AFTERSHOCKS, the first book in the Palladium Wars series, is on sale today as a Kindle daily deal. If you haven’t checked out the series, here’s your opportunity to try the first book out at a discount. I am currently writing the fourth Palladium Wars book, so you have a few to catch up on…
17AUG23
I don’t have much to report because I am busy pushing this draft along (as you can see on the progress meter in the sidebar), so have a picture of a Dinky Dog in her favorite habitat–a cozy dog bed in a kitchen where there’s food preparation in progress. I’m a slow correspondent at the…
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…
11JUL23
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist.” –Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
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…
One of the top three American inventions
Why didn’t anyone inform me that licorice-flavored gum is a thing? (Today I learned that Black Jack has been around since 1884, that it was the first flavored gum in the United States, and that it was the first gum to be offered in sticks.)
Not a sponsored post (but I’m available for endorsements)
After five and a half years of steadfast and reliable service, I semi-retired The Beast, a 17″ Alienware laptop. I replaced it with…another 17″ Alienware laptop. The Beast served me so well that I decided to go the same route for its replacement. I stuck with the same brand and screen size, picked a model…
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…