No, I am not suddenly embarking in a career in the United States Armed Forces.
On Monday I signed a contract with Grail Quest Books to write a Novella in the universe based on WARS, the Collectible Card Game from Decipher, Inc. I am one of three authors enlisted to work on this project, each writing [...]
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Podcaster, Blogger, Novelist, Voice Actor
How Amazon Failed Us All… and How To Fight Back
I don’t really like ebooks. I like to open a real book with real pages. I especially like to read from the standard...
It Doesn’t Have to be Good
I am Team Jacob. I just wanted to get that out of the way, since that seems to be the most important social label right now. Yeah, werewolves...
Enlisted and Ready for WARS
No, I am not suddenly embarking in a career in the United States Armed Forces. On Monday I signed a contract with Grail Quest Books to write a Novella...
Parsec FAIL… and Other News
Well, my adventure at the Parsecs ended rather ignominiously, as The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd took the prize for Best Audio Drama: Short Form...
Thesis: A Fantasy
A writer begins work on a treatise explaining his utter dislike for the genre of Fantasy. In the spirit of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s...
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Enlisted and Ready for WARS
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Thesis: A Fantasy
A writer begins work on a treatise explaining his utter dislike for the genre of Fantasy. In the spirit of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, he finds himself transported to a fantasy realm full of strange and outlandish cookie-cutter fairy-tale characters. The drawback? This writer has a penchant [...]
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How Amazon Failed Us All… and How To Fight Back
I don’t really like ebooks. I like to open a real book with real pages. I especially like to read from the standard page because it gives my eyes a much-needed respite from the glare of a monitor. There’s something about an object that shoots light directly into your eyes that bugs you after a [...]
Politics
The Occasional Political Post
Sometimes I feel the need to wax political on various topics of interest
To be clear, I am politically conservative. I am fiscally conservative, morally conservative, and just generally a conservative person. That does not mean that I support any particular party all the time, on every issue. I do not give money [...]
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How Amazon Failed Us All… and How To Fight Back
I don’t really like ebooks. I like to open a real book with real pages. I especially like to read from the standard page because it gives my eyes a much-needed respite from the glare of a monitor. There’s something about an object that shoots light directly into your eyes that bugs you after a [...]
On The Wheel of Time and Characters
I just finished The Gathering Storm, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, and I gotta say: I have never nearly fainted from sheer awesome before.
I am beginning to think Robert Jordan is perhaps the single greatest developer of characters in the history of mankind. Scratch that. The second-greatest. I think the only competition Jordan had [...]
It Doesn’t Have to be Good
I am Team Jacob.
I just wanted to get that out of the way, since that seems to be the most important social label right now. Yeah, werewolves are infinitely cooler than vampires, and maybe I’m biased because of Hugh Jackman’s Van Helsing. But that’s not why I’m Team Jacob. My wife is. And I’m with her. [...]
Writing in Someone Else’s Universe… and Our Own
I wouldn’t have thought my first writing contract would be in Science Fiction.
Let me amend that. The WARS universe has all the makings of a classic Space Opera. Sure, there is some concrete scientific theory behind the universe, throw in some quantum mechanics, yada yada yada. I never was big on the whole science aspect [...]
Enlisted and Ready for WARS
No, I am not suddenly embarking in a career in the United States Armed Forces.
On Monday I signed a contract with Grail Quest Books to write a Novella in the universe based on WARS, the Collectible Card Game from Decipher, Inc. I am one of three authors enlisted to work on this project, each writing [...]
Parsec FAIL… and Other News
Well, my adventure at the Parsecs ended rather ignominiously, as The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd took the prize for Best Audio Drama: Short Form at Dragon*Con. I was unable to attend the convention, which is just as well considering I didn’t win. I don’t begrudge my competitors, and will continue to put out projects [...]
Codename: Starkeeper and the Parsecs Collide
It is with great pleasure that I announce that my fan audio drama, Star Wars – Codename: Starkeeper, has been accepted as a finalist in the 2009 Parsec Awards!
The Parsec Awards were founded by Podcaster and Author Mur Lafferty, Podcaster and President/COO of Farpoint Media, Michael R. Mennenga, and New York Times Bestselling Author and [...]
Shooting for the Stars With Your Novel
In the quest to become published authors, we writers are faced with a critical decision: what do we do with the brilliant literary treasure we have just hammered out on our blood-stained keyboards?
I was asked recently if I had considered Dragon Moon Press, the fine folks who currently house authors such as Tee Morris, Scott [...]
On Characters Destined to Die
Let’s say you have a character that you plan to kill off. It’s a blatant plot device. You want the reader to feel it. What’s the best way to do this?
The Victim is a Viewpoint Character
A lot of us live the books vicariously through the main characters. If you want to [...]
Thesis: A Fantasy
A writer begins work on a treatise explaining his utter dislike for the genre of Fantasy. In the spirit of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, he finds himself transported to a fantasy realm full of strange and outlandish cookie-cutter fairy-tale characters. The drawback? This writer has a penchant [...]
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Jim Perry is currently a writer, podcaster, voice actor and musician. In the past he has been a stage actor, singer, arranger, conductor, guitar player and band leader. He makes his home in Southern Indiana with his wife and three children.Jim's Podcasts
