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Stories From a Post-Break World

Posted on 2020-02-262020-04-09 by Chris Tullbane

In last week’s blog post, I announced plans to take my two short stories from this site, clean them up, and release them on Amazon. As newsletter subscribers already know, those plans became reality last night!

See These Bones and its sequels are understandably focused on Damian and his struggles, but it’s a big, broken world out there. These tales offer brief glimpses of events and places far beyond Damian’s reach, often touching on locations or secondary characters from the main series. They also give me an opportunity to play around with different perspectives and writing styles.

People seemed to dig the earlier drafts, and I’m thrilled to bring them to the wider audience of Amazon!

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Strange Things are Afoot at the Circle K

Posted on 2020-02-182020-08-29 by Chris Tullbane

February is always a weird month. Shorter than every other month, colder than most, with Valentine’s Day and (in the USA) Presidents Day thrown in just to keep everything confusing. Historically, it’s been a month where I get almost nothing done.

This year’s February has been different. Even more hectic than usual–from a Vancouver trip to house guests to a parade of home warranty excitement–but also more productive. And we’re only halfway through the month? Strange things are afoot, indeed!

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…but why?

Posted on 2020-02-042020-08-31 by Chris Tullbane

One of the great things about being an independent author is that you get to make all the decisions. Feel like writing a fifteen-volume series about trans-dimensional robots searching for fresh strawberries on a lava planet? Go for it. Feel like capitalizing every third word in a sentence? I question the long-term strategy, but you be you. Feel like releasing your book on a certain day? There aren’t any publishers to tell you not to.

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2020 Writing Goals

Posted on 2020-01-142020-08-29 by Chris Tullbane

It took everything we had. It took grit and gumption and the unconstrained passage of time, but we finally did it. We made it to the new year! A year of optimism, baby yoda memes, 20/20 vision jokes, and, of course, goals and resolutions. Which means it is finally time to share my 2020 writing goals, in all their wildly-optimistic glory.

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A Goodbye Letter to 2019

Posted on 2019-12-312020-04-09 by Chris Tullbane

Dear 2019,

At the risk of repeating myself… you’ve been a year.

The older I get, the more individual years tend to blur together. As a child, every year felt different and new. As an adult, it often feels like one single strand of time, occasionally dotted with holidays and vacations.

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2019 Review: My Top 5 Posts

Posted on 2019-12-232019-12-22 by Chris Tullbane

The year is almost over, and 2020 is lurking somewhere in the clouds above us, waiting for the moment we should cast our eyes skyward to come crashing down upon us in all of its fury. But we’ll worry about 2020 some other time. Like… a week or so from now. As I did last…

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December Wonderings

Posted on 2019-12-172020-08-31 by Chris Tullbane

And poof. Just like that, it’s December. Time has a way of speeding up around the holidays, and this year has been no exception. Between See These Bones’ book launch, a five day water fast, Thanksgiving, my birthday, and a trip to Florida for my mother’s birthday, you’d be right to wonder if I’d gotten…

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See These Bones: Post-Release Update

Posted on 2019-11-122020-08-29 by Chris Tullbane

So… a thing happened last week, and contrary to my fears, the world didn’t stop spinning. Nor did the barbarian hordes sweep down from the north to sack Rome for an eighth time. In Las Vegas, we did have a week of unseasonably warm weather for November, but something tells me that had nothing to…

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See These Bones: Release Day, Advance Review Round-up, and Content Warnings

Posted on 2019-11-052020-08-29 by Chris Tullbane

After more than three years, dozens of query letters, countless cover-to-cover revisions and editing sessions, several months of cover shenanigans, a live-action trailer, and eight-plus posts of countdown hype, the release day of See These Bones is finally here! Today, readers from around the world will finally get to experience the post-Break world through the eyes and mind of my possibly doomed and very-much-broken protagonist, Damian Banach.

I’m equal parts happy, excited, and… worried.

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See These Bones: Chapter 5

Posted on 2019-10-312019-10-27 by Chris Tullbane

We’d traveled through another few miles of dust and dirt, the temperature rising steadily with the sun, before I finally replied.

“I don’t know what you’ve heard about me, but all I do is see ghosts. Just one ghost, really. If you’re looking for armies, I’m not your Crow.”

“Not yet. With time and instruction… we will see.”

I flinched as the car dodged a house-sized tumbleweed. “Are you saying the government has some sort of secret training facility for people like me?”

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