The following dispatch was received from our ignoble benefactor and your humble narrator early this morning.
"I'm not big on tenets, personally or professionally. Because they are largely bullshit. It's for that reason I've tried my best to institute the anti-tenet around here. A strict, unyielding ban against bullshit. It's my naive hope this anti-philosophy (more bullshit) will extend to my work and my life.
So let's not bullshit. You've walked through Borders. You've enjoyed your half-caf double corporate semen with extra semen foam in the Barnes & Noble coffee bar. Two or three of you have roamed the stacks at your local library. You've seen it. Millions of books. Worlds of dead trees. Every asshole's opinion and life story and every fictionalized version of every asshole's opinion and life story. And every year it all gets done again and what the alpha consumer eats will not even be remembered as a particularly hearty bowel movement when the following year rolls around.
So who gives a fuck about one more piece of pop fiction?
I do. Because J.C. Hutchins isn't bullshit, nor is he full of it. He's full of sell, he's full of pimp, he's full of store brand diet cola, but he is quite possibly the least full of shit man I know. I choose my friends carefully. I choose them well. I loathe people. I revile writers. And J.C. Hutchins is a friend of mine.
And his novel isn't bullshit, either. Yes, every asshole has a story and every third or fourth asshole has some writing talent (I'm somewhere around the fifth asshole, I think, although I'm not a statistics major). But rarely, increasingly so, will you be two hundred pages into a work of fiction and realize it takes seven versions of a man to reveal one basic truth. That's 7th Son.
Steampunk is a lie. Lovecraft is a lie. Bukowski is a fucking lie. Drop some coin today on a little bit of truth. Make my friend an obscene success.
Because when a writer finds they can't make a living selling the truth, that's when they really start lying.
That's when they become bullshit.
And if that happens to Hutch I'll find every single one of you.
It's the biggest intergalactic sports news item since Quentin Barnes led the Ionath Krakens to the title. "The Heretic" Chaiyal North has jumped ship from the GFA to the IFA. And what will his first contractual obligation be? Battling living legend Korak the Cutter for the IFA title (what's the name of the story, bitches?). But what didn't make the front page is the deal Chai had to cut to make the fight of his dreams and perhaps his destiny come to pass. As the former GFA champion and future IFA championship hopeful travels to Buddha City for the blockbuster weigh-in ceremony, Gredok the Split-head has his own dreams in the works, and Chaiyal's showdown with Korak are at the center of the Quyth crime lord's machinations.
TITLE FIGHT is a multi-part collaboration between Scott Siger and Matt Wallace, set in the universe created by Scott Sigler in his novel THE ROOKIE.
Check out this wicked piece of TITLE FIGHT fan art created by Adrian Bogart of Austin, Texas, depicting what a face-to-face stand-off between Korak the Cutter and "The Heretic" Chaiyal North might look like. We're floored by both the mad skillz on display here as well as Adrain's attention to detail. Chaiyal in particular is rendered exactly as he was written in his first fight, from his Mohawk-style warrior "do" to the inverse crosses painted on his skull to that slick spaulder armor piece (our only critique is that he could look *slightly* less like a Dick Tracy-ized Brock Lesnar. We hate that guy). Hardcore TITLE FIGHT fans will even notice the scars Chaiyal still wears after his bar brawl with Brockaa the Razor-barbed described in Round #2.
And yes, those are in fact yellow Adidas antennae socks that Korak the Cutter is sporting.
Thanks, Adrian! You have achieved pimp-level status in our eyes. And keep the fandom coming, kids. You might just becom a part of FUTURE HISTORY as well.
This time on FUTURE HISTORY we welcome back the gravelly tones and even rougher wordslinging of New York Times best-selling author Scott Sigler to KILL (the) FEED with the newest round of TITLE FIGHT -- Matt's episodic collaborative novella with Sigler set in his ROOKIE universe. This time around there are new characters, new intrigue, and new threats to the impending showdown between fading Quyth legend Korak the Cutter and the greatest Human champion in a thousand years, "The Heretic" Chaiyal North. Will these two interstellar titans fulfill their destinies by going head-to-head in the fight of an eon, or will a universe filled with corruption overwhelm the purity of their battle?
Fucked if we know, but it is turning into one HELL of a ride.
TITLE FIGHT is a multi-part collaboration between Scott Siger and Matt Wallace, set in the universe created by Scott Sigler in his novel THE ROOKIE.
FUTURE HISTORY returns with Round #4 of TITLE FIGHT, Matt's literary smackdown with New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler. Matt is on the offensive this round. Controversial GFA champion "The Heretic" Chaiyal North is facing the firing squad as he goes before the Galactic Fighting Council. The fate of his newly-won title hangs in the balance. And whatever their decision, it's going to be a wild night in the heart of Ionath City. Booze will flow, fists will fly, and we may even run across some old friends, and enemies, from THE ROOKIE.
TITLE FIGHT is a multi-part collaboration between Scott Siger and Matt Wallace, set in the universe created by Scott Sigler in his novel THE ROOKIE.
TITLE FIGHT is back, and so are Scott Sigler and Matt Wallace as they bring you ROUND #3 in their on-going collaborative intergalactic literary smackdown. In this round Sigler takes the reins and introduces a new and pivotal character to the mix. Meanwhile, Korak the Cutter, a living legend among Quyth warriors and interspecies fighters and fans alike, makes the biggest decision of his long, bloody, and storied career.
TITLE FIGHT is a multi-part collaboration between Scott Siger and Matt Wallace, set in the universe created by Scott Sigler in his novel THE ROOKIE.
Meet "The Heretic" Chaiyal North, the 6'9", 400 pound newly-crowned champion of the Galactic Fighting Association. Chai is the first Human competitor to capture the interspecies title in a thousand years, but as far as he's concerned crowns don't make kings. Chai may be sitting at the top of the GFA heap, but to truly call himself the best there's one more fighter he must face on the field of battle -- Quyth legend Korak the Cutter.
TITLE FIGHT is a multi-part collaboration between Scott Siger and Matt Wallace, set in the universe created by Scott Sigler in his novel THE ROOKIE.
Today, the day author J.C. Hutchins' techno-thriller 7TH SON: DESCENT becomes available in bookstores nationwide, 
