SEARCHING FOR MALUMBA now available for pre-order!

On September 6, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing5 Comments

This is probably a teeny bit premature, since the book description’s not done and I’m not completely set on the price, but Searching for Malumba: Why Teaching is Terrible… and Why We Do It Anyway is officially available for pre-order at Amazon! The cost, in line with my other books, is a completely reasonable four of your dollars and ninety-five of your cents for what is currently a 116,000 word manuscript. A Goodreads page ought to be appearing at some point today too.

Release date is October 27, y’all. Woohoo!

New SKYLIGHTS review, and another announcement

On February 16, 2015February 16, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing8 Comments

Is it possible– I think it is– that Skylights hasn’t actually had a review on a blog yet? I’m up to seven at Amazon, all of which are four- or five-star reviews, and my interweb-buddy D. Emery Bunn just posted a four-star review of the book over at his website. He’d already provided me probably my favorite Twitter-friendly tag line for the book (“Half love letter to NASA, half space exploration porn”) and he just today came through with a full review.

It’s interesting, actually: this is probably the most critical any reviewer of the book has been, especially if I don’t count a textless two-star review at Goodreads. He liked it, but he definitely goes into some details about the parts of the book that didn’t work for him. I’m linking it anyway because I think the criticisms he raises are completely fair, and at least a couple of them are the direct result of deliberate decisions I made while I was writing the book. Sadly, not everyone is going to unconditionally love every single word I write.

Even though you all should.

Anyway, check the review out; the book itself remains a scant $4.95 as an ebook at Amazon, or a little bit more if you want the print edition.

I promised another announcement: I found out that Stone Skin Press was issuing a call for submissions for their anthology Swords v. Cthulhu yesterday. Thought about it, walked out to the living room, and said to my wife “Do you think I can pull together a submission for this in just two weeks?”

“Sure you can,” she said.

And maybe an hour later, I had my story– a story that, granted, has had barely a single word committed to a word processing document just yet, but who needs that, right? Anyway, point is, I’m totally in on submitting something to this anthology, which is always fun, and I’m posting it here because I have a sneaking suspicion that I have a few among my regular readership who might be interested in being my competition.

Anyway. That’s it for now; I’ll try and shut up until tonight unless something really interesting happens.

Not that you asked, but…

On July 28, 2014July 28, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn idiocy8 Comments

I have been gone all day on account of honest to goodness Sekrit Bizness that at the moment I am unable to divulge to other mortal hoo-manz. If you are immortal or a reptilian, let me know and I may give hints.

Also: omgtired. And I bought a PS4. Which I have no time at all to play.

Here we go here we go here we go

On May 10, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing3 Comments

NEWS: The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 has been submitted to Amazon and should be live within twelve hours. I will be spamming the crap out of everyone I know with links once I actually have a link. $2.99! You can find that in the couch. And I get to keep just south of $2 of that before taxes! Wheeee!

Launching a new book on Saturday is not the smartest idea I ever had, but at least I’ve learned how Amazon works: once you submit it, it’s submitted. There’s no “hold this until this date” option that I’ve found. I think I’ll probably be okay.

PRETTY THINGS UPDATE: Yeah, it’s summer. The lilac bush is flowering! It’s one of the few parts of my lawn that I actually like. Soon it will overgrow the back door to my house and I will have to hack at it with something sharp and I will not like it again, but for the next couple of weeks it’s going to be my favorite plant.

NIGERIA UPDATE: This article, written by an actual Nigerian, says many of the same things I said in my piece from yesterday except she doesn’t say “fuck” every four words. That post is kinda blowing up; it really entertains me how much my traffic multiplies when I get angry and swear a lot. Yesterday was the highest-traffic day since the Inexplicable Surge several weeks ago. 🙂

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

On May 2, 2014 By Luther M. SilerIn Geek, Writing3 Comments

I’m in the recliner again.

SECOND MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: all story-writin’ for “The Benevolence Archives: Volume One” is finished, meaning that all that is left is an editing pass or two and also the (hopefully) not terribly complicated step of figuring out just how in the hell one turns a document file into a competent-looking ebook and then it’ll actually be available for sale! I will, obviously, be letting y’all know repeatedly well in advance of the actual release date, so keep your eyes peeled here.

(Want to like me on Facebook? You can do that here. I’m not sure why you would, because Fazbuk is the dumb, plus I am immensely unlikeable, but go ahead anyway!)

THIRD MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: I have survived Standardized Testing Hell Week, and thus will do my damnedest to avoid mentioning it (other than announcing that I’m going to avoid mentioning it) for at least a few weeks.

FOURTH MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Holy crap the new Call of Duty trailer looks cool. I haven’t played a Call of Duty game in years and I haven’t liked a Call of Duty game since years before that, but dayum.

FIFTH MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: “Dayum” and “datum” aren’t the same word, stupid autocorrect.

SIXTH MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: I can’t remember what #6 was supposed to be, and my wife and son just got home, so maybe there will be another post tonight! Woo!