Category: publishing
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Technology, Politics Collide in Eliot Peper’s ‘Borderless’
The East Bay Express ran a lovely feature on my new novel, calling it “a sharply rendered, wildly entertaining thriller speaking to the dangerous realities of our present: climate change, the changing shape of power, the very American values that defined Peper’s grandparents’ post-war lives—themes that are now fraught within our real world as it becomes increasingly…
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Borderless
My new novel, Borderless, is out. Get it right here. Borderless is a speculative thriller about a refugee-turned-rogue-spy navigating a geopolitical labyrinth through a near future where information is power and whoever controls the feed rules the world. Lush, nuanced, and philosophical, the story grapples with the decline of the nation state, the rise of…
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Read an exclusive excerpt from BORDERLESS
VICE‘s Terraform just ran an exclusive excerpt from my forthcoming novel, Borderless: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw99gw/analog The excerpt takes place in the off-grid social club the series is named for, a notorious refuge that plays a major role in the story and highlights the ubiquity of this future’s global feed. Read it and take a peek into tomorrow.…
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BANDWIDTH
After two years in the works, my new novel Bandwidth is now available. Bandwidth is a science fiction thriller featuring hackers and spies grappling over the geopolitics of climate change, with a group of techno-utopian activists hijacking the global feed to manipulate world leaders. Fast-paced, lush, and philosophical, it will suck you in and stick…
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THE UNCOMMON SERIES gets a new look
My first novel came out four years ago and quickly grew into a trilogy. The Uncommon Series is a fast-paced, deeply-researched near-future thriller that follows the irrepressible Mara Winkel as she leads her brand new tech startup from garage to IPO and gets caught up in an international conspiracy along the way. The series remains the…
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Season Finale of Cumulus is Live on Bound
Two years ago, I received a cold email from a guy named Matt Hannus. Matt was a voracious reader and veteran of the gaming industry. He was starting a company called Bound to develop a new format for reading fiction on the internet. He asked whether I’d be open to seeing one of my novels…
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Three pieces of advice for building a writing career
Want to build a writing career? Do these three things. WRITE. Many people say they want to be writers, but rarely actually write, finish, or publish anything. Don’t fall into that silly trap. If you want to be a writer, write. Write stories, articles, books, whatever you want. Fight through the fear of what other…
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BANDWIDTH coming May 2018
I just signed a three book deal with Amazon Publishing and my new novel, Bandwidth, will come out May 2018. Bandwidth is a near future thriller that explores the geopolitics of climate change and how algorithms shape our lives. Imagine Mr. Robot meets House of Cards, with techno utopian activists hacking the global feed to…
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Bound adapts Cumulus into a digital serial with art and extras
I’m excited to finally share a project that’s been in the works for almost two years. Matt Hannus reached out to me back in September 2015 after reading the Uncommon Series. Matt is a veteran game developer and told me that he was launching a new company leveraging the flexibility of digital media to tell stories…
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It’s hard to believe Cumulus came out a year ago
Y’all are the folks whose enthusiasm got it reviewed in Businessweek, Ars Technica, Popular Science, io9, GeekDad, etc., sent it to #1 in its Amazon categories, and helped the story raise more than $10k for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Chapter 510. That’s pretty darn unusual for a self published novel with no fancy publicist…