If you enjoyed Love Death + Robots on Netflix and you would like to own the anthology of all the short stories that were the basis for the first season, I have good news: it’s on sale this week at Amazon for the low, low price of $2.99 for the Kindle version. Here are…
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Some travel snapshots
Not everyone got to travel internationally since the start of the pandemic, so I figured I’d share a few pictures from my quick visit back home last month. (All photos taken with the camera on my iPhone 11.) Descending into Schiphol. I fly into Amsterdam because it’s the closest major airport to where my…
There and back again
I’ve been a little scarce here on the blog over the last two months. I’m running a little—okay, a lot—late on the latest Frontlines book because I have to fit a lot of action between the covers, and it’s turning out to be a little trickier than I had anticipated. But it’s coming along, and…
(The butterfly is a paid crisis actor.)
Took a walk to my favorite pond the other day, and this shot turned out pretty all right: With the world the way it is at the moment, I am happy to be in a place where I can just walk out the door and be at this sort of place within ten minutes…
“Gullibility kills.”
I’ve been re-reading some non-fiction favorites recently, and these quotes from Carl Sagan’s “The Demon-Haunted World” (published 26 years ago, back in 1995) really seem amazingly prescient considering the state of the world in 2021: One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any…
Coffee in Space podcast interview
I recently did an interview with S. Daniel Smith over at the Coffee in Space podcast. You can check it out here if you want to hear me talk about various Frontlines and Palladium Wars-related things, my writing process, and various other subjects. (Side note–I’ve been at this for almost ten years, and in that…
Audible’s Palladium Wars and Frontlines narrators
This has come up several times on Twitter today already, and I am sure I’ll read it a few dozen more times in the Amazon reviews, so I am going to explain the situation one more time in order to have something to link whenever this pops up in the future. Book 1, AFTERSHOCKS, was…
Johanna, please pick up the red courtesy phone
Johanna S., please contact me via email. Your signed copy of CITADEL got returned to me as undeliverable, and I’ll need a good address from you if you still want to claim your giveaway copy. Thanks!
CITADEL release day
It’s August 10th somehow already. That means CITADEL, book 3 in the Palladium Wars, is out today! You can find it here in all the usual formats (hardcover, paperback, Audible, and Kindle): This is the book I wrote while the pandemic took off last year, and it was the toughest one to write of all…
CITADEL giveaway winners
The random number generator has spoken, and the following tributes have been chosen: William Anderson Adrian O’Neill Katie Wilkes Chris Sheehy Sean Adams Scott Sullivan Johanna S. Rene Dohmen Jason Enberg Hannah Norris Congratulations! If your name is on that list, expect an email shortly with instructions on how to redeem your signed copy of…