The paperwork isn't all done yet, but I've accepted Brilliance audio's offer on the Early Years trilogy (starting with COLD CITY in the fall) and all the remaining unrecorded Repairman Jack novels.

The entire LaNague Federation series (5 novels and all the short stories) was exclusively Kindle for years. Now available in all ebook formats.

An Enemy of the State
Wheels within Wheels
Dydeetown World
The Tery
Healer

Because no one demanded it...NSFW

[video=youtube;5K1RcKJVbHA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K1RcKJVbHA&feature=player_embedded[/video]

This was a lot of fun to see in a crowded theater. People felt free to cheer on their favorite hotties during dance routines. The audience was mostly women but a few guys were there (mainly dragged there by their girlfriends from what I could tell). One guy, to embarass his girlfriend, shouted "yeah, my man Matthew" when Matthew appeared on stage. It added to the fun.

Definitely go while it's still popular enough to draw large crowds.

If you are a fan of James Roy Daley about 6 of his books are free on Amazon Kindle right now! I don't know how long they will be free. I love his stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/James-Roy-Daley/e/...=pricerank

I came across this article this morning. I don't know if anyone has already posted about this, but having also just finished Fatal Error this morning, it was a little disturbing.
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http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/Interne...index.html[/URL]

The Kindle folks converted the old .pdf files of the LaNage novels for me in return for an exclusive on them. The period of exclusivity is done and so now I'm expanding distribution. DYDEETOWN WORLD has been up for a while, and now AN ENEMY OF THE STATE is available for $2.99 in all e-formats HERE. HEALER and WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS to follow soon.

6/1-3 - at a microcon where they’re serving thousands of $$ worth of craft beers. Ever have coffee-flavored stout with breakfast? Neither had I.


6/5 - you DO know that we're on a collision course with Andromeda, right? Here's a mind-boggling rendition of what the sky will look like when that happens. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120604.html


6/6 - live, acoustic Beach Boys. They look like train wrecks, but that harmony is still there. http://tinyurl.com/bs8xlnj


6/6 - RIP Ray Bradbury - what he meant to me here: http://tinyurl.com/85foyyo


6/7 - at BEA (Book Expo America) in NYC today. Publishing's musical chairs continues - I keep running into familiar faces in unfamiliar places


6/7 - excellent dinner and good company at the Lamb's Club after BEA with good company.


6/10 - saw the B'way revival of "Harvey" - thought Jim Parsons was pretty damn perfect as Elwood. Forgot what a feel-good story it is.


6/14 - this has sort of been my view all along... http://twitpic.com/9wav52


6/19 - Repairman Jack pulls a traumatized soldier back from the pits: http://tinyurl.com/7xko9wz


6/21 - this video has been around a long time but I still laugh every time I see it: [video=youtube;tuj9tU5tAP4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuj9tU5tAP4[/video]


6/21 - flying up to NH for a guest speaker gig at Porcfest, the annual libertarian gathering. My first time there. Should be fun.


6/22 - Porcfest: agorists, anarchists, minarchists, voluntarists, Free Staters, open-carrying gays (straights too) - no gov't in sight.


6/23 - the Porcfest green room has Hendricks and Patron. I hate these decisions.


6/24 - crap. My flight out of NH is canceled. Must spend night in Holiday Inn. At least they have a cool diner http://www.thecman.com/restaurants/airport-diner/


6/24 - I’m interviewed in the Library Police 78 podcast. Check it out: http://www.clydeumney.net/librarypolice/index.htm#ep78


6/29 - okay, I've said I'm not doing short fiction anymore, but I was asked to contribute to an E.R. Burroughs tribute anthology. How could I refuse? I spent the first half of my teens devouring his stuff. Terrible prose, excruciating dialogue, wonderful imagination. I know the ultimate secret of Pellucidar. Must... reveal...


6/30 - my Pellucidar novelette is practically writing itself (now, if the damn thing would only TYPE itself...)

5/1 - Hearing they’ve completed a film based on your book is like hearing there’s been a shooting at your child’s school. (Unknown)


5/2 - Nice review of NIGHTWORLD http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=13124


5/2 - If you can’t annoy somebody, there’s little point in writing. (K. Amis)


5/3 - Well, whatta ya know... my 2 favorite grapes are the healthiest: http://tinyurl.com/7kjar5e


5/3 - What kids think of the classics. Some are very funny: http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/...tbookever/


5/3 - NIGHTWORLD - Here's another sweet review of NIGHTWORLD http://horrorworld.org/hw/2012/05/nightworld/


5/4 - I'll be an instructor next January at the Borderland Writers Bootcamp along with Tom Monteleone and Brian Keene. They're accepting applicants now: http://borderlandspress.com/workshops.html


5/6 - A ms, like a fetus, is never improved by showing it to someone before it is completed. (unknown)


5/11 - BREAKING NEWS received in email: Osama Bin Laden was living with =3= wives in =1= compound which he didn't leave for =5= years. It is now believed that he called the Navy Seals himself.


5/15 - Now THIS is scary: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120515.html


5/16 - Thanks for all the kind comments on NIGHTWORLD. Here's the soundtrack, so to speak - the songs Jo and Freddy played on WFPW-FM during the novel.
“Fixing a Hole” - The Beatles
“The Night Has a Thousand Eyes” - Bobby Vee
“Frantic Desolation” - Sopwith Camel
“What’s Goin’ On?” - Marvin Gaye
“Sunlight” - Youngbloods
“Fishin’ Blues” - Taj Mahal
“Beyond the Sea” - Bobby Darin
“Life During Wartime” - Talking Heads
“Baby, Please Don’t Go” - Them
“Heading for the Light” - Traveling Wilburys


5/21 - I intro'd Rohmer's THE LEOPARD COUCH wherein I met the mysterious and fascinating Madame De Medici http://tinyurl.com/7fnyqc2


5/23 - I have the best readers in the world. This is so cool - you must see! http://pic.twitter.com/uKmyyk6q


5/24 - if you haven't heard Penn Jillette's rant on Obama joking about doing weed and "a little blow," you must: [video=youtube;wWWOJGYZYpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWWOJGYZYpk[/video]


5/25 - Saw "Avengers 3D" - very cool. Hulk-Loki smackdown ("Puny god!") best evah. The whole theater cracked up.

Anyone else excited to catch the film adaptation of Don Winslow's Savages? I read both Savages and it's prequel, The Kings of Cool, and thought highly of them both. I'm starting to read other Winslow books, going back to his Neal Carey series.

Savages, for those who don't know, is about Ben and Chon, two Laguna Beach pot growers who've developed some killer herb due to Ben's degree in Botany. They share a common girlfriend/sex partner, O (for Ophelia). The Mexican drug Cartel makes an offer to Ben and Chon--either sell us your primo weed at cost and allow us take over your customers/territory, or you can have your heads chopped off. (The cartel sends them an mpeg of a row of decapitated heads.)

Ben and Chon decide they'd rather just quit then work for the Cartel. Elena, the matron of the Cartel, and someone you most definitely don't want as an enemy, orders O to be kidnapped and held until either Ben and Chon work three years for the Cartel or come up with a flat payment of twenty million dollars.

That's when Ben and Chon decide to rob the Cartel, in disguise, to produce the extra cash needed to buy O's freedom.

The film version stars Taylor Kitsch, Aaron Johnson, and Blake Lively as Chon, Ben and O. Salma Hayek, John Travolta and Benicio Del Toro also star as Elena, Dennis, a crooked DEA agent, and Lado, a stone cold killer who works for Elena.

The film opens July 6. It'll have some serious competition with Spidey, but I will definitely be choosing Savages over Spidey, at least as to what film I'll be seeing first. I'm a sucker for intelligent action films and I liked the book quite a lot, so I'll be going to see this with high hopes (no pun intended).