I asked for the high-resolution artwork for the covers to my Wild Cards stories because I wanted to have them printed and mounted for the office wall. That’s John Picacio’s work on the left (for the novelette “How To Move Spheres And Influence People” on Tor.com), and Michael Komarck on the right (for the novella…
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Canine maintenance
I am happy to report that the three household doggos passed their annual technical inspection with flying colors. (Left to right: Baby, Andy, and Ygraine a.k.a. Dinky.)
BALLISTIC cover art
The Amazon product page for BALLISTIC, second novel in the Palladium Wars, now has a picture of the cover on it, so I guess it’s official: I think it’s a gorgeous cover, and I love the art direction they’ve picked for the Palladium Wars novels so far.
Tasty treat or Devil’s Ichor?
Salty licorice is very much an acquired taste. It’s common in the Netherlands, the Nordic countries, and northern Germany. Outside of those regions, it’s hard to find people who like it. The salt in this form of licorice is ammonium chloride (“Salmiak salt”), and it gives the licorice a very astringent, almost cough medicine-like flavor. I…
The Switcher
It’s my birthday this week, so I went out and made a frivolous purchase: a Nintendo Switch Lite. I have always been a PC gamer, but in the last year or two, I’ve found myself gravitating toward consoles. I spend a lot of time in front of mouse and keyboard already, and I don’t really…
I’m totally trademarking “color kablooie”
October brings the golden days of autumn, and the last two days have been Chamber of Commerce tourism ad weather. We’re a little late for peak leaf season this year, but the first frosts just hit a few days ago, and now the leaves are in full Color Kablooie mode. This is my ideal weather–cool…
Non-Euclidean geometry, fall edition
When I need to let my brain’s background processes figure out a story element or untie a knot in a chapter, I take a walk in the place you see pictured above. It never fails to work. In other news, I just turned in the edits for BALLISTIC, second in the Palladium Wars series,…
It’s OK if you like fall colors, I guess
New Hampshire in the fall, the best time in the best place as far as I’m concerned.
Running a few Sharpies dry
Sitting down this afternoon to sign a bunch of bookplates for hardcovers of AFTERSHOCKS. I am signing these instead of the actual books because the alternative would be to ship me the hardcovers. Those come about 25 to a box, and I have to do 1,800 signatures, so they’d have to send 72 boxes of…
The outdoor office
There’s a pond about a half mile down the road, and when the weather is good, I grab my little Surface Go and head down there in the mornings to get a head start on the word count for the day. Right now it’s the start of the best month for using that outdoor office…