The Bonus Story is Colored! Friday August 17, 2007

I just finished coloring the last page of the Bonus Story for Schlock Mercenary: the Tub of Happiness. Yay! With luck (and a bunch of hard work) I'll be able to ship files to the printer by the end of the month. I'm shooting for a November ship date for… Read more

Boxed Set Bundle Bonus Wednesday November 3, 2010

I forgot to mention that the Boxed Set Bundle includes, while supplies last, the Strohl Munitions Plasma Cannon Activity Book. If you've already placed your order, don't worry, you're getting the bonus. If you haven't, there are only about 40 of these left . We're sold out of the coloring… Read more

Book Review: A Practical Guide to Dragons, by Lisa Trumbauer Friday February 23, 2007

If you're a D&D fan with kids, you need this book. I mean, you can't be letting your kids read the monster manual, even though they really want to, because they're not supposed to know how many hit dice that beholder has, right? A Practical Guide to Dragons is perfect… Read more

New Schlock Community at The Time-Waster's Guide Monday January 12, 2009

My friends from Writing Excuses have generously offered to host a discussion area for me at The Time Waster's Guide under the "Local Authors" section of the forums. You can find it under my name rather than the name of the comic, which is a subtle yet ambitious statement about… Read more

The Shambling Guide to New York City, by Mur Lafferty Wednesday June 26, 2013

Oh my goodness! Two book reviews in as many days! Someone (I won't say who) has been reading. Mur Lafferty's The Shambling Guide to New York City is a light-hearted, dead-serious romp of an urban fantasy, done just the way I like it --a smart-but-mundane (mostly) main character, fast-paced reveals,… Read more

And Now, A Bonus Story Teaser Thursday March 17, 2011

I've been getting colored bonus-story pages back from Travis, and couldn't resist sharing at least one of them with you. Behold, the Shardfleet! I took the liberty of blanking out the dialog. I wouldn't want to spoil anything. Read more

Writing Excuses CD-ROM at PodDisc.com Thursday October 2, 2008

You asked for it, we delivered it. Season One of Writing Excuses is now available on CD-ROM at PodDisc.com. Here's what you get: - Nine hours of fifteen-minute-long episodes in DRM-free MP3 format - Both bonus episodes - Two unaired episodes, including our pilot, straight from the cutting-room floor -… Read more

Monday October 3, 2011

Pre-Orders now open for The Body Politic Monday July 8, 2013

Pre-orders are now open for Schlock Mercenary: The Body Politic, the ninth volume in the massively-serial space ope-- what am I saying? You people know all of this. I mean, you're here, right? This volume is different from every other volume we've done. There is no bonus story.  There is,… Read more

Monday April 10, 2006

Working on Book Zero Wednesday August 8, 2007

I'm so behind. I meant to have the next Schlock book, "The Tub of Happiness" finished something like six months ago. But I'm only now finishing the coloring on the Bonus Story, and I'm still working on assembling a proper cover for it. Here's one of the cover elements. Since… Read more

The Fleening of Chupaqueso.com Wednesday January 18, 2006

Ordinarily when a blog gets blogged, the blogged blog is the only blog to mention the blogging, and may blog back. When Fleen blogged Chupaqueso.com, however, the blogging blog was also a blog of topical interest in the blogged blog's blogger's OTHER blog (even if that relationship requires the blogged… Read more

Find Howard at Salt Lake Comic Con Tuesday September 3, 2013

This Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, September 5th-7th, you can find me and about 30,000 other people at the first ever Salt Lake Comic Con. Locating me in the crowd might be a little difficult, so I'll give you a schedule, and a map!  Here's the map. Click on it for… Read more

Coming this Tuesday: Book 13, The Kickstarter Thursday September 14, 2017

On Tuesday, September 19th, we will launch a Kickstarter for the printing of Random Access Memorabilia, Schlock Mercenary Book 13. The book itself is complete, the bonus story is currently being illustrated, and our layout architect says the cover blueprint is almost ready for elements that have color in them.… Read more

Kickstarting BROKEN WIND and DELEGATES & DELEGATION Friday October 12, 2018

This Tuesday, October 16th, we’ll be opening a Kickstarter for print editions of Broken Wind: Schlock Mercenary Volume 14, and Delegates and Delegation: Schlock Mercenary Volume 15.   Each volume has a bonus story at the end, lots of margin art in the middle, and the same top-shelf quality of binding,… Read more

Kickstarter Alert! Book 18! Wednesday September 20, 2023

We’ve launched the Kickstarter for Mandatory Failure: Schlock Mercenary Book 18, and it has already funded. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/howardtayler/mandatory-failure-schlock-mercenary-book-18 Not only have we funded, but we’ve reached some stretch goals, too! Click here to visit the Kickstarter and see the latest news. The project will run until October 20th of 2023. Back… Read more

Introducing Howard Tayler... DOT COM Saturday August 16, 2014

I know, I know... dot-coms are so "turn-of-the-century," so "last decade."  Trends and missed boats notwithstanding, howardtayler.com is a thing now. It's the hub for all the stuff I do. It's like putting all of my eggs in one basket, only without the actual risk associated with dropping the basket.… Read more

Handin' Out Free Samples... Monday September 17, 2007

No wonder this book took so long to put together. I sat down Wednesday night and counted up the pages of bonus material. There are nine pages of bonus story, and then over a hundred more pages in the book that have new content on them. So I started adding… Read more

Saturday June 1, 2019

Sick Week Monday February 25, 2008

I fell ill Monday afternoon. It cut my workday short. For the rest of the week I tried to muscle through it, propping myself up with piles of Vitamin C, caffeine, cold medicine, and mid-day sleep. I'm still wiped out. I managed to get a very small amount of work… Read more