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Celebration and Acts of War Snippet

November 5, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

Acts of War just passed 60 pre-orders.  In celebration, Pandora’s Memories will be free from 7-12 November. Here’s a quick snippet from Acts of War.  Just a reminder, it goes live on 11 November.  Tell your friends, your friends’ friends, and anyone you just happen to be acquainted with! Thames River 0900 Local (0400 Eastern) […]

Filed Under: Writing Business Tagged With: Acts of War, Alternate History, Usurper's War

Favorite Button

November 2, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

Apparently Amazon has now added “Favorite” button to author pages.  Feel free to go to my author page and click “Favorite” to receive a notification of every time I release a new book.  Great way to stay informed!

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New Art For Acts of War

September 21, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

I have gotten additional art for Acts of War‘s paperback version:  Just a reminder, Acts of War comes out 11 November.

Filed Under: Alternate History, Writing Business Tagged With: Acts of War

New Covers and Coming Attractions

August 9, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

Sorry it’s been awhile.  However, behold the new cover for An Unproven Concept‘s base edition and two versions of the upcoming Acts of War.

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In a while (2015)…

March 22, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

For those waiting on a sequel, I’m planning on the next Vergassy work being an anthology entitled Though Our Hulls Burn.  The cover art (done by Christos Karapanos — http://amorphisss.deviantart.com/) for it is below.  The blurb is as follows: “In the year 3040, the Confederation of Man thought it was alone.  An interstellar incident and several […]

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Soon…(Cover Rough Draft)

March 20, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

I’ll just leave this representation of FM-2 rolling in hot on HE-111s here.

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Thoughts on Conning

March 16, 2014 by James Young 2 Comments

I really should have done this last night, but by the time I got home I quickly found myself running on fumes.  So, without further ado, here are some thoughts on Planet Comicon (KC-MO, 15 March 2014) from an author’s (as opposed to fan boy’s) perspective.  BLUF: It is worth it for an author to […]

Filed Under: Con(vention) Life, Writing Business Tagged With: Writing

What's in a name?

March 11, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

So for those of you just arriving, you’re probably wondering why this site is named “Colfax Den.”  Well, William Colfax is one of my older characters in a dystopian, post-asteroid strike United States.  More than likely, you’ll be meeting him soon.

Filed Under: Writing Business Tagged With: Scythefall, Will Colfax

Reviews (The First Actual Meat Post)

March 11, 2014 by James Young Leave a Comment

So I’ve gotten two reviews (that I know of) up for my novel, An Unproven Concept.  I’ll post them along with a little commentary here: One is good: http://www.popcults.com/spall-sewage-and-starship-battles-in-an-unproven-concept/ One is so-so:  http://pgsramblings.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/an-unproven-concept-okayish/ As there have been some common issues raised, I’ll try to address some of them without spoiling anything: –“Ride of the Late […]

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