Archives
Meta
Tags
Author Archives: Christian
Win Zenn Scarlett PLUS “Name Your Own Star” Gift Package! $80+ Value!
Hey, how’d you like to be able to name your very own, actual, up-in-the-sky star? Plus: have your star’s totally cool new name launched into space? Plus-extra-plus: win a print or eBook copy of Zenn Scarlett? (That would be the new … Continue reading
Posted in Authors & Their Books, Books, Space
11 Comments
Buckle up, SF and adventure-lovers… Zenn Scarlett On Sale Galaxy-Wide Now!
The blogs have been blogged, the reviews posted (see some below), the finished books shipped, the warehouses alerted, and racks of ‘puter servers and legions of postal workers everywhere are trembling in terror at the coming tsunami of bookish downloading-and-snail-mailing … Continue reading
Posted in Authors & Their Books, Books, Publishing
Leave a comment
Let the Wild Exo-Rumpus Begin: Zenn Scarlett Blog Tour!
Thanks to a roster of extranormously awesome bloggers and my editor at Strange Chemistry Books, the curtain goes up today on the Zenn Scarlett Blog Tour. The novel hits stores and download-buttons in about a month (May 7 in the … Continue reading
Posted in Authors & Their Books, Books, Publishing
1 Comment
Zenn makes some new friends…
“Utterly imaginative, Zenn Scarlett is sci-fi at its best. Fantastic world-building. Deep characters. And a story that will have you desperate for answers until the very end. I couldn’t put it down!” … Continue reading
Posted in Authors & Their Books, Books, Publishing
2 Comments
Most revealing post… ever: Zenn Scarlett Cover Art
The image for the cover of Zenn Scarlett materialized in my inbox recently. I’m seriously stoked about it. Simply… breathtaking, as in breath… taken. A number of blogs were in on the reveal & have been dishing up some tasty … Continue reading
Posted in Authors & Their Books, Books, Publishing, Space
2 Comments
NOW we’re gettin’ somewhere. Tractor beam… ENGAGED!
OK, so don’t go and open your interplanetary tow-truck service just yet. But this is still some pretty cool tech. The lab-coated humanoids at Scotland’s University of St Andrews (pretty sure Scotty’s lineage was in on this) and the Institute of Scientific … Continue reading
Posted in Space
Leave a comment
17 billion earth-size planets in the Milky Way galaxy. Cheers, 2013!
Some juicy numbers to start the new year with, courtesy of the Kepler planet-sniffing satellite, which is doing a great job, exceeding expectations and deserves a raise. Recent data sez Kep has found reasonable evidence for no less than 461 … Continue reading
Posted in Exobiology, Space
Leave a comment
ALIEN LIFE PERCOLATING UNDER SUPER-EARTHLY LIQUID-METAL UMBRELLAS?
Now then, the premise of the article that prompted this post is a bit of a stretch. A bit of a gi-normous not-bloody-likely stretch, actually, even for an exo-life-presumer like me. But I had to post it primarily because … Continue reading
Posted in Exobiology, Space
Leave a comment
Very good-to-simply-fab news for my fellow Strange Chemistry author, Gwenda Bond. Her recently published YA para-thriller Blackwood just got picked up for development by MTV via Kelsey Grammer’s production company. Couldn’ta happened to a cooler scribe. Check out the deal: MTV … Continue reading
Cover art whiz-bang-ery uncovered here.
I know I’ve highlighted some of this in earlier posts, but now there’s more graphic goodness to tout, so I’m re-touting…. Pubbery Strange Chemistry, carving out their niche as a leading new source of great Young Adult Science Fiction and … Continue reading
Posted in Authors & Their Books, Books, Publishing
Leave a comment