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Title: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: Talia on July 01, 2008, 03:05:50 PM

Didn't see a thread on this yet, sorry if I missed it somewhere and this is a repeat. Matt Selznick is doing something VERY cool in conjunction with the Swarm Press' publication of "Brave Men Run" on 7/13.

I've tried to summarize it about 18 times but decided best leave it in the man's own words as apparently my brain is on vacation today:

More info:http://www.mattselznick.com/writing/fiction/novels/brave-men-run/ (http://www.mattselznick.com/writing/fiction/novels/brave-men-run/)

The thing that makes this of particular interest for me, and what motivated me to post here, is that "very special Sovereign Era content" he references? Per the email he sent out to his mailing list, that's a series of short stories set in the 'Brave Men Run' universe authored by the likes of Mur Lafferty, JC Hutchins, Jared Axelrod and other familiar names. I thought that was just splendid. He'll be reading one per hour, I guess, on the hour.

Anyway, I hope this doesn't come off too much like an ad or something, mainly I just thought this was a wonderful event and something the community here would be interested in checking out. (if you haven't already read/heard Brave Men Run, check it out, its a lot of fun).

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: Alasdair5000 on July 01, 2008, 03:31:06 PM

Oh excellent:)  Cheers for the heads up Talia, I love Brave Men Run.

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: Russell Nash on July 01, 2008, 06:22:49 PM

Don't be nervous.  Good post.

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: shwankie on July 01, 2008, 06:25:32 PM

Awesome! I loved Brave Men Run!, and thank you so much for the head's up on this!

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: stePH on July 01, 2008, 07:06:26 PM

Talia's post has served as a reminder that although I've enjoyed J.R. DeRego's "Union Dues" stories and Mur Lafferty's Playing For Keeps, I have yet to check out Brave Men Run.  An oversight which I intend to rectify at soonest opportunity.

So add me to the list of thankers here.  :)

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: Planish on July 12, 2008, 10:38:27 AM

Yay for Matt!

Looking forward to more Sovereign Era stuff.

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: Talia on July 13, 2008, 03:51:53 PM

This is going on right now and its been great fun so far. Chat room is very active too, a bunch of the authors are in there.


Drop on in. This is shaping up nicely.

Title: Re: Spiffy Brave Men Run publication event thingy
Post by: Talia on July 14, 2008, 09:22:51 AM

as an aside, we managed to help get BMR up to #53 on the amazon bestsellers list for a while. This up from #27,000, mind you. :)