The piston knob on my favorite fountain pen broke recently, so I sent the pen (a Lamy 2000) off to the mothership in Germany for warranty repair. It came back a little while ago, with a delivery note listing the repairs which were performed at no charge. That’s some awesome customer service for a pen I…
Category: art.
Audiobook news
I’ve turned in my most recent two novels in the span of six months (BALLISTIC in August of last year and ORDERS OF BATTLE in January of this year), and while doubling one’s output is on the whole a good thing, it can also have some unintended effects. One of those effects is that I’ve…
Low Chicago
So I have something pretty wicked to show you today. Remember how I mentioned that my first Wild Cards novella in the U.S. will be out in June as part of a novel called LOW CHICAGO? Well, the final cover of LOW CHICAGO is in, and it’s freaking glorious. Not just because it’s cool by…
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…
what I done wrote in 2016.
Since all the Kool Kidz(tm) are doing it, I guess I will have to list my finished projects for 2016 as well. It’s a short list, so don’t get up and make tea. I wrote FIELDS OF FIRE, the fifth novel in the Frontlines series, and a novella for a future book in the Wild…
cover reveal for fields of fire.
Frontlines #5, FIELDS OF FIRE, now has a cover. Want to see? SURE YOU DO. Pretty cool, eh? It’s the most explodey cover yet, which is cool because it also has the most explosions of any Frontlines book so far. FIELDS OF FIRE will be out on February 28, by the way. Tell your friends,…
on the NACDC, a frontlines fan group.
The official fan group of the Frontlines series, the North American Commonwealth Defense Corps, was founded at Manticon this year. There’ll be a fan group meeting at this year’s Honorcon, and a member who’s a very talented graphic designer made up a recruitment poster style ad for the convention program. It’s so well done that I…
new mexico.
I just got back from New Mexico, where I spent three days visiting friends and attending some fun Wild Cards events. The first was an “in-character” interview done for the audience at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. Due to the fact that I got into Albuquerque a little late, I got to the theater halfway through…
old-fashioned word processing.
People who know me in real life are aware of my quaint love for fountain pens and my little ritual of buying a nice new fountain pen every time I finish a novel. (When I finished TERMS OF ENLISTMENT, I got a Lamy 2000. For LINES OF DEPARTURE, it was a Pilot Vanishing Point, and…
dispatch from the frontlines graphic novel front.
Here’s something extremely cool: the provisional cover for Issue #1 of the Frontlines: Requiem series of graphic novels, due out by Jet City Comics this spring. I just got the green light to be able to share this with you all. Frontlines: Requiem will be a tie-in of sorts. It tells the story of a…