I just mentioned this on my personal blog, but it’s worth mentioning here: my fellow Outer Alliance member Brandon Bell is the editor of what promises to be a fun anthology, The Aether Age: Helios. You should go over and pre-order it, not only because it sounds fun, but also because its publisher, Hadley Rille Books, is having a contest to try to reach their goal of selling 5,000 books!

They’ll be giving away a Kindle 3G in January to a randomly selected entrant. You can sign up according to the instructions here, and you can get additional entries in the contest if you pre-order the aforementioned anthology or order anything else in their catalog. I just got emailed by one of their staff as well who says he’ll give me another entry for spreading the word, so I encourage interested parties to consider doing the same.

Because hey, books are shiny, and so are Kindles. Go to, folks! 🙂