Pluto was never not a planet
I am back home, and very tired. Two weeks ago, I did Worldcon, which was super fun. Then I ended up being nominated for a Dragon Award for Best Military SF/Fantasy novel, so I let my friend Melissa F. Olson guilt me into going to Atlanta for DragonCon on short notice. I thought that almost…
I just received my (hopefully) final con schedule, so I figured I’d share it here for the people who are going to be attending and want to come see me and/or the other panelists and participants. Of course, I’ll also be on the floor and at the bars and parties all weekend long when I…
There must be a glitch in the Matrix, because there is absolutely no way that Worldcon is a week from Thursday already. <is handed note from off-screen> I have just been informed by my producer that Worldcon is indeed a week from Thursday already. I spent the first half of 2018 writing the first novel…
I plugged the number of comments into a random number picker, which has determined that Bryan Porter is the winner of the Knaves Over Queens hardcover. Congratulations, Bryan! Please email me at frontlines@markokloos.com to let me know where to send it, and whether you want it now or (with more signatures) after Worldcon. Thanks for…
I am currently sweating in my office in 90-degree weather, which apparently will last all through next week, and working on a new Frontlines novella while I wait for my edit notes for the PALLADIUM WARS novel. I recently received the contributor copies for the UK/AU versions of LOW CHICAGO and KNAVES OVER QUEENS. One…
Break’s over, and while I am waiting for the edit notes for the first PALLADIUM WARS novel, I am busy working on several different projects, one of which is a new Frontlines novella that I hope to have finished by the end of the month. Then there’s more Wild Cards stuff, and it looks like…
Today is release day for LOW CHICAGO, the twenty-fifth Wild Cards volume, which means today is my second book release day of 2018 because I have a novella in that book. The novella is called “Stripes” and features my joker-ace Khan (the half-tiger dude on the cover). He’s shunted back in time to 1920s Chicago…
The novel is finally done and turned in, thank the old gods and the new. It has a provisional title that may change before release, but whatever it will be called, it’s going to be the first book in a series called THE PALLADIUM WARS. This one is a different style than Frontlines: third-person past…
Today, Tor.com is featuring a long excerpt from LOW CHICAGO, the Wild Cards novel out in June. The stripey fellow on the featured image is my Wild Cards joker-ace Khan, and he appears in the excerpt (which is the interstitial for the novel, written by John Joseph Miller.) It’s time-travel story, so you can probably…
I haven’t posted anything lately because I am still at work finishing the current novel. It still has a provisional title, but the series it kicks off has a name now: THE PALLADIUM WARS. (It’s military SF, but the scope is a little wider than Frontlines because it’s written from multiple points of view, so…