The AFTERSHOCKS giveaway is now closed. Later today, I’ll pull ten numbers out of a hat and match them with their respective comments, and then I’ll post the winners here for all to see. (If you find yourself on the winning list, email me at frontlines@markokloos.com with a mailing address.) Also, AFTERSHOCKS is one of…
AFTERSHOCKS Paperback Giveaway
I just got my author copies for AFTERSHOCKS, so let’s have ourselves a little giveaway! Everybody likes giveaways, right? They have layers. Like a parfait. Anyway, I am going to give away TEN signed trade paperback copies of Aftershocks. Because the Goodreads giveaway is limited to US residents, and because I like my international fans,…
Lucky 13 Deconstructed
Sony Pictures Imageworks, the VFX house that did LUCKY 13 for Love Death + Robots, put up a really cool YouTube video deconstructing the graphics work that went into the episode. I continue to love everything about the LD+R adaptations.
Aftershocks giveaway on Goodreads
AFTERSHOCKS, the first novel in my new series THE PALLADIUM WARS, will be out on July 1. My publisher, 47North, is giving away 100 ebook copies via Goodreads, and if you live in the U.S., you can throw your hat into that ring from May 31 until June 30: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/292827-aftershocks Interplanetary strife! Corporate intrigue! Ancient…
“Shape-shifters” and favorite werewolf designs
The Love Death + Robots crew has put up short YouTube videos highlighting the animation in the various segments. The one for “Shape-shifters” is here: (CONTENT WARNING: Gore) It’s a pretty awesome werewolf design, all in all, and the fight scene is just knock-down, drag-out violent. I love werewolf movies, and one of my writing…
New blog entry at Wild Cards World
In other Wild Cards news, there’s a new post on the Wild Cards World blog, this one by Michael Cassutt: “Word-building in Wild Cards” (yes, you read that correctly.) I’ve talked about writing for Wild Cards before (most extensively in this post from a while back), but one thing I only touched on in that…
“How To Move Spheres And Influence People,” a new Wild Cards novelette
My Wild Cards novelette “How To Move Spheres And Influence People” is up at Tor.com today. It’s free to read, like all the stuff at Tor.com, so if you are inclined, I welcome you to check it out and let me know what you think. “Spheres” kind of muscled its way into my writing schedule…
Online sources for the LD+R stories
Andrew Liptak at The Verge has a handy post up that lists the online sources for most of the short stories serving as material for Love Death+Robots. In related news, I’ll never get tired of seeing Samira Wiley as Lt. Colby, the pilot of Lucky 13 in the Netflix version. Yes, the original character in…
Writing with Ulysses.app
I’ve been a long-time Scrivener user for over a decade, but for the last year or so, I’ve been migrating my work to Ulysses more and more, and right now I think I am at the point where I’ll be using it exclusively. Ulysses is a writing app like Scrivener, and it has much…
Where to find “Shape-Shifters” and “Lucky 13”
I’ve had more than a few people asking where they can read the two stories of mine that were used for the (amazingly done) episodes in Tim Miller and David Fincher’s “Love Death + Robots” on Netflix. Episode 10 of Love Death + Robots, “Shape-shifters”, is based on my short story “On the Use of…