The Antithesis Progression

Now that the feeds are working and I’m back on the air, I thought you’d all enjoy a sample of a new work that shares some of <i>Down From Ten’s</i> comedic horror vibe.

It is with great <img align=”right” src=”http://www.jdsawyer.net/blog_pics/ideas_inc_blog.jpg” /> pride that I announce the release of my short novel <i>Ideas, Inc.</i>, which Alasdair Stuart of…well, everywhere…called “Effortlessly funny, cheerfully dark, and tremendously strange” before he went on to say a <a href=”http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/03/13/blog-ideas-inc-review/”>whole lot more in this amazing review in SFX</a>.

This is a story designed to give you a rip-roaring, white-knuckle adventure with plenty of laughs and scares in a single, breathless evening. Of course, you’re free to take longer reading it, but I warn you: Once you pick it up you won’t want to put it down.

Available now in <a href=”http://createspace.com/title/4118185″>paperback</a>
And in ebook through <a href=”https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/265947″>Smashwords</a>, <a href=”http://www.amazon.com/Ideas-Inc-ebook/dp/B00APBE4QK”>Amazon</a>, <a href=”http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Ideas-Inc/book-vKnlLbEmnkSh-28cz92m5A/page1.html”>Kobo</a>, <a href=”http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ideas-inc-j-daniel-sawyer/1113984731″>Barnes and Noble</a>, and a few other places as well.

<blockquote><i>The author of </i>Suave Rob’s Double-X Derring-Do<i> brings you a farce of the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse and Douglas Adams.

Best friends Caleb and Lenny hate each other. Stranded in the middle of upstate New York with two flat tires, one spare, no cell reception, and no idea what to do, they figure they’re pretty much screwed. Fortunately, they broke down right in front of a place that deals in ideas. For the special one-time fire-sale price of seventeen bucks, they can get a pack of seven completely original, brand-new, ultra-premium, never-before-used ideas. But will it get them out of trouble before they’re forced to talk to each other again?

Find out in this hilarious all-night adventure yarn that reveals the terrible truth behind the worldwide pigeon cabal!</blockquote></i>

Pick your poison, watch your back, and remember: the next bright idea just might get you killed.

Read the first chapter free here as a <a href=”http://www.jdsawyer.net/samples/ideas_inc-jdsawyer-sample.epub”>EPUB</a> or <a href=”http://www.jdsawyer.net/samples/ideas_inc-jdsawyer-sample.pdf”>PDF</a>.

So, Free Will is in prep for release right now, with the typos and other nit-picky details being worked over, layout being done, etc. It’s a big step forward in the Antithesis Progression, and there are a lot of you out there who have been waiting patiently for the series to continue.

Some of you will get a sneak peak. You see, this is a big book. It ate up more pages, and more time, than I expected by an order of magnitude, and I’m eager to see it find a good home on the shelves and in the e-readers of all of you, including those of you who have drifted away in the meantime, intending to come back when the series continued.

To let people know Antithesis is back, we’re going to need publicity. Publicity means you! Some of you out there enjoy blogging, posting opinion pieces and reviews, etc., and you are the ones I need. Starting today, the first hundred of you that email me with the subject line “Free Will Ebook” will receive a free, pre-copyedits ebook version of Free Will (and a corrected version once the proofs are done).

In return for receiving this advance review copy, you promise to blog the book when you’ve finished reading it and, once the book is released to the general public in the next week or two, to post a copy or extract of your blog review in two of the following: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, Goodreads, Kobo, Sony ebook store, Kobo, iBookstore. Those of you who feel enthusiastic enough about the book to post the review in all those places will be entered into a drawing. The four prizes in that drawing will be:

Spread the word!
Also, watch this space. There will be more announcements in the coming days about casting calls, a new Death Threats contest, and other goodies.

A definitive update, with lots of news

And now, Episode 6 of Free Will and Other Compulsions. Story So Far by Kitty NicIaian, your co-producer and occasional voice actor.

Cast this week (in order of appearance):
Steven H. Wilson as William Ellison
Renee Wilson as Marjorie
Derek Moore as Jim
Miss Kalendar as Ali
Kitty Nic’Iaian as Futigive’s AI

And now, Episode 5 of Free Will and Other Compulsions. Story So Far by Jack Hosley, host of Wander Radio.

Cast this week (in order of appearance):
Steven H. Wilson as Percy Scott
Nobilis Reed as The Nurse
Nathan Lowell as Senator William Shelley
Kitty Nic’Iaian as White House Intern
Benjamin Roberts as Shane the Aide

Welcome to the second of several Down From Ten Feedback shows. This one is episode ten, part two of the Dealing In series of feedback shows, where I and several friends answer your emails and talk about whatever comes up. This time, I’m joined by Metamor City and Down From Ten cast member Chris Lester, New York Times Bestseller Gail Carriger, and producer/actor/cartoonist Kitty Nic’Iaian. What do we talk about? An incomplete list, in no particular order:

Food
Pacing
Screenplays
Chekov
Soulless
Racism and bigotry in the Victorian world
Douglas Adams
Thomas Mann
Cultural change throughout history
The Death of the Author
Focault
Deride
Shakespeare
The Royal Shakespeare Company
POV characters
George R.R. Martin
Neal Stephenson
Shakespeare
Employing Symbolism in writing
Tee Morris

For those of you who were having trouble, this should fix it.

Welcome to the first of several Down From Ten Feedback shows. This one is episode eleven of the Dealing In series of feedback shows, where I and several friends answer your emails and talk about whatever comes up. This time, I’m joined by Metamor City and Down From Ten cast member Chris Lester, New York Times Bestseller Gail Carriger, and producer/actor/cartoonist Kitty NicIaian. What do we talk about? An incomplete list, in no particular order:

Poirot
Stargate SG-1
Sir Apropos of Nothing
The Name of the Wind
Stephen R. Donaldson
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
The Gap Cycle
Cozy Mysteries
Agatha Christie
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Law vs. Morality
Unconventional relationship structures
Stranger in a Strange Land
U.S. Regionalisms and prejudices
Polyamory Weekly
Free Will (announcement)

After far too long away, we have new episodes coming your way… shortly. First, though, we need to cast a few new voices. Visit the casting call page for a list of the new characters and brief descriptions, and contact casting@jdsawyer.net if you would be interested.

And now, Episode 25, in which all is revealed.