J Alan Erwine's Blog

J Alan Erwine is a prize winning SF writer. He is also an SF editor, and the co-designer of the Ephemeris Role Playing Game. He is also the creator of the Rocks on the Other Side RPG, as well as the Battle for Turtle Island RPG.

Saturday, February 25, 2012

The first chapter

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Thursday, March 1st is the release date for my new novel, A Problem in Translation . If you'd like to read the first chapter, please fe...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

A Problem in Translation blurb

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It's not finalized yet, but here's the blurb for the new book... What is humanity to do when faced by aliens whose language is vague...
Friday, February 03, 2012

The worst part about writing a book...

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...is when the publisher asks you to help out with the back cover blurb. I've never been good at sales, and trying to promote my own wor...
Thursday, February 02, 2012

Release date

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We have a release date for my new novel, A Problem in Translation . It will be released on March 1st, 2012. That's not all that far of...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

January recap

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Very light month of blogging. Hopefully I'll have more to say in the month to come. Shouldn't be a surprise... Progress Report We h...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

We have a cover

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We're getting very close to the release of my third novel A Problem in Translation , and I'm very happy to say that we now have a co...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Progress report

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Work on the new game is really coming along. I'm very excited about this one, and I'm hoping it will be well received by the gaming...
Saturday, January 07, 2012

Shouldn't be a surprise...

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...I've started work on the new role playing game. Any time an idea really grabs hold of me, I don't have much choice but to go wit...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

December recap

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Ephemeris Holiday Specials The Martian Wave as a bestseller 12 Days of Ephemeris Christmas I don't understand parents Thinking about a n...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

2011 in review

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This hasn't been the most productive year I've ever had. I'm sure it has a lot to do with the baby and the new job, but I did h...
Monday, December 26, 2011

Thinking about a new RPG

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I've been playing with the idea of creating a new RPG. This one would be a fantasy game set during the colonization/conquest of America...
Friday, December 23, 2011

I don't understand parents

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Our kids spent the day with grandma today so that we could get some last minute Christmas stuff done. As we were leaving to pick them up, w...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

12 Days of Ephemeris Christmas

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We're going to be having special sales all through the 12 days of Christmas. We'll be offering a different PDF e-book each day for a...
Saturday, December 03, 2011

The Martian Wave as a bestseller

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The Martian Wave Vol. 2, which I edited, made it onto the bestsellers list at Sam's Dot Publishing for November. It came in at #4. You...
Friday, December 02, 2011

Ephemeris holiday specials

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We've set up some special holiday bundles at DriveThruRPG for those of you that play, or want to play the Ephemeris Science Fiction Role...
Thursday, December 01, 2011

November recap

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Happy birthday Alexis! Nothing to sell Some stuff to write Cyber Monday sales
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Cyber Monday sales

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A couple of Cyber Monday sales have kicked off that feature some of my work. You can find the Ephemeris Cyber Monday Bundle at http://rpg.d...
Friday, November 18, 2011

Some stuff to write

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I just finished reading through a big stack of fragments I've written over the last decade or so. There is definitely some stuff to wor...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Nothing to sell

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With the sale of my most recent novel, I've come to the shocking revelation that I have no fiction to submit. Granted there are some st...
Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Happy birthday Alexis!

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Today is my youngest daughter's first birthday. It's hard to believe that it's already been a year. It's also hard to beli...
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