Happy Birthday Rhonda!

 

Rhonda Wray: Raptor Wrangler was published one year ago today. 

We’re about to go over it with one last edit and get rid of that typo before I record the audiobook, so this is your last chance to get the Special Imperfect First Edition (which may be a collectable someday, you never know). 

Sally and I are working hard on the sequel, which will have even more dinosaurs and gunfights. Initially I didn’t want to do a sequel, but since we got hosed out of our launch party by Covid19, we’re doing a sequel, and it will have at least two launch parties. 

We could use a couple more reviews to launch us into Amazon’s next level of bot promotion! Write a review and we’ll name one of the sequel characters after you (whether they get eaten by plesiosaurs, gunned down by a cool-looking pop star or obliterated by government tanks for being a terrorist depends on the review).

Author Spotlight: Charon Dunn and Sally Smith

Hey look everyone, I'm in an author spotlight!

As far as a creativity update ... 

My courtroom drama for grownups got derailed by (1) a big long pile of NDAs; (2) I was talking to a science expert and realized that consumers of this kind of story prefer TV-style verite, and I have a tendency to be surreal and warp the edges of reality -- so this might work better in a completely SF setting, such as a space station; (3) the fact that Sally and I deserve a launch party, dammit; (4) someone finally wrote a book about dinosaur behavior, and now I want to write a new dino book with even more state-of-the-art dino science.

Not to mention Charon's Axiom of Art: create art for the sort of people you want to attract.

[For example: litigious grownups who don't appreciate surrealism = hell no. K-Pop stans, science nerds, and people with a goofy sense of humor = absolutely!]

So I am hard at work on a sequel. With more and better dinosaurs.

Not to mention Sebastian Rose's adventures in the sordid criminal world of Exonine pop music as he prepares to make his solo debut because I have a deep burning need to remake something in the spirit of Goodfellas with a cast of K-Pop idols armed with sci fi weapons, so I'm just going to roll with it.

It'll be out in time for 2022 Baycon as long as we don't succumb to lollygagging. See you at the launch party.

Me in the '90s, trying to accept my destiny as a dino book writer