It appears to my untrained eye that ANGLES OF ATTACK, the third Frontlines novel, made it into the opening round of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2015, science fiction category. That means a whole lot of readers thought it didn’t suck, which is a cool and pleasing thing. In the wake of the ballot-related kerfuffle that…
Author: Marko Kloos
it’s a tablet! it’s a laptop! it’s a dessert topping!
I have a severe case of technology ADD. When it comes to hardware, I sometimes impulse-buy shiny things just to try them out and see how they fit my workflow. Sometimes they look and work better on the store shelf or in the YouTube review than they do in actual real-world use, and sometimes they exceed…
brief nycc 2015 weekend recap.
I spent last weekend at NY Comic Con in the Big Apple. As usual, it was a ton of fun, although the teeming mass of humanity that is the Javits Center at Comic Con is something I have to take in limited doses. I did a signing at the 47North booth, a panel with other…
a first day of fall freebie: cake whores of mars.
Because today is the first day of fall, and fall is my favorite season, I’ll toss a little freebie your way. A few years ago, I sold a humorous little SF short story to an anthology called Unidentified Funny Objects. (The rights have long since reverted to me, but if you want to snag a…
con appearances for the rest of 2015.
I’ll be Author Guest at HonorCon in Raleigh, NC this year. HonorCon (one of two annual conventions around David Weber’s Honor Harrington series of military SF) is taking place from October 30-November 1 at the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown. I’ll be doing a few panels and do some general milling around to meet people. ALSO: New York…
my sasquan weekend.
Sasquan was my first Worldcon, and it turned out to be quite the doozy for this first-timer. When we arrived on Thursday, the place wasn’t on fire, but smelled and looked like it. The nearby wildfires in central Washington were sending up smoke, and the wind conditions blew that smoke right across and into Spokane….
kitchen remodels are base and evil; also expensive.
I have a post about Sasquan and the events of last weekend in the works, and there’s a lot to tell. But it’s not quite done yet because I’ve recently discovered a new form of Introvert Hell: house renovations. Right now, we are having the kitchen remodeled completely. That includes gutting the old kitchen down…
book deal news.
Minions! I have news for you. You will like these news if you’re the kind of person who likes good Frontlines news. Item the first: 47North has bought my next THREE NOVELS in one package deal. This will mean a.) two more Frontlines books after CHAINS OF COMMAND, and b.) a new book that will…
happy fun car.
I used to ride motorcycles. When I met Robin back in Tennessee, I owned a Kawasaki Ninja 250, dubbed “Happy Fun Bike” because it was, well, happy and fun. Alas, when we started having kids (and I almost got cleaned off the bike twice in the span of a week by inattentive drivers), I decided…
in the eye of the husband of the eye of the cow.
Comment spam–usually annoying, but occasionally amusing, in a “Cylon hybrid random stream of consciousness babbling” sort of way. Here’s the latest: What i don’t realize is in reality how you are now not really a lot more neatly-preferred than you may be now. You are so intelligent. You recognize therefore considerably when it comes to…