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Welcome to the official home page of New York Times Bestselling author, Michael A. Stackpole.
Here you will find news about Mike’s career, his new work and new projects, some new fiction, a few personal stories, a few political rants and enough material to finish off the average Sixth grade book report. (For that just click on “Interview” above.) Actually, back in 1998 when Mike first created Stormwolf.com, that was his goal: to have one spot where anyone wanting to do a book report on one of his books could find everything they needed to do the job.
Since that time it’s become a lot more. It’s a place where Mike can keep you up to date on what he’s doing, and where you can comment on his posts. It’s also a place where you can purchase stories, books and other things, both virtual and physical. Publishing is going through a fairly chaotic and dynamic time, and this website reflects that in both content of the posts, and the nature of things offered.
Thank you for visiting.
Kust finished A Secret Atlas. Enjoyed it immensley. What comes next in the sequence of novels?
The next book is Cartomancy, followed by The New World, which finishes that series.
Maybe you have already heard about this: http://volokh.com/2010/01/25/7th-circuit-upholds-prison-rule-forbidding-inmates-to-play-dungeons-and-dragons/
I thought, you as the author of the Pulling Report might be interested.
Cristoph, I did hear about it. Unfortunately prisons prohibit anything which can be used for gambling, or create items of wealth that can be used as a medium of exchange, or allow people to manipulate people. Regardless of the details and thoughts they ascribe to gaming, it does fall into that class of item. Because felons surrender many of their civil rights, game playing is not guaranteed and, at best, gets treated as a privilege. Privileges are often restricted in prison, so our hands are kind of tied here.
I am an avid reader and book collector. As such, I have 4 large bookcases filled with books. However, I am now looking into moving into a smaller place, where I will be unlikely to be able to have space for all of my books, let alone my continuously expanding collection! Fortunately, ebooks have begun to take off, so now I can begin purchasing regular books as ebooks, while still purchasing the physical books of my favorite series.
I do have a question though. As someone who has many, MANY books, I am looking at replacing as many of them as I can with ebooks, as they don’t take up physical space. My problem is that I cannot afford to purchase all of my books as ebooks. I am sure that there are illegal electronic editions of many of my books floating around on the internet, however, I am loath to download such, as that would be stealing. I am wondering if anyone out there has ever heard of some kind of service where for a modest fee (maybe $1 or two per book), I could exchange my physical copy of a book for an electronic copy?
Alex,
I’ve never heard of such a service and, if you find one, I suspect very strongly that it will be illegal. Those who would be giving you the ebook would pay more for it than they could collect in your fee plus any resale value for your used book. In short, they would be losing money with each exchange, which means they aren’t paying for the ebooks (or have a benefactor whose only goal is to lose money).
Mike
Mike,
I recently read your essay about your upcoming work with the new Mechwarrior game and as a longtime fan I have to say im stoked to know they have your talent behind the project. I have followed your books thru both the Battletech and Star Wars franchises (LOVED I,Jedi) and I will continue to look for your work in the future.
I understand your moratorium on email and just wanted to give you a little shout out from a much older (and I hope wiser) fan of Battletech.
Keep up the good work!!!
Sincerely
Mike D
San Antonio, Texas
Mike – You and I must have surely watched the same TV show about the bamboo/rat cycle. I thought it would make a good story someday and filed it away. I guess I forgot the big lesson from one of my college professors – when you have an idea a thousand other people are having the same idea at the same time, so write fast. You wrote a great story and now I don’t have to think about that idea anymore. Thanks for “Night of the Rat God!”
Pete,
You can still write a fun story using the same idea. I’d actually started on another idea, then saw that Nova, and decided it was a lot cleaner for the kind of story I wanted to kick off The Chain Story. That was an interesting show, though, and chilling.