Sigil of the Wyrm: Cover Reveal

Posted by Rampant Coyote on August 1, 2015

There’s a new urban fantasy book coming out on August 25th by one of my fellow authors at Xchyler Publishing,  A.J. Campbell. It’s the first of the “Into the Weirding” series, entitled Sigil of the Wyrm: It’s available now for pre-orde from Amazon. Here’s a little reveal video to go with it: Have fun!

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Salt City Steamfest and Steampunk Video Games

Posted by Rampant Coyote on July 15, 2015

I’m going to be at Salt City Steamfest this weekend, Friday and Saturday. I won’t be showing off Frayed Knights 2 or anything, but I will be with the Xchyler Publishing booth selling and signing books, talking to folks, and attending what panels I can. And generally having fun being all steampunk-y. What is “Steampunk?” […]

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Book Break!

Posted by Rampant Coyote on June 30, 2015

I interrupt the regularly scheduled Wizardry 8 archive reprints to talk about some books – just released, soon-to-be-released, and not-quite-as-soon-to-be-released. First up is another Steampunk anthology from Xchyler Publishing called “Steel and Bone.” I’m not one of the authors of this one. However, I have several friends who are, including my long-time collaborator on games […]

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The Void – a Virtual Reality Theme Park?

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 12, 2015

When I was a kid, I read the science fiction novel “Dream Park” by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes. This was after Dungeons & Dragons had become something of a cult hit. The story followed sort of a live-action role-playing experience inside a virtual reality amusement park. As life imitates art (which imitated life…), people started trying […]

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Impressions: Ready Player One

Posted by Rampant Coyote on May 7, 2015

Somehow, the book Ready Player One by Earnest Cline never quite made it onto my radar, though I’d heard it mentioned in passing a couple of times. A friend recommended it to me this weekend, so I had to check it out. And then I had trouble putting it down. Is it a masterwork of storytelling? […]

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Fictional Firearms: Ten Pet Peeves

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 28, 2015

I finally got around to reading Larry Correia’s Monster Hunter International, the first of his best-selling series. I enjoyed it a great deal, and I understand the series gets significantly better from there. (Hey, Jim Butcher’s first couple of Dresden novels were a little on the rough side, too).  The story doesn’t shy away from some […]

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Indie Books, and Book Length

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 16, 2015

I’m still a newbie to the author world. It’s been exciting to learn new stuff, and of course to have my stories published and actually make money at it. Not a lot of money, especially for the time put in, but I feel like I’m still in training. I probably always will be, if my […]

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Why I love science fiction

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 10, 2015

I have never known the moon upon which man has never set foot. I realize that most of my audience here is in the same boat. In my case, technically I predate the Apollo 11 moon landing by just a few weeks. It changed in my lifetime, although I was far too young to recognize […]

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The Awards Problem

Posted by Rampant Coyote on April 6, 2015

At the Academy Awards in 2014, two of the voters for the film that one Best Picture admitted later that they’d never actually watched the film. They thought they’d have been “disturbed” by it, but voted for it anyway because of its presumed “social relevance.” I suspect that this happens a lot, but it was […]

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More MM2 Interviews

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 27, 2015

You can probably detect a pattern here this week. 🙂 Here’s an interview with MK Wiseman about her story, The Silver Scams. She was also in the first Mechanized Masterpieces anthology, with a “sequel” to Phantom of the Opera. And one with D. Lee Jorner, author of “Payoff for Air Pirate Pete”, on J. Aurel […]

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Steampunk and Mechanized Masterpieces

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 26, 2015

I was both a little early and late to the whole Steampunk concept. I was a fan of “Cyberpunk” back in the late 80s and early 90s (yes, I’m that old), and so I really enjoyed books by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. When I found out they were collaborating on a non-cyberpunk (or, as […]

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Mechanized Masterpieces 2 – Interview With Jay Barnson

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 24, 2015

Okay, as part of the whole “blog tour,” this time I get to be the one interviewed Here’s the interview with me over at A Virtual Hobby Store and Coffee House. An excerpt: 5. What are your top 3 favorite books? If I were to limit myself to fiction, I’d say… Neuromancer by William Gibson, […]

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Mechanized Masterpieces 2 Interview: Megan Oliphant (Winged Hope)

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 23, 2015

Mechanized Masterpieces 2: An American Anthology is an upcoming anthology of steampunk short stories coming out on the last day of February – this Saturday! I’m so excited for you all to see it. I’ll be focusing a bit on it all week. We’re starting the week out with a bang, though – an interview […]

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Coming Soon: Mechanized Masterpieces 2

Posted by Rampant Coyote on February 10, 2015

“I’m dying already, Mr. Chase. I don’t know that I will survive another sleep in that machine, or another week outside of it. I should be long dead already.” “But why accelerate it?” Miriam pleaded. “Because I’m done surviving. I need to live again, if only for a few hours. I need to be strong, […]

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Mechanized Masterpieces 2: An American Anthology Cover Reveal

Posted by Rampant Coyote on December 17, 2014

It’s still a couple of months away, but my publisher has revealed the cover of the next Steampunk anthology, which includes the story “The Van Tassel Legacy” by yours truly: We’re in the final stages of editing right now. I haven’t read any of the other stories, but I know some of the authors and […]

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Books: I’m getting published again

Posted by Rampant Coyote on October 13, 2014

I’m going to interrupt my discussion of good indie games for the Halloween season (probably not the only interruption this week) to announce that my fiction is getting published again. Mechanized Masterpieces: A Steampunk Anthology was how I discovered Xchyler Publishing. It’s an anthology of Steampunk short stories with a very amusing twist – they are all […]

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