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    Elemental Assassin updates …

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    Well, the good news about the blog being down so long is that quite a bit of stuff has been happening with the Elemental Assassin series, which means I have some news to share.

    The biggest is this — the books are now going to be published in mass market format. Huzzah! 😎

    I cannot tell you how excited I am about this move to mass market. Given the craptastic economy, the cheaper format will mean that the books are much more affordable for folks — $6.99 or $7.99 versus $14 or $15 for a trade paperback.

    The release schedule is still the same — Assassin 1 in February, Assassin 2 in June, and Assassin 3 in October. Since the books are going to be released in the mass market format, they will actually hit shelves a week early, which means that Spider’s Bite, the first book in the Elemental Assassin series, will now be out on Jan. 26, 2010. Not that I’m counting down the days or anything … 😉

    Also, in the last month, I’ve done copy edits for Spider’s Bite, revisions on Assassin 2 (title still to be determined), and I’m getting revisions on Assassin 3 from my editor this week. So stuff is finally starting to happen on the production end of things.

    Oh yeah, and I’ve started writing Assassin 4 too, just in case my publisher wants more books in the series (which I hope they do).

    Anyway, that’s what’s been going on with me and my books. What have you guys been up to while we’ve been on forced hiatus? Share in the comments.

  • I’m baaaack …

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    I’m back! 😎

    For those of you wondering were I’ve been, well, back around the first of May, my Web site got hacked. I did manage to do a blog post about that before the hack completely took the site down.

    Anyway, my Web site guy put the site back up about two weeks later. I did some work on it — and then it got hacked again.

    I kid you not. The very next freaking day.

    Evidently, somebody out there either doesn’t like me or just enjoys trashing people’s sites. Because it was a pretty bad hack with lots of nasty, corrupt files everywhere. Anyway, it took my Web site guy a while to go back through and weed out all the bad files. (Thank you, Justin!)

    The result of which is that now all the information on the site is about two years old. Sigh. I have a backup copy of the info from the last time I updated the site, but it’s going to take me a while to go back through and physically change and reformat all the pages again.

    Anyway, thanks for your understanding and patience. Hopefully, the site will not get hacked again as I (slowly) restore all the old information. But if it does go down again, then that is why. And know that I am working to get it back up as quickly as possible.

    In the meantime, we will return to our regularly scheduled blog posts. I’ve got a ton of books to review, and I’ve managed to see some of the summer blockbuster movies.

    Oh yeah, and I’ve got some news on the Elemental Assassin books to share too. 🙂

    I’m glad to be back!

  • Legendary Ts…

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    I have a lot of love for the TV show How I Met Your Mother. So you can imagine my delight when I saw a link for T-shirts with sayings from the show.

    I might have to get one of these to go with my A-Team T-shirt. 😉

  • Random question of the day …

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    What are you reading right now?

    I’m working my way through The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. It’s basically an epic fantasy heist book about a group of thieves called the Gentlemen Bastards. Pretty cool, so far.

    In the near future, I plan to read Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas; What A Scoundrel Wants by Carrie Lofty; and Lover Avenged by J.R. Ward, along with a stack of fantasy books that I have.

    What about you guys? What are you reading right now? Share in the comments. And happy reading this weekend!ÂÂ