The contest prize books will be going out to the winners today. In this round, the international readers were particularly blessed by the random numbers gods. Of twelve books, only three are going to U.S. addresses. The rest are all international: one each to Germany, Finland, and Switzerland, and six(!) to addresses in the UK….
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SCORPIO giveaway at long last
For a multitude of reasons, I wasn’t able to do my customary early giveaway for new release books until now. SCORPIO will be officially released on Monday, January 1st, so this won’t be an early look at the novel for anyone who gets a copy, but they’ll be signed and they’re ABSOLUTELY FREE to…
SCORPIO on Amazon First Reads
It’s December 1st, which means I can share the reason why the official release date for SCORPIO was moved back a month and a half: SCORPIO is an Amazon First Reads selection for the month of December. If you’re a Prime member, you can download one of the month’s First Reads offerings for free, so…
Badges? Badges?
The notoriously awards-shy Bundeswehr has started to issue these little badges to German veterans to give them a little something that confirms their status and lets them show their service. I got mine in the mail the other day. It’s not a military award for the uniform, just a lapel pin. The motif is…
SCORPIO release date change
Some readers have noticed that the release date for SCORPIO has been moved out to January 1, 2024. There’s a reason for that change, one that I can’t reveal just yet. But I can tell you that good things are happening behind the scenes that will make the new date make sense once I am…
Wild Cards: Pairing Up release day
Happy WILD CARDS day! I have a novelette featured in the latest Wild Cards anthology, titled PAIRING UP. It’s out today and available wherever books are sold: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675676/george-r-r-martin-presents-wild-cards-pairing-up-by-george-r-r-martin/ The novelette is called “In The Forests of the Night”, and it features my Wild Cards character Khan, the joker-ace who’s half tiger. The theme of the…
ARCs and progress bars and also Readercon
The ARCs for SCORPIO are in, which officially means it’s a real, actual book now. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that the progress bar for DESCENT hasn’t moved a whole lot in the last two weeks. That’s because the whole family came down with COVID two weeks ago, and now that we have…
Bookplates are on the way
I finally got my ducks in a row for the bookplates I promised, and they are on their way. Everyone who requested a bookplate for their misprinted copy of ODDMENTS will receive one in the mail soon. I also changed the layout of the paperback to reduce the font size and clean up the formatting…
Work in progress status update
The edits for SCORPIO are done, and I’ve started work on DESCENT, Palladium Wars #4. My plan is to turn in the draft by the end of July for a release in the first half of next year. I installed a progress bar widget for WordPress, so now you can all follow along as I…
Bookplates for the ODDMENTS paperbacks without a Table of Contents
I submitted the change files for the corrected paperback version of ODDMENTS that includes a proper table of contents. It should be live within a day or two, and all the print copies ordered from Monday on should have a ToC in them. As a solution for those of you who bought the print version…