For My Readers

A new promo campaign is starting today–in keeping with the approach to Halloween, it’s the Disturbing Book Giveaway:

The story I’ve included there is Whispering Dusk, a Dark Fantasy Novelette that tells a bit of the story that I am currently expanding on in a “Cthulhu-Eats-Tolkien” kind of fantasy universe (I’m a sucker for cautionary horror tales).

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And the last hurrah for the Cyberpunk one is here – Clones are People Two is part of this promo, and it’s free in exchange for a review. All you have to do is sign up with StoryOrigin (which is free for readers):

And a heads up that I will be doing an every-other-day update of my wordcount using goal-setting StoryOrigin’s features (and I am excited to try it out for the first time!) What will I be working on? A Cyberpunk Noir-Thriller-Mystery in the same universe as Clones are People Two.

Check back in to watch my progress.

Cyberpunk!

Cyberpunk seems to be all the rage, what with CDProjekt Red having come out with the hotly-anticipated (and, sadly, horribly flawed) Cyberpunk 2077, based on the pen-and-paper game from the 80s/90s. Billy Idol even released an underrated album with the name back in the 90s, and one very strange album cover… but I digress.

Just by those facts, you can see it’s not a new thing at all, and there’s plenty to devour out there (William Gibson is the Techfather with titles like Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrive, or Walter Jon Williams with Hardwired but to get you started, here are a few newer indies (including one of my own, choom):

Don’t get stuck in the ‘Net…