The printer came back ahead of schedule and the galley proof was perfect. This means it’s now possible to order an advance copy. It won’t be available on Amazon.com for another 5 to 7 days. It will take 6 to 8 weeks to become fully distributed by wholesalers and bookstores.
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Uprising USA on Amazon
Uprising USA is now available for the Kindle Reader!
Positive reviews would be very much appreciated.
Oh if I had the money…
Norway
Our sympathies and prayers are with our friends in Norway.
Uprising USA update
Uprising is going to press very soon. Pre-Orders for autographed copies are going to be available in just a few weeks, then the general release shortly thereafter.
The Utah Gathering and Training with Mas
On July 30th, at the Provo City Range (The one up the road to Squah Peak in Provo Canyon) Members of WeTheArmed.com and Friends will be gathering for a day of Shooting and Socializing. We will be shooting in the morning, then a break for lunch at a yet to be determined location, then back to the range for some more shooting. Every Member of WTA is Welcome to come on out.
Then in September, Crusader Weaponry was officially invited to attend the Ayoob Group’s MAG-40 Class in Salt Lake Sept 14-17. This course is hosted by The Gun Dudes, and in attendance will be Daniel Shaw of Gunfighter Caste. This is going to be an EPIC week of training. Crusader will be there to show off some of Crusader’s Wares, Slipstream, and to have an awesome time with awesome people.
Photos from SHOT 2011
Uprising: UK
It looks like Uprising: UK is going to come out to be about 300 pages. A much more manageable sized book. While I am going through and basically rewriting it, I am being careful to give it more atmosphere. Uprising: US was basically all about the action. UK is going to be more about the atmosphere and I want to give it more tension building up to the action and then make that action sudden and brutal.
Some scenes in U:UK were very tight, fast, and then we jumped ahead. Well, I want to make some of these scenes bigger. Such as when there was a downed aircraft and a missing character. That scene needs to be expanded. Then there is the death of a different character, and that should probably get more time as well. More visual, more detail, and make this story something more important than just an action/horror genre. Because while U:UK has zombies in it, it’s not really a zombie story. It takes a turn for the super natural… and I think it takes Uprising to a new, higher level.
The stories as written by the other Uprising authors, are being worked on… and when they are finished, these are going to be some works that you will not want to miss. In all honesty, they are some of the best writing I’ve ever read. And this makes me feel strange. I kinda think they have done a better job than I have done… I started this, created this Uprising Universe, and these are the guys that have taken it and run with it… Which makes me the George Lucas of Zombies. Neat. Now I need to grow a ridiculous mop of hair, a huge beard, and wear flannel. Okay, no… I wont go there. But this does make me think… who is my Jar-Jar? I think that would be Musket. Musket is my Jar-Jar.
The next books in the Uprising Series is going to be in Russia… and then to China where the Uprising was all started. But I don’t know how it all ends. We shall have to wait and see.
The Eagle
I watched an interesting movie about a Roman Centurion who takes it upon himself to recover the Eagle totem of the lost 9th Legion. I thought it was very well done and was quite interesting. To a point.
The film makers did a great job on the Romans. They took all sorts of time creating everything to look historically accurate. And then they take the Romans north of Hadrian’s Wall and it all turned to crap. Evidently the film makers want the Romans to look clean and shiny and the Scots to look like they are soggy and smeared in scat. Until they get very far north and run into the Huron Tribe of Native Americans. They called the tribe the Seal Tribe, supposedly some primitive Celts of some sort, but I forgot I was watching The Eagle and thought I was watching Last of the Mohicans. I take umbrage at this. The Scots of this time were indeed rather primitive and rustic… but they didn’t look like Indians and they didn’t shave their heads and they didn’t build silly little tents on the edges of north facing cliffs. The film makers had a hard time filming on that location because of wind and rain blowing down their tents and such. That should be a clue. If you are wearing layers of Columbia Arctic Gear, Rain Gear and you have to keep putting the set back together… you can probably imagine that the Early Scots in that area were not shaving their heads, running around naked with ash smeared all over them and living in wig-wams. They probably had long hair, wore a lot of furs, and built houses of some sort that could stand up to the weather they are living in. Even the early Scots had a distinct culture and society. They had standards of dress and hygiene. Just because they were not Roman didn’t mean they were cave-men.
So The Eagle had great Romans… and the Scots were rubbish.
I’m going to kill my Facebook account
I’ve decided that I am going to kill my Facebook account. I’m going to switch to Google+. I don’t really know why I did Facebook in the first place… but I kind of liked it. And then all the sudden I started getting Friend Requests from not just people who I don’t know… but also from Companies I never heard of. If you are company that wants to be my friend – give me something. A gesture. Not access to my Friends List. It’s just all too unwieldy now. With Google+ I’m only going to accept people who I actually know. If I don’t know you… that’s too bad. My friends on WTA and such are welcome, Family of course, but if you are from Romania and I don’t know you and can’t pronounce your name… I’m sorry.
Probably by the end of the month I’ll kill my Facebook account.