The Tor catalog
Check out Tor’s 2009 fall catalog. Lots of great titles coming up including one of particular interest.
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Yo, John and Larry do Colorado this Saturday!
Larry and I will be in Lone Tree (South Denver) and Loveland Saturday, December 5th. Drop by and say hello, buy one of our books as a gift, or just show up with your Klingon outfit and gun.
John Brown events at Barnes & Noble
Saturday,
December 5
1 pm – 3 pmMeet public, discuss book, signing–Brown & Correia Loveland, CO Barnes & Noble
The Promenade Shops at Centerra
5835 Sky Pond Drive
Loveland, CO 80537
(970) 663-9473Saturday,
December 5
5 pm – 7 pmMeet public, discuss book, signing–Brown & Correia Denver (Lone Tree), CO Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
8374 South Willow Street
Lone Tree, CO 80124
(303) 706-9660New Release Sale for Curse!
Curse’s long and crooked path to publication is now over!And there was much rejoicing. To celebrate, we’re putting the book on a huge discount today and Saturday.
Big trade paperback, plus free ebook: $9.99!
(normally $18.98 if purchased separately)
AmazonEbook: $.99 cents!
(normally $3.99)
Amazon
Nook
iTunes
Kobo
SmashwordsI want to thank all of you who emailed and posted comments on the website expressing your anticipation for this book. I really hope you enjoy the story as much as I have.
Happy reading!
John
PS To get the free ebook with your purchase of the big paperback, purchase the paperback, then go to the Kindle store and click on “Kindle MatchBook” in the left sidebar. That will take you to your personal list of books you can get with the MatchBook program. Curse will appear there AFTER you make the purchase.
PPS Look for a similar sale for Raveler soon!
An absolutely perfect and maddening turn in the story
You’ll note the word count on CODG is steadily rising. Today, I experienced a delightful AND maddening turn.
I find outlines to be immensely useful tools for story development. Of course, there are many more tools in the box–outlines can’t do everything. For example, there are times when you’re drafting a story that you write something and it suddenly generates new options for the story that you in no way could have imagined without getting to that point in the draft. You can get a lot of ideas with an outline, but drafts generate still more. Sometimes the options that present themselves while you’re drafting are so right they give you goosebumps. I got one of those today. Of course, part of why it was so good was not only that it put the character in a perfect dilemma and the reader in a perfect chapter cliffhanger, but also because it was completely unexpected yet logical.
This all sounds so good, right? Well, the story turn was so unexpected, it startled me. It’s thrown my outline off. Which means I’m going to have to now revise the working outline. I was tempted to make the story fit. After all, I DO have a deadline. But this story turn is so freaking juicy that I cannot justify the hackery. Besides, working outlines are made for revision.
I’m riding by the seat of my pants today folks, and it’s exciting. I think readers are going to love this turn.
