WTF is The Taternomicon? The Taternomicon is an anthology of stories from a group of Book.io’s first “living” authors, pitting their series characters, or personal universes… against the overpowering essence of potatoes. Monsters, smugglers, Elder Gods, a wizard, and so much more. It is the perfect mashup of horror, fantasy and nonsense.
Paul Jenkins (@mypauljenkins) has been creating, writing, and building franchises for more than 25 years in the film, graphic novel, and video game...
Those who had the foresight to grab a copy of the NFT editions of The Heretic and A Scream of Angels will be getting a surprise today as I airdrop the NFT edition of A Tear in the Sky absolutely FREE to their Cardano wallets.
As with the first two books, this NFT edition is coming courtesy of Book.io, with 1425 numbered ebooks of various scarcity, with 123 unique covers and 59 1:1 rare covers.
Hopefully, by now you've seen some of the Discord and Twitter posts detailing the forthcoming Templar Chronicles tarot card collection.
If not, the long and short of it is that I'm going to be producing a limited edition series of major arcana tarot cards (22 cards in all) featuring characters and scenes from the Templar Chronicles that will be released as Cardano NFTs. There will be thirty-five NFTs for each card, 25 with one common image and 10 with unique, 1:1 images.
The first card will be...
I've fallen in love with both NFTs and AI art. To bring these two creative processes together, I'm going to be producing a set of twenty-two limited edition digital tarot cards - one for each of the major arcana cards in a tarot deck - featuring characters and scenes from the Templar Chronicles.
Each card will be numbered and there will be thirty-five of each available. Twenty-five of those will feature one common image and ten will each showcase a unique, one-of-a-kind image. Cards will be...
The mint of the NFT edition of A Scream of Angels from Book.io was a huge success today, with more than a thousand copies being swept up in the first few hours!
This edition consisted of 2,745 copies with 161 unique covers and 55 1:1 covers. Art was rendered in 4K high resolution and was created by @ADAliensNFT.
I know it has been a while since you’ve heard from me and I’m sorry for that. I hope to get back to a regular communication schedule in the weeks ahead. For now, please accept my apologies for the long silence. I promise I have not been idle!
The good news is that I’m as recovered from my bout with Long Covid as I think I’m going to get. The bad news is that it is, at best, about 70% of my former capacity and I suspect that is as good as it is going to get....
DALLAS, Oct. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Joseph Nassise, a New York Times, USA Today, and Der Spiegel bestselling author of more than fifty books, sold 2,746 NFT books on Book.io in 45 seconds. The sale took place on Thursday, October 20th, with the feature title being The Heretic, the first book in Nassise's Templar Chronicle series. The average price per book was around $18 USD. In the first three days since the sale, the total volume on the secondary market for the title is about to surpass...
My previous article noted several of the blockchain publishing companies that I had researched in my quest to find a potential partner for my own publishing efforts. I promised I would reveal which company was my favorite and, more importantly why, in my next article, so if that’s of interest to you, stick around and keep reading!
Of the companies on my list, I was immediately able to eliminate two of them – Spatium Stories and NFTBooks- for the simple fact that they haven’t actually produced...
As a New York Times bestselling author entrepreneur, I am always on the lookout for ways to improve how I serve my readership and grow my career.
For example, when little was being done to push my foreign rights, I took over doing it myself and sold my work into seven languages worldwide. When I found that I could represent myself better than most of the agents I’d worked with, I fired my agent and began negotiating on my own behalf. When it was clear that...
I’ve been thinking a bit about the utility of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) for authors and publishers in today’s book market. As a professional novelist for more than twenty years, I’m highly interested in how blockchain technology and NFTs can benefit someone in the publishing space.
Here are a few utility cases that seem obvious to me…
#1 – Collectible digital editions of new or current titles – The most obvious use case, given that limited collectible...
Author: Caitlin Kittredge
Series: Black London
Number: One of six
What It’s About:
Years ago, sixteen-year-old Pete Caldecott fell in love with Jack Winter, mage and lead singer of the Poor Dead Bastards. When a summoning goes wrong, Jack ends up dead and Pete thinks she’s lost him forever.
Fast forward twelve years. Pete, now a Deputy Inspector for the London police, is investigating the disappearance of a young girl when a call comes in...
There’s a new post up over at the Storycoach Patreon entitled “So Good…Until It Wasn’t,” focused on a major blunder that will up definitely screw up the emotional connection between your hero and your reader.
Title: The Hush of Dark Wings, Winter Knight, Hunting Ground, When the Cold Wind Blows
Author: Charles L. Grant
Series: Black Oak Investigations
Number: Two through five
What It’s About:
Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He takes on cases that range from the normal to the unaccountably bizarre. The series, of course, focuses on the latter and not the former.
Why I like It and You Should Read It...
Title: Genesis
Author: Charles L. Grant
Series: Black Oak Investigations
Number: One of five
What It’s About:
Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He takes on cases that range from the normal to the unaccountably bizarre.
In Genesis, book one of the Black Oak series, one of Proctor’s people has gone missing while on an investigation in the Kentucky wilderness, his last communication an answering...
The Shadow Saga (Books 2-7)
Titles: Angel Souls and Devil Hearts, Of Masques and Martyrs, The Gathering Dark, Waking Nightmares, The Graves of Saints, and King of Hell
Author: Christopher Golden
Series: The Shadow Saga
Number: Two through Seven
What It’s About:
The continuing Shadow Saga, featuring vampire mage Peter Octavian as he fights to
Why I Like It and You Should Read It:
If you liked Of Saints and Shadows, you’ll love the rest of the series as well. Simple...
Title: Endsville
Author: Clay Sanger
Series: The Outlaw Arcana
Number: One
What It’s About:
Welcome to Los Angeles—where the secret worlds of the criminal and supernatural collide. Crime and black magic pay. In the City of Angels, no one does it better than Gabriel St. John and the House of the Crow…
Endsville introduces readers to the House of the Crow. Led by their enigmatic street captain Gabriel, the Crows are a secret coven of high-rolling occult gangsters...
Title: Of Saints and Shadows
Author: Christopher Golden
Series: The Shadow Saga
Number: One of seven
What It’s About:
Private eye (and vampire) Peter Octavian is drawn into the search for an ancient book known as The Gospel of Shadows as the Defiant Ones (vampires) clash with a secret sect of the Catholic Church hellbent on ridding the earth of the vampiric plague.
Why I Like It and You Should Read It:
As bestseller Jonathan Maberry notes in his cover blurb for...
I know, go figure, right?
As the conversation progressed, I became a little bewildered. I would mention classic urban fantasy series and authors, books that literally helped define the genre in several cases, and many of the other...
Several years ago, I partnered with my buddy Steve Savile to write a epic grim dark fantasy novel. We published it under the pen name Matthew Caine, thinking it too different from our usual work to list it under our own names.
Unfortunately, that also meant that many of our fans simply weren’t aware that we’d put out a new novel and it kind of languished on the shelves unnoticed.
Since we both had a bit of free time on our hands lately between projects, we...
I’m excited about this series – it is full of all the action, intrigue, and supernatural elements that are the hallmark of my other books and I had a great time working with Christine to bring it to fruition!
Here’s the description of book one:
Time is running out…
Thanks to his father...
