So um there's this. It's official

Sorry I neglected you fags. Been a little tied up. But I can say it openly.

My novel is being published.

We made the official announcement to Publisher’s Marketplace last week, where all deals are first announced. Now I can share the details. It’s a two-book deal. The first book is to be published and available Dec. 18, 2012, through Harper Voyager, the sci-fi imprint for Harper Collins.

Here’s the press release:

Trey Garrison’s debut novel, THE SPEAR OF DESTINY, the first in the alternate history steam-punk “Far Ranger” series, is set in a very different 1920s where the North American continent is comprised of rival nations, and science and the supernatural co-exist. Great War veterans and freelance pilots Sean Rucker and Jesus D’Anconia Lago are reluctantly pulled into a quest to save the world. ********** at Harper Voyager is the editor for publication. It will be published in three parts starting December 2012. Trey is represented by ******* at ******* Management in a two-book deal.​

Yes, it’s got robots, zombies, Nazis and cowboys. And two queers.

This has been a long-time coming and I owe a lot of people thanks for their patience, input, faith and encouragement. (My wife, my dog Harley, and friends Amy F, evenflow, Harry H, Eric C, Adam E — you all know who you are).

Thank you all.

Here is the long version of the synopsis:

It’s a very different 1928. The North American continent is comprised of several rival nations, the Nazis came to power in Germany a decade sooner, and science and the supernatural co-exist.
The Nazis have hatched a plot to raise a legion of undead soldiers. An anti-Nazi faction within the Third Reich recruits a young Prussian doctor, Dr. Kurt von Deitel, to find help in the West to stop this devious plan.
Enter Sean Fox Rucker and Jesus D’Anconia Lago, two Great War veterans and freelance pilots who are reluctantly pulled into the quest. They are joined by a brash Greek merchant, a brilliant Jewish cowboy, and the woman who once broke Rucker’s heart.
The heroes race against Nazi clockwork assassins, a charismatic commando, a telekinetic sadist, and transgenic man-beasts known as wehr-wolves. The quest takes them around the world, with settings both familiar and exotic: Colombia, Austin, the capital of the Union States in New York City, a floating city over the Caribbean, Rome, and Poenari Castle in Transylvania. Along the way, they encounter well-known historical figures and uncover the shocking truth about the Spear of Destiny.
THE SPEAR OF DESTINY recaptures the unapologetic adventure, excitement and suspense of the classic pulp fiction of the 1930s and 1940s, along with a touch of Steampunk, historical fiction and a good dose of humor. Yet it also alludes to philosophical and moral issues relevant to our world today: the trade-off between security and liberty, the morality of pre-emptive war, and what fundamentally separates good from evil.​

Every good chance this will suck the big one sales-wise and it's my full 15 minutes, followed by me trading handjobs for heroin behind the Walmart. On the other hand, on the off chance I'm looking at Harry Potter money, the whole world can suck my diamond-encrusted cock.

Either way -- here we go.

A lot of you knob-gobblers inadvertently served as inspiration or catalysts to a degree or another, so so thank you. Unless it tanks. In which case, fuck you hard.

Seriously -- the different perspectives I got from all of you played some role in helping me develop characters. (Well, except Packard, since I don't have an ambisexual turd-breath anywhere in the dramatis personae.)

So take a bow. (Bend over all the way, Cass.)

So anyway, there you go. Thanks.

I look forward to you all pirating it off bit torrent coming release day. Cheap sonsabitches.

I don't pirate books, you pterodactyl-fellating Nutella-smoking hermaphoriditic hobgoblin Hemingway. Just tell me it'll be on Kindle as well, 'cause I won't want to risk losing the hardcopy by carrying it around. Plus, then I can buy it twice.

Look who thinks he's fucking Castle now. Don't let it go to your head, boyo.

Anyway, I'll take a signed copy. If it pops it'll make a good investment. Make it out to "Your best friend, eBay."

He means it literally. He's in to S&M. :nobible:

Shit that was supposed to be "agrees"

Sorry you chinky bastard.

Which Castle are you talking about?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219024/

I'm pretty sure Beckett's fucking Castle, if last season's finale was to be taken at face value.

I'll get around to it sometime after I finish Shirley Rouseau Murphy's Cat Bearing Gifts. That on doesn't hit 'til the end of November & I'm already jonesing for some new Joe Grey action.





Edit: Just a thought, but maybe you should give us a heads up on the ISBN when you get it? Might it a little easier for my local bookstore to order it.

So now there's three writers on the board, Storm, Diacanu and garamet.

Three published fiction writers. There are other writers, including other published writers.

Sounds cool! Will put it on my list. Congrats!

Occult Nazi stuff with the Spear of Destiny, been playing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear_of_Destiny_%28video_game%29

Congratulations dude, I'll pick up a copy from Amazon once it's released.

Son of a bitch, gonna have to put this on my Christmas list.

I guess if you wanna git all hoity-ful toity-ful and prance around in yer Expert About Everything Panties!

Fuck that. I demand a complementary copy.

Autographed.

four damnit.


(ebook self publishing counts because I say it does)

By the way, to address this:

My bet is on Harry Potter money via adaptation to movie (most likely) television series (not as likely) or animated series (least likely). You got yourself some franchise-seeding shit there.

Congrats Storm!



*Stickies thread*

And that's only the ones we know about . . .

Point of order for your buzzword dropping blurb writer. 1928 is post steampunk and actually early "diesel" (Think Crimson Skies/ original Flash Gordon). If you're going to claim to be of a genre, then your story should be in the appropriate era and settings.

Заткнись, ты лай кусок дерьма обезьяна!

"Shit barking"?

It's on my must read list. Congrats!

Garamet doesn't really count since the publisher usually winds up completely re-writing her stuff anyway.

So I'll ask the question that's on the mind of everyone here:


Which WalMart?

Turkey you're absolutely right. I lost the argument with my editor that for blurb/marketing purposes, "steampunk" is more recognizable than "dieselpunk", even though dieselpunk is exactly what it is. There are steampunk elements enough to justify this call (airships, steam engines, difference engines) but there's a lot more diesel in it.

If I make enough Harry Hembock money, I'll finally be able to buy everyone else's books.
Yours is definitely on the calender, anyway.

Congrats! Hoping to have some news along this line to announce soon, myself...

Also, you don't need to redact the name of the editor. I found it in about 30 seconds through the magic of Google.