by john | Nov 10, 2011 | Real Life
From Larry Correia’s blog –
Amazon link to Variant: http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=monshuntnati-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=0062026089&ref=tf_til&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr
Today is the day to go purchase Variant by Robison Wells from Amazon, and then to tell all of your friends to do the same.
Rob Wells is a writer with a problem, and he’s lost his job because of that problem. You can help by buying his book, and by telling all your friends to do the same thing. I’m buying it today, and you should too.
Go to Larry’s blog to find out more – Monster Hunter Nation.
by john | Nov 9, 2011 | Appearances, Real Life
Are going to be busy.
I know, broken record and all that. But I’ve got quite a few things going on, and some of them are even exciting, so I figured I’d tell y’all about them. But first, I just deleted about 450 spam comments in one fell swoop from the blog here, so if you left a comment in the past week and it didn’t show up, please let me know what it said, because I probably just nuked it. Sorry.
Next week I’ll be hanging out at the NoDa Arts fest again, showing off new samplers of my short stories and the new canvas promo print. These samplers include a few stories from Returning the Favor, a few poems from Red Dirt Boy, as well as Voodoo Children and Knight Moves, which have never seen print before. It’s only $5, but the only way to get one is to see me in person.
Then the week after Thanksgiving I’m doing a signing at Park Road Books in Charlotte. I don’t do many signings, and even fewer in real bookstores, but Park Road Books is a great independent bookstore and they’re giving me a couple hours to do my thing. Come on out and get some Christmas shopping in!
I’m probably doing the 2-Day Noda Arts Fest in December, right after I get back from my annual Vegas degenerates’ gathering. If any of you guys want books, you gotta let me know how many to bring!
Then in January I’ll be a guest at Chattacon in Chattanooga. And I just got notice today that I’ve been accepted by ConCarolinas as a guest, so I’ll be there this summer.
Then at the end of March I’ll be quitting my day job to write full time. I stuck that at the end of the post to see who reads this far. After sixteen years with the same company, I’m going out on my own in the spring to scribble for a living. Wish me luck!
by john | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
Note – This is a sponsored post
So every once in a while, people will send me offers for nice things (or even better, cash) if I endorse their products. I don’t really know how they find me, and I don’t really care. I don’t accept all of these offers, probably two or three a year at most. But the most recent folks to reach out to me were the nice people at EasyCanvasPrints.com. They sent me an email asking if I’d review their product here, and in exchange they’d give me a nice sample.
I said sure, because I figured I could get one of my book covers turned into a nice promo piece, and then I’d give them some bloggy love, and that would be all cool. Well, I have to say, it turned out way better than I could have expected! I got an awesome 18″ x 27″ print of my Hard Day’s Knight cover that I couldn’t be happier with.
But that’s the end result, which is only half the process. Their website is super-easy to navigate, even if you don’t really know anything about printing on canvas (like me). It only took me one pass through to get my image uploaded, scaled and set up for printing. And anything that I can manage in one try must be super-simple. Even though I got my print for free, I thought their pricing was very reasonable. For an 18×27 print I think my cost was less than $100 delivered.
Their shipping was fast, and the packaging was very good. My print arrived in just a few days, with plenty of protective packing to make sure that everything arrived intact and undamaged by the vagaries of shipping companies.
So fast shipping, good packaging, reasonable pricing and awesome product – all adds up to a company I’d definitely use again! I love my print, and if I needed another promo piece or just an awesome piece of wall art I wouldn’t hesitate to use easycanvasprints.com.
Like I said, this was a sponsored post, they did give me a cool thing in exchange for my review, but I was absolutely thrilled with the product and the service, so it’s an honest review, I promise. And if you’re at any of my signings/readings in the next few months, you can check out the print for yourself!
