Back when we had our driveway redone, we had the construction crew extend it all the way around the house. The surface is hard pack gravel, so if I don’t consciously use the entire driveway during the spring and summer instead of just driving on the convenient front half, the weeds will come up between…
Category: travel.
Some travel snapshots
Not everyone got to travel internationally since the start of the pandemic, so I figured I’d share a few pictures from my quick visit back home last month. (All photos taken with the camera on my iPhone 11.) Descending into Schiphol. I fly into Amsterdam because it’s the closest major airport to where my…
Emerald City ComicCon update
Due to health concerns related to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak, my publisher has decided to cancel their participation at Emerald City Comic Con, so I won’t be in Seattle or at ECCC next week. (Sorry if you were looking to come to panels or get a book or two signed.) In related news, we just…
Wild Cards interview and convention schedule for 2020
The official Wild Cards page has an interview with me that’s probably the most detailed and in-depth one I’ve given so far. In other news, work on Frontlines #7 (“Orders of Battle”) is progressing very well, and things are still on track for a completed draft by the end of December. I don’t want to…
Emerald City Comic Con
It looks like I’ll be attending Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle from March 12-15. I don’t have a schedule yet because the panels have yet to be approved, but if it’s anything like last time, I’ll be participating in a few panels and most likely do a signing as well. So if you are…
Conned out
I am back home, and very tired. Two weeks ago, I did Worldcon, which was super fun. Then I ended up being nominated for a Dragon Award for Best Military SF/Fantasy novel, so I let my friend Melissa F. Olson guilt me into going to Atlanta for DragonCon on short notice. I thought that almost…
You wake up one morning, and half the year is gone.
There must be a glitch in the Matrix, because there is absolutely no way that Worldcon is a week from Thursday already. <is handed note from off-screen> I have just been informed by my producer that Worldcon is indeed a week from Thursday already. I spent the first half of 2018 writing the first novel…
Emerald City Comic Con after-action report
This past weekend, Robin and I went to Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle. My publisher, 47North, is an Amazon Publishing imprint, so they’re based in Seattle, which meant I finally got to visit the Mothership and meet most of the rest of the APub team. The Doppler building, where Amazon Publishing is housed, is…
Home again, home again, etc. etc.
We have been back from Europe for a week now, and my brain is still adjusting. You know when you start a lawnmower up for the first time in the spring after it’s been sitting in the garage all winter? That hesitant sputtering? Yeah, that’s what it feels like, even though I came back from…
Emerging from the word mines
I turned in the final edits of POINTS OF IMPACT today, so now it’s full steam ahead toward publication. (I don’t have a date for you yet, but you’ll know as soon as I do.) That makes six novels in the last five years, which isn’t bad for a slacker like me. That reckoning is…