Wish you could be there, amigo. If it’s a good overall experience, I’ll try to make it back next year, too, and hopefully you can make that one. Meanwhile, I hope the French con works out for you.
I’m already backing you on the crowdfunded book, but I remember @INFAMOUS REVIEWER GIO was quite impressed with Crown of Blood.
I’m more of a Howard than a Tolkien fan. I love the Arthurian and Robin Hood tales. Knowing that, what would you recommend? Or, if your books are in the Based Book sale, I’ll just buy all of them. I plan to do some shopping on my way to the con.
As for mine…if you like pulpy action, then try the Retreads Series, and I believe Tier Zero is the best of the trilogy.
The Paradox Series is a time travel conspiracy thriller with sports, adventure, and a lot of based, red-pill stuff. None of them stand alone, so Escaping Fate would be the place to start, even though the protagonist is still a boy in that one so it’s got a big coming-of-age vibe.
I have a couple S&S shorts, which I know is your wheelhouse. I’m happiest with The Bloodstained Defile.
None of mine were accepted into the based book sale (I’m not sure how to even get them accepted as Hans never responds to me).
I’ll check out your stuff, could you share with me your amazon page?
As for my stuff, there’s Crown of Blood, Swift-Shadow Murders and Caladbohlg. Caladbohlg is quite long and is like an Irish Hobbit book but written with an 80s bully as the lead.
SSM is a Romance-Fantasy murder mystery set in France with nods from Ivanhoe.
Crown of Blood is a drama about the battle for a Fantasy Scotland’s crown. The style is like a mixture of Howard & Tolkien with one or two sword and sorcery stories in the anthology. You’ll like it.
And then there’s my upcoming Darkspire Conspiracy with En Route Media (I’ll tag you in the post when it comes out). Darkspire is an attempt at a duology which works as a sequel to the Volsungs saga. It is supposed to be grand and posit a Viking-King Arthur type character’s attempt to save Scandinavia. There’s some Howardian nods too (of course, such as Snake-Men, in the style a little and what not).
I could also provide the Caladbohlg link as I think you’d like it but it’s pretty Brothers Grimm and Arthurian with some ideas but Darkspire is better.
If you want we can do a three for three (I’ll get three of your books, see how I like them and you get three of mine. In which case the three I’ll suggest are Crown of Blood, Caladbohlg and Darkspire Conspiracy (when this last one comes out). How’s that work? I’ll do analysis essays and reviews of yours and leave my review on the amazon pages too for good measure (and on goodreads if I can get my account working again).
Darkspire does sound up my alley and will await it’s release. Just bought CoB and SSM.
The BBS is on Substack, now. The way it works works now is you subscribe to the stack, and when there’s a call for authors, you respond in the comments according to the prompt. For your first entry, it would be “new to the sale,” your author name, the book title, and Amazon link. If you’ve already been doing this, I’m not sure what happened. I do know there’s a lot more books than there used to be, and Hans has a mountain of stuff to do to prep for it on top of his day job. He does miss stuff and make mistakes sometimes.
Getting reviews is like pulling teeth—even from fans, these days. It doesn’t help that Amazon hides my books, then goes through periodically and deletes 5-star reviews. They also don’t alert my followers there when I have a new release. That, or 11K+ readers signed up to follow me for some reason OTHER than wanting to read my new releases.
Can you tell I’m somewhat disappointed with the platform?
Godspeed, Henry! Looking forward to the trip report.
I sent copies of my deeply political and anti-Covid regime novel to Dave Smith, Tom Woods, and Michael Malice to a chorus of crickets.
I’ve had better results and feedback from lefty weirdos, Mormons, and the indie-lit incest pool. Not that I’m complaining.
If anything, this is a self-own. I assumed autistic libertarians would finally want to read fiction. To coin a completely original phase I guess I’m a man without a country.
Dude, I wish I could say it gets easier, but it’s an uphill slog all the way from what I can tell. The more successful somebody in the business is, the less likely they are to lend a hand up. I don’t think it’s all elitism or heartlessness (though some probably is). The more somebody’s name is known, multiply the number of hungry up-and-comers asking them for a read, mention, retweet, review, blurb, recommendation, etc.
I used to pay forward favors for fellow up-and-comers and I wore myself out, rarely getting reciprocation. I’m hardly famous now, but I’m so swamped with work (the kind I get consistently paid to do, and the kind I don’t) that maybe I’m kinda’ heartless too. There’s just no way I can give my own projects the time they need if I help everybody I want to.
I don’t mean to make excuses for those guys. Who knows what the actual reason is.
Forgive me if I should already know this, but what books do you have out? What are they about? Genres? Are they in the Based Book Sale?
Also, if newer authors are bitter about anything, it’s that the pub houses, agents, etc have pulled the ladder up, not indie authors themselves. Established writers are busy… writing, probably. So anyway, kudos to folks like you, Russell Newquist, and Hans for making any time whatsoever.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Ditto!
I'll see you there!
Cool!
If you get to the freebies table, you can snag a copy of Space Ants.
Didn't know about the freebies table. How can I resist?
I wish I was going tbh. Damn but maybe I'll be able to attend BasedCon next year, and we can meet up irl Henry!
As it is I'm saving up for a French one in France (which will be enormous).
Which of your books do you recommend I read? I'm willing to pick one up if you pick up one of mine good sir.
Wish you could be there, amigo. If it’s a good overall experience, I’ll try to make it back next year, too, and hopefully you can make that one. Meanwhile, I hope the French con works out for you.
I’m already backing you on the crowdfunded book, but I remember @INFAMOUS REVIEWER GIO was quite impressed with Crown of Blood.
I’m more of a Howard than a Tolkien fan. I love the Arthurian and Robin Hood tales. Knowing that, what would you recommend? Or, if your books are in the Based Book sale, I’ll just buy all of them. I plan to do some shopping on my way to the con.
As for mine…if you like pulpy action, then try the Retreads Series, and I believe Tier Zero is the best of the trilogy.
The Paradox Series is a time travel conspiracy thriller with sports, adventure, and a lot of based, red-pill stuff. None of them stand alone, so Escaping Fate would be the place to start, even though the protagonist is still a boy in that one so it’s got a big coming-of-age vibe.
I have a couple S&S shorts, which I know is your wheelhouse. I’m happiest with The Bloodstained Defile.
None of mine were accepted into the based book sale (I’m not sure how to even get them accepted as Hans never responds to me).
I’ll check out your stuff, could you share with me your amazon page?
As for my stuff, there’s Crown of Blood, Swift-Shadow Murders and Caladbohlg. Caladbohlg is quite long and is like an Irish Hobbit book but written with an 80s bully as the lead.
SSM is a Romance-Fantasy murder mystery set in France with nods from Ivanhoe.
Crown of Blood is a drama about the battle for a Fantasy Scotland’s crown. The style is like a mixture of Howard & Tolkien with one or two sword and sorcery stories in the anthology. You’ll like it.
And then there’s my upcoming Darkspire Conspiracy with En Route Media (I’ll tag you in the post when it comes out). Darkspire is an attempt at a duology which works as a sequel to the Volsungs saga. It is supposed to be grand and posit a Viking-King Arthur type character’s attempt to save Scandinavia. There’s some Howardian nods too (of course, such as Snake-Men, in the style a little and what not).
Here’s the link to CoB if you want; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ77L6D8
I could also provide the Caladbohlg link as I think you’d like it but it’s pretty Brothers Grimm and Arthurian with some ideas but Darkspire is better.
If you want we can do a three for three (I’ll get three of your books, see how I like them and you get three of mine. In which case the three I’ll suggest are Crown of Blood, Caladbohlg and Darkspire Conspiracy (when this last one comes out). How’s that work? I’ll do analysis essays and reviews of yours and leave my review on the amazon pages too for good measure (and on goodreads if I can get my account working again).
Darkspire does sound up my alley and will await it’s release. Just bought CoB and SSM.
The BBS is on Substack, now. The way it works works now is you subscribe to the stack, and when there’s a call for authors, you respond in the comments according to the prompt. For your first entry, it would be “new to the sale,” your author name, the book title, and Amazon link. If you’ve already been doing this, I’m not sure what happened. I do know there’s a lot more books than there used to be, and Hans has a mountain of stuff to do to prep for it on top of his day job. He does miss stuff and make mistakes sometimes.
I see. I’ve tried I just got ignored every time dunno why so I just stopped trying I get the feeling Hans doesn’t care tbh. It’s frustrating.
And thanks, I just got one of your books on kindle, it looks like fantasy in the dark ages. Right up my alley. I’ve also bought Retread Vol 1.
I must say am impressed at the number of reviews you have on your books congrats.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts on CoB and SSM. Will let you know about DS as soon as I hear from the publisher.
Thanks, Bro.
Getting reviews is like pulling teeth—even from fans, these days. It doesn’t help that Amazon hides my books, then goes through periodically and deletes 5-star reviews. They also don’t alert my followers there when I have a new release. That, or 11K+ readers signed up to follow me for some reason OTHER than wanting to read my new releases.
Can you tell I’m somewhat disappointed with the platform?
I get that, very strange platform. I don’t even try to understand amazon hmm. So they delete reviews huh? Strange.
Sorry, forgot the whole “please share Amazon page” part: https://amzn.to/3I9isp1
What marketing instincts I have.
Lmao, np we’re at this point simply buddies and often forget to do what we’re supposed to do. I’m even worse Henry so no judgment.
Godspeed, Henry! Looking forward to the trip report.
I sent copies of my deeply political and anti-Covid regime novel to Dave Smith, Tom Woods, and Michael Malice to a chorus of crickets.
I’ve had better results and feedback from lefty weirdos, Mormons, and the indie-lit incest pool. Not that I’m complaining.
If anything, this is a self-own. I assumed autistic libertarians would finally want to read fiction. To coin a completely original phase I guess I’m a man without a country.
Thank-you, sir.
Dude, I wish I could say it gets easier, but it’s an uphill slog all the way from what I can tell. The more successful somebody in the business is, the less likely they are to lend a hand up. I don’t think it’s all elitism or heartlessness (though some probably is). The more somebody’s name is known, multiply the number of hungry up-and-comers asking them for a read, mention, retweet, review, blurb, recommendation, etc.
I used to pay forward favors for fellow up-and-comers and I wore myself out, rarely getting reciprocation. I’m hardly famous now, but I’m so swamped with work (the kind I get consistently paid to do, and the kind I don’t) that maybe I’m kinda’ heartless too. There’s just no way I can give my own projects the time they need if I help everybody I want to.
I don’t mean to make excuses for those guys. Who knows what the actual reason is.
Forgive me if I should already know this, but what books do you have out? What are they about? Genres? Are they in the Based Book Sale?
I’ll DM you
Also, if newer authors are bitter about anything, it’s that the pub houses, agents, etc have pulled the ladder up, not indie authors themselves. Established writers are busy… writing, probably. So anyway, kudos to folks like you, Russell Newquist, and Hans for making any time whatsoever.
Looking forward to hearing your report!
Looking forward to seeing your report.