Today is the last day for Hugo nominations for Worldcon 75 in Helsinki. If you’re a member of Worldcon 74 (MidAmericon II) or Worldcon 75, and you haven’t yet finalized your ballot, now’s the time. And I won’t engage in self-pimpage for the Frontlines stuff, but if you’re still nominating, I’d urge you to consider…
Author: Marko Kloos
My revised public schedule for 2017
After overbooking myself on cons in 2015 and 2016 a little, I decided to lay off the conventions until April this year, mainly because I have a book to finish. But the con year is about to start up again, and I’ve gotten to add a few things to the list. So if you want…
They make their females wear clothing!
So this piece of comment spam ended up in my spam queue, and it was too amusing not to share, seeing how it was probably written by a prime male specimen with impeccable morals and blinding attractiveness. You know, I read the whole thing in the whiny nasal timbre it ought to be read in, and my…
One for the fountain pen fans
I have a little tradition for book release days. Every time a new novel comes out, I get myself a nice new fountain pen to commemorate the event. For FIELDS OF FIRE, I didn’t have to shell out my own money, because this one was paid for by 47North, my publisher. It’s a gold-trimmed Parker…
FIELDS OF FIRE, Amazon reviews, and gay Russian space marines
FIELDS OF FIRE has been out for not quite a week, and it’s sitting on 54 Amazon reviews and a 4.8 star review average already, which is much better than a sharp kick in the crotch. Thank you to everyone who has bought it, and extra special thanks to those of you who took the…
It’s Fields of Fire release day!
FIELDS OF FIRE, the fifth book in the Frontlines series, is out today on Kindle, in paperback, and as an Audible audiobook (read by the excellent and talented Luke Daniels). You can get it here in all three formats. Pro tip: All the other Frontlines books are still only $1 each on the Kindle, but…
lines of departure, polish edition.
The Polish edition of LINES OF DEPARTURE is out this month from Fabryka Slow, and they continue their excellent cover illustration streak: For the American covers, I only ever had one specification–no character faces. (That’s because I wanted the readers to picture the characters any way they wanted in their heads. Note that young master…
frontlines kindle sale.
Oh, hey–it’s February. That means the release of FIELDS OF FIRE is just a few weeks away. Crazy Jeff over at the Electronic Books Emporium has discounted all four books of the Frontlines series so far to a dollar each on the Kindle. If you still need to complete your set, or you want to get…
wild cards I-V, now as ebooks.
The Wild Cards world is an alternate history universe created and edited by George R. R. Martin. It’s a gritty and grungy take on the superhero genre. I don’t usually play in other peoples’ creative playgrounds, but I absolutely could not refuse to be part of this one, because it’s SO MUCH FUN. If you are…
door, ass, way out, etc.
Everybody is slagging on 2016 in social media, myself included. But the truth is that while 2016 was a dumpster fire of a year when it came to politics and celebrity deaths, it wasn’t a bad year at all for me personally or professionally. On the work front, I wrote a novel (FIELDS OF FIRE,…