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  My wife and I are moving to Tur Del Fur. Not entirely, and not exactly, but she’s already there and I’m leaving to join her today. Truth is we bought a house in Old Town Key West, and if my last novel, Drumindor were to be made into a movie, Key West is where … Read more

 Hey all, Robin here. I’m writing today because it’s time to . . .  What do I have to be so happy about?  Well a few things. First and foremost, I have some important news about the third book in the Cycle series.  When Michael started writing it, he put a “target date” of May … Read more

As many may be aware I’m currently writing “The Cycle” – a five-book post-Riyria Revelations series which will pull characters and plot points from all 20 books written in Elan including: 6 books of the Riyria Revelations 5 books of the Riyria Chronicles 6 books of the Legends of the First Empire 3 books of … Read more

 From time to time Orbit, my publisher for the Riyria Revelations, puts the books on a deeply discounted sale. This is one of those times.  The book is currently $1.99 (previously $6.99 originally $12.99) and the price change happened on February 1st. I’m not sure how long it will be at this price, probably for … Read more

For anyone who has been watching the news latel,y you’ll know that there was a massive storm that came to our neck of the woods a week ago. All in all it wasn’t as bad here as other places – 5″ of snow but some freezing rain on top of it which made all surfaces … Read more

Being an author has never been easy. It’s difficult to write a book, and nearly impossible to create one that is “good” (defined as a story that after reading others will tell their friends about it).  Then there are always a mountain of rejections, being taken advantage of by retailers and publishers who take the … Read more

Back in March of 2019 I made a post on our blog about Will Wight.  This was the first time I saw an indie published book hit the top 5 on Amazon’s overall list, so I wrote a little note of congratulations to Will, someone who I had never met. I should note that Will … Read more

Hey all, Robin here.  I’m reaching out to you today for two reasons. I’m a big fan of J. A. Andrews (both personally and professionally) – and if you don’t know her work, then I definitely think you should check it out. When a fellow author is in need, I try to do what I … Read more

 As some of you may know, Adam Grandy approached us about doing a documentary about our lives. We didn’t think anyone would be interested in such a thing, but Adam persisted. We finally relented but only on the condition that he expand the scope to talk about Indie Authors across the board and add some … Read more

Hey all, Robin here. Michael and I are fresh back from an extended vacation in Key West (more on that at some point in the future).  But there have been some shuffling of audiobook titles recently, so I was taking a look at one of the fantasy bestsellers lists, and I was happy to see … Read more