Hey, kids! Amazon has my first two novels, Terms of Enlistment and Lines of Departure, on sale as the Kindle Daily Deal in Science Fiction today for a measly $1.99 a copy. That’s, like, less than two bucks! And if you already own those books on your Kindelmaschine, but you have a friend or three…
Category: capitalism.
got me a gen-u-wine series now, i guess.
This is the color version of the current Amazon Kindle screensaver ad for the Frontlines series. I’m biased, of course, but I think it looks massively cool. Can’t be long now before I have enough books out for a boxed Frontlines set… Yes, there are indeed a million ways to die in the Frontlines…
“angles of attack” giveaway.
There’s an Angles of Attack giveaway at Goodreads right now. If you’d like to put in your name for a free copy, you should head on over there and do the thing with the click and the stuff. The giveaway runs until April 21st, which is the official release day of Angles of Attack: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/131610-angles-of-attack…
frontlines the fourth.
Great news, people of Earth! Contracts are signed, so I am free to share the news. 1.) There will officially be a fourth Frontlines novel. 2.) It will be called “Chains of Command”.3.) If all goes well, it will be out THIS YEAR, which means you’ll get two new Frontlines novels in 2015. (Angles of…
frontlines UK sale.
If you live in the UK, you may be interested in the current Amazon UK deal, which has forty novels discounted to one of your English pounds of currency. Terms of Enlistment and Lines of Departure are included in that deal, so if you don’t have your own copies yet, here’s a chance to get…
how to story, in sixty seconds.
Yeah, it’s a commercial for a beer, but it’s also a perfect master class in storytelling. Setting, characterization, conflict/motivation, peril, emotional climax, satisfying resolution, denouement. Themes: friendship, loyalty, love. All squeezed into one minute. Not a second is wasted on anything that doesn’t drive the narrative.This is how you do Story.
obligatory 2014 recap.
I really like it when I type up an end-of-year retrospective blog post and find that I really didn’t have a damn thing to complain about in the past twelve months. 2013 was great. 2014 was even better by every measurable metric except for the fact that I didn’t get to see my family in…
invasion! der! sterne!
There’s a cover for the German-language edition of Terms of Enlistment! And a release date: June 15, 2015, from Heyne. Here’s the link to the German Amazon page.) They shortened Andrew’s name to “Andy” and took some creative license with the title. (“Invasion of the Stars”, presumably to sound Star Wars-y. The German name for…
you should totally support this anthology.
I’m a big fan of crowd-funded fiction anthologies. In fact, my second professional fiction sale ever was to a crowd-funded anthology, Alex Shvartsman’s “Unidentified Funny Objects”. (That was the short story “Cake Whores From Mars”, written on a dare from Chuck Wendig, and a crowd favorite at readings.) The UFO sale was a major motivation…
“angles of attack” has an official cover.
Hey, you! Yes, you! Wanna see the cover for Frontlines #3, “Angles of Attack”? OF COURSE YOU DO. I am biased, of course, but I think it’s a pretty bad-ass cover, and probably my favorite Frontlines cover yet. “Angles of Attack” will be out on April 21st in Kindle, paperback, and audio formats.