Writer's Grove
Maybe a Thriller?
Hope November’s treating you well! Mine’s fun so far. I have learned that SNOW HAPPENS but in Colorado people don’t freak out about it and actually know how to handle it so the roads are cleared efficiently and everyone goes about their business and it’s cool. No troubles!
Plus I have a warm Broncos beanie thingie* and a super cool sugar skull mug painted by my homie Delilah S. Dawson! Apparently there are these places where you get drunk and paint stuff and that’s their business plan. So I’m grateful for their genius and D’s because now I can enjoy my FESTIVELY PAINTED DEATH TOTEM HOT CHOCOLATE when it’s cold outside.
FICTION HAPPENINGS:
I finished an Iron Druid novella and a short story, both of which will be out next year! Details on release dates when I have them! Waiting on cover art and such. :) And now I’m working full speed on the first volume of my epic fantasy, A PLAGUE OF GIANTS. About 70K into it so far. If that was an IDC book I’d be almost finished but yeah for an epic that’s not even halfway. But PROGRESS! YES!
COOL STUFF!
I donate to Worldbuilders every year. It’s Patrick Rothfuss’s charity that benefits Heifer International. They help hungry people become self-sustaining agriculturally. Lasting positive change, in other words.
Besides simply donating some dinero, I also send them lots of signed books that you can win by donating on the Team Heifer page. You can also win a buttload of other signed books too—definitely check out the rundown here.
BUT! I also send them turbo-rare signed foreign editions. Know how many signed Hungarian editions of HEXED there are in the world? The one you can buy in the Tinker’s Pack—that’s it! Buy any of these and the proceeds go entirely to Worldbuilders. You score a rare signed edition for yourself or a friend and help hungry people eat at the same time. Win-win!
This screen cap is just a few of ’em—they have more if you go to the Tinker’s Pack, and what’s more there will be more soon because I can’t use the word MORE enough in this sentence. I need more MORE. But there will be Polish editions and Czech editions and MORE—
YOU CAN MAKE ME DANCE!
Every donation to Worldbuilders gets added to the pile and once that pile reaches a certain point I will be forced to make the absolutely worst Michael Jackson tribute video ever. I will both dance and sing “Thriller” if the stretch goal is reached. Since my dancing will resemble a twitchy walrus more than Michael Jackson, I have recruited some actual dancers to help me salvage the video. The Pulse Dance Company, all of whom can dance, will be doing the Thriller thing with me. But only if you donate! Rope all your friends into this! Win some books, help hungry people eat, and make me dance!
Love n’ tasty tacos,
Kevin
*Lest ye think I have “suddenly” become a Broncos fan, I will say unto thee: Nay. I’ve been a Broncos fan since I was a wee lad. For when I was wee in Arizona, there was no local NFL team. My nearest choices for fandom lay in either California or Colorado. I liked horsies, so boom: Broncos fan since kindergarten. Added the Cardinals when they moved into town and sucked for a really long, long time. I am still a fan of the Cardinals—they’re my NFC team and the Broncos are my AFC team—and it’s weird to think that my two fave teams have a chance of meeting in the Super Bowl this year. GO BOTH Y’ALL!
