It took a little while, but the set is complete. That’s the commemorative shadow box I got from my publisher for selling over 100,000 copies of POINTS OF IMPACT. That means every single Frontlines novel has sold in excess of 100k. I’ll bask in the completeness of those stats as long as I can, but…
Category: awards.
News from Poland
I got word that CHAINS OF COMMAND is nominated for the 2018 Best Book Award in Poland. From what I know, that’s the Polish equivalent of the Goodreads Awards and the largest book award in Poland, so that’s pretty cool. I’m feeling very warmly about Poland. My Polish publisher was the first foreign house to…
CAUTION: Contains gratuitous self-promotion.
All right. Fine. After some feedback from fans and colleagues, I have reconsidered my stance on award posts. Even though it makes me feel a little uncomfortable, here’s my own award eligibility post. In 2018, I had two published works that are eligible. First, POINTS OF IMPACT, book 6 in the Frontlines series, came out…
Conned out
I am back home, and very tired. Two weeks ago, I did Worldcon, which was super fun. Then I ended up being nominated for a Dragon Award for Best Military SF/Fantasy novel, so I let my friend Melissa F. Olson guilt me into going to Atlanta for DragonCon on short notice. I thought that almost…
Last day for your Hugo nominations
Today is the last day for Hugo nominations for Worldcon 75 in Helsinki. If you’re a member of Worldcon 74 (MidAmericon II) or Worldcon 75, and you haven’t yet finalized your ballot, now’s the time. And I won’t engage in self-pimpage for the Frontlines stuff, but if you’re still nominating, I’d urge you to consider…
the dragon awards have been dragon-awarded.
NEWSFLASH: I did not win the Dragon Award for Best Military SF Novel. David Weber did, and congratulations to him. Congratulations also to Larry Correia, whose SON OF THE BLACK SWORD won the award for Best Fantasy Novel. (I didn’t expect to beat David on votes because he has a lot more fans and a…