Reefer
Hello, dear readers and friends! (or should I say, DMBerds?)
I know, right now you're thinking, "This guy is still around? I thought the Pentavorite took care of him years ago." No, no. I'm still kicking. It turns out that if you are disposed of in a swimming pool full of instant gelatin, it takes approximately 3.8 years to eat your way free. So here I am!
The more important news is that I'm rebooting my beloved Schism 8 Universe with extreme prejudice. (I'm not sure what that actually means, but it sounds awesome!) So...what does this actually mean?
Over the next nine months, I'll be releasing a total of ten books.
Fistful of Reefer: a Schism 8 Series (Lost DMB Files, Season 1)
The Austin Job: a Schism 8 Series (Lost DMB Files, Season 2)
McCutchen's Bones: a Schism 8 Series (Lost DMB Files, Season 3)
Twitch and Die!: a Schism 8 Series (Lost DMB Files, Season 4)
De Novo Syndrome: a Schism 8 Series (De Novo, Season 1)
Desert Gods: a Schism 8 Series (De Novo, Season 2)
First Relic: a Schism 8 Series (Relic Hunters, Season 1)
Holy City: a Schism 8 Series (Relic Hunters, Season 2)
Chadzitzin: a Schism 8 Series (The Green Ones, Season 1)
Masazin: a Schism 8 Series (The Green Ones, Season 2)
That's almost 1,000,000 words worth of super awesome, action-packed, adventure fiction. Most of you have read some portion of these stories, but none of you have read all of them. Two of these books have never been published. Two of the others have not been widely available. All of them have been re-edited and worked-over for continuity. (The honest truth is I'm a much better writer now than when I first started these books nine years ago, so I've gone over them to bring them all up to speed.)
While starting and running a hybrid-publishing and software company over the past three years, I've managed to scrape together bits and pieces of time to dedicate to my own writing. I've also recruited some highly talented individuals to work with me on the project so that we can finally publish stories from Schism 8 in a manner worthy of its readers! (That's you!)
The Newly Re-edited Edition of Fistful of Reefer is Available Now, and I Need Reviews.
I altered this book significantly enough to justify nuking the old version from the Amazon store (and everywhere I could track it down) in order to launch an entirely new version. The downside of this was that I lost the forty reviews it had gathered. Many of you had left those reviews. May they rest in peace...
Now, I'm asking if y'all would be kind enough to post new reviews. (Of all the nerve!) If you've already read Fistful of Reefer, you have a couple of wonderful options that would help me tremendously:Click over to Amazon and leave a new review.Click over to Amazon and buy the new version of the book while it is on sale for $2.99, read the new version that includes bonus episodes, Reefer Ranger and Del Rio Con Amor, and then leave a review.If you haven't yet read Fistful of Reefer, this would be a great time to do so! I'll be releasing the next book in the series (The Austin Job) in a month. Please, click over to Amazon, buy the book, give it a read, and then leave me a review! Hey, I cherish all reviews, even if you want to tell me I suck and you wish you had the chance to punch me in my smug, little face.
Having said all that...
Here is your Thank You in advance!
Because I'm such a nice guy, and I know all of you are such awesome people, I'm giving you exclusive, early access to the first episode in another series I'm working on. This series harkens to the future of the Milky-Way Galaxy as we humans envisioned it from the early twentieth century. Call it RocketPunk if you will. Martians and Venusians are real, and spacers fly around in rocket ships.
Have ray gun, will travel. Phish and Sparks are two curiosity-driven mercenaries who find themselves confronting mysterious elements and unknown forces in an expanding galaxy. These pulpy stories are an homage to the science fiction magazine shorts of old.
Click here for a free download of the first episode of Phish and Sparks. (To download the file, you'll be asked to enter your email. Obviously, you are already on this email list. Sorry for the redundancy. Just try to use the same email, so you don't end up on this list twice!)
That is all for now. I'll be more consistent with these emails moving forward. Expect to hear from me every week or two as I roll these books out, take on new adventures, and get into trouble. If you don't want to hear from me at all, please click on the tiny link below to remove yourself from this list!
Until next time...
Fire in the hole!!!