No, not you posters. THESE posters!

Everyone loves a sequel, right? It appears that I’ll be in NYC from the 29th to the 31st. I’ll have a few things going on, but if we wanted to meet up again at the Tap Room (wasn’t that the name of the joint?) I’d be up for it. Wednesday night would probably be best.

Chime in below, all three of you.

Here’s Mike Tabor’s take on the beloved Porter from Half Way Home. Love it!

Agents rule. Good agents, anyway. Actually, I’ve never worked with a good agent; I only have awesome ones.

I was talking with a friend the other day who asked me what it was like to be this model of self-publishing success. Am I? I wanted to know. This was news to me. But I’ve had my head so buried in my work that I haven’t really taken a look at the landscape in a while. It took my wife Googling me the other night and listing all the references to the UK and film deals, all the comparisons to 50 Shades of Grey. Comparisons which, incidentally, didn’t get either of us hot and bothered in the good way.

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Funny because it’s *not* true!

http://www.hughhowey.com/?page_id=2374

Man, I wish I’d thought this through. I had no idea the original Wool and Omnibus covers would be so desirable. Had I an ounce of wisdom or foresight, I would have ordered 100 of each before I changed the art around. *sigh*

I have two of them left. One is mine and the other is my wife’s. I was thinking about doing some sort of mega contest to give my wife’s away–

Just kidding. It would be mine. I don’t have a death wish, promise. If you have any ideas for some kind of giveaway, let me know. Or tell me that I’m crazy for considering it.

The title of this blog entry is a line from God Save the Queen, the UK national anthem. And that’s the tune I’m humming today: Happy and Glorious! I have awesome news, everyone. Spectacular news. Unbelievable news.

WOOL has been picked up by Random House in the UK!

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For the past few months, I’ve experimented with keeping the comment system of the site wide open. The result has been a mixed blessing. I got a lot more people commenting, and a mountain of spam to deal with every day. This morning, there were 36 comments to mark as spam. That was 36 emails in my gmail account I had to wade through and delete, and then 36 blocks of garbage to click away on the website.

It’s frustrating that the internet is full of griefers and assholes like this. I wish it could be wide open and pleasant. But what the internet needs is zoning restrictions and HOAs. So I’m moving the comments back to where you have to be logged in to leave a message.

This stinks because people have problems on various devices (like iPads) that prevents them from commenting. I’m sorry about this. If anyone knows WordPress enough to install some better and more reliable commenting program, I’m open to ideas. I just can’t keep wading through the piles of spam every day.

Fellow author and great friend David Adams has wowed me over and over with his fan fiction and his art. Here’s another winner from David to celebrate today’s news:

Check out David’s book Lacuna. He has a sequel coming out soon. The guy has writing chops. Just read the sample; you’ll be hooked.

Here’s the leak, which has become a torrent:

http://www.deadline.com/2012/05/20th-century-fox-spins-wool-for-scott-free-and-film-rites/

What an exhausting few weeks this has been. We picked out a house in Jupiter, Florida a few weeks ago, and we settled on the home today. Amber and I now have a new house. It’s driving me nuts to not go down there right now and start working on it. Alas, it’ll be the first week of June before we lug ourselves and our things to our new home. I can’t wait.

That happened this morning. Half an hour later, I was sent a press release that’ll be going out on Monday, which means I’ll finally be able to reveal an awesome development in the world of Wool. It’s crazy cool news.

Then, just a few hours ago, another incredible development and the end of yet another long and arduous process. This is news that I might also be able to divulge on Monday, we’ll have to see when it becomes public.

In all, it was three brilliant things converging at once, and will easily make this one of those brilliant days to remember. More details soon. I promise. No more teasing. For now.