{"id":3828,"date":"2016-12-23T14:44:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T21:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2016-12-23T19:56:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T02:56:45","slug":"guest-post-from-brian-niemeier-here-comes-the-secret-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=3828","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post from Brian Niemeier: Here Comes The Secret Kings<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before I turn it over to Brian, a note or two on what this is about. First of all, if you haven’t read what I wrote as intro to his first guest post, it’s here and worth reading<\/a>. Brian’s making quite a stir in the business, and it’s in part his success (and the success of other indie writers that I hang with) that led me to scrub traditional publishing out of my life last year. A key element of my long game is to create a new blog that follows the same general functional model as the Mad Genius Club<\/a>, with posts from several indie writers on the process of writing, the tech of self-publishing, news and announcements, excerpts, odd lots, and pertinent gossip about the industry as a whole. When this happens is unclear, but I’m working on it. It’ll be 100% trad-free and 277.79% contrarian. No fake news, some commentary, and (I certainly hope) a near-daily posting schedule. Watch This Space. And now, heeeeeerrrrrreeee’s Brian:<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"The<\/a>Greetings, Contrapositive Diary readers! Jeff has kindly lent me his blog to announce the launch of my new SFF novel The Secret Kings<\/a><\/em>, Soul Cycle Book III. This book is the follow up to Souldancer<\/a><\/em>, the first–and so far, only–indie novel to win a Dragon Award. But whereas Souldancer<\/em> took the Best Horror Novel prize, the sequel fits much more comfortably into the space opera genre with a more straightforward plot that’s even more focused on action. The Secret Kings<\/em> is also the point in the series where events and concepts from prior books really gel. Characters from Nethereal<\/em><\/a><\/em> and Souldancer<\/em> get drawn together in ways that early readers found highly intriguing, and plot threads spun in earlier installments find satisfying conclusions.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the end, though! Leave it to the guy who bypassed the traditional publishing path altogether to also buck the trilogy trend. I can divulge right now that there will be a Soul Cycle Book IV, and inf fact, a preview of what’s in store next is included at the end of The Secret Kings<\/em>. It’s an understatement to say that this series has exceeded expectations. Nethereal<\/em> earned me a Campbell nomination. Souldancer<\/em> won a Dragon. By all accounts, The Secret Kings<\/em> marks a new series high point. There’s no telling where this ride will take us, so get on board!<\/p>\n

Thanks again to Jeff for helping out with my book launch, and for all of his sterling advice. You can be certain that I’m just getting warmed up.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Merry Christmas,<\/div>\n
Brian Niemeier<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before I turn it over to Brian, a note or two on what this is about. First of all, if you haven’t read what I wrote as intro to his first guest post, it’s here and worth reading. Brian’s making quite a stir in the business, and it’s in part his success (and the success […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[166,16,18,20],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove","tag-indie","tag-publishing","tag-sf","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3834,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/3834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}