Sample Chapters & Drabbles
Free chapters from author Drew Briney’s books (and a couple drabbles for good measure)
Category: Drew’s Book Posts
Posts about Drew’s books, audiobooks, and other publications.
Assassin Hunter: Cover Reveal
On the eve of releasing my newest novella, Assassin Hunter, I’m excited to reveal the new cover. A few years ago, I began heavily studying transhumanism and contemplating the various less-pondered ramifications it could be bringing to our species and...
How Reliable is Your Memory? Your Identity?
As disturbing as it may be when you take time to investigate and think deeply about it, studies about the depth of inaccuracies we inadvertently create in our memories is quite fascinating. Julia Shaw’s recent book The Memory Illusion shows...
5 Things I Learned from Screenwriting
My fans know I’ve been writing a screenplay for my latest novel, Unproven, because various networks have expressed interest in purchasing it for either an animated movie or a 54 episode animated series. What fans don’t know is how awesome...
Sea Dragons + AI Cyborgs + Epigenetics + Magic = ?
What do sea dragons, epigenetics, artificially intelligent cyborgs, and magic all have in common? You guessed it: Sea Dragon Apocalypse, my upcoming sci-fi/fantasy novel. Yes, I used those terms correctly. It is both sci-fi and fantasy, not one or the...
Author, Editor, and Director? Huh?
Last fall, my family was featured on a reality tv program where we had to leave the state of Utah in a hurry. What TLC didn’t show was how I’d had a job and housing lined up in South...
Book Launch on Tuesday! UNPROVEN
Hey! After two years of hard work, Unproven is finally ready for launch and will be hitting Amazon and B&N on Tuesday, March 6. Occasionally, online stores are a smidgeon slow loading new books so if Unproven isn’t live...
Hijacking Our Brains
I’ve written a number of posts about memory implants, memory erasure, and mind control. Scientists have inserted a brain into a robot and done several other unbelievable things in the recent past so I thought I should write a little...
5 Blades – a SciFi-Fantasy Short Story Anthology
At long last, 5 Blades: Riveting Realms of Adventure is about ready for publication launch – and here is our sweet cover! I’ll be featured alongside veteran sci-fi fantasy authors Jaime Buckley, David West, Jason King, and Lewis...
Hangin’ Out With All-Time Bestselling Authors
Drew hangs out with all-time bestselling authors on a YA recommended reading list. Okay, it’s not a Hugo Award and it didn’t land me on Oprah but sometimes a relevant People’s Choice Award is even better. After recently being voted a Top...
Scientists Manipulating Memory
Breaking edge science can now create false memories, erase memories, and recover lost memories. Fascinating – and scary – scientific discoveries about memories abound lately. Fairly recent research from MIT discovered that memories are not stored in synaptic tissue as...
Fish Adaptation May Create Better Movie Monsters
Threespine Stickleback fish offer scientific reasons to beef up our movie monsters. They “evolve” fast. Really fast. Within ten years, these fish can move from salt water to fresh water, change their skeletal system in a massive way (just...
Microraptor, Dinosaurs, & the Origins of Birds
Microraptor was a four winged dinosaur that provides clues as to the origins of birds. I was particularly interested in the above documentary for at least three reasons: (1) many of literature’s best loved monsters come from real creatures and/or...
Dragonsplat: Who Wins? Technology or Magic?
At FantasyCon 2014, an astute panelist brought up an idea that I’ve thought about from time to time but haven’t given serious consideration to … at least not in terms of writing a new book. The idea is to pit...
Unified Weapons Master
I’m an avowed UFC fan. Most of my friends find that revelation quite shocking but despite my very real fandom, I’ve been somewhat annoyed over some developments in the MMA community. A growing number of fans are beginning to believe...
Moon 514: the Magic Woman
Every once in a while, I come across an idea or image that seems to write a story for me. The above image is one of those images. Some time ago, I was pondering over the success of the Star...
Moon 514 – the Magic Woman
In keeping with my last post (about refined and beautiful things), here is one of several gestures from Grant M. Hansen who is painting the cover for my upcoming book Moon 514: Blaze and the White Griffon. Here are some...
Moon 514 – Cover Progress
Here is Grant’s latest update on the cover. He got a bit shy about the swamp idea and went back to the field idea. What do you think?
Moon 514 Cover Progress
We’re coming along well. The picture is a concept painting of the environment (futuristic Borneo after a third holocaust) by Grant Hansen. What do you think of the progress?
The Magic Woman – Moon 514 Free Scene
The image above is a thumbnail sketch of a proposed cover design for Moon 514 by Grant Hansen. Below is an extract of Moon 514 that features the enigmatic alien who will be featured on the cover: The magic woman...
If you have 2,000 reads, you know your book is good.
I attended WorldCon in the fall of 2013. As anyone who regularly attends Cons might expect, I brushed shoulders with many nice (and sometimes very nice and weird) people dressed in extravagant costumes that one only ever sees at international...