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Today is the audiobook release of the final Galaxy Cruise book, Galaxy Cruise: Many Happy Returns. As always, narrator extraordinaire TJ Clark totally hit it out of the park. If you’re interested in giving it a listen, you can get it on Amazon and Audible.

One of the reasons I’m so proud of Galaxy Cruise is because it’s the first series I’ve ever completed. Okay, so that’s not technically true. I completed Zombie Reconstruction Squad, but that was under a pen name, so it doesn’t...

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I hope you all had a great Halloween, and great costumes! My wife Amanda and I had fun confusing children and adults alike by dressing as “Obscure Characters from Prime-Time TV 1981.”

Believe it or not, that’s The Greatest American Hero and First Mate Piggy from the recurring Muppet Show sketch “Pigs in Space”!

I’ve always wanted to do a Muppet costume, though I never imagined my first one would be Miss Piggy. But a few days before Halloween I was browsing in a Goodwill and found...

Hello friends! I hope you’ve been enjoying the spooky season! Today I have a little Halloween memory to share with you…

In 1983, my dad won a contest* that sent our family to Walt Disney World. The thing that sparked wonder in my impressionable, seven-year-old brain more than anything else was the Haunted Mansion. From that day on, I was forever obsessed with creepy old crypts, and abandoned houses, and all places where grim grinning ghosts may lurk in the darkness.

The obsession never faded, a...

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Just a quickie post today to let you know that book two, Galaxy Cruise: Royally Screwed, is now officially available in audio!

Book three will release on November 8, and then book four will be coming along in December. So if you like listening to sci-fi comedy, the rest of your year is sorted.
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This post is going to be a quickie. I just have two time-sensitive things I want to share today…

First, Galaxy Cruise: Many Happy Returns releases tomorrow! Yet it’s somehow already the #1 New Release in Parodies. I guess that’s appropriate for a time-travel story…

Tomorrow morning the price will go up to 3.99. So if you want to grab that pre-sale discount, THIS IS OFFICIALLY YOUR LAST CHANCE.
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I also want to remind you that this Sunday...

Hello friends!  I have three big pieces of news for you today.

The first is that Galaxy Cruise 4: Many Happy Returns is edited, formatted, and officially, 100% done!

“But the release date is still almost a month away!” you say. “What if I want to read it RIGHT NOW? Also I don’t want to pay for it.”

Wow, you drive a hard bargain, but okay. You can have the book now, and you don’t even have to fork over any dough. All you have to do is commit to leaving a review in a few weeks, just before the bo...

Hello, friends!

Are you eagerly awaiting your chance to hear the Galaxy Cruise books in audio? Well your wait just got really short!

I’m psyched to announce that Podium’s audio version of book 1, Galaxy Cruise: The Maiden Voyage will release on August 30.

Even more exciting, the presale is already live! You can check it out on Audible here, or at your local Amazon right here.

And here’s another awesome thing: To give you the most bang for your Audible buck, book one also includes narration for ...

Hello, friends!

I have exciting news! Last week I finished the first draft of Galaxy Cruise: Many Happy Returns! And with that done, I’m now able to confidently set a release date of September 22, 2022.

I haven’t written an official blurb yet, but I can say this: Groundhog Day meets Everything Everywhere All At Once in the madcap, time-looping, multiverse-hopping conclusion to the Galaxy Cruise saga!

Fair warning: Upon launch the price will go up a dollar (or unit of your local currency), so if ...

(This post originally appeared on HellcatsAnthology.com on October 14, 2020.)

1. How did you get started writing?

My first real writing project was a play I wrote when I was in college. It was a sci-fi bedroom farce that was basically “Three’s Company” on a spaceship. I was unsatisfied with what local theater in my area had to offer, so I was like, “I’ll just write the play *I* want to see!” Haha. Ah, to be young and proactive…

2. Out ...

Sometimes people tell me about their “guilty pleasures.”

The phrase sounds so racy and scandalous, but it really means, “Something that I like that I’m ashamed of liking because other people think it’s dumb.”

I don’t have guilty pleasures. I like what I like unashamedly, because life is too short to have to issue a disclaimer every time I tell someone how much I enjoy the Spice Girls or Fuller House.

So it is without shame that I tell you I’m obsessed with the musical Cats. Some of you Galaxy Cr...