We're Still Here!

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Congratulations, Planet Earth! We survived, and the world is still here despite the end of the Maya calendar. To celebrate this happy and entirely expected circumstance, My Abstract Life is free all day today over at Amazon's Kindle store! You don't have much to lose; it costs you nothing, and you still have the rest of your life ahead of you.

Note: Sometimes it takes a while for Amazon's price changes to take effect, so if it's still showing a price above free, check back in a few hours.

TWiSmageddon Celebration Hangout

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No story update tonight, I've been getting stuff done in real life in preparation for tomorrow/tonight's TWiSmageddon Google+ Hangout.

The idea of the hangout is that the hosts of This Week in Science (Dr. Kiki Sanford, Justin Jackson, Blair Bazdarich) will be doing a live hangout on G+ for 21 straight hours, talking about science and other cool stuff and confirming in each time zone that yes, indeed, the world hasn't ended and no, there's no sign of a giant wall of fire or some other cataclysm that might herald the end of the world as we know it.

There're going to be lots of people taking part, including myself and many other TWiS chat room participants, but also including such notable luminaries as The Sword & Laser's Tom Merritt, Dr. Carin Bondar, Joanne Manaster, and possible/unconfirmed other notables like Andy Ihnatko and the Frogpants Network's Scott Johnson.

Naturally, I'm a little freaked out at the prospect of being on camera for this thing, being both a sufferer of social anxiety and being a bit camera-phobic, but I've survived various GeekBeat.TV hangouts and being on The Sword & Laser's video show briefly, so I'm sure I'll survive this too.

Full details about the event can be found at the TWiSmageddon Event on Google+.

An Improbable Journey Free eBooks Have Arrived

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Sorry for the delay on this! I've uploaded the free eBook versions of An Improbable Journey; they're now available on the An Improbable Journey book page.

I've also gone into the pages for both Determination and An Improbable Journey and added individual Amazon Kindle store links for every country which has one, so if you don't usually shop at the American Amazon.com, you'll have an easier time of it. I will be doing the same thing shortly for My Abstract Life, so stay tuned.

Corwin Koell Story #2 Update. Also, Best-Seller!

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Last night I spent a bunch more time brainstorming the new story following up Corwin Koell's harrowing adventure on Haruna, and it was looking like I wasn't going to get to post more on that. It's been a long time since I had daily writing to post though; all of my updates lately have been blog posts, and I've been busy getting An Improbable Journey up on Amazon, Smashwords and Goodreads, and I'm _still_ getting it uploaded to host it here on the site locally. I couldn't let it go without writing something, especially since it was starting to feel like brainstorming was becoming an excuse not to write the story. So I wrote a bit of it.

Homecoming is a working title; it might change by the time this story's all done.

The other big news is that, speaking of _An Improbable Journey_, it's become a best-seller in the Canadian Kindle store! I reached the top 10 with that title under Kindle sci-fi anthologies, the top 100 of all sci-fi anthologies, including print, and the top 50 sci-fi adventure titles in the country. It's a pretty thrilling day today. :) Thanks to everyone who's been reading my work, however you're getting it. (Note that they update their standings periodically; those stats were based on when I checked last night.)

Next up: I'm going to get the free download links for here on the site up, and tonight I'll be writing a bit more of the story.