The novel is finally done and turned in, thank the old gods and the new. It has a provisional title that may change before release, but whatever it will be called, it’s going to be the first book in a series called THE PALLADIUM WARS.
This one is a different style than Frontlines: third-person past tense instead of first-person present, and different POV characters instead of just one. It’s also not 100% USDA-certified pure military SF–while there’s lots of military action going on, some of the POV characters aren’t military, so I’d classify it more as leaning toward Space Opera with a healthy dose of military detail. I hope that those of you who come here for the military SF will give this one a shot as well. So far, beta reader input has been very encouraging.
In other news, I have two novellas out this month. The Wild Cards stand-alone mosaic novel LOW CHICAGO comes out on June 12th, featuring my novella STRIPES, which in turn features a very bad-ass underworld bodyguard named Khan. He gets to mix it up with the criminal underworld of late 1920s Chicago, which was a ton of fun to write.
The second one is called PROBATIONARY, and it’s part of the Wild Cards novel KNAVES OVER QUEENS, the first detailed WIld Cards foray into the alternate British history of the Wild Cards universe. PROBATIONARY is told from the perspective of an ace I created, Rory Campbell a.k.a. Archimedes. His special ability is rather less flashy than Khan’s (who is a half-tiger), but I got to put him into the middle of the Falklands War and gave him a chance to rewrite that bit of history a little.
LOW CHICAGO will be published by Tor in the US and widely available on June 12. KNAVES OVER QUEENS will be out from HarperVoyager UK as a UK release (Tor will publish the book for the US market next year), which means that you won’t be able to buy the Kindle version outside the UK…but they’ll happily ship you a paper copy to a US address as it counts as a UK sale.
In other, other news, I have started work on a new Frontlines story. It’s a novella that will cover the events of Andrew’s tenure with the Lazarus Brigades in the three-year gap between FIELDS OF FIRE and POINTS OF IMPACT. I’m hoping to have this one out before the end of summer, and then I’ll be starting a new three-book story arc that will wrap up the Frontlines universe for now. Stay tuned for more news on that.
You know, every time I finish a novel, I tell everyone that I’m going to rot my brain with Netflix and video games for a month straight…and every time, I get bored after a week of that. Guess that means I’m in the right line of work.
I can’t get enough of your Frontlines series, man. You could put them out indefinitely and with the most oblique plotlines and I’d be right there to buy them on launch day every time. You definitely deserve a rest after knocking out your other works — just don’t wait too long to hook us up with some more Lanky badassery 🙂
Your latest book.
Marko,
Well the last-latest book had some “geographic howlers” (e.g, traveling from Boston to Cleveland was described as traveling East) ; in other words your editors were not very good.(I think I wrote you about this).
I was wondering, if you would like an editorial “check-up” by me and/or your other fans in return for giving me and/or your fans:
– a signed, free copy of this new book and all of your previous books
– maybe some credit/acknowledgement in this book in the event that I (and/or your fans) correct something that your “professional” editors overlook
You really need better editors…
Wow. Just. Wow.
YES!!!! Also voting for Team KIll Us Some Lankies! Looking forward to these books, Brohammed!
let’s kill us some Lankies !!!!