Wow Balticon is already here – crazy – simply crazy. So there are going to be some differences this year. First ,I am not working the anime people (Not a good experience me for me last year) and Mr. Nick Taylor is not going to be there. (Of course which makes me sad) Some positives though this year. Chris and I are getting out to Baltimore early this year. We are flying out early Wednesday and will be around until late on Monday. Our good friend Mr. Patrick Griffin is also going to be join us. He is a Balticon newbie so this will be a righteous experience for him. So here is the schedule for right now:
This could be updated as the literary track becomes available:
Friday – May 24, 2013
5 pm NM-32 Professionalism and the Emergent Writer with KT Bryski, AL Davroe, John Mierau, and Mur Lafferty
6 pm NM-4 Balticon Indie Spirit and What Makes Us Tick with PG Holyfield, James Durham, Alicia Goranson, and Patrick Scaffido
Saturday - May 25, 2013
10 am ePublishing with Chris Snelgrove, Paul Cooley, John Mierau, and Nobilis Reed
2 pm NM-30 Writing Real Children with Gail Z Martin, KT Bryski, and Allison Gamblin
5 pm NM-39 Put Together the Total Package with Starla Huchton and Allison Gamblin
Sunday May 26, 2013
10 am NM-28 Business of Being An Author with Gail Z Martin, AL Davroe, John Miearau, PC Haring, Allison Gamblin, Myke Cole, and Stephanie Burke.
2 pm NM-41 Jake Bible We Hardly Knew Ye: The Current State of Podcast Fiction with John Mierau, Alicia Gorason, Jay Smith, Mur Lafferty, and Nobilis Reed
3 pm NM-52 Steps to Successful Self Publishing with Jennifer Zyren Smith, Cecilia Tan, Betsy Riley, and Allison Gamblin
5 pm NM-42 Social Media Promotion with Pamela Gay, John Mierau, and Randy Chertkow
8 pm NM-29 From Page to Pod with KT Bryski, Alicia Goranson, Chris Lester, Paul Cooley, and PC Haring
Monday May 27, 2013
10 am NM-31 Introvert’s Guide To Social Media with KT Bryski, Renee Chambliss, Hugh O’Donnell, Allison Gamblin, and Zan Rosin
11 am NM-50 Branding your work for success with Allison Gamblin
Please if any of you out there have an inclination to speak to little old me. Please feel free. Always up for meeting new people.
Just real quick – the House of Grey and Harmonics are going through ANOTHER edit, this one by a separate line editor. After re-reading the third volume of the HOG and Harmonics: Revelations, it is totally needed. So you will be seeing that here. Remember to tell a friend about the books. (Thought I would throw that in for good measure)
So this is quite the occasion for Chris and I…the final volume of The House of Grey is in edits as we speak. The editor is finishing up edits and the cover art is already complete. The book should be back to Chris and I by the 27th of November and an omnibus version of The House of Grey Arc 1: The Coren University Arc, should be out shortly after. So after 8 years of messing around with this first part of The House of Grey story, we are finally going to put it to bed, get a bit of closure before the next part of the story and you will finally find out what happens to Monson. Still a lot of story left to tell, but for myself especially, I am feeling the accomplishment and am thankful I have made it this far with all of your support.
So on to the reason behind this post. We are doing some celebrating in the form of an ebook, audiobook and paperback give away. We are also going to follow up with a blog tour set for next month. Some super exciting stuff for us to celebrate the coming of the new year and you can help and win some sweet stuff in the mean time.
NEWSLETTER-GIVE-AWAY – this is the easiest give away to win. Everyone who enters wins! Period. All you have to do is have your name on the Newsletter list and you do that by going to www.CollinEarl.com and look for the “Contact Collin†box– put in your email and your name and BAM! – you are entered and you WILL win. Your prize is a free omnibus version of The House of Grey valued at $18. It can’t get any easier than that.
GOODREADS GIVE AWAY – this is a chance to win one of five paper back copies of The House of Grey. I am only doing five and the only way to get in on this action is to be part of GOODREADS. I will update with a post when it is complete.
Facebook Super Fan – the winner of this book gets the only House of Grey Arc 1 HARDBACK Book in existence signed by me with a video with a personal thank you from me. You will also receive a dedication on the front of The House of Grey Omnibus ebook and paperback, plus a CD with every one of Collin Earl and Chris Snelgrove’s books to date, plus be a beta reader and receive an e- version for the rest of Collin’s career. All you have to do is show me what a super fan would do. It can be a blog post, a video, anything that shows your love for The House of Grey. Submit your super fan event, item, poem or the like to Collin@houseofgreybook.com and I will pick the winner! Simple.
Lastly, thank you to everyone that has read and listened to the book. We could not have done this without you.
Collin J. Earl.
Collin Earl
Author of The House of Grey
collin@houseofgreybook.com
In The Son of Neptune, Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of Camp Halfblood, and traveled to the land beyond the gods to complete a dangerous quest. The third book in the Heroes of Olympus series will unite them with Jason, Piper, and Leo. But they number only six–who will complete the Prophecy of Seven?
The Greek and Roman demigods will have to cooperate in order to defeat the giants released by the Earth Mother, Gaea. Then they will have to sail together to the ancient land to find the Doors of Death. What exactly are the Doors of Death? Much of the prophecy remains a mystery. . . .
With old friends and new friends joining forces, a marvelous ship, fearsome foes, and an exotic setting, The Mark of Athena promises to be another unforgettable adventure by master storyteller Rick Riordan.
A world at stake.
A quest for the ultimate prize.
Are you ready?
It’s the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place.
Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be, a place where you can live and play and fall in love on any of ten thousand planets.
And like most of humanity, Wade dreams of being the one to discover the ultimate lottery ticket that lies concealed within this virtual world. For somewhere inside this giant networked playground, OASIS creator James Halliday has hidden a series of fiendish puzzles that will yield massive fortune—and remarkable power—to whoever can unlock them.
For years, millions have struggled fruitlessly to attain this prize, knowing only that Halliday’s riddles are based in the pop culture he loved—that of the late twentieth century. And for years, millions have found in this quest another means of escape, retreating into happy, obsessive study of Halliday’s icons. Like many of his contemporaries, Wade is as comfortable debating the finer points of John Hughes’s oeuvre, playing Pac-Man, or reciting Devo lyrics as he is scrounging power to run his OASIS rig.
And then Wade stumbles upon the first puzzle.
Suddenly the whole world is watching, and thousands of competitors join the hunt—among them certain powerful players who are willing to commit very real murder to beat Wade to this prize. Now the only way for Wade to survive and preserve everything he knows is to win. But to do so, he may have to leave behind his oh-so-perfect virtual existence and face up to life—and love—in the real world he’s always been so desperate to escape.
At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, Ready Player One is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut—part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
May 14th, 2013 
Chris Snelgrove 
See ya...