There’s a new release date for CITADEL, the third book in the Palladium Wars series. It will be released in all the usual formats on August 10. Last year, I was on a two-novels-a-year pace, but then 2020 happened and it all went to hell. But this year has been absolutely fine for me so…
Countryside Internets
This is the current connectivity situation at Castle Frostbite: 100mbit fiber with 25Mbit upstream. That’s not gigabit fiber, but it’s absolutely workable, even with two teenagers in the house and about 30 devices on the WiFi at all times. We live out in the country, but we have the luck to have picked a town…
Crawling toward the finish line
Science Fiction grandmaster James Gunn has died. My career isn’t old enough for me to have met many of the old grandmasters of science fiction because most of them are no longer around. I did get to meet James Gunn at ConStellation in Lincoln, NE in 2017, where I was the Author Guest of Honor and…
ORDERS OF BATTLE release day
Today is the day! After almost two years, there’s a new Frontlines novel out. ORDERS OF BATTLE is the seventh volume in the series and picks up a few years after the last book. Things have calmed down a bit for humanity after POINTS OF IMPACT, but the Lankies are still out there, and…
New Wild Cards story
There’s a new Wild Cards story up on Tor.com. It’s called “Hammer and Tongs and a Rusty Nail”, and it was written by Ian Tregillis. Go read! It’s fun, and it’s free!
ORDERS OF BATTLE audiobook delay
Some people have noticed and commented on the fact that the audiobook of Orders of Battle now shows a delay for the release. The Kindle and print versions will still be out on December 8, but the Audible version is delayed until February 9th. There’s a good reason for the delay, and I wish Audible…
Paper trail
This row of paperbacks is my collected output for novels since 2013. That does not include the novel I just delivered, titled CITADEL, because that one obviously doesn’t exist yet in paper form. It also doesn’t represent my total output because I also managed to write four novellas and novelettes for Wild Cards (“Stripes” for…
Giveaway winners
The random number generator has spoken, and the winners are: rafael Derek Bryan Anderson Joe Allen Heather Jones Tobias Westphal Santeri Vidal Gridley Shane Spencer Emily Each of you will receive a signed copy of ORDERS OF BATTLE, shipped at my expense. If you find your name on the winners list, please check your…
Giveaway update
The comment section for the ORDERS OF BATTLE giveaway is now closed. We had 133 entries before the deadline of 10AM EST this morning. I will now employ a random number genie to pull ten entries out of the hat. Look for the results tomorrow morning. And if you find yourself on the list of…
Orders of Battle signed paperback giveaway
I received my author copies for ORDERS OF BATTLE yesterday, so it’s time to do what I usually do when I get a box of books: I give some of them away. It’s a cunning ploy to make me look nice and generous, when in reality I am just trying to keep my floors from…