All right, folks–the CITADEL giveaway is now officially closed. Everyone who has left a comment in the giveaway post up until this moment is eligible. I will now pick ten winners and announce them in a separate post later today. Stand by!
Author: Marko Kloos
CITADEL signed paperback giveaway
UPS dropped off my author copies for CITADEL the other day. You know what that means–it’s time for my customary pre-release giveaway. Rules are as before: leave a comment on this thread stating that you would like a signed copy to enter the giveaway. One entry per person, please. I’ll leave the comments open until…
Passing temporal markers, Cap’n.
I just noticed that I have two anniversaries this spring. The first one is personal–it’s the 25th anniversary of my move from Germany to the United States. I moved here in May of 1996. I know that it’s technically a quarter of a century, but I don’t like thinking of it that way because it…
Screen vs. paper
When we moved to New Hampshire a decade and a half ago, we had to move a substantial library from our old house. Much of it had to wait its turn in our new garage, boxed up until we had the shelf space for them. We didn’t know that the garage was leaky and would…
Frontlines 8, now with title!
Earlier this month, I started work on Frontlines #8. If I stick to my schedule (and so far I am), the draft should be complete by the end of July. I can’t give you a precise publication date for a novel that isn’t complete and turned in yet, obviously. But if all goes as planned,…
Memento mori
I used to have a lot of those silly old things. Now I only have this one because I could not bear to get rid of it when I cleaned house. It’s a 1935 Royal DeLuxe that was owned by a dear old friend of mine who passed away in 2007 at the age of…
Love Death + Robots anthology is live for preorder
The official Love Death + Robots anthology for Season 1 is up for preorder. It contains all the stories that were used as source material for the episodes, including my own “Shape-Shifters” (Episode 10) and “Lucky 13” (Episode 13). The anthology is available on May 21 from these sources: Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0923HJQ5G Amazon AU:…
My morning brain fuel of choice
A lot of my writer friends basically live on coffee. I like it every now and then, but it’s not a daily thing for me. It’s what I get when I am grabbing breakfast while out and about, not what I make every morning to get going. At Castle Frostbite, we drink tea instead, and…
A decidedly mixed-breed pedigree
I did one of those ancestry DNA tests a little while ago, and the results come as an absolute…lack of surprise. German father (the green area), Croatian mother (the blue one), and my paternal grandmother was from East Prussia (the very top of the western part of the pink area.) No idea where or when…
Military time in the civilian world
Out of idle curiosity this morning, here’s a question for those of you who have served in the military: How many of you are still using 24-hour and DDMMYYYY calendar format on your digital devices? I turned in my kit 28 years ago this month and I still do it. My digital watches are all…