Behold the Great Northeastern Snuggle Otter in his natural habitat: a private recliner.
05JUL2022
Back when we had our driveway redone, we had the construction crew extend it all the way around the house. The surface is hard pack gravel, so if I don’t consciously use the entire driveway during the spring and summer instead of just driving on the convenient front half, the weeds will come up between…
Centers of Gravity cover reveal
I am pleased to be able to show you the cover for CENTERS OF GRAVITY, Frontlines #8, which will be out on August 30. I think it may just be the best-looking Frontlines cover yet, although they’ve all been really great. The book is available for pre-order in Kindle, paperback, and Audible formats. Pre-orders…
Endings and beginnings
I always love being able to type those two words at the end of a draft, but it was both exhilarating and bitter-sweet to do it on this one. Nine years, eight novels, and almost a million words later, it’s not just the end of a single novel but the capstone on a storyline…
Mr. Floofy
I know it’s high time to groom and trim Andy A. Doodle when he starts to look remarkably like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Love Death + Robots anthology on sale this week
If you enjoyed Love Death + Robots on Netflix and you would like to own the anthology of all the short stories that were the basis for the first season, I have good news: it’s on sale this week at Amazon for the low, low price of $2.99 for the Kindle version. Here are…
Some travel snapshots
Not everyone got to travel internationally since the start of the pandemic, so I figured I’d share a few pictures from my quick visit back home last month. (All photos taken with the camera on my iPhone 11.) Descending into Schiphol. I fly into Amsterdam because it’s the closest major airport to where my…
There and back again
I’ve been a little scarce here on the blog over the last two months. I’m running a little—okay, a lot—late on the latest Frontlines book because I have to fit a lot of action between the covers, and it’s turning out to be a little trickier than I had anticipated. But it’s coming along, and…
(The butterfly is a paid crisis actor.)
Took a walk to my favorite pond the other day, and this shot turned out pretty all right: With the world the way it is at the moment, I am happy to be in a place where I can just walk out the door and be at this sort of place within ten minutes…
“Gullibility kills.”
I’ve been re-reading some non-fiction favorites recently, and these quotes from Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World” (published 26 years ago, back in 1995) really seem amazingly prescient considering the state of the world in 2021: One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any…