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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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See These Bones: Chapter 4

Posted on 2019-10-292019-10-27 by Chris Tullbane

There’s nothing to like about Bakersfield. Pretty sure that was true pre-Break, and it’s sure as hell true now. Balls-hot in the summer, foggy and moist in the winter, boring as shit year-round. The city’s a long way from the ocean, from L.A. or the Bay. It just sits in the middle of nowhere like a middle finger to the tumbleweeds.

No wonder Dad went nuts.

Not that it excuses what he did.

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The Stats Behind See These Bones

Posted on 2019-10-242020-08-31 by Chris Tullbane

With the release of See These Bones less than two weeks away, I thought it would be fun to take a break from all the process-heavy and behind-the-scenes posts to share some quick, mainly ridiculous, stats about the book. All numbers provided here represent my best guesses after a less-than-careful review of the manuscript, and I reserve the right to be proven utterly incorrect by future readers. I’ve also tried to keep things spoiler-free.

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See These Bones: Chapter 3

Posted on 2019-10-222019-10-27 by Chris Tullbane

There aren’t a lot of cars on the roads. I’m told they were everywhere before Dr. Nowhere broke the world, but these days, most people recognize them for the rolling death traps they are. Never know when another Pyro like Scarlet might show up or when that psycho Pele is going to surf in from the Pacific on a tidal wave of shit-you-not lava.

And that’s before you even get to the Shifters or the Titans. Know what King Rex used to call cars? Meals on wheels. Dude had acres of style to go along with that skin condition and seventy-foot shadow.

Mr. Grey opened the passenger door of the rust-covered death trap parked at the curb, and waved me in.

After a moment’s hesitation, I shrugged. Truth was, I’d always kind of wanted to ride in a car. I tossed my bag into the back seat, and climbed in.

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Click Publish and You’re Done

Posted on 2019-10-172021-01-21 by Chris Tullbane

As you may have heard, I’m releasing a book, See These Bones, in just under three weeks. In a perfect world, that would involve a single step: click publish and you’re done.

This is not a perfect world.

For the past month, work on my other books has taken a back seat to preparing for my book launch. I’ve covered some of those details already, from the cover to the live-action book trailer. Today, I want to talk about the book itself and what it’s taken to get it ready for release. I also want to discuss the pricing, which is a way more complicated subject than you’d expect.

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See These Bones: Chapter 2

Posted on 2019-10-152019-10-27 by Chris Tullbane

I bounced between foster homes for a few years after Mom died, never staying with any family more than a couple of months. Not until the Jacobsens—Norm and Sue, because apparently it’s a cosmic law that ordinary people have really stupid names.

For some reason, these two God-worshipping hero-vid junkies actually gave a damn. Wasn’t like it had been with my real parents, but Norm didn’t seem likely to up and murder Sue either, so I wasn’t going to complain. Norm, Sue, and little Damian… the perfect pretend family.

Yeah, Damian. It’s like Dad wanted to screw me over from the start.

Anyway, the Jacobsens spent six months tearing down my walls, six months sitting through night terrors and angry spells. Convincing me that they cared. That they’d be there for me through anything.

Then I turned nine.

Then Mom showed back up.

Then we all learned that Dad wasn’t the only Crow in the family.

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