Upcoming

On June 17, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

My boss seems to think that my school year will be ending on Friday; I disagree and think I’ll need at least a couple of days next week, but one way or another it doesn’t look like I’ll be going until July like I originally thought. This is good, as I’m chomping at the bit to get moving on a couple of projects. All of the following are slated for some serious movement in the next few weeks:

Essay collation (no editing, rewriting, or new material yet) for Searching for Malumba, still planned to be my fall release. I did some work on this already but not much.
I’m starting the Skylights sequel, currently tentatively titled Starlight. I probably need to spend a couple of days in research mode before I write anything at all but I really want to get moving so maybe I’ll just fix up the science later. Starlight is currently slated for early 2016 but who knows.
At least one Benevolence Archives short story, this one for submission to Lightspeed magazine. Once Lightspeed rejects it it’ll become the first story for the next Benevolence Archives book, which will be another short story collection, tentatively called Tales from the Benevolence Archives. Release date? Who the hell knows.

Also, during the first weekend in July I’ll be signing and selling books in Creators’ Alley at InConJunction in Indianapolis. It’s a three-day con, and tickets are cheap, and the last day of the con is my birthday, so everyone ought to come by and say hello.

Sometime in there maybe I’ll look for a job, too. Whee!

School’s out! Sale! Sale! Sale! (EDIT: It’s live!)

On June 10, 2015June 10, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing6 Comments

As of right now, school ought to be ending, and all of my students ought to be going away for a couple of months, and I am probably not dead or in jail. Let’s celebrate the end of the school year with a book sale!

Right now, until about 20 hours from now– just before noon tomorrow, in other words– Skylights, The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 and The Benevolence Archives, Vol. 2: The Sanctum of the Sphere will be only ninety-nine cents at the Amazon. That’s not even a dollar! And a dollar is not a whole lot of money!

(Well, I hope right now. Chances are it’s either already started or it will within an hour or so. But it was supposed to start at 3! Amazon doesn’t do clocks very well.)

Roughly every 20 hours after that, the price will go up a dollar on everything but BA 1, which is always 99 cents at Amazon. The sale ends Saturday night, when both books go back to regular price. So if you don’t get around to picking it up immediately, or you’d prefer to give me more than 99 cents of your money, the sale will still continue for a bit longer.

Celebrate the end of a school year with some summer reading!

(EDIT: 5:38 PM Eastern, two and a half hours late, and the sale hasn’t started. Will update when it does. Am growing aggravated.)

ANNOUNCEMENT: A thing I might mention again soon

On June 7, 2015June 7, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing4 Comments

LUTHER SILER END-OF-THE-SCHOOL-YEAR BOOK SALE!

We’ll be celebrating the end of the school year by putting both of my novels on sale for a few days, assuming I’m still alive and not in jail at that time. Starting at 3:00 PM (roughly; Amazon’s not terribly diligent about punctuality on these matters) on Wednesday, June 10th, which should be right about the time my kids are leaving, and running through midnight Saturday night, we’re doing a Kindle Countdown Deal on both SKYLIGHTS and THE SANCTUM OF THE SPHERE.

Long story short: both books will be ninety-nine of your Americapennies basically all afternoon and evening Wednesday. They’ll go up a dollar roughly every twenty hours after that until the sale ends. More details to follow, but I thought I’d go ahead and announce it now.

BENEVOLENCE ARCHIVES, VOL. 1 remains 99 cents permanently at Amazon, or free at Openbooks.com or Smashwords.

In which a milestone is reached

On June 3, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing11 Comments

I sold my thousandth book today, a feat that took a year and three weeks. I feel pretty good about that, I think.

Sadly, that’s about all I feel good about at the moment. I’m in a bit of a mood; yesterday’s weirdness has sorta carried over into today and I pretty much want to sleep for a thousand hours. One for each book.

Five days of school left. I can do this.

(I promise, I’ll be normal tomorrow.)

REBLOG REVIEW: Skylights by Luther M Siler

On May 28, 2015May 28, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn ReviewsLeave a comment

Woo! Great write-up for SKYLIGHTS. Check it out!

Jedi by Knight

Skylights is the first full-length novel from Luther M. Siler, and it’s a perfect fun, quick summer sci-fi read. Journalist Gabriel Southern has been mysteriously chosen for a private mission to Mars. The goal? Find out what happened to the last mission.

The first part of the book, the preparation for the trip to Mars, unabashedly revels in details about the cutting-edge technology of the year 2027. There’s a lot of explanation, but it’s not tedious; in fact it’s rather joyous, and it was pleasant to read a story that was so tech-positive as opposed to the myriad dystopias/post-apocalyptic sci-fi on the market.

When the crew reaches Mars, the suspense kicks in. There were for sure a couple of parts that got my heart racing. The story has some creative twists, so just enjoy the ride.

The book is not too long and I never felt it drag. The…

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Brains are weird

On May 12, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn Writing3 Comments

So, weird thing: I got interviewed three times last week, and each time mentioned that I planned for my next book to be about teaching. I have the cover picked out and everything.

And then yesterday while I was proctoring the final set of ISTEP tests, the last two sentences of the sequel to SKYLIGHTS wrote themselves, and now I’ve got the broad plot outlines of both books done.

The sequel to SKYLIGHTS is called STARLIGHT, I think, in case you were wondering.

Hmmm.

(Still poorly. Hoping for fuller humanity tomorrow; we’ll see.)

Review!

On May 7, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn ReviewsLeave a comment

Melissa Barker-Simpson does a nice write-up of SKYLIGHTS over at her place. Tomorrow: another interview!

REBLOG: Sourcerer’s Eleven: Questions for Author Luther M. Siler

On May 4, 2015May 4, 2015 By Luther M. SilerIn WritingLeave a comment

This is a pretty cool interview of some dude by some other dude and you should check it out.

Sourcerer

This is the inaugural edition of a new feature: author/blogger interviews. Today I’m chatting with Sourcerer contributor Luther M. Siler, author of The Benevolence Archives and Skylights. Luther has graciously agreed to conduct the next interview.

1. You’ve just released The Sanctum of the Sphere, volume two of TheBenevolence Archives. Can you tell us a little about that series and how it came about?

I read an interview with Brian K. Vaughan, writer of the excellent comic book sci-fi series SAGA, right after George Lucas sold Lucasfilm to Disney. Vaughan made a point that resonated with me immediately: instead of getting mad at Lucas for doing what he wanted with what was, after all, kinda HIS stuff, why not channel that energy into making up our own stories? I don’t know that he specifically used SW as inspiration, but the question that ended up leading to…

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