Happy WILD CARDS day! I have a novelette featured in the latest Wild Cards anthology, titled PAIRING UP. It’s out today and available wherever books are sold: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675676/george-r-r-martin-presents-wild-cards-pairing-up-by-george-r-r-martin/ The novelette is called “In The Forests of the Night”, and it features my Wild Cards character Khan, the joker-ace who’s half tiger. The theme of the…
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New Wild Cards story
There’s a new Wild Cards story up on Tor.com. It’s called “Hammer and Tongs and a Rusty Nail”, and it was written by Ian Tregillis. Go read! It’s fun, and it’s free!
Paper trail
This row of paperbacks is my collected output for novels since 2013. That does not include the novel I just delivered, titled CITADEL, because that one obviously doesn’t exist yet in paper form. It also doesn’t represent my total output because I also managed to write four novellas and novelettes for Wild Cards (“Stripes” for…
Knaves Over Queens paperback release day
Today is release day for the paperback version of KNAVES OVER QUEENS, the first Wild Cards mosaic novel with a British setting and theme. I contributed the novella “Probationary” to this volume, featuring an alternate history version of the Falklands conflict told from the perspective of a rookie British ace, Rory Campbell a.k.a. “Archimedes”. (It’s…
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…
New Wild Cards story at Tor.com
Tor.com has a new Wild Cards story up. It’s called “The Visitor: Kill Or Cure”, and it was written by Mark Lawrence. As with all tor.com stories, it’s free to read. https://www.tor.com/2020/03/18/the-visitor-kill-or-cure-mark-lawrence/ As I have mentioned in my last post, I have a story in the queue there as well (featuring my favorite joker-ace, Khan),…
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…
When characters take the wheel
I have a blog post up on the Wild Cards blog, in which I talk about the relationship between character and plot, and attempt an answer to the question of which is more important to a good narrative. I’ve been a member of the consortium since late 2015, and since then, I’ve turned out two…
New blog entry at Wild Cards World
In other Wild Cards news, there’s a new post on the Wild Cards World blog, this one by Michael Cassutt: “Word-building in Wild Cards” (yes, you read that correctly.) I’ve talked about writing for Wild Cards before (most extensively in this post from a while back), but one thing I only touched on in that…
Knaves Over Queens review at Locus
Paula Guran at Locus Magazine reviewed KNAVES OVER QUEENS, our first UK-centered Wild Cards mosaic novel, and had some nice things to say about it. KNAVES OVER QUEENS came out in the UK last year already, and it will be available in the US in August of this year. (That’s due to some release date…