Chromed: Rogue Is On The Way
Soft! What light through yonder window breaks? Chromed: Rogue is preloading on the Kindle store, just in time for Christmas…
Author: Richard Parry
Modern Day Robin Hood
This might be my favorite news article today. Modern cyberpunk hero from Cyberpunk
A Pleasant All Hallow’s Eve To You 🎃
This is one of my world famous emails, originally sent Thursday 1 November. I appreciate the title of this blog post is probably out of whack as Halloween’s long sailed, but it’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to. Also, the excerpt’s been removed from this because of KU requirements! If you want to get all the juice, all the time, get on the list. It’s possible I caught you at a bad time. I appreciate because timezones™ it might not be Halloween for you, but hey, it’s the thought that counts. Today, we’ve got just two things to discuss. Because it’s Halloween, a short video that gave me the creeps, By popular demand (!), a talk on release pricing, and I’d like you to check out my latest, Chromed Upgrade. TL;DR: If this all seems to hard, Read More …
This Is Very Important: Penny Dreadful’s Returning
So, I saw this today: https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/11/01/penny-dreadful-sequel-series-city-of-angels-announced (Actually, I saw it first on Twitter, but the IGN link provides a little more substance…) Eeeee….….eeeeeeE……eeeee……EeeeeEEeee… Also, Eva Green was the best thing about this series, so for the love of god get some jumper cables and get her out of the ground. https://t.co/u0id2sgZ1E — Richard Parry (@ParryForte) November 1, 2018 This is excellent news. I suspect getting Eva Green back won’t be possible based on the IGN text, but a guy can dream, right?
It’s Now Safe To Talk About Christmas
October’s behind us, which means my birthday is also behind us. You can stop sending me gifts for my incept date and start planning my seasonal loot haul. What do you mean, this isn’t about me? Okay, okay. Let’s take a slight tangent toward retailer recommendations and see where we end up. You might be feeling a little lost if you’re an Amazon shopper, wanting books for a loved one. You look in the genres. You try and find something in the top ten that looks rad. In sci-fi, you find nothing but bare-chested romance. Cyberpunk is a trash fire of lit-RPG romance. Hell, romance is everywhere. Here, I’m going to: Show you the problem, then Give you my top five solutions. Let’s rock. A good friend and I were having wine (and beer, and…) the other night. We agreed Read More …
Should You NaNoWriMo?
No. Wait, you want something better than that? Okay. I entered, and “won,” NaNo back in 2014. I was itching to write a cool, edgy cyberpunk book. I’d originally titled it Uplinked, but after conversation with my wife that changed to Upgrade. I had so, so many ideas for this book. Bionics. Particle cannons. Plasma weapons. Always online, always ready. Love. Hope. The people lost in the cracks. I would do William Gibson proud, man. A little peer pressure crept in. October of that same year, a few friends were talking big about how they’d win NaNo. I’d never heard of NaNo, thought, “How hard can it be?” and wrote Upgrade (or a hyooooge chunk of it) during November. Despite knocking something like 65,000 words out of the park during NaNo, well in excess of the 50k threshold, I discovered Read More …
Timeless Values
Way down here in New Zealand, we didn’t get spontaneous applause because we’re very British. Having said that, I might admit to giving a small fist-pump when Cap came on in Infinity War. Evans’ portrayal of the hero is exceptional. Worldwide reach shouldn’t be dimmed by the use of “America” in his name; I mean, hell, the values Cap stands for go well beyond an individual country. Having spent over three months re-editing and writing my cyberpunk Future Forfeit stories, I drove myself into a state of hopelessness. It might be time to dust off the First Avenger and get a little hopeful reminder.
What Changes Can You Make?
While elections approach for many of you, I wonder what … personal changes people are making in the wake of the IPCC report. The rest of the world doesn’t get to go to the polls, but we can still make changes that effect our planet and our children’s children. Here: [The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC] It’s a pretty amusing read. Watts is one of the best sci-fi authors to grace our blue-green world. Reading the post, I’m able to reflect on the changes we’ve made at home (and wonder what else we can do). We’re using public transport a lot (it’s our default), and ride-sharing services when not (we still have cars, but are wrestling with whether it’s better to go electric or keep ’em, as the cost of producing vehicles has a tremendous environmental impact). We’re deleting single-use plastic Read More …
The Magic of Release Strategies
This is one of my world-famous emails, originally sent Friday, October 26 2018. You can get on the list here. There’s been a pretty big response on the topic of release strategies, so I’m thinking of following this up with another mail on pricing and margins. In order to preserve the 10% preview rule for Amazon KU, I’ve stripped the excerpt for Chromed: Upgrade from this post. Telling fairy tales is serious business. Sometimes y’all like when I pull back the curtain and talk about “writer business stuffs.” I’ll try for a bit of that magic today. On today’s menu: Another outstanding NZ Police video; On pricing and the demise of books, and A download of the first third of my latest release, Chromed: Upgrade, on the house. Are you ready to rumble? Want to join the NZ Police? My Read More …