I’ve been an awful blogger in 2015.
I’m pretty active on Twitter and Facebook, but I use them mostly to stay in touch with friends and family (Facebook), and dash off one -liners and short thoughts as they pop into my head during the day (Twitter). But the long form requires one to actually sit down, open an editor, and think about content and structure and stuff, and that comes perilously close to work. Alas, there are readers out there who don’t do Twitter, and my private Facebook account is limited to real-life friends and family, so I suppose I should get more regular with the updates on the blog again.
2015 was great. I don’t have a thing to complain about—the curve of professional good fortune that bent sharply upward in early 2013 has been going on that trajectory ever since. Angles of Attack came out in April and earned out its advance on Day One on the strength of pre-orders alone, which is a feat I would love to repeat with Chains of Command when it comes out this April. I did more work-related travel than ever before: San Antonio in May, Europe in June, Readercon in July, Worldcon in August, NY ComicCon and Honorcon in October, World Fantasy Con in November. And it looks like this year will be just as busy, if not more so.
Right now the calendar has ConFusion in it later this month, so I’ll get to see more of Detroit than just the airport for once. I’ll be Guest of Honor at Manticon in Minneapolis in May, and I’ll be going to Europe again in June when the third Frontlines book comes out in German. I never miss Readercon in July, and I’d like to do Worldcon again this year, and then there’s NYCC again, and so on.
New fiction this year includes Chains of Command in April for sure, and very likely the first of a series of tie-in Frontlines graphic novels around the same time. If I get Frontlines #5 (Fields of Fire) finished reasonably on schedule, you’ll probably see that one this year as well, which would make 2016 the first year in which you’ll see two Frontlines novels.
2016: More fiction, more travel, mmmmmmmmaybe more blogging. We’ll see how things go.
Mr. Kloos.
I just bumped into you in a place that is bad 99% of the time, and good the rest: the automated adverts forced upon me for buying the least expensive kindle.
I then Googled you, as I am always looking for a good Sci-Fi book or series. I read the bit about you rejecting the Hugo award and your reasons for it. So I bought your “Terms” and hope it is something that makes me want to read your others. I also bought the “Three Body Problem” because I liked the title (I then noticed it won the Hugo).
Semi-related: The last time I bought a book for the title was “A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet” and it turned out to be my favourite read of 2015 – I love intergalactic stuff – but this one would never get a vote from the “right side”.
Yep, my only Marko Kloos-related disappointment so far is the paucity of posts on this blog since I discovered it a year or so ago. Yeah, I know, “life and all”, but it would be nice for us, ahem, your loyal readers, to hear a little something from you once or twice a month. Because, you know, we can read your novels a lot faster than you can write them. 🙂
Already have “Chains of Command” on pre-order, so hopefully that should help with earning out the advance, and I’m definitely interested in hearing more about the graphic novel tie-in as that comes closer.
One question. You don’t mention any new short fiction. Is that something you’re considering at all?
Thanks