{"id":26965,"date":"2015-06-04T08:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T12:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=26965"},"modified":"2015-06-04T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T14:58:12","slug":"crunchy-little-newsbites-nom-nom-nom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/06\/04\/crunchy-little-newsbites-nom-nom-nom\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchy Little Newsbites, Nom Nom Nom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Various quickie updates, for those who care to have them:<\/p>\n

\u2022 I asked Scott Sigler if he wanted to take a look at my upcoming novel,\u00a0ZER0ES\u00a0<\/strong>(where hackers fight a sinister, self-aware NSA surveillance program), and he said, “Sure, kid, whatever,” and then he patted me on the head and gave my beard a lucky rub and then danced back into the forest from whence he came. Well, he has once more returned from the briar and he has given me not one blurb but, in fact,\u00a0several<\/em> of them. In fact, he blurbed the book while drinking whisky, and so the blurbs… they sort of degenerate quickly. He has posted the results of this drunken blurbing for all to behold<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. I laughed so hard at this until I realized\u00a0the one about pooping might accidentally\u00a0make it onto the book. *hurriedly emails the editor*<\/p>\n

\u2022 (Fine, jeez, if you want the actual blurb, I think this is the one you want:\u00a0\u201cZER\u00d8ES<\/strong> turns ones and zeroes into pure gold \u2014 Wendig hacks the action thriller.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Scott Sigler, New York Times best-selling author.<\/em>\u00a0Thanks to Scott, who rules.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 As a sidenote, while he was reading\u00a0ZER0ES\u00a0<\/strong>on the plane ride into Phoenix ComicCon, I was coincidentally reading his newest,\u00a0ALIVE<\/strong> — a head-trip YA thriller about a group of teens who wake up in coffins in a strange place and have to survive and figure out what the unmerciful crap\u00a0is going on. It’s weird and awesome. I like to think of it as\u00a0LORD OF THE FLIES<\/strong>\u00a0mashed up with\u00a0HELLRAISER<\/strong>. That comes out later this month so go make with the grabby-grabby<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Also<\/em> speaking of Herr Doktor Sigler, he recorded a podcast whilst at PHXCC with me and Delilah S. Dawson, and the three of us sit and chitter-chatter about being YA authors who also sometimes say really inappropriate things in public and in our books and oops is that bad? I’ll drop a link to the podcast when it emerges from the Internet the way Godzilla emerges from the briny sea.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Storybundle<\/strong>! A dozen e-books on writing by authors like Bob Mayer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith and yours truly. Set a price. Determine how much of that price goes toward bundler, author, and charity. You’ve got less than 24 hours left on the clock to nab it<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Atlanta Burns<\/strong> is on sale at Amazon along with a whoa-dang host of other great YA books<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — Gwenda Bond’s Girl on a Wire<\/strong>, Sarah Fine’s Sanctum<\/strong> series, Christina Farley’s Gilded<\/strong> series, and more.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fantasy Faction’s Dan Hanks did a very kind review of Under the Empyrean Sky<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — you can read the whole review here, but if you’re looking for a snippet: “Under the Empyrean Sky<\/em>\u00a0is that most wondrous of things \u2013 an intimate tale, set against an epic backdrop that leaves you feeling as though you\u2019ve experienced a story far grander than the words on the page actually convey. In that respect,\u00a0Star Wars: Aftermath<\/em>\u00a0is in great hands. And as for\u00a0The Heartland Trilogy<\/em>, I absolutely can\u2019t wait to see what happens next.” You can nab the first Heartland book right here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Some folks have said that I should talk more about the books I blurb on here, and to that end I totally agree, so let’s do that, yeah? I blurbed three books that landed very recently…<\/p>\n

\u2022 Peter Clines: The Fold<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. \u201cThe Fold\u00a0<\/i>is that rare thriller that always keeps just one step ahead of the reader\u2026a crackling, electric read.\u201d A group of scientists find a way to bend space and create a teleportation channel, except, oops, they don’t know how they did it and hilarity I MEAN TERROR swiftly ensues. The third act is gonzo amazing good times.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eva Darrows (aka Hilary Monahan): The Awesome<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. “Hilarious and twisted, this is one bad-ass jump-kick of a book. Moveover Buffy, because monster hunter Maggie Cunningham is in town.” If you want to meet the little sister of Miriam Black, this is probably your book. A sex-positive, ass-kicking YA heroine? Check the book out. (Also one of those rare books that tries to be funny and actually does it.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Richard Thomas: Disintegration<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. “Sweet hot hell, Richard Thomas writes like a man possessed, a man on fire, a guy with a gun to his head. And you\u2019ll read\u00a0Disintegration<\/em>\u00a0like there\u2019s a gun to yours, too. It\u2019s a twisted masterpiece.” This is just a fucked up book, folks. Like, in the best way possible. Noir thriller. Go grabby. It’s like, $2.99, to boot.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Last but not least, hey, I’m going to San Diego Comic-con! I’m doing one panel there that’s some kind of [edit: secret thing]. More details as I know ’em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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