Chris Hepler

My vampire-rights novel #CivilBlood is now available in ebook and paperback (search for it with my name for better results). My WordPress site, christopherhepler.com , has links to it, as well as my blog, bits about #MassEffect, #Shadowrun, and free #L5R scenarios. Dig in!

@julianne_munich @writesofgur First couple chapters are free on my website, plus the in-universe ads and other promo propaganda: christopherhepler.com/civil-blood/ And thanks!

@TheOtherHepler @writesofgur This sounds cool 😎

Writers, drop the first line of your book below. If somebody ❤️'s it, means they'd read it.

@writesofgur @julianne_munich Link: amazon.com/Civil-Blood-Va…

@writesofgur @julianne_munich “I don’t like vampires, or politics, or the idea of being hunted down like a dog, but right now the little stick in my hand is telling me I can’t avoid any of the three.” —Civil Blood: The Vampire Rights Case that Changed a Nation

@Ash_Fitzsimmons @aarondkey @AnyaPavelle @BHorrorFiction @dore_deirdre @DanalynnDonovan @ECarolinewrites @BandCgames @katkinneywrites @mjbavis @Mythos_books @HorrorMcgregor @reneemarskiaut1 @venture2victory @seacaummisar @AuthorWa I reviewed the book for February… I’m out for March though.

Who's in for March? @aarondkey @AnyaPavelle @BHorrorFiction @TheOtherHepler @dore_deirdre @DanalynnDonovan @ECarolinewrites @BandCgames @katkinneywrites @mjbavis @Mythos_books @HorrorMcgregor @reneemarskiaut1 @venture2victory @seacaummisar @AuthorWA

Hi, #writersbookclub! It's time to think about March...who's in?

@Ash_Fitzsimmons I’ll read Shahid’s Venture to Victory this month.

Hello, #writersbookclub! The Feb list is live: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d… Let us know your picks!

@Ash_Fitzsimmons @Gerlach12207435 @dore_deirdre @AuthorGFAllen @LaylaHawke2 @mjbavis @iammalicool @NikkiSelsfield @SJamesAuthor @AuthorWa I’m in, it’s been a while and I have a new entry in an anthology that could use some love once I update my data.

Who's in for February? @Gerlach12207435 @TheOtherHepler @dore_deirdre @AuthorGFAllen @LaylaHawke2 @mjbavis @iammalicool @NikkiSelsfield @SJamesAuthor @AuthorWA

Hello, #writersbookclub! Hope you're enjoying your January reads! I'm going on vacation at the end of the month (yay!) and will have limited Internet access, so I'm assembling the February list a wee bit early. Who wants in?

#ShamelessSelfPromoSaturday is special today! Over 100 urban fantasy authors are giving away UF novels for FREE at urbanfantasyaddict.com. It’s just for TODAY, Jan 10th! Stock up on your next (and next and next) ebook read! Oh, and mine’s in there, under “Civil Blood.”

@Ash_Fitzsimmons @Gerlach12207435 @dore_deirdre @AuthorGFAllen @LaylaHawke2 @mjbavis @iammalicool @Mythos_books @NikkiSelsfield @SJamesAuthor I’m out for January. I did get another publication credit, though, so maybe I should show it off for February

In for January? @Gerlach12207435 @TheOtherHepler @dore_deirdre @AuthorGFAllen @LaylaHawke2 @mjbavis @iammalicool @Mythos_books @NikkiSelsfield @SJamesAuthor

Hello, #writersbookclub! It's time to start thinking about January--who's in?

Need an antidote to holiday cheer? Ten tales of noir heroes drive “High Class Muscle,” including my close-up of street justice and psychosis in the cyberpunk story “This Thing of Darkness.” Check out Raconteur Press! #noir #cyberpunk #kindle #paperback amzn.to/494HAYw

It's December 8th and #Smashwords' holiday sale is on! If you eschew Amazon, now's a good time to curl up with my Big Thick Urban Fantasy/Legal Thriller Novel for just $1.49! Just FYI, this one ain't paranormal romance. It's all slaying, no laying! smashwords.com/books/view/170…

The situation is actually far worse than you are reporting here. Firstly, we have found NO Arctic permafrost older than about 800,000 years old. Before that, it appears that there was no "permanent" permafrost. Which means that the Earth didn't get COLD enough for permanent permafrost to form until the CO2 level dropped below, 360ppmCO2 or +2°C over our 1850 baseline. Since then, about 750,000 years of organic matter has accumulated in the Arctic permafrost. As you mention this is estimated to hold 1,600Gts of carbon rich organic material. For comparison we put out about 42Gts CO2 emissions in 2023 and 2024. 85% of Alaska is permafrost, 65% of Russia is permafrost, 50% of Canada is permafrost, overall 24% of the land area in the NH is permafrost. It holds an estimated 1/2 of all the organic carbon stored in the Earth's soil. In 2020 the Arctic Institute warned that a 3 degree Celsius increase in global temperatures could melt 30 to 85 percent of the top permafrost layers that exist across the Arctic region. The Arctic has ALREADY WARMED +4°C on AVERAGE. Parts of it in Siberia have warmed +8°C. The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979 nature.com/articles/s4324… Communications Earth & Environment volume 3, Article number: 168 (Aug 2022) Our mainstream climate models reflect how badly we misunderstood the role of permafrost in our ICEHOUSE climate state. 1st - we underestimated by 100% how much organic matter there was in the permafrost. It wasn't until 2008 that an "on the ground" survey was done to actually measure the amount of material in the permafrost. It DOUBLED the estimate Climate Science had been using. 2nd - in order to keep the models working the response to this new information was to say (without evidence) that ALMOST ALL of this material would stay "locked up" in the permafrost and would be released SLOWLY in small increments. This ASSUMPTION is also proving to be WRONG. sciencealert.com/study-reveals-… Iron mineral dissolution releases iron and associated organic carbon during permafrost thaw Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 6329 (2020) nature.com/articles/s4146… There may be greater CO2 emissions associated with thawing Arctic permafrost than ever imagined. An international team of researchers, including one from the University of Copenhagen, has discovered that soil bacteria release CO2 previously thought to be trapped by iron. The finding presents a large new carbon footprint that is unaccounted for in current climate models. Iron doesn't bind organic carbon after all. It was believed that the mineral iron would bind carbon even as permafrost thawed. The new field study demonstrates that bacteria incapacitate iron's carbon trapping ability, resulting in the release of vast amounts of CO2. This is an entirely new discovery. 3rd - we also ASSUMED that melted permafrost would be "wet and swampy". It turns out that due to Arctic Amplification the High Arctic is prone now to HEATWAVES that DRY OUT the permafrost so that it can BURN. This burning of what is essentially "peat" releases HUGE amounts of sequestered CO2 "all at once" instead of in a "slow trickle". As the Arctic RAPIDLY heats up, first the Boreal Forests are going to COMPLETELY burn away, releasing enough CO2 to rapidly raise the CO2 level by +100ppm-+150ppm. This will happen over the next 20 to 30 years at most. While this is happening, the permafrost will be drying and burning or wet and rotting. Releasing MASSIVE quantities of both CO2 and CH4. Complete loss of the permafrost could add ANOTHER +280pp-+350ppm to the CO2 level. Worst case scenario is all of this happening by 2100. CO2 levels could climb by as much as +380ppm-+500ppm. Putting us in the 800ppm to 1000ppm range BY 2100. The permafrost was the CARBON BOMB that we just set off. The rest of this century will be finding out just how BADLY we FUCKED UP. Via Sarah Connor collapse2050.substack.com/p/civilization…

@CreatureAuthor We could set up a bunch of tables at a hotel or something with different authors and their books, and advertise it to fans of the genre. It’d be a lot like a bake sale but with books, and follow me for more genius innovative ideas like this. 😎

Do... Do we need to do an author bake sale to sell more books?

@talishammas Mostly urban fantasy here, but I've done science fiction and a little non-SF/F romance.

Anyone else drowning in bot follows lately? If you’re a real human writer, tell me your genre so I can follow you instead!

In a break from my usual doom, here's a #charity #anthology with the theme of hope, in which the proceeds go to a family that was in a car wreck. I donated my comedy story "The 10:40 Appointment at the NYC Department of Superhero Registration." #hopecore amazon.com/gp/product/B0F…

The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.

Guess what's not all over the news anymore? Trump worked it 24/7 for 1 month to get it off the news.

“We won’t give you public housing or medical care or even a living wage while we need you, but as soon as we don’t need you, we’ll give you everything!”

Where are all the “small government” Republicans who railed against this type of authoritarianism? Where are they all now? They've either bent the knee or too scared to speak out against any of this.

No, it won't. Our planet was *literally more habitable* after a giant asteroid struck it 66 million years ago than Mars is today. The top of Mount Everest in the middle of winter is more hospitable to life than Mars is on its nicest days. This is just stupidity:

Top: Total Solar Irradiance, Monthly average, January 1940 - December 2024 Bottom: Monthly global surface temperature anomaly, January 1940 - December 2024 It's not the sun.