Posts about Drew’s books, audiobooks, and other publications.
Rising Star Authors in 2019 I’m starting 2019 with a new approach to my blog. I’ll be featuring other authors once or twice a month and then offering a package giveaway of their paperbacks the week or two following the...
Free chapters from author Drew Briney’s books (and a couple drabbles for good measure)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As many of you will know, I’m a big fan of Eric Velhagen’s art. He’s been featured a number of times on my blog and he recently landed a job illustrating every month of George R.R. Martin’s 2018 Game...
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...
The brass at Wattpad.com invited me to approach their editors to have Moon 514 considered as one of their featured science fiction novels. Soon afterwards, they informed me that they had read Moon 514 and that they were excited to have...
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...
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...
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...
I just finished “Assassin Hunter”, a short story I wrote for the quarterly Writer’s Village competition so today’s inspiration comes Assassin’s Creed art by Chaoyuan Xu: A Leap of Faith. While my story deals with transhumanist themes, including memory erasures, memory...
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 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...
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...
A year or so ago, I picked up a Pamphobeteus Antinuous to mount. A what? An iridescent purple haired bird eating tarantula. I think it is pretty inspiring but not nearly as cool as the cobalt tarantula featured in the image...
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...
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...
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...
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?
TOR’s managing editor told me that if readers are asking for the next chapter, you probably have a good book. Well Teresa, here you go! Here are some reader reviews: (These are from my Wattpad account). @JeckoJasher:My heart was racing,...
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 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...
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...