Category Archives: Authors & Their Books

Here, I’ll be posting about – and with luck receiving posts about and from – authors who have sold a book, or books, to publishers and know how that works and who are only too happy to share. I don’t really know the self-publishing realm, but would be interested to hear from any of you with experience, good or ill, in that arena.

So, this book you keep going on about…. is it actually any good?

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Christian

    “An exciting and worthy follow-up to Zenn Scarlett, with an assortment of loveable new characters… Under Nameless Stars was a perfect blend of action and adventure, character development and humor. Schoon once again proves how inventive he is … Continue reading →

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The physical thing arrives. Has mass. Has heft. Is a book.

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Christian
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Zenn visits Books Bones & Buffy for a chat. Plus: animal pix!

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Christian

The Under Nameless Stars Blog Tour bus pulls into the spacious campus parking lot of Tammy Sparks’s hangout for an interview and some photo-bits from the Schoon farm. Join us! Blog Tour & Giveaway: UNDER NAMELESS STARS – Interview & … Continue reading →

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…and for those keepin’ track: the Scheduled Stops of the Under Nameles Stars Tour Bus! (OK, there’s no bus… Just a tour.)

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Christian

Drop by one of the very fine blogs who’ve been coerced into… ermm… who’ve invited me to drop by and ramble on about Zenn Scarlett’s new adventure: 10 March: Strange Chemistry 11 March: Troubled Scribe 12 March: My Bookish Ways 13 … Continue reading →

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Feelin’ lucky? Huh? Are ya, Earther? Then enter now to “Name a Nameless Star” and win free books too!

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Christian

Here’s the deal: Strange Chemistry is givin’ away my books and more to mark the launch of Zenn Scarlett’s new adventure, Under Nameless Stars. So, you’re gonna wanna enter the contest below to be in the running to win copies … Continue reading →

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Hey, Earther! Read the first pages of Zenn’s new adventure: Under Nameless Stars. Clickety!

Posted on March 8, 2014 by Christian

In Zenn Scarlett, our young heroine barely survived the plot to destroy the Ciscan Cloister exoveterinary clinic where she’d hoped to complete her novice year of training. Now, instead of her usual routine of caring for the Cloister’s menagerie of … Continue reading →

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Zenn’s next adventure looms… How can you tell? Blog Tour Banner!

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Christian

Book two of the Zenn Scarlett series launches into the star-sequined cosmos in April. And the banner above proves it. Details on the tour stops to follow. Excited. And very. So, can you pre-order this electrifying little package of off-world wonderment right this second … Continue reading →

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Book signing with Joe Haldeman just before ICON 38. With. Joe. Haldeman. Holy frak.

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Christian

What can I say? Seriously. This was epic-ness on a epic-ly epic scale. Stories from the word-cratered battlefields of the publishing universe? Mr. Haldeman got stories. And his wife Gay can match him. OK, done fan-boying. For now. The signing … Continue reading →

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And now: Cover art/synopsis reveal for Under Nameless Stars – Zenn’s new adventure kicks your sci-fi thrill-o-meter into the red zone. Coming April, 2014.

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Christian

Zenn Scarlett’s novice year of exoveterinarian training on Mars isn’t quite going to plan… After barely surviving a plot to destroy her school and its menagerie of alien patients, could things at the Ciscan cloister get any worse? Yes, they … Continue reading →

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Author-type events comin’ up – Zenn Scarlett Hits the Road!

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Christian

Here’s what’s on the schedule so far this summer in the way of Zenn Scarlett book readings/signings/author-sitting-around-looking-authorial events: June 29th, 1:00 PM – New Bo Books, Cedar Rapids – Reading/Signing August 3rd, 2 PM – Barnes & Noble, Cedar Rapids – Book … Continue reading →

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