Tag Archives: Fiction
Free Fiction X 2

Free Fiction X 2

For anyone following me on Twitter (@mikestackpole) or on Facebook, the following is old news, but I do have some new details. Night Shade Books has made a deal with Amazon to give away copies of At the Queen’s Command free. This offer, I’ve been told, runs at least until my birthday (11/27) and is […]

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Perfectly Dead: Here’s this weird thing…

Perfectly Dead: Here’s this weird thing…

I can’t speak for all writers, but more often than not, buried in a novel somewhere, authors toss in little inside jokes. These are mentions that often escape folks on the first read. For example, in Fortress Draconis and When Dragons Rage there are very tiny, veiled references to the Harry Potter series of novels. […]

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Perfectly Invisible: Why The Missing Deluxe Edition Is Missing

Perfectly Invisible: Why The Missing Deluxe Edition Is Missing

In the comments section of Chapter One of Perfectly Invisible, Russell Davis asked where the deluxe edition of Perfectly Invisible was. A year ago I released In Hero Years… I’m Dead in both a basic and deluxe edition. The deluxe edition included the full text of the novel and a long essay talking about how […]

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Second Life Office Hours for 12 October 2011

Second Life Office Hours for 12 October 2011

Tonight, as I do every Wednesday evening, at 6 PM Pacific time, I’ll host office hours in Second Life. Readers and writers are cordially invited to attend. I’ll be in voice chat, answering questions and talking about issues of the day. The event usually goes on for about 1.5 hours, but I’ve been known to […]

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Second Life Office Hours for 5 October 2011

Second Life Office Hours for 5 October 2011

Tonight, as I do every Wednesday evening, at 6 PM Pacific time, I’ll host office hours in Second Life. Readers and writers are cordially invited to attend. I’ll be in voice chat, answering questions and talking about issues of the day. The event usually goes on for about 1.5 hours, but I’ve been known to […]

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HSS: Perfectly Invisible Chapter Three

HSS: Perfectly Invisible Chapter Three

(Perfectly Invisible is the first of the stories I’ll tell in the Homeland Security Services universe. In this world, the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers succeeded, killing over 60,000 people. It resulted in the passage of the 28th Amendment—something we’d recognize as The Patriot Act on steroids. It included the establishment of classes of […]

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HSS: Perfectly Invisible  Chapter Two

HSS: Perfectly Invisible Chapter Two

(Perfectly Invisible is the first of the stories I’ll tell in the Homeland Security Services universe. In this world, the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers succeeded, killing over 60,000 people. It resulted in the passage of the 28th Amendment—something we’d recognize as The Patriot Act on steroids. It included the establishment of classes of […]

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