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News For Nobodies

Hello, friends.  Just some brief pieces of catching up to make here, news what you might be able to use and all that.

ARCs for The Skybound Sea have been produced!

We will be running a contest for them, soon!…

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Awkward and Ugly

A question that comes up with unsurprising regularity has once again arisen in my inbox, like a recurring rash whose ensuing itch I do so love to scratch.  With apologies to the sender of this email, I’d like to post…

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Prancing Through Bloody Meadows

I am not a woman.

If I was, I’d probably have a name like Melinda.  A powerful name from parents who knew that I would know hardship in my time and wanted to give me a name that could withstand…

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Webcomics Round-Up: The Heckoning

Man, that last post was fairly heavy.  While I like doing that sort of thing from time to time, it’s nice sometimes to just talk about nerd stuff.  So, here, let me share with you some webcomics I’m reading lately.…

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Heaping Bones at the Feet of Kings

Every now and then, my wasting time on the internet will yield something useful beyond a slight increase of my already astonishing and sometimes frightening grasp of Taiwanese sensual arts.  And almost always it comes from observing other people complain…

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Literary Kitty Litter

As an opening note, I will be at the Tucson Festival of Books this upcoming weekend (not this one right now, otherwise you’d have missed it already and I’d be quite cross with you for not having come).…

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An Aeons’ Gate Retrospective

I just got this email in my inbox a few days ago from one of my editors, Lou Anders:

Starting today, FYI. Excited. Gearing up to want to stab you all over again.

This was in regards to the finished…

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Answer the Companions, Part 2: The Seed of Lust

they look like they're reading the same thing, don't they?

 

 

 

 

 

 

“And here we go, the bottom of the barrel or the cream of the crop, depending on which cliche you prefer.”

 

 

 

 

 

“Kind of hoping someone sent…

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Answer the Companions, Part I: Love and Terror

they look like they're reading the same thing, don't they?

 

 

 

 

 

 

“All right, all right.  Let’s get this over with.  Though I think if people can’t mate on their own, they’re clearly asking the wrong people.”

 

 

 

 

 

“Do…

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Black Halo: French Edition

Not a lot to tell you today, except the following:

1. I have the flu.  It was fun for awhile, but now I’m bored with it.  Do you want it?

2. Valentine’s Day is coming!  Would you care to participate…

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Who is Sam?

Sam Sykes is the author of The Aeons’ Gate trilogy, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage.  Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature.

At 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy.  Tome of the Undergates and Black Halo are currently published in nine countries.  He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now.

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