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I, an author in little danger of being considered Serious, do not.

And you know I’m gonna tell you all about it �� after the jump.

But first, please enjoy this ultra-creepy scene of Dennis Hopper singing that Depressed Nerd classic from :

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As I’ve gotten older, one of the drawbacks is that my dreams in general seem to have grown blander and more repetitive.* However, �ٳ󲹳�’s not always the case.

Part of it, anyway.

As you know, I hope, the super-suave �� of have been loosed on the world. Last week, more or less, I got a query from a bookseller in England who was reading the copy had sent him, telling me he got more out of fantasy if he had an idea of where everything, you know, was, and asking me if I could take some time to explain it to him.

I told him, “Nope!��

They always tell writers, “Show, don’t tell,�� right?

Instead I sent him the above.

Omigodomigodomigod!

Say hello to your new saurian masters!

Your �� , if you will.

They’re here! The “uncorrected advance reading copies�� �� meaning, bound galleys, I guess?

They’re gorgeous. Oh, holy carp. My modest camera skills do not do them justice.

And they have the INTERIOR ILLOS. Which are AWESOME.

So who wants awesome news about ?

Too bad. You’re getting it anyway.

But it starts, oddly enough, with .

is a good friend of mine, a demon writer of SF and Fantasy, and an astrophysicist. (No, .) His wife, , posted a link to of his newest from on Facebook. I naturally reposted it on my own Timeline.

At which Sara came back promptly to thank me �� and congratulate me for “Dinosaur Lords place on the top 10 list in that same issue of PW!��

What, now?

So in my from Paradise*, I cruelly withheld details of a second great favor did me this week.

Well, it was this:

That’s where, for the first two days I’ve been trying it, my pious resolve to follow my new tentative work/doing schedule �� so I can start getting on top of things, you know? �� has gone the moment I checked my email.

Today it’s because of this:

As I told Tor, the toy dino is a stroke of genius.

And now HOLY CARP MY TWITTER FEED IS BLOWING UP.

Which is a fancy way of saying that, after we linked to the novel on Amazon for pre-order in and the , I then discovered thanks to my friend Serge Broom that it could also be had on , in both dead-tree and Nook ebook form.

Now please enjoy this uncommonly hard-core painting of a Centrosaurus apertus.

Also, buzz continues to build for The Dinosaur Lords, huzzah!

No, not the river in South America, although I gather the ones they have down there* are spectacular and colorful. But rather the online-seller-of-books-and-some-of-everything-else, Amazon.

Yes, is now up for pre-order there!

Get ‘em while they last!

Yes, the image is plastered all over the site �� if it weren’t, my most excellent Webmaster would have fallen down on the job. And we know �ٳ󲹳�’s not gonna happen. But here’s the actual cover. Complete with The Quote. (Sure, you may’ve . But just in case��.)

Now, you may wonder what the big deal is �� the hardcover’s been available on Amazon for a month or so already. But the news here is -

Okay, now, this is seriously great.

This here is the in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It happens to be owned by one .

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And thanks to , it will also be the site of the World Premier Launch Party for a modest little tome I like to call on Monday, August 3rd, 2015.

Which also happens to be my 61st birthday. How cool is that?

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Because it’s that time of year �� and I’m trying to get myself to post here, to be on-the-nose about it �� let’s count down my current faves.

5) �� Because nothing says “L.A. Christmastime in the Eighties�� like an opening scene of a drugged-out topless woman plunging to her death over a railing festooned with colored holiday lights! Also, of course, an all-time awesome actioner.