My friend Claire tagged me in a blog hop. The idea is to have a bunch of writers answer questions about their work and then tag other writers to participate. I don’t have anyone to tag, but if any of you shifty writer folk reading this want to take up the baton and run with…
Category: books.
we can’t stop here. this is deadline country.
I am busy at the moment writing the third novel in the FRONTLINES series, titled ANGLES OF ATTACK. I sorta-kinda committed to a super-close deadline, which is good for you because the novel will be out sooner rather than later, but it’s also not-so-good for me in some ways because I have to write roughly…
achievement unlocked: foreign language rights sale.
That right there is the contract for the Czech language rights to TERMS OF ENLISTMENT, making this officially my first foreign rights sale. This is one of the many reasons why having a good agent is a huge benefit. Foreign language rights are basically free money. The foreign publisher pays an advance–check in the mail,…
365 days of “terms of enlistment”.
One year ago today, I put TERMS OF ENLISTMENT up on the Kindle Store and Smashwords and announced its availability on my blog, just in case a few of you wanted to spend a handful of quarters on some new Space Kablooie reading material for your Kindles and Nooks and what-not. And then things kind…
from the desk etc.
It has only been out for two weeks today, but LINES OF DEPARTURE has over a hundred Amazon reviews already, which is pretty cool. There are some head-scratcher one-stars, but in general it seems to be rather well received, and reader consensus appears to be that it’s better than the first novel by a fair…
scalzi confesses. film at 8.
John Scalzi FINALLY TAKES THE BLAME: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/02/03/these-books-are-partially-my-fault/ And everything he says is 100% true. John forgot to add that he’s also part of the reason why SF/F has lots of talented up-and-coming writers. He was most generous with his time and expertise at VP XII, and so were all the other instructors. Every year, just…
“why had nobody thought of that before?”
io9 reviews TERMS and LINES.
io9 has a fantastic write-up of TERMS OF ENLISTMENT and LINES OF DEPARTURE that is just chock-full of good quotes like this one: Much like Scalzi’s Old Man’s War and its sequels, Terms of Enlistment and Lines of Departure are combat-grade Military SF, and should come with an addiction warning. Hopefully, it won’t be too…
lines of departure.
Citizens, rejoice! The day has arrived. The sequel to TERMS OF ENLISTMENT, titled LINES OF DEPARTURE, is now available for your entertainenings! Here’s where you can get LINES OF DEPARTURE right now: Amazon.com Barnes & Noble Audible Amazon has Kindle, paperback, and audio versions. B&N has the paperback, and Audible has the audiobook. There’s no…
q&a.
Geek Mountain State has an interview up with some weirdo who wrote some novels about spaceships and flechette rifles and stuff blowing up. Seems shifty to me, but if that’s your kind of thing, head on over there and read what the nerd had to say.