One year ago, the minivan went to the Great Junkyard in the Sky with less than 40k on the odometer due to circumstances that shall remain vague. I had to source a replacement very quickly because we are most definitely a two-car household by necessity. We had a good experience with the wife’s Jeep Cherokee,…
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Interview with me over at The Verge
Andrew Liptak at The Verge interviewed me about my new series, The Palladium Wars. I go a little bit into the world-building for the new story, and how my week at the Launch Pad astronomy workshop in 2017 helped to make the new series more scientifically grounded. With the publication of the interview, the cover…
CAUTION: Contains gratuitous self-promotion.
All right. Fine. After some feedback from fans and colleagues, I have reconsidered my stance on award posts. Even though it makes me feel a little uncomfortable, here’s my own award eligibility post. In 2018, I had two published works that are eligible. First, POINTS OF IMPACT, book 6 in the Frontlines series, came out…
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I love writing for Wild Cards. It’s an amazingly detailed world that has been expanded by thirty-plus writers over thirty years, and it’s a ton of fun to be a part of that. I mean, I get to make up my own super-powered characters and then let them loose in a playground that has been…
A wild blog post appears!
I’ve nuked Facebook again, and this time for good–I deleted my account instead of just deactivating it. I’d love to claim that it was solely because of the privacy and ethics concerns. They certainly played a role, but the truth is that Facebook was sapping too much of my attention and time, and those are…
Coming up Aces
I wrote a blog post about the difficulty of creating compelling superheroes and villains in a world with an established canon spanning 70 years, where hundreds of aces and jokers have already been put on the page by dozens of other writers. You can read the blog entry over at the Wild Cards blog.
A (potentially annoying) ode to the Surface Go.
My MacBook Pro died on the plane to WorldCon while I was halfway through the trip to San Francisco. I rebooted it to finish a software installation, and it plain refused to come back to life. I’ve been using Macs for twenty years, so I know all the tricks to reset the PRAM and the…
Conned out
I am back home, and very tired. Two weeks ago, I did Worldcon, which was super fun. Then I ended up being nominated for a Dragon Award for Best Military SF/Fantasy novel, so I let my friend Melissa F. Olson guilt me into going to Atlanta for DragonCon on short notice. I thought that almost…
My WorldCon schedule
I just received my (hopefully) final con schedule, so I figured I’d share it here for the people who are going to be attending and want to come see me and/or the other panelists and participants. Of course, I’ll also be on the floor and at the bars and parties all weekend long when I…
You wake up one morning, and half the year is gone.
There must be a glitch in the Matrix, because there is absolutely no way that Worldcon is a week from Thursday already. <is handed note from off-screen> I have just been informed by my producer that Worldcon is indeed a week from Thursday already. I spent the first half of 2018 writing the first novel…