That’s the cover for ORDERS OF BATTLE, seventh book in the Frontlines series. As with all Frontlines covers, it features spaceships…but as with all Frontlines covers, the art doesn’t necessarily correspond to any specific event in the book, so don’t try to divinate plot points or anything. What I can tell you about ORDERS OF…
Author: Marko Kloos
Isolation update
We are safely isolating here at Castle Frostbite and doing what we do most of the time anyway, which is to cook food and eat snacks and play games. The kids have been in an online charter school for a year now, so not much has changed around here other than the fact that I…
New Wild Cards story at Tor.com
Tor.com has a new Wild Cards story up. It’s called “The Visitor: Kill Or Cure”, and it was written by Mark Lawrence. As with all tor.com stories, it’s free to read. https://www.tor.com/2020/03/18/the-visitor-kill-or-cure-mark-lawrence/ As I have mentioned in my last post, I have a story in the queue there as well (featuring my favorite joker-ace, Khan),…
Release date for Frontlines #7
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…
Emerald City ComicCon update
Due to health concerns related to the current coronavirus/COVID-19 outbreak, my publisher has decided to cancel their participation at Emerald City Comic Con, so I won’t be in Seattle or at ECCC next week. (Sorry if you were looking to come to panels or get a book or two signed.) In related news, we just…
The highest and most noble use for potatoes
Every expat I know has a dietary vice they imported from their home country. It’s invariably something that is a.) bad for you, and b.) hard to obtain outside of its country of origin. Those two factors combine to make it far more desirable than it would be if you could walk down to the…
ARCs for BALLISTIC are in
I just got a box of ARCs for BALLISTIC, the second novel in the Palladium Wars series. Still massively digging the cover, which was apparently the first shot the cover artist took at the concept. I looked at it and said, “I’m good with that.” The Palladium Wars series is different from Frontlines by intent….
Frontlines #7 is done
I was planning to go to Detroit for ConFusion this past weekend, but the draft for the seventh Frontlines book, ORDERS OF BATTLE, wasn’t quite done yet. Work comes before fun because fun don’t pay the bills, so I sucked it up and cancelled the trip altogether just before the weekend. It turned out to…
Keeping it simple
One of the perks of the writing profession is that it has virtually no hardware requirements. My friends in the 3D animation or video and photography fields have to spend money on powerful rigs with lots of fast storage, but I work with text. Everything I’ve ever written, a dozen novels and as many…
Pub date change for BALLISTIC
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…