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…
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Wild Cards interview and convention schedule for 2020
The official Wild Cards page has an interview with me that’s probably the most detailed and in-depth one I’ve given so far. In other news, work on Frontlines #7 (“Orders of Battle”) is progressing very well, and things are still on track for a completed draft by the end of December. I don’t want to…
“A love story between a pilot and her drop ship”
Here’s a short YouTube clip featuring the making of the “Lucky 13” episode of Love Death & Robots on Netflix, narrated by the director Jerome Chen, and featuring lead actor Samira Wiley. The day may come when I get tired of watching LUCKY 13 and SHAPESHIFTERS on Netflix, but it is not this day. …
Non-Euclidean geometry, fall edition
When I need to let my brain’s background processes figure out a story element or untie a knot in a chapter, I take a walk in the place you see pictured above. It never fails to work. In other news, I just turned in the edits for BALLISTIC, second in the Palladium Wars series,…
Dispatch from the desk
The most enjoyable words for a writer to read are “Pay To The Order Of…”, and the most enjoyable words for a writer to put down on the page are “THE END”. I’ve been quiet on here because I’ve spent the last few weeks finishing BALLISTIC, the second book in the Palladium Wars series. But…
Veterans and mental health
Part of what I have tried to accomplish with Frontlines is breaking out of the typical military SF mold a little bit when it comes to depicting soldier mindsets. With the sixth book in particular, I wanted to address the endless wars we tend to fight lately, and their effects on the minds of the…
Continuity errors in POINTS OF IMPACT
POINTS OF IMPACT is out and doing well. As always, some oopsies made it through the entire editorial process past a dozen sets of eyeballs. And as always, I started getting Tweets and emails about continuity bloopers not 24 hours after the book hit the virtual shelves. Thanks to all to took the time to…