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Timothy C. Ward interviews Colin F. Barnes, author of the Techxorcist series, Book 1, Artificial Evil , and recently released Book 2, Assembly Code .

Get ARTIFICIAL EVIL free by emailing Colin through his contact page, with the email subject: Free Artificial Copy. Offer ends Jan. 1, 2014.

Discussed:

The Techxorcist world, its everyman character and the hackers who introduce him to a new world outside the dome he has known.

How to not worry about the advances in technology when writing your science fiction (Colin’s appearance on the Roundtable Podcast: RTP Dialogues #1: Near-Future SciFi and the “Death” of Cyberpunk)

How he incorporates “Eee-vil” into the science-based story in Artificial Evil.

The limited time deal for Artificial Evil at $.99 and how to get it for free when signing up for his mailing list.

Book Two, ASSEMBLY CODE, releases October 1, 2013.

The year that he tried the One Million Word Challenge.

His experience publishing through his company, Anachron Press, submitting to DarkFuse and the Hybrid Author approach. (Uses Barry Eisler as an example of an author who created better covers on his own.)

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Timothy C. Ward

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Timothy C. Ward has been podcasting since 2010, first as AudioTim, and now with AISFP. His first publication, Cornhusker: Demon Gene (A Short Story) , is available on Kindle for $.99. He just turned in his novel to his editor, Joshua Essoe. Kaimerus is described as “Firefly crashes on Avatar and wakes up 28 Days Later.”

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