Bricks Without Straw

Anarchy Books is running a promo for TRAJECTORY, and fellow Anarchy author Theresa Derwin 's book MONSTERS ANONYMOUS, starting September 1. ANARCHY BOOKS SIZZLING SEPTEMBER SUMMER PROMOTION In association with GEEK SYNDICATE www.anarchy-books.com www.geeksyndicate.wordpress.com In celebration of our two September releases, TRAJECTORY by John. S. Barker on 1 st September, and MONSTERS ANONYMOUS by Theresa Derwin on 30 th September, Anarchy Books is offering a FREE EBOOK every single day of September. We’re also running a competition with our very good friends, GEEK SYNDICATE, to win Anarchy Books’ entire digital catalogue of ebooks and their associated specially composed soundtracks, and our Geek Ninja Buddies will also give you exclusive info on where to find some of the hidden links and free books available from Anarchy this September. For more information during every Sizzling September Promo Day, visit Anarchy Books and Geek Sy...

Just got a book trailer for TRAJECTORY up on YouTube. Check it out!

I received the Advance Reading Copy files for TRAJECTORY today from Anarchy Books , in EPUB, MOBI and PDF forms, and using Adobe Digital Editions, immediately put the epub on my Kobo. Anyone interested in receiving an ARC copy for review purposes should contact Anarchy Books directly at anarchy-books at hotmail dot co dot uk, or post a comment here.

I just received word from my publisher that review copies of TRAJECTORY are going to be available in the next couple of days. About a hundred will be sent out. That thought is a bit scary, a bit like getting on a giant roller coaster after having downed a Big Gulp root beer. But, I'm in my seat and the bar is down. The wheels are clacking against the track as the coaster starts its climb. Okay. You get the picture. Partly to prepare myself for this electronic diaspora, I re-read the last 50 or so pages of the book today, which I haven't looked at for more than a year. So, fortunately, I still like what I wrote. I still think it asks some significant questions, and spins a good yarn. I think I have, as St. Paul wrote, "fought the good fight". An interesting and embarrassing side-note, today, too: I complained to my publisher that I couldn't place the text appearing in the background of the cover art, that it didn't seem to be from the book. Well, it isn...

I just returned from a little six-day holiday in Oregon, where moody grey days are offset by brilliant sunny ones and the constant breeze freshens your skin with salty air. It wasn't a perfect vacation - no matter where I go, work seems to haunt me like a zombie corpse - but I did manage to finish reading Peter Straub's A Dark Matter and then got well into Jo Nesbo's Nemesis . (I like a wide variety of reading material; what can I say?)