Matt Heckler at the Android Dreamer blog has put up a review of The Know Circuit as part of his cyberpunk month. I want to thank Matt for his great review. You can read the full review here. Overall, he gives the book a B+, rating it higher than he did Under the Amoral Bridge. Sometime during this month, he'll be posting an interview with me as well, which I'll post when I get the chance.
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Showing posts with label Cyberpunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cyberpunk. Show all posts
Friday, March 4, 2011
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Connection: Keep Alive - Part 3
This story takes place one month after the events in The Know Circuit. Part 1 is available here and part 2 is available here.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Connection: Keep Alive - Part 2
This story takes place one month after the events in The Know Circuit. Part 1 is available here and part 3 is available here.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Connection: Keep Alive - Part 1
This story takes place one month after the events in The Know Circuit. Part 2 is available here and part 3 is here.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
T.R.C., Part 2
This short story takes place between the events of Under the Amoral Bridge and The Know Circuit. Part 1 is available here.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
T.R.C., Part 1
This short story takes place between the events of Under the Amoral Bridge and The Know Circuit. Part 2 is available here.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Anatomy of a Credit Assasination - Part 2
his short story takes place after the events of Under the Amoral Bridge and a few days before the beginning of The Know Circuit. Part 1 is available here.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Anatomy of a Credit Assasination - Part 1
This short story takes place after the events of Under the Amoral Bridge and a few days before the beginning of The Know Circuit. Part 2 is available here.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
The Know Circuit Featured on The Indie Spotlight
My second cyberpunk novel, The Know Circuit, was featured last week on The Indie Spotlight. The Spotlight is a site run by the self-published authors Edward C. Patterson (founder of Operation eBook Drop) and Gregory Bernard Banks, owner of WheelMan Press. The article features an interview with me and an excerpt from the book. Click here to see the spotlight and if you'd like to buy the book, you can find out where to get it on this page. Thanks to Ed and Greg for providing indie authors a place to hawk their wares.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The Run, Part 2
This short story takes place in September, 2026, almost two years before the events depicted in Under the Amoral Bridge, almost a year before the Los Angeles Riots of 2027. Below is the second of two parts. Part 1 was posted on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
The Run, Part 1
This short story takes place in September, 2026, almost two years before the events depicted in Under the Amoral Bridge, almost a year before the Los Angeles Riots of 2027. Below is the first of two parts. Part 2 will be posted on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
A New Direction - Two Degrees to the Left
You may notice a slight difference in the look of the web site today, as well a new title - Tales from the Bridge Chronicles. The reason for the change is a slight shift in the purpose of this web site. In the early days, this site was my main and only source for distribution of the Bridge Chronicles stories, before they were called The Bridge Chronicles. Since I've decided not to release the upcoming novels in the series for free anymore, that leaves this site pretty bereft of new content other than links to reviews of the books. To let this site go entirely to seed, though, would be to waste some great marketing potential.
Friday, September 17, 2010
New Bridge Short Story on The SciFried.com
A new science-fiction community portal has opened up, called The SciFried.com. Brandon of The Drunken Scholar fame, asked me if I could write a special short story to appear on the site and I agreed. The result? An entirely new, unpublished Artemis Bridge short story called The New Transfer Protocol. Head on over to SciFried.com and read the story, and keep checking back here for updates on the Bridge Chronicles. There should be some interesting news for Bridge fans soon.
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Red Adept Reviews Under the Amoral Bridge
Red Adept Reviews, one of the most well-respected Kindle eBook reviewers, posted a review today of my debut cyberpunk novel, Under the Amoral Bridge. She gave it an amazing 4 3/4 stars! You can read the full review here, and there's a taste after the jump.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Great Review of Under the Amoral Bridge at InkSplashD
Author David Alexander has a blog called InkSplashD and has recently reviewed the eBook version of Under the Amoral Bridge. He gave it a great review, with the only real negatives being the formatting of the ePub version - something he notes is a problem with many of Smashwords' ePub versions. From the review:
I downloaded the ePub version of the file from Smashwords and shuttled it to the top of my TBR pile. That was like a week ago. Off and on, over the course of the next few days, I managed to finish all 51,000 words.
And let me tell you, I need Book 2. The book was well written, dialog was sharp, and descriptions were pretty much on-point. Ballard doesn’t hit you over the head with pretty prose or pages upon pages of description. There’s nothing pretty in 2028 Los Angeles. His prose comes off sharp, the characters acerbic.
I'd like to thank David for his excellent review!
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Interview with David Wisehart at Kindle Author Blog
David Wisehart, author of Devil's Lair
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
The Bridge Chronicles, Books 1 & 2 - eBook Compilation for sale now!
With two novels released in The Bridge Chronicles series, I wanted to offer new readers a chance to get the whole series with one purchase. Doing this as a paperback is somewhat cost-prohibitive at the moment, but an eBook costs me next to nothing and can be easily and quickly deployed. As such, I've collected both Under the Amoral Bridge: A Cyberpunk Novel (The Bridge Chronicles)
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Good Things Are Coming - The Next Bridge Novel and the Future of This Blog
Followers of my Twitter feed will no doubt be aware that I've been hard at work on the sequel to the recently-released The Know Circuit since October of last year. With the long holiday weekend, and an extra day taken off of work, I hope to conclude the first draft of this novel if not this week, within the next two weeks. In the past, I've serialized the Bridge novels on this blog in full, giving the entire story away for free before packaging each novel as a paperback and eBook, hoping that ad revenues will grow enough to generate some revenue. This has not happened. There simply isn't enough traffic on this site to justify continually giving the novels away for free, and sales of the other versions have done well enough to make the idea of a free serial novel somewhat silly. As I discussed earlier in my post on pricing, it no longer makes sense. So what does that mean for future Bridge novels and for this blog? Good things, actually.
As I've said, both Under the Amoral Bridge and The Know Circuit will remain on this web site for the foreseeable future. But without a new novel to drive traffic to this site, what should I do with this blog, other than post updates on the new novels, links to reviews on my work and other appearances? I've always believed in giving the fans a little something for nothing, that is what I intend to do. Starting in mid-August (providing I finish the next novel on time), I plan to release free short stories set in the Bridge universe at the rate of one a month. These stories will vary in size and subject matter. Not all of them will feature Bridge - he will have cameos in some of them, but not all. You may see many peripheral characters from the universe I've established starring in their own little adventures. This is a way for me to flesh out some areas of the setting without having to create an entire novel centered around Bridge, as well as to explore some concepts that may not otherwise make any sense as a Bridge story. Two of the stories are written in rough form already, and I have ideas for at least six or seven others. Keep following my Twitter feed for updates on when you'll see some new stories. This series of stories will be known as Tales from the Bridge Chronicles, and once there are enough of the stories, I will likely bundle them all up and release them as a lower-priced eBook. If demand is strong enough, they may even end up as a paperback.
As for Bridge himself, there's that third novel and a fourth is in the back of my mind. Today, I want to announce the title of the third Bridge novel, which I hope to release either later in 2010 or early 2011. And so, I announce that the title of my third Bridge novel is:
if [tribe] =
You can read that as "if tribe equals." I'm really excited about this story and the changes it will make to Bridge and the people in his circle. It's topping out at a bit longer than The Know Circuit, and I know fans of The Bridge will love it.
Check back with me often and thanks for your support!
Monday, June 21, 2010
Under the Amoral Bridge eBook Free - One Day Only!
Would you like an eBook copy of my first cyberpunk novel, Under the Amoral Bridge, for free? Of course, you could always read the whole novel for free at the link above, but for today only (Monday, June 21), you can get the eBook in a variety of formats free from Smashwords.com. Simply go to this link, add the format of your choosing to your cart, and when you reach checkout, put in the coupon code EP62B. There's your free eBook! If you read and enjoy it, please consider posting a review on any site you can find, but especially Amazon.com, Smashwords, Goodreads, or the Kindleboards. All those reviews help increase my visibility on the Internet and Amazon specifically, which means increased sales and every sale counts for a struggling indie author like myself. I hope you enjoy the novel!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
The Know Circuit is Released!
It took what felt like forever, but Amazon has finally listed The Know Circuit in both paperback and eBook! With that final piece, the sequel to my cyberpunk debut is officially released. Go there today and order 100 copies for you and your friends.
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