We are safely isolating here at Castle Frostbite and doing what we do most of the time anyway, which is to cook food and eat snacks and play games. The kids have been in an online charter school for a year now, so not much has changed around here other than the fact that I still can’t find toilet paper at our usual grocery store.
Life and work continue as we wait out this current craziness. I am busy with CITADEL, third novel in the Palladium Wars series. Number 2, called BALLISTIC, is going to be released next month, and I hope you give it a read because I think it turned out very well. Booklist had some nice things to say about it: “Fans of The Expanse series will enjoy this engaging and fast-moving combination of corporate machinations, police procedural, and interstellar naval combat.” And while we’re on the subject of reviews, LOCUS gave AFTERSHOCKS a very nice review in their April 2020 issue, calling it “a great start to what should be a fun, thought-provoking series.”
I hope you’re all doing well in your respective isolation headquarters. Maybe one day we’ll have conventions and bar-hopping again, but I have a feeling it won’t be this year. Alas, that will make the company of our friends ever so much sweeter and the overpriced hotel cocktails ever so much tastier.
You need a bigger monitor 😀
Any news on the audiobook version? When is it coming out (if it is?!) It’s looking like a great series!
It will be out on the same day as the Kindle and paper versions.
That’s great news! Though just a heads up, it’s not available for pre-order on Audible.com, and they say “not available through Audible.com.”
Stay healthy. I know three people with the virus currently, one of their father’s also has it (and he is in a very bad way on a respirator and not expected to make it) and another who has passed on from it; all in Nassau County, NY.
I came for more Frontlines, but this new series is promising to be just as engaging. Thanks for writing some of the smoothest fiction out there. It sure seems like our little North American society is experiencing a molecular restructuring and beginning to come around to the idea face masks and bidet butt sprays. Cheers from Los Angeles!
Preordered the second Palladium Wars book for my Kindle, something I’ve never tried before. Curious, does anyone know if it hits the device automatically or do I need to perform some search and downloading task?
It will be downloaded to your Kindle automatically on midnight Pacific time on the day of the release.
Yeah, supposedly that was going to happen with my preorder of Citadel…… and nothing. Can’t resend because it’s not even on my account even though it was supposedly released 4 days ago…….and Amazon is not answering their phone. The only reason I pre=order and pay $5-$6 is so you make some money. I have Kindle Unlimited and get them for free the day after they are released. If I pre-order and pay, and I don’t get, AND it jams be up for even being able to just download it under my Kindle Unlimited for free, guess how many more times I’m going to pre-order…..from now on…..”just saying”.
I just finished reading the first part of the “Palladium Wars” and I must say I’m pretty impressed. I think that You managed to catch that sort of frustration that German people feel after the first and second world wars. But the way I see It one key aspect is missing. There is basically no race tension inside the defeated nation, no attempt to point an “inside enemy”. As a result there Is no genocide or foreshadowing of such in future. Your fictional work of course don’t have to mimic exact German mistakes but in my personal opinion this aspect was crucial in resurrecting German pride in 1930 and creating present-day Germany. I’m hoping that is the aspect you will develop in future books.
Waiting for the second book.