A little over a month ago, I pulled the plug on all my remaining social media accounts and went full-on cold turkey on everything. And by “cold turkey”, I mean that I didn’t leave myself the option of reactivating those accounts. Twitter and Facebook make it intentionally hard to leave the service altogether, for obvious…
Author: Marko Kloos
The Big Idea: Aftershocks
My friend John Scalzi was kind enough to let me borrow his blog today, where I talk a little about the central idea behind Aftershocks. In related news, I have been informed by reliable sources that I can claim the first use of the term “giraffe-adjacent” on Whatever. May it stand to future historians as…
Aftershocks release day!
AFTERSHOCKS, the first book in my new SF series called “The Palladium Wars”, is out today! It’s available on Amazon in Kindle, Audible, trade paperback, and hardcover forms. And if you are a Prime member in the US, the Kindle version is available to you free to read for the month of July as part of…
Writing and the Internet
I have to come to realize that over the last few years, the Internet has had a profoundly corrosive effect on my professional output and occasionally even my emotional health. This effect has been especially severe in two areas: social media and email, both of which basically constituted my consent to being easily and directly…
AFTERSHOCKS giveaway winners
Sorry for the delay, but I had to stay mostly offline this past weekend and yesterday because I was away on SECRET BUSINESS, so I didn’t get around to spinning up the old Random Numbers Generator and let Mr. Computer pick 10 entries out of the hat until this morning. Here are the winners (with…
Various AFTERSHOCKS items
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…