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Tag Archives: Return to Exile
Bedlam’s Song
Here’s my most recent song. I recorded it through the mic and camera of my laptop, so the sound is overloaded — keep the volume down.
E.J. Patten Blog Tours Us
I welcome fellow Story Monkey E.J. Patten, incipiently-world famous author of Return to Exile and (coming this Fall) The Legend Thief. E.J. launches off today on his marathon tour of bookblogdom, so in order to avoid tiring him out too … Continue reading
Welcome!
Today is the first official day of this (new version of this) blog. It’s about writing, so I’ll start with a book that someone in my family wrote. Sadly, not me. This is my son William’s first book of spells. … Continue reading
The Adults Problem: A Tale of Two Monster Hunters
I finished Rick Yancey’s The Monstrumologist this weekend. It’s a fine book, for older middle grade readers or young adults who are not averse to gore and horror (the book’s jacket markets it for readers aged fourteen and older; the … Continue reading
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Tagged E.J. Patten, Return to Exile, Rick Yancey, The Adults Problem, The Monstrumologist
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Return to Exile Book Trailer
Enjoy.
Return to Exile Book Launch!
Tonight, 7:00 pm, at The King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City (1511 South 1500 East). E.J. Patten will launch and sign copies of his debut middle reader novel, Return to Exile. Appearance, emcee services and further autographing by Dan … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Launch, Dan Wells, E.J. Patten, Return to Exile, Story Monkeys
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Sequels and Expectations
When you write the first book in a series, you can do anything you want. When you write the second, you can still do anything you want… but whatever you do that repeats or echoes the first book, becomes part … Continue reading
Posted in How to Write
Tagged Dan Simmons, E.J. Patten, Harry Potter, Hyperion, J.K. Rowling, Return to Exile, Sequels, Story Monkeys
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Bully That
Here’s the audio / sham video for “Bully That” (lyrics posted earlier this week). Sorry, I meant to capo it up into G minor, but I forgot until I already had most of the tracks down in the E minor … Continue reading
A Song for Phineas Pimiscule
Continuing in the vein of filk-blogging books I have read and characters I like, here’s “Bully That”. It’s about Phineas, the mentor character in E.J. Patten’s about-to-be-published epic horror middle reader novel, Return to Exile. * * * … Continue reading
Exile Is Broken
So yesterday I finished reading the (as yet untitled) sequel to E.J. Patten’s excellent middle reader garbagepunk action epic horror, Return to Exile. Since I’ve been talking a bit about how novelists have to build a world that is in … Continue reading
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Tagged E.J. Patten, Patrick Carman, Return to Exile, Story Monkeys
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