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CITADEL release day

Posted on by Marko Kloos

It’s August 10th somehow already. That means CITADEL, book 3 in the Palladium Wars, is out today!

You can find it here in all the usual formats (hardcover, paperback, Audible, and Kindle):

This is the book I wrote while the pandemic took off last year, and it was the toughest one to write of all the novels I have written because it turns out that tuning out the world and focusing on a fictional universe is super hard when the actual world is seemingly falling apart all around you. But I really like the way it turned out, and I think it’s the best one in the series yet. I certainly can’t tell now which writing days were good and which ones had me feel like Conan on the Wheel of Pain.

Anyway, I hope you buy it, and if you do, I really hope you enjoy it.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be over here engaging in my traditional release day rituals of eating carbs and hitting “refresh” on the product page for the book…

Love Death + Robots anthology is live for preorder

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The official Love Death + Robots anthology for Season 1 is up for preorder. It contains all the stories that were used as source material for the episodes, including my own “Shape-Shifters” (Episode 10) and “Lucky 13” (Episode 13).

The anthology is available on May 21 from these sources:

Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0923HJQ5G
Amazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0923HJQ5G
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0923HJQ5G
Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0923HJQ5G

As far as I know, these will be on Kindle only, but I’ll update if I learn otherwise.

Release date for CITADEL

Posted on by Marko Kloos

There’s a new release date for CITADEL, the third book in the Palladium Wars series. It will be released in all the usual formats on August 10.

Last year, I was on a two-novels-a-year pace, but then 2020 happened and it all went to hell. But this year has been absolutely fine for me so far as far as writing goes–the blanket of cortisol has lifted, and I am confident I’ll be able to get back to that pace this year and write two novels before the end of 2021. With the time needed for production, however, that means the next Frontlines novel will most likely not be out until early next year. I do intend to release a Frontlines novella or two in the meantime, however, so 2021 won’t be totally Frontlines-free.

CITADEL will be my tenth published novel. That’s not a terrible pace considering the first two only came out in 2013. (I had written TERMS OF ENLISTMENT already, of course, and I was halfway done with LINES OF DEPARTURE already, so it’s really more like eight and a half novels in eight years.) I don’t know if that makes me “prolific”–I certainly feel like a lazy bum compared to writers like Brandon Sanderson–but I am happy with my ability to turn out steady work, and I’ll be happier still when I can get out two books a year instead of just one.

ORDERS OF BATTLE release day

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Today is the day! After almost two years, there’s a new Frontlines novel out. ORDERS OF BATTLE is the seventh volume in the series and picks up a few years after the last book. Things have calmed down a bit for humanity after POINTS OF IMPACT, but the Lankies are still out there, and someone higher up in the chain of command has decided that now’s the time to go looking for them.

ORDERS OF BATTLE is available on the Kindle and in paperback form today. (The Audible audiobook will be delayed until February–see my previous post on that for details.) I hope you pick it up in whichever format you prefer, then read it and maybe leave a review or recommend it to friends. And most importantly, I hope you enjoy returning to the Frontlines universe with Andrew Grayson and his podhead comrades.

Sci-Fi Shenanigans interview

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The Sci-Fi Shenanigans podcast interview I mentioned in my previous post can be found here:

http://www.sfshenanigans.com/2020/08/25/sfs-episode-167-marko-kloos-dragon-award-finalist/

Check it out if you want to hear me talk for close to an hour and give no fewer than three involuntary sales pitches for various aspects of Uncle Jeff’s Book and Trinket Emporium.

I was on the shortlist for the Dragon Award in the military SF category, but alas–I didn’t win. That honor went to Savage Wars by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole, so congratulations to them. (Congratulations also to my friend John Scalzi, who won the Dragon Award for Best SF Novel with The Last Emperox.)

I’m still at work on CITADEL while trying to stay on top of the rest of my commitments and keeping my head above water. 2020 sure turned out to be a peach of a year.(I want to apologize to 2016 for having called it the WORST YEAR EVER. Sorry, 2016…I was young and naive.)

 

BALLISTIC is out today

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Today is release day for BALLISTIC, the second novel in the Palladium Wars series.

You can obtain this fine product over at Amazon, where operators are standing by to take your money for the Kindle, trade paperback, hardcover, or audiobook versions. Heck, buy them all and complete the set!

For the BALLISTIC giveaway, I have decided to bump the number of books up from 5 to 10, and I will keep the contest going for the rest of the day. Leave your entry comment on the original post for the giveaway if you want to be included, but be aware that the cut-off time is midnight Pacific time, and I won’t include any entries submitted after that point. Tomorrow morning, I will let the computer draw ten names out of the hat and post the winners. (One entry per person, please…no stuffing the entry box.)

This marks my eighth published novel, and number nine is coming in December. For the rest of the day, I will now follow the time-honored tradition of Obsessively Refreshing The Product Page To Check Sales Rank…

 

 

Berlin is never Berlin

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Tor.com has a new Wild Cards story out today, written by me.

It’s called “Berlin Is Never Berlin”, and it features Khan, my joker-ace character who is half Bengal tiger and 100% bad-ass. (Khan was my point of view character in “Stripes”, my contribution to our Wild Cards novel LOW CHICAGO.)

In this story, Khan takes a bodyguard assignment for a bunch of spoiled rich kids who want to go clubbing and socializing in Europe. Spoiler: it doesn’t turn out to be the milk run he expected.

The title comes from a saying about Berlin: “Paris is always Paris, but Berlin is never Berlin.” It refers to the ever-changing face of the city, which seems to be in constant flux.

I had a lot of fun writing that story, and I hope you’ll enjoy reading it. As with all stories on Tor.com, it’s free to read.

Release date for Frontlines #7

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ORDERS OF BATTLE, the seventh novel in the Frontlines series, will be released on December 8. There’s now a product page up on Amazon, where you can pre-order the book on Kindle, in paperback format, or as an Audible book:

There’s no cover art yet as the book is still in production, but that will be added as soon as the cover is final.

Just in case you missed it, here’s the product page for BALLISTIC, the second novel in the Palladium Wars series, due to be released on May 26:

And there’s a third release this year! This one is my Wild Cards novelette titled BERLIN IS NEVER BERLIN, due out from Tor.com on May 6:

Not a bad year for new releases, I’d say. And I am hard at work to make sure that things will keep coming at this pace.

 

Pub date change for BALLISTIC

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I’ve been informed that BALLISTIC, second novel of the Palladium Wars series, has been moved up in the schedule for a publication date of May 26, 2020.

If you’d like to pre-order it, you can do so via this link. BALLISTIC will be available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and Audible formats. (Lots of pre-orders will make my publisher happy, which means an increased chance there will be more Frontlines and Palladium Wars novels past 2020. Just sayin’.)

 

 

Interview with the local newspaper

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My local newspaper, the Valley News, interviewed me a few days ago, and you can read the whole thing here. It’s a very good piece that stays true to the facts, and I enjoyed sitting for the questions (with journalist Sarah Earle) and the pictures (with photographer Rick Russell) very much.