Mostly works in marketing. Mostly.
Author of gaming books including Aliens: The Video Games, published August 2026 and available to pre-order now.
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Mike Diver
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So when you see me really trying to push the Aliens book, this is why!
Selling books is *hard*.
Selling video game books is *super hard*.
So yeah, I do need to plug Aliens: The Video Games as much as I can - without annoying folks like you.
Any and all opportunities to do that, welcomed!
Because transparency is fun, shall we look at what my book The Console sold between July and December 2025?
(Royalty statement has just come in.)
Eight ebook versions
Eleven hardback versions
Netting me... well, nothing, because I still owe on the (small) advance.
This book is a 10/10.
Said developer: LOL, why did you pick a VCR as a prize? Who has a VCR anymore? This shit is ancient.
(Several months later)
How fortunate that we, the makers of Alien: Isolation, have access to a VCR, actually.
Did you know that the crackly footage in Alien: Isolation was achieved by using a real VCR, fortunately won by a developer's partner in a raffle, and wiggling the SCART lead to create the distortion?
Read all about the making of the horror classic:
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Aliens-The-V...