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21 Days To a Novel is a collection of exercises which will set any writer up to successfully start and complete that novel they’ve been dreaming about. The exercises hit hard on the critical areas of book design: characterization, world building, plotting, description, dialogue and more. The excercises likewise serve as diagnostics for when things aren’t quite working the way you’d like.

Distilled from over twenty-five years of writing experience, and rife with examples, 21 Days To a Novel is a clear roadmap to setting you up for writing success. If you’ve always dreamed of writing a novel, and didn’t know where to start, you’ve found that place. 21 Days To a Novel is the booklet that will give your dreams all they need to grow into a fantastic and strong novel.

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Writing Fiction: A Short Course is a series of eight lessons on writing and career-building by New York Times Bestselling author, Michael A. Stackpole. Originally presented as a college-sponsored online class, these lessons address key issues in writing, like plotting and characterization; as well as trickier aspects of the art like writing realistic dialogue and making your writing engage readers.

In addition to the lessons are four of Mike’s stories which are used in the lessons as examples:
*Tip-Off
*Least of My Brethren (A Purgatory Station story)
*The Cards Call Themselves (A Merlin Bloodstone story)
*No Rest For The Wicked (The first Trick Molloy story)

Sold separately, these stories would cost $9, but are provided as part of this educational package.

Here, addressed in eight information-packed lessons, you can learn from an acknowledged master of fiction the vital techniques that will raise your writing to a publishable level, and provide you a career.

The Secrets Newsletter is a how to write newsletter which Michael A. Stackpole has been writing and editing since 2003. The newsletter is full of hints, tips and techniques that make writing comprehensible. Mike’s goal is to demystify the process of writing, so writers stop worrying about whether or not they’re doing it right, and just get down to good storytelling.

The Secrets also covers current issues in publishing, like electronic publishing, rights grabs and any other concerns a working writer has.

A subscription to The Secrets covers 25 issues. They are delivered in pdf, epub and mobi formats.

The Secrets Newsletter is the best thing to an apprenticeship with a working writer. If you want to write well, and be commercially successful, The Secrets in an indispensable tool.

In Hero Years… I’m Dead is New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole’s first Digital-Original novel. It’s Superhero-Noir—what you’d get if Dash Hammett had written The Watchmen®.

Twenty years ago someone stole him away from Capital City. Having been released from captivity he returns to find everything changed. The great heroes of his day, men who could move planets or tear apart criminal syndicates, have all retired. A new breed of hero has sprung up to deal with a perplexingly new brand of villain. It’s a world that makes no sense, and a world which, if he persists in playing the hero, will surely see him dead.

In Hero Years… I’m Dead mixes action, dark humor, satire and strong characters into a thrilling page-turner. It’s superheroes facing challenges both in costume and out, battling a cunning enemy bent on destroying all they have worked so hard to preserve.

The Deluxe Edition of In Hero Years… I’m Dead includes a long essay about the story’s genesis and the author’s process in writing it. It’s full of insights about the labors of producing a novel and is a rare chance to look behind the scenes at how a book comes together.

This package contains the epub version of the novel.

In Hero Years… I”m Dead is New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole”s first Digital-Original novel. It”s Superhero-Noir—what you”d get if Dash Hammett had written The Watchmen®.

Twenty years ago someone stole him away from Capital City. Having been released from captivity he returns to find everything changed. The great heroes of his day, men who could move planets or tear apart criminal syndicates, have all retired. A new breed of hero has sprung up to deal with a perplexingly new brand of villain. It”s a world that makes no sense, and a world which, if he persists in playing the hero, will surely see him dead.

In Hero Years… I”m Dead mixes action, dark humor, satire and strong characters into a thrilling page-turner. It”s superheroes facing challenges both in costume and out, battling a cunning enemy bent on destroying all they have worked so hard to preserve.

This package contains the epub version of the novel.

The Fiddleback Trilogy Omnibus is a collection of three novels by Michael A. Stackpole. Mike wrote these books for Game Designers’ Workshop as the debuted their roleplaying game Dark Conspiracy. He was writing the first novel as the game was being developed, and developer Loren Wiseman pulled elements from the novel for the game (as well as brilliantly extrapolated from there).

The three novels are:

A Gathering Evil
Evil Ascending
Evil Triumphant

Set in what was, at the time they were written, the near future, the three novels take place in a dystopic future where corporations not-so-secretly rule the world, and who actually are the puppets for fantastically powerful Elder beings who are battling to possess Earth. Coyote and his intrepid band of adventurers wage a secret war against forces of evil, frustrating, thwarting, defeating and destroying a number of Dark Lords as they go. These fastly-paced books are full of intrigue and action, in a genre GDW dubbed “techno-horror.” To put it simply, Vampires (who do not sparkle) have sunblock 88, and humans have automatic weapons.

Sold separately, the books would cost $15, but in this special collection they go for $12.

This product is delivered as a zip file containing both the epub and mobi editions of the omnibus.

*Version 2.0 is available with a much cleaner scan and formatting (June 15, 2011)*

A Magificent Tale! A Page Turner.”
—Dennis L. McKiernan

A Legend Come To Life

Half a millennium ago Neil Elfward, a legendary human warrior, fought alongside his Elven friend Aarundel for the freedom of mankind against the tyranny of the sorcerous Reithrese empire. But Neal’s victory began a genocidal war that cost him dearly.

Now the future he hoped for is unraveling. Count Berengar has invited the lovely Genevera, Aarundel’s granddaughter, to join in a quest to bring stability to the land. Pressed to accomplish the impossible, Genevera suggests the unthinkable—raising Neal from the dead. But what is true in legend is not always true in reality. A hero from yesteryear may be a hero still, but is Neal the hero they want?

Once a Hero is a rousing adventure of mystery and magic, in the best tradition of Robert Jordan and David Eddings, by one of the most exciting and imaginative new voices in fantasy fiction.

Once a Hero is a big book, running 166,000 words. (That would be ten or more hours of reading pleasure for the average reader.) This adventure is delivered in a zip file which contains both the epub and mobi files.

The man he is sworn to protect is the man who butchered his family.

Justices—the select of the Talions, endowed with fearsome magick and lethal martial skills—roam the Shattered Empire, crushing the lawless and championing the oppressed. Their word is law and their judgment binding on highborn and low.

Nolan is a Justice born in what once was the free nation of Sinjaria. Orphaned in the war of conquest with the nation of Hamis, he traveled to far Talianna and secured the right to become a Justice. Now, years later, the Master of all Talions has a dangerous assignment for Nolan: he is to guard the life of the king who destroyed Sinjaria and slaughtered his family. Alone, Nolan ventures into the political maelstrom that is the court of Hamis to stop an assassin even his Masters think cannot be slain…

Talion: Revenant is a large book, running around 178,000 words. That’s more than ten hours worth of reading pleasure for the average reader. The book is delivered in a zip file containing both the epub and mobi versions.

Tricknomancy collects all seven of the Trick Molloy stories into the novel-length story they were always meant to be. This collection includes If Vanity Doesn’t Kill Me and The Devil Within which have not been previously released or collected with these other stories.

Tricknomancy tells the story of Patrick Molloy, a magick-using ex-cop who was busted off the force on trumped up bribery charges. He works as a bouncer in a Gentlemen’s Club, Club Flesh, where all the women use magick to conjure dollars out of the patrons’ pockets. His only true friend is the coroner; his family hates him with a passion, and the cop who busted him off the force is just itching to find a way to send him to jail.

Trick Molloy’s world is one in which magick-users are feared and hated. Televangelists make bank on casting them as the devil’s tools. Gangsters often use magick more readily than guns. Respectable magickers use their skills for seduction, robbery and murder. No one in power really cares about what befalls the criminal class, which Trick Molloy as the one man smart enough to discover the truth, and tough enough to administer justice.

The seven stories, though capable of standing alone, form an episodic novel.

These seven stories, sold separately, would cost $18. This collection is a steal at $5.

This book is delivered in a zip file containing both the epub and mobi versions.

From New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole comes the first in a brand new series of stories set in a world very close to our own, and yet so very different. In the world of Homeland Security Services, the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers brought them down, killing over 60,000. In response, American ratified the Patriot Amendment to the Constitution and went to war with Al Qaeda. In 1996, terrorists attacked the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, wiping out the left wing of American politics and vaulting Newt Gingrich into the White House.

Miracle Dunn has just joined the elite Homeland Security Services. On her first day she catches two cases. The first is a seemingly simple murder of a drug company employee. The second is a twelve year old murder discovered because of the first; the resolution of which threatens the leadership of one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

The world of Perfectly Invisible is one filled with many secrets, and just as many ways of ferreting them out. For Miracle Dunn, the question is how far can someone go to protect people who truly have no clue as to how much danger is lurking out there.

“Michael A. Stackpole is incapable of writing a book that isn’t imaginative and intelligent.” — Stephen R. Donaldson

This book is delivered as a zip file with both the epub and mobi versions.

Purgatory Station: The Omnibus is a collection of the four Purgatory Station stories at a bargain price. Least of My Brethren, Serpent on the Station, According to Their Needs and The Lazarus Murder are presented here along with the essay The Origins of Purgatory Station in which New York Times bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole outlines the inspiration for and development of the Purgatory Station universe.

Purgatory Station is located so far from Terra that the light that shined on Palestine when Jesus walked the earth has not yet reached it. These are the stories of Father Flynn, a Catholic Chaplain, and others; as the wonder of the universe tests their faith.

This collection is delivered as a zip file with five PDF files.

Televangelist T. Thomas Thickett is better at raising money and causing trouble than he is at saving souls. One of his disciples, a high school teacher, fails a paper by Sara Piper, a self-avowed witch.This tanks her chances of being the class Valedictorian, transferring that honor to another member of Thickett’s flock. Sara protests, drawing occultist Merlin Bloodstone into the fray. When Thickett ends up dead, Bloodstone and his aide, Connor Moran, have to unravel a tangled web of deception to uncover the truth, or watch an innocent woman die for a crime she did not commit.

From the pen of New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole, comes the first novel in a mystery series featuring occultist Merlin Bloodstone and his skeptical assistant. Highly reminiscent of the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, Mysterious Ways mixes, murder, mysticism and religion into an exciting puzzle full of twists and turns.

This Super Delux edition of Mysterious Ways includes an essay by the author about the novel, it’s long history and how it came to be written, as well as a Bloodstone novella (The Cards Call Themselves), and two Bloodstone short stories, Brewed Fortune and Seamless. The shorter works have been previously published, but Seamless is only available digitally in this collection. Sold separately, the short stories would cost $7, but are included with the novel and essay here for a total of $9.99.

This product is delivered as a .zip file which contains both the .mobi (for Kindle) and .epub (for everything else) files, with no DRM attached.

Televangelist T. Thomas Thickett is better at raising money and causing trouble than he is at saving souls. One of his disciples, a high school teacher, fails a paper by Sara Piper, a self-avowed witch.This tanks her chances of being the class Valedictorian, transferring that honor to another member of Thickett’s flock. Sara protests, drawing occultist Merlin Bloodstone into the fray. When Thickett ends up dead, Bloodstone and his aide, Connor Moran, have to unravel a tangled web of deception to uncover the truth, or watch an innocent woman die for a crime she did not commit.

From the pen of New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole, comes the first novel in a mystery series featuring occultist Merlin Bloodstone and his skeptical assistant. Highly reminiscent of the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, Mysterious Ways mixes, murder, mysticism and religion into an exciting puzzle full of twists and turns.

This Delux edition of Mysterious Ways includes an essay by the author about the novel, it’s long history and how it came to be written.

This product is delivered as a .zip file which contains both the .mobi (for Kindle) and .epub (for everything else) files, with no DRM attached.

Televangelist T. Thomas Thickett is better at raising money and causing trouble than he is at saving souls. One of his disciples, a high school teacher, fails a paper by Sara Piper, a self-avowed witch.This tanks her chances of being the class Valedictorian, transferring that honor to another member of Thickett’s flock. Sara protests, drawing occultist Merlin Bloodstone into the fray. When Thickett ends up dead, Bloodstone and his aide, Connor Moran, have to unravel a tangled web of deception to uncover the truth, or watch an innocent woman die for a crime she did not commit.

From the pen of New York Times Bestselling author Michael A. Stackpole, comes the first novel in a mystery series featuring occultist Merlin Bloodstone and his skeptical assistant. Highly reminiscent of the Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, Mysterious Ways mixes, murder, mysticism and religion into an exciting puzzle full of twists and turns.

This product is delivered as a .zip file which contains both the .mobi (for Kindle) and .epub (for everything else) files, with no DRM attached.