Servant of a Dark God

  • Wear the Dark God!

    ByJohn Brown

    Yeah, Baby! We’ve got Dark God Tees! And all thanks to Fiction Addictions. You get to choose from two designs which you can see below. Please note: The Dark God got his fans some SPECIAL HOLIDAY PRICING! Through December 2010: $13.99 for standard style, $15.99 for the ladies fit.

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    Servant of a Dark God – In Yo Face

    Boldly proclaim your allegiance with a simple front that states who you serve. NOTE: May attract lightning.

    In Yo Face - Standard T Style

    In Yo Face - Ladies T Style

    Servant of a Dark God – Book Fan

    For those who aren’t quite ready to commit to the dark side, we provide a more conservative front that will still raise eyebrows, but all in the good cause of literacy.

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    Book Fan - Ladies T Style

    Colors & Styles

    Standard tee shirt style: for men or women, comes in dark brown, black, or navy with crème lettering.

    The ladies tee shirt style (fitted cut and thinner fabric): comes in purple, black, or dark brown with crème lettering.

    Other colors: If you simply must have the shirt in a different color, be happy, because you can, although it may take longer to process your order. Be sure to choose a color that goes well with the crème lettering.

    Extra Large Sizes: If you want to get a shirt in a size not shown, you can. Just contact Fiction Addictions and let them know. It just may take a bit longer to ship your order.

  • Servant Now in Paperback!

    ByJohn Brown

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    • ~ Best Novel of the Year Whitney Awards, speculative fiction
    • ~ Engrossing Publishers Weekly
    • ~ Provocative Booklist
    • ~ Starred Review! Library Journal
    • ~ A great setting, a smart story Brandon Sanderson

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  • Larry Correia & The Monster Hunter Nation

    ByJohn Brown

    Gotta love this. I just got back from the dermatologist’s. Yesterday it was determined that the thing growing on the side of my nose was not an alien (darn it!) but a squamous cell carcinoma. So the Doc had his rat chew the thing off my face today. He showed me my nose in a mirror so he could explain how he couldn’t just sew up the hole because that would create a pucker. Instead, he needed to cut all the way up the bridge of my nose and then all the way down along the edge of my nostril to make an L-shaped skin flap that he could then stitch up so it would heal all nice and pretty. As he was explaining, I got a good look at the gaping bloody hole–it was the size of your pinky nail, folks. He also told me stories of his time in Russia. His medical assistant told me one of her husband’s run-in with the mafia in Milan. A good time was had all around. Then 30 or so stitches later I came home and found that Larry Correia was up to no good again: Let’s Book Bomb the Hell out of John Brown

    So the paperback of SERVANT OF A DARK GOD, which releases in two weeks on November 2nd, started off ranked #220,997 on Amazon. I just checked the rank. As of 2:22 pm we’re at #5,686. Can’t wait to see where this goes today.

    Whatever happens, I think I’m going to end up owing Larry and the Monster Hunters some ballistic tip bullets and hand grenades.

    EDIT: it’s 3:29 am on Wednesday, October 20th. Just dragged my sleepy hiney back from doing recordings with the Writing Excuses team in American Fork (they’ll publish in November). And lo, the Monster Hunter Nation did bomb the book, and it did rise in rank until it did verily hit an Amazon bestseller list.

    Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    #65 in  Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic

    It reached this point sometime while I was on the road. As of right now Servant is:

    Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    #88 in  Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic

    And so it was written that the Monster Hunter Nation was awesome to behold. It’s hand grenades for sure.

    EDIT: Here we go. Day 2 9:50 am.

    Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,568 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

    #85 in  Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Fantasy > Epic

    EDIT: end of day 2.

    Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #4,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

  • Czech Rights to Servant of a Dark God sold to Laser Books

    ByJohn Brown

    Great news! Laser Books has just purchased rights to print Servant of a Dark God in Czech for their Masters of Modern Fantasy imprint (click on the link to see other authors being published by them). The Czech Republic has just won a special place in my heart, seeing it’s the location of my first foreign sale, ever. We luvs the Czech Republic, Precious. 

    Here’s a photo of Prague, their capitol city.  

    More lovely and interesting photos here. For those who need a little bit of help with their geography, click on the map below. The Czech Republic is right in the middle of Europe.

    And here’s a wiki on the Czech Republic.

  • Writing update: Servant proofs & cover, Curse battle finished, events

    ByJohn Brown

    Two bits of news about Servant of a Dark God. I received the proofs for the paperback version in the mail this week as you see below. The cat is used because he deserves a cameo. This is Panther giving us either his “Sigh, whatever, I’ll submit to your weird human ways” or “Umm, scratches” looks. He’s the last of the original eleven cats we inherited when we moved to Laketown back in 2003 (nine of them were black, one was a gray tabby, another a sort of tortoise color). Dutchess, the one who liked to tear open our bread bags while we weren’t looking and eat the bread, got run over. Three others, including our talker Tabby, we think were stolen by a woman looking for “stray” cats because, golly, the rattlers keep getting all hers. Ours were obviously strays because we live in 2.5 acres surrounds by dozens and dozens of acres of open land around us and we let them roam the hills! A few were shot, we think, by a kid who came to visit his grandfather who lived 1/2 a mile down the road. We think coyotes might have gotten the rest. So Panther is the last survivor. 7 years old. We love the old man.

    I have just a few days to go through the proofs and find any typos and punctuation errors and get it back. The paperback version is scheduled right now to be released in November. And here’s the cover the publisher is using on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. You can see the difference between it and the hardcover by comparing it to the image in the sidebar.

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    As for Curse of a Dark God, I typed the last word of the final battle and climax on Saturday. As it now stands, the final battle required 34,429 words to write. Holy schnitzel! Again, many adult novels average around 90,000 – 110,000 words total. So this is a significant sequence. For those of you who like to think in pages, it’s going to be anywhere from 100 – 140 pages depending on how the publisher configures the book. I have one more short chapter to write and the draft is finished. Well, I have a few things to seed into earlier chapters so that the ending etc. works, but that’s small stuff. The next step is to have a few readers go through this draft. Make any necessary edits. Then get it out to my agent as quickly as possible. Once my editor accepts it, we’ll be able to set a release date. And I might feel the sword of editoral doom lift just a little from my head.

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    Finally, just wanted to give folks a heads up about the following events I’ve committed to.

    Date What Area Details
    Saturday, September 18, 1-4 PM Book signing Orem, UT The Orem, UT Barnes & Noble is having an authorpalooza. Come meet a boatload of authors.More details here: http://store-locator.barnesandnoble.com/store/2626 University Crossings Barnes & Noble
    330 East 1300 South
    Orem, UT 84058
    801-229-1611
    Saturday, October 9, 2010, all day Writers conference American Fork, UT The American Fork Arts Council writers workshops have become so popular that they’ve decided to start holding one conference in the spring and one in the fall. These conferences focus on giving concrete advice and encouragement to aspiring writers. I’ll be giving a keynote speech and participating in some breakout sessions. I was really happy to be invited back since I had to bow out of the last one two days before it was scheduled to run because of a death in the family.