Click the image to see all the events this week!
What’s a blog tour? Well, it’s where I get to be a guest on many other people’s blog sites to get the word out about my latest release from Seventh Star Press, Blue Spirit, a Tipsy Fairy Tale!
Won’t you join me out on the virtual road and see what topics I wrote about?
Click the Image to Enter the Imaginarium!
I’ll be there, greeting people and selling my books, along with many other Seventh Star Press, Hydra Publications, and Speculative Fiction Guild authors!
NEW this year: Imaginarium 2015’s Expo is open to the general public for free! Come and browse a variety of vendors in the creative worlds of books, gaming, movies, art, and much more!
The Imaginarium Convention of Louisville, Kentucky is a writers convention that offers, panels, workshops, art, a film festival, a masquerade ball that hosts an costume/cosplay contest. It is a melting pot for writers, aspiring writers, publishers, readers, and anyone in the creative writing business to meet and network and learn.
Come see me!
I used a whiteboard app on my tablet to make this banner for the Hydra Summer Bash III (Oh Hell No). I’m kinda proud of it. Anyway, the Bash is an annual event where Hydra Publications puts most of its catalog up for sale for just 99 cents!
My own Reality Check is part of the sale, so give the image a click and see what looks interesting, won’t you?
Go get Reality Check for 99 cents this week only!
My publisher, Hydra Publications, is hosting the Hydra Summer Bash III! Selected titles from some of Hydra’s best selling authors are on sale for only 99 cents. The sale runs from August 17th until August 23.
Here’s a convenient short URL for the Bash, sorted by price so the sale items pop to the top:
And of course, here’s a link to my Amazon best selling science fiction / steampunk* novel, Reality Check (also 99 cents):
Surprise! This is my very first audiobook, and it was an amazing experience working with professional voice talent, Angel Clark on the project! She did a wonderful job voicing the characters and bringing Girl in the Gears to life.
The 17 chapters work out to 15-20 minutes each, for a total of 4 hours, so if you listen to podcasts and audiobooks during drive time or exercise, these should be convenient episodes for you.
If you want to be the first, outside of myself, Angel Clark, and her producer, to hear this transgender steampunk audiobook, click on the image to the right and get yours today!
In Trans-Continental’s Free City of New Orleans, Queen Melony rules in secret from Cafe La Fayette.
I’ll admit it, my writing stalled during Gen Con. I just had so much else going on that I took a break from Mississippi Queen and had some nerdy fun with friends for the Best Four Days in Gaming.
So, I thought I’d treat you with a peek at a new character from that second episode of Trans-Continental. Meet Queen Melony, a performer with pizazz and sass, who’s a savvy political tactician. She knows when to bluff and when to run, and she can bring the house down with her brassy rendition of the anthem of the Free City of New Orleans.
Girl in the Gears news: The audiobook format is recorded, edited, reviewed, and approved, waiting for final quality check by the powers that be before it goes live for sale on Audible/Amazon and iTunes!
Writing in the groove, sometimes I’m oblivious to my surroundings.
I’ll admit I rushed this one a bit, since I am off to stalk the convention center the day before Gen Con officially starts. I hope to get a little writing done, maybe in the Artsgarden, maybe not. Yes, that’s me on the left with the purple hair. I haven’t seen it outside yet, but it’s quite different. 🙂 I’ve had this goal of staying outside my comfort zone for a couple of years now, and this ought to do it.
But hey, Gen Con is my culture, my people. It’s like returning to some Brigadoon-like homeland that appears just once a year. I try to let myself not care what anyone thinks and let my geek/freak flag fly.
Other news!
Trans-Continental: Girl in the Gears is in its final stages, as editing is finished, and I just need to get the cover and some details taken care of. Should be coming to you soon through Audible and iTunes for your listening pleasure. I mean that too, my narrator is Angel Clark, and she does a spectacular job. Her voice characterizations really make the audiobook its own delightful experience, almost like a one woman radio play.
Meanwhile, I am 16,000 words into writing Trans-Continental: Mississippi Queen! My hope is to have the beta draft done by the end of the month. I have some folks reading along as I write it, and early feedback has been enthusiastic and positive. This likely means that I’ll have it out in ebook and print by the end of November.
For those of you going to Gen Con, I hope to see you there!
Caroline first appears in Sinking Down, book 2 of the Road Ghosts Trilogy, and she takes charge right away.
Happy Whiteboard Wednesday! It’s my dear friend Heather’s birthday today, so I thought I’d draw one of her favorite characters from the Road Ghosts Trilogy. The eerie similarities between Caroline and Heather are purely coincidental, of course!
Caroline is Lizzie’s ghost-hunting best friend who jumps in to take charge when the gang needs help during Sinking Down. Her paranormal knowledge and leadership skills are invaluable in Me and the Devil as well. She and Brett may not always get along, but there’s no question that things wouldn’t be as fun without her.
Duffy and Ida beg, borrow, and steal transportation to make their way to New Orleans for Mississippi Queen!
I have finally kicked my butt in gear and have started the next episode of Trans-Continental, Mississippi Queen. I even have an unexpectedly early cover from Summer Willhite that knocked my socks off. I’ll have a cover reveal on that probably within a month.
My goal is to have book 2 out by September-October. It’s ambitious, but I think it can be done. I’ve got over 5000 words written already, and I intend to keep up that pace as best I can without going the total NaNoWriMo route of neglecting all else in my life.
So, in today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, our heroines, Ida and Duffy, tramp their way to New Orleans, which is where Mississippi Queen begins.
Ida, Duffy, and a couple of other characters find intrigue aboard the steamboat Marie Curie.
I can’t claim #amwriting this week, unless you count research and planning as writing. And you should never* count those as writing, because they don’t contribute directly to wordcount, and they can often delay a project. However, I’m pleased with how my concept for Trans Continental, Episode 2: Mississippi Queen is shaping up.
In other news, I am looking into making an audiobook version of Girl in the Gears, I’ll post more when I know something. SO EXCITED!
* Technically, I wrote down notes, so that’s writing. And never listen when writers advise “never do this”, it’s sensationalist bull that works for one writer, not all.
E. Chris Garrison 
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