The Fourth Channel: Cover Reveal and Chapter One!
- Posted by mark
- On September 12, 2012
- 28 Comments
Okay, gang. I promised a cover reveal for my first novel, THE FOURTH CHANNEL, and I'm going to deliver. The novel is very close to being finished. All that's really left to do is wrap up the edits and let you read it.
I’m nervous and excited. I mean, you all know how nervous I get just posting “Ridiculous Fan Fiction” on my site, and that isn’t serious. The novel’s a whole different ball of wax. So, yeah. I’m nervous. Over the last year, I’ve worked hard at creating a “platform” with blogging and social media. I’ve met so many of you who enjoy my goofy articles. It’s because of you and your amazing feedback that I keep writing and thinking of more ways that I can entertain, not just you, but me, too.
But the book release is the moment of truth: are you going to like my book?
God, I hope so.
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Welcome back to another installment of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Pinups, the monthly segment that keeps you coming back for more hunks, hotties, and Oxford commas.
Apologies for putting these up late. I could give you a bunch of silly excuses as to why, but I won't. The truth is, I finished that novel I sometimes talk about and, once it was over, I was exhausted. Exhausted, but excited. The Spouse-ditor is combing it through now and I'm thrilled to say you're going to be able to read it in the next couple of months. It's called THE FOURTH CHANNEL, about the world's worst necromancer and her talking sacrificial knives. The best I can describe it is Anita Blake meets Stephanie Plum, and contains all the things you've come to love on my blog: humor, danger, kick-ass fight scenes, ex-girlfriends, prophecies about toothpaste, evil voodoo masters, and more. I think you're going to love it. 
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