Furiously Working on Girls Wearing Black 2

by Spencer Baum on May 5, 2012

I’m honored and a bit nervous at the volume of requests for an update on the sequel to Homecoming Masquerade. All I can tell you at this point is I am working on it every day and it’s coming together nicely. At the end of Masquerade I promised Winter 2012 for the next book. That was a conservative estimate. I wanted to make sure I didn’t make a promise I couldn’t keep. So long as the writing keeps progressing at the current pace, I think we’ll have it published sooner than that. I’m now aiming for late summer.

Thanks everyone for your interest, and I hope the sequel lives up to your expectations!

 

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Best Books of 2011

by Spencer Baum on January 1, 2012

My two favorite novels of 2011:

Ready Player One – An unapologetic nostalgia trip for 30-something men who played Adventure on their Atari 2600′s. I particularly enjoyed the scene where Ultraman had it out with Mechagodzilla.

The Art of Fielding – Love, life, and college baseball. I don’t like baseball, but I loved this book.

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Amazon Feeling the Hate

December 17, 2011

Seems like Amazon is unseating Wal-Mart (who unseated Microsoft, who unseated Exxon..) as the most hated corporation. Interesting tumblr tracking the backlash against their success. I have mostly fond feelings for Amazon, who has connected me with 95% of my readers.

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The Power of FREE

May 11, 2011

Amazon has put The Demon Queen and The Locksmith on free promotion for a limited time. In the past 8 hours, total downloads on the novel are six times what they were during all of last month!

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Reading the Paranormal Review of Demon Queen

April 30, 2011

“The entire book is interesting and imaginative.  It’s different enough from what I’ve been reading lately that it caught my attention from the first page and kept me hooked…” Read the whole review on Reading the Paranormal

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One Fall on 411mania

April 16, 2011

Pro wrestling and pop culture megasite 411mania.com is releasing One Fall as a free weekly serial with some new chapter notes from me. First installment is up today.

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The Demon Queen and the Locksmith – 5 Stars From BigAl’s Books and Pals

April 7, 2011

Do you know Big Al? You should. Long a cult favorite among us heavy readers, in the past month readership on his site went from a respectable but indie-sized audience to major grade status. It happened when Big Al wrote a fair, but critical review of a woman’s error-ridden manuscript. From that review: spelling and [...]

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Demon Queen 5-Star Review From Chilli Tween Reads

March 10, 2011

“With Great pace in his dialogue and a style reminiscent of early Stephen King I became enthralled. The story slowly unwinding itself in a complex origami of plots and subplots that came together in the final chapters to reveal an original tale filled with horror and suspense.” Read the entire review here.

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Demon Queen Podcast Crosses 25,000 Downloads

January 23, 2011

26,000 and change as of today. Thank you everyone who has listened! http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-demon-queen-and-the-locksmith

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New Interview Up at Ereader-Feebies

January 8, 2011

New interview with Christian Graham at Ereader-Freebies about Demon Queen. http://ereader-freebies.blogspot.com/2011/01/young-adult-fantasy-kindle-free-book.html

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