I have decided to become one of those eccentric writers and start handing in all my manuscripts to my editor hand-written in one of these: I really hope those are the Infinity Stones, and that’s the Time Stone in the center because that’s the one I’d use all the time to extend deadlines. (That item…
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You wake up one morning and half the year is gone
It seems that it’s July already, which means that 2020 is officially halfway over. Let’s hope that the first half of the year wasn’t just a warm-up. Things are going pretty okay here at the Castle Frostbite Magic Novel Factory. We are still doing the social distancing thing and have been keeping to ourselves since…
BALLISTIC give-away follow-up
Most of the winners of the give-away have sent me their info to receive the books. I still need Ghost Rider 6, Bobby Williams, and Johanna to check their email and reply to the message they received. (I sent it to the email you used to register your comments, so if that one isn’t set…
BALLISTIC giveaway
BALLISTIC, the second novel in the Palladium Wars series, will be out in a little less than two weeks. I just got my author copies in, so I figured I’d do a little giveaway. Leave a comment on this post if you’d like a signed trade paperback of BALLISTIC. I’ll leave the post open…
Berlin is never Berlin
Tor.com has a new Wild Cards story out today, written by me. It’s called “Berlin Is Never Berlin”, and it features Khan, my joker-ace character who is half Bengal tiger and 100% bad-ass. (Khan was my point of view character in “Stripes”, my contribution to our Wild Cards novel LOW CHICAGO.) In this story, Khan…
Frontlines #7 cover
That’s the cover for ORDERS OF BATTLE, seventh book in the Frontlines series. As with all Frontlines covers, it features spaceships…but as with all Frontlines covers, the art doesn’t necessarily correspond to any specific event in the book, so don’t try to divinate plot points or anything. What I can tell you about ORDERS OF…
Release date for Frontlines #7
ORDERS OF BATTLE, the seventh novel in the Frontlines series, will be released on December 8. There’s now a product page up on Amazon, where you can pre-order the book on Kindle, in paperback format, or as an Audible book: There’s no cover art yet as the book is still in production, but that will…
ARCs for BALLISTIC are in
I just got a box of ARCs for BALLISTIC, the second novel in the Palladium Wars series. Still massively digging the cover, which was apparently the first shot the cover artist took at the concept. I looked at it and said, “I’m good with that.” The Palladium Wars series is different from Frontlines by intent….
Frontlines #7 is done
I was planning to go to Detroit for ConFusion this past weekend, but the draft for the seventh Frontlines book, ORDERS OF BATTLE, wasn’t quite done yet. Work comes before fun because fun don’t pay the bills, so I sucked it up and cancelled the trip altogether just before the weekend. It turned out to…
Keeping it simple
One of the perks of the writing profession is that it has virtually no hardware requirements. My friends in the 3D animation or video and photography fields have to spend money on powerful rigs with lots of fast storage, but I work with text. Everything I’ve ever written, a dozen novels and as many…