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This is the homepage of Vasileios Kalampakas. Here you will find news about upcoming books and projects, as well as musings on various subjects. Check it from time to time or subscribe to the RSS feed (upper right corner) if you’d like to remain constantly updated.

Head over at the News page to check up on what I’m working on right now and post your feedback and thoughts on it.

If you’re interested in what I think about the world, though I dearly believe you shouldn’t, check my own thoughts.

And at the books page, you can see what’s available for sale as an e-book or in printed form from Amazon.com. Happy browsing!

And though this is where everything will be happening, here is the obligatory page on Facebook.

Last, but not least, you can check out my author’s page at Amazon!

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Party of Five – Book III

See larger image Party of Five – Book III (Kindle Edition) By (author) Vasileios Kalampakas Release date April 19, 2013. Party of Five – Book III is the latest installment in the “Party of Five” fantasy novella series, and it is now available! Lernea, Theo and Bo have gone missing falling through a void vortex …

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Guest post – Konstantine Paradias – The Monkey on the Shelf

Two days ago: His name was Jonathan Cormack. He was a teacher in Hudson Bay’s Elementary for over a decade and he never had one student (or parent) ever complain, not even once, about his quality of work. He used to have an extensive collection of origami sculptures (made by his own hand), mostly consisting …

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“Forge of Stones” and “On the riverside of promise” FREE from Amazon

Just like the title implies, two of my novels, “Forge of Stones”, and “On the riverside of promise”, are now available for free from Amazon, for an unknown amount of time. You can get them here: Forge of Stones http://www.amazon.com/Forge-of-Stones-ebook/dp/B004TAFJXA/ On the riverside of promise http://www.amazon.com/On-riverside-promise-ebook/dp/B008X5ARMU/ I hope you download, read, enjoy and write a …

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A CIA rescue: misleading title, much?

Like a creature of habit I regularly check up on how my books are doing, in the sense that any new review is a good review: it makes me realise people are reading my stuff. There has been some debate lately, though it is pretty much an ongoing concern in the self-publishing arena, about Amazon …

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THE NEXT BIG THING BLOG HOP

First, I’d like to thank fellow author T. L. Smith and Peter Lukes for inviting me to participate in this event. You can click the following link to learn more about her work. Website: http://tlsmith-sfauthor.blogspot.com In this blog hop, I and my fellow authors, in their respective blogs, have answered ten questions about our book …

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Blog Hop

Hello everyone and welcome to Stoneforger’s den, my humble digital abode. Before you gladly move on to the next author, I’d like to let you know about a few things. My name, if you haven’t surmised it yet, is Vasileios Kalampakas. I’m a self-published author of science fiction and fantasy. You can rummage about the …

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Steam on Linux – A review (sort of) I never thought I’d do

Let me tell you a bit about Linux, Steam, gaming and me. I’ve been a long time user of Linux. Started back in 1999 with Red Hat 5.2, got into Slackware 7 and learned a lot from that experience. Then in the last few years I turned to Debian and never looked back, though I …

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Free ebook bonanza!

Beginning Thursday, February 14th, 12:00AM PDT and ending Friday, February 15th, 11:59pm PDT (according to Amazon – that’s GMT-7 but there might be delays), I will be giving away for free some of my works in ebook format. These include: Party of Five – Book II : http://www.amazon.com/Party-Five-Book-II-ebook/dp/B00B908PV6/ Bobby on a stick : http://www.amazon.com/Bobby-on-a-stick-ebook/dp/B006I3GFO8/ The …

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“Party of Five – Book II” for FREE just for one day!

Grab a free copy of “Party of Five – Book II” from the Amazon stores! Just for today!   http://www.amazon.com/Party-Five-Book-II-ebook/dp/B00B908PV6 Last updated by Vasileios at 2 February, 2013.

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Party of Five – Book II

For those of you who read the first book in the series and have been eagerly waiting for the second installment, it’s done! Ned, Winceham, Lernea and Parcifal, along with Theo and Bo the bunny finally reach Tallyflop atop a giant oak floating in space in search of Theo’s people. They’ll have a touch of …

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This week’s Libboo freebies!

Well, here you are. Without further ado, check out the freebie copies for this week. As always, they’re being offered on a first come, first served basis: Revolutionaries – Jack Rakove http://www.libboo.com/freebies/923a4fa8-6916-11e2-ac2f-1231391c65c1   The Maid – Kimberly Cutter http://www.libboo.com/freebies/9234a562-6916-11e2-ac2f-1231391c65c1   The Storytelling Animal – Jonathan Gotschall http://www.libboo.com/freebies/923baf7e-6916-11e2-ac2f-1231391c65c1   The White House Games – Say Dozeman …

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Want to try out Booktype?

Well, here’s the cool thing. I got a Booktype server up and running on http://booktype.stoneforger.com What’s Booktype? It’s an online collaboration, authoring, and publication suite. You can work on your book project alone, in teams, as an author/editor, with live chat functionality and so on. And then you can publish in ebook and print (PDF, …

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Libboo anyone?

Well, I’m still finding out how it all works, but it’s fairly simple. Libboo has a number of authors, featuring their books. The more “buzz” you generate about those books, the more freebies you get. It’s a nice way to reel-in new readers and people in a platform were things look to be quite personal. …

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Full Steam Ahead!

I was catching up with the various news around the world as well as those little things that I find interesting.Never mind about what’s going on in Syria, or more recently in Mali (though both have a long history about them – things, as always, don’t usually happen out of the blue). I was scanning …

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Website migrated almost back up to speed

There are still a lot of stuff to iron out, but the website’s moved on now! Last updated by Vasileios at 12 January, 2013.

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Migrating servers

Just a head’s up – you might end up in the wrong place while I migrate to a new server! Last updated by Vasileios at 12 January, 2013.

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