Just a reminder that I’ll be signing books (and/or magazines) in the Bookstore (located in the Campus Center) at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio on Friday, October 23rd from Noon – 1:30. There will be a small supply of books on hand for you to buy, so if you’re in the area and want to stop by, I would suggest ordering a copy asap to ensure you have it in time (you can always bring in your own copy for me to sign).
Visit the Storefront to find out where you can pick up a copy.
Any Fantasy & Science Fiction writers/readers out there? If so, here is your chance to win a few things directly from my bookshelf. All the below items are in New and Unread condition.
From Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine:
Issues:
December 2008, featuring: Wayne Wightman, John Langan, Eugene Mirabelli, Robert Reed & Warner Law.
January 2009, featuring: Charles Coleman Finlay, Carol Emshwiller, Barry B. Longyear & Jerry Oltion.
February 2009, featuring: Fred Chappell, Jack Cady, Charles Coleman Finlay & Mario Milosevic.
March 2009, featuring: Marc Laidlaw, Daniel Abraham, Robert Bloch & Yoon Ha Lee.
From Baen Publishing:
Baen CD-ROM Library Version 19 – The Tuloriad Disk (2009).
The magazines retailed at the time they were on the store racks for $4.99 each (they sell back issues on their site for $6.00 each) and have around 160 pages in each mag. So the value of the mags alone is around $20.00. The below CD-Rom was given to me back in June (2009) at Hypericon 5 (convention) directly from the publisher.
How To Enter:
Send an email to me (ty_schwamberger@yahoo.com) with a Subject Line of ‘Fantasy & Science Fiction Contest’ along with your full name and mailing address. Only one entry per person allowed. If you do not send your full name and mailing address at the time of entry, your email will be deleted (so, no, I do not want another email stating, ‘I will send you my mailing address if I win’.). Contest ends on October 30th at Midnight. The winner will be notified on or about November 1st.
Good Luck!
My short story, ‘Cake Batter’ that was optioned for a short film by Shadetree Films will go into Production this coming weekend. Rehersal is set for the actors/actress tonight and then the film will be shot at two different locations over the next two weekends.
I’ll of course keep you updated, especially when the filming and editing are completed and when/where you can buy the film on DVD.
Night School is now available for $9.00 off the cover price at Hastings. So if you’ve been waiting on a sale to pick one up now is your chance!
And remember, you can always read and/or listen to excerpt(s) here and watch the 1-minute book trailer to Night School by visiting my YouTube page.
(And for those of you outside the U.S. that want to order the book, I’ve also added a few foreign bookstores to the Storefront as well)
My latest book review for Withersin Magazine – Murderland Part I – H8 by Garrett Cook has been published.
Click here to read the review (scroll to the bottom of the page).
You might have noticed that the ClustrMap in the bottom right hand corner looks, well, rather empty. I was wondering the same thing after I logged on today. So, I researched it a bit and found the following explanation from the service provider:
The sudden disappearance of dots means that a regular archive has just occurred…this is a yearly occurance. Old maps will remain available in a stored archive, which is accessible as follows: when you zoom in to the world map, you’ll see (high on the page) a line labelled:
Navigation: Map with smaller clustrs / Maps Archive / Notes, etc
The second link (Map Archive) will take you to the page where the previous thumbnail map is stored.
So, if it’s your first time here and you want to see where hits occurred last year or just didn’t check it out prior to September 30th, follow the above instructions and see it for yourself.
As you know, I have been working with Misty Gersely & Adam Lewis to produce three different novellas based on a common theme of ‘a doctor makes a house call’. Adam and my novellas have been completed for some time and Misty’s will be done by mid-October. At which point the entire manuscript will be sent to another author (who you’ll know by name, but I can’t mention who he is quite yet) for review and to write an introduction for the future book. At that time, we will decide who to send the manuscript to for possible publication.
Now, onto something new…
Tom Erb, Dean Harrison (two great friends and talented up-and-comers) and I have decided to do a similiar project, as well. Though the theme has yet to be decided, I wanted to tell you that it will also be a total of 3 novellas, based on a common theme, where each of us takes the storyline in our individual stories in our own creative way. Should be a lot of fun and I am looking forward to it! More to come as the project develops.
Now you’ll have three months in a row with new stuff from me to read (my short ‘The Ringmaster’ will come out next month in Orion’s Child Magazine).
John Raab, the editor at Suspense Magazine, has informed me that my novelette (about 13k words), ‘All in the Line of Duty’, has been accepted for publication as a serialized story and will run in their November & December 2009 issues. I don’t want to give too much away, but the story is essentially about a cop making a deal with the Devil to bring his freshly slain family back to life so he can see them one last time. Very Edward Lee-ish, if I had to classify it.
More details will be released once available.
I was recently informed by Warren Provencal of Shadetree Films that the male role for the film adaptation of my short story ‘Cake Batter’ has fallen through. In addition, one of the settings isn’t as concrete any longer either. So, if you are in the Akron/Cleveland (Ohio) area (or anywhere if you’re willing to drive) and are interested in being cast as a male role or have a house (only in the Akron/Cleveland area) that Warren could use, feel free to hit him up at shadetreefilms@att.net with an appropriate subject line.
Below is some more information on the two items.
Samuel Guthwright; early 30’s finance professional.. Husband to Mary Guthwright; he is a hard workingman with loads of potential. He is moving up in the company but with is comes the long nights at work. The situation is weighing in heavy with Mary. He is confident he is next in line for promotion and digs in deep making every workday count.
Looking for an open layout that can accommodate lighting and long (distant) shots. Hopefully some where on a quiet street so when we shoot the end there will be very little traffic.
As you can tell, website updates have been scarce as of late. Among other reasons, this is because I have started a new part-time job over the past week and it’s on third shift. As you can imagine, this doesn’t exactly leave me with much awake and/or normal brain wave functioning time to do much on here. Nonetheless, there have been some things going on over the past week or so that I wanted to update you on. So here you go…
This website, in less than a year, has over 10K hits! Thank You!
‘Cake Batter’ film will go into production in the next two weeks.
I”m still pitching movie ideas to a major film studio (obviously I can’t tell you which one right now)
Received a positive response from one publisher on my short story collection – hopefully there will be more information coming soon!
There will be new contests on both this site and my Facebook Fan Club site at the end of the month (there will be plenty of books to win – from my personal collection)
I’m nearing a deal with a magazine on writing a serialized story
Short story, ‘The Ringmaster’ will be the featured story on Orion’s Child Magazine in October – which will be Free to read and I will provide a link once available.
That’s it for now…hang in there folks…there’s some exciting stuff in the works!
Ty Schwamberger 