Q&A With Science Fiction Writers – #1: Richard Tongue

Posted on January 22, 2014 by AngryGames

One of my fellow SciFi authors, Edward Lake, interviewed a lot of his colleagues (including me!), and has started posted them on his blog. A lot of us authors are interested enough, and we hope you’ll be interested enough as well, to read some of them.

Who knows, you might find a new author that you’ve never heard of and begin enjoying their work!

First up: #1 – Richard Tongue

EL: What inspired you to be a writer?

RT: Wow, that’s a long story! I’ve been reading fantasy and science fiction since I was a very small child, and I think the two genres have always fascinated me; further, I’ve been a complete spaceflight nut since I was about the same age. That definitely explains the genre, but as for writing itself – I guess I just want to tell stories. I think it’s as simple as that!

EL: How did you become a science fiction writer?

RT: Lots of reading around the genre and a good grounding in actual science were the keys here, as well as an understanding of history and current events. I think those are the keys to success as a science-fiction writer specifically; as for the craft, it was a question of writing the ‘million words of crap’, I think.

(hit the link above to read the rest of the interview and more!)

Ability – Part I (Now available at Amazon.com)

Posted on October 23, 2013 by AngryGames

Just a quick heads up that I’ve released the first part of “Ability,” a serialized urban techno-fantasy. Think “Breaking Bad” meets “Heroes” meets “The Matrix.”

Ability – I ($2.99 @ Amazon.com)

Ability - I

It’s Harder This Way (now with 800% more stitches!)

Posted on August 19, 2013 by AngryGames

Hello all. I’ve not really done much this summer, but it is getting time to get back to work. Carly is headed back to work on Tuesday, another school year teaching AP-level classes to another group of walking hormone tornadoes. I tend to spend my summers doing a whole lot of nothing other than spending time with her since we don’t get to see each other much during the school year.

If you really care, we spend most of our summers going to teaching workshops. Or in the case of a couple of years ago, she went to Dartmouth for a whole week and I stayed home and probably played some guitar, some video games, and with some cats. Because I’m wild like that. Anyway, that teaching workshop lasts about four or five days, and we’ll spend another four or five driving around, going places we’ve never been before. This year after we left Seattle, we headed down to Astoria, Oregon. Beyond that, the next ten weeks or so consists of us sitting around playing Borderlands 2 or Team Fortress 2, reading, and catching up on television shows we didn’t get to watch during the school year (Game of Thrones, Dexter, Breaking Bad, Falling Skies for me so I can yell at it a lot, some bridezilla-type show for her that she yells at. It’s good stuff.

Right. So. Rambling a bit.

Two updates today. First is a PSA from me to everyone: Continue reading →

It’s Better This Way (novella) – update

Posted on June 10, 2013 by AngryGames

Hi everyone. I would just like to say that I’ve re-read the novella “It’s Better This Way” and found a few errors that need to be corrected. I always try to wait a couple of weeks to re-read things to make sure all the punctuation, grammar, spelling, and extra/lack of words are correct. If I wait a bit, the story becomes fresh in my brain again, and I can spot them easier.

As an independent, self-published author, I hate mistakes. They annoy me more than anything. Unfortunately, I do not have a professional editor at this time. So please hang tight while I make sure everything in the book is correct and proper. I’ll be uploading a new version in a few hours, so if you planned on downloading the book, wait a little bit and let me get the fixed version up so your reading experience won’t be marred by a few issues here or there.

The story won’t change one bit, but I’ve found a couple of places that were missing an important word and a few that either needed a comma or didn’t have a comma. Thanks for being understanding!

Travis

It’s Better This Way – Free Science Fiction Novella

Posted on May 27, 2013 by AngryGames

Hello everyone. If you’d like to read my science fiction novella “It’s Better This Way” just click one of the links below:

Kindle (.MOBI file) – place this file in the Documents folder of your Kindle

Nook and other e-readers (.EPUB file) – I don’t own an Epub-capable reader unfortunately

MS Word Document (.DOC file)

Rich Text Format (.RTF file)

It's Better This Way - small cover

Description:

Twenty-three years ago, the ‘bulls’ appeared in orbit and destroyed Earth’s infrastructure in less than ten seconds.

These days, the alien invaders aren’t as much of a problem as the surviving humans are.

Evan Greggs has learned that things aren’t always as bad as they seem, but sometimes the choices to be made are as murky as they are difficult.

24,000 word novella.

The book is free, so feel free to pass it around to anyone you think might be interested!

It’s Better This Way – new novella published

Posted on May 21, 2013 by AngryGames

Just in case you are one of the three people who follow me and didn’t yet know this, I got around to publishing the short novella “It’s Better This Way” over at Smashwords and Amazon. Amazon of course takes 12+ hours to approve, but the link for Smashwords will work just fine.

It’s Better This Way – FREE! @ Smashwords

It’s Better This Way – FREE! (soon hopefully, otherwise $.99) @ Amazon