Your Name in the News, and some Correlations Friday September 30, 2011

My brother Randy put together an amusing website a while back. It's a thing he does from time to time. This time, however, he took things a step further and released his first-ever Android app.  If you've got an Android device, go get my brother's free app and  amaze  amuse… Read more

Are You The Droid We're Looking For? Sunday March 13, 2011

Many of you have asked for Android versions of the popular Schlock apps, which include both a free and a subscription comic reader, and a coloring book. I used to work for a software company where I defined the products that drove a hundred-million-dollar per year  business unit. I know… Read more

Dragonsteel Nexus This Week! Tuesday December 3, 2024

Sandra and I will be at DragonSteel Nexus this week, signing, sketching, and saying hello from our booth in the Exhibitors Hall. For daily updates, you can follow us on BlueSky – howardtayler and sandratayler respectively. We’ll post pictures! Read more

Blog Posts I Owe You Tuesday May 27, 2008

I owe you some blog posts. I still haven't written up my LepreCon adventures, and here it's been almost three weeks. CONduit was this weekend, and I skipped most of it, but got to meet (and converse at length, and record a podcast with) Michael Stackpole. Oh, and speaking of… 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

Discount for Schlock store beta-testers! Wednesday October 4, 2006

We have set up a new storefront for Schlock books, and have successfully run a grand total of two transactions through it. Before we can open pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between we need to run several more transactions through it -- not just to test the basic store… Read more

Join the Droid-Hunt Saturday October 15, 2011

I've been under the weather all week. The dearth of updates here under the comic comes as a consequence. I would sit down to write about something, and all that would come out was "I'm sick." I figured you wouldn't want to read that unless I wrote it with some… 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

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

Book Winners Beta Launch Monday November 9, 2009

Congratulations to Redeemed Althalus and CPAD! They each won a copy of John Brown's debut novel Servant of a Dark God. You two need to email schlockmercenary@gmail.com with a current mailing address (not a P.O. box, please!) and Tor will get your books into the mail right quick. Speaking of… Read more

Alert of potential problem with schlockmercenary.com Sunday July 27, 2008

Note from Sandra Tayler If you have any difficulties reaching www.schlockmercenary.com over the next few days, please click over to www.schlocktroops.com. It has been set up as an alternate location for fans to get their daily Schlock fix. Please spread the word in the event of a problem. That is… Read more

Got Android Chops? Monday July 15, 2013

Got Android development chops? Mad skills?  Are you interested in helping with the Schlock Mercenary app for the Android platform?  My mobile development partner, Gary Henson of Plus 14 Ltd, is looking for someone with Android skills to handle that side of things. I don't know what the current state… Read more

Tron Legacy Soundtrack: Made of Awesome Thursday December 9, 2010

I picked up the Tron Legacy soundtrack on iTunes yesterday, and it is wonderful. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, AKA "Daft Punk" deliver some of their signature grooves, but also brilliantly mimic some of the best recent film scores from Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams, John Powell, Christophe Beck,… 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

The Online Debut of the Boxed Set Bundle Tuesday November 2, 2010

I'll be at Webcomics Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, where I will be selling Schlock Mercenary 5-book boxed sets, plus the sixth book, Resident Mad Scientist, for just $100. That's the price of the boxed set by itself, so it's like getting book six for free. But not all of… Read more

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! Wednesday November 2, 2005

Oh No! New Site Design! entry, Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 Hey, lookit that. You can read the subject line of today's blog without having to scroll down. I know, I know, most of you are just here for the comic, but every so often I announce things that you might… Read more

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Monday November 18, 2002

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! Thursday November 3, 2005

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! entry, November 3rd, 2005 On Sunday I found out I need to be in Boise this weekend on some family business. In the spirit of mixing business and pleasure, I'll be putting in an appearance at Twilight Games from Noon to 6pm… 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