“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist.” –Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Wild Cards: Pairing Up release day
Happy WILD CARDS day! I have a novelette featured in the latest Wild Cards anthology, titled PAIRING UP. It’s out today and available wherever books are sold: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675676/george-r-r-martin-presents-wild-cards-pairing-up-by-george-r-r-martin/ The novelette is called “In The Forests of the Night”, and it features my Wild Cards character Khan, the joker-ace who’s half tiger. The theme of the…
ARCs and progress bars and also Readercon
The ARCs for SCORPIO are in, which officially means it’s a real, actual book now. The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that the progress bar for DESCENT hasn’t moved a whole lot in the last two weeks. That’s because the whole family came down with COVID two weeks ago, and now that we have…
Bookplates are on the way
I finally got my ducks in a row for the bookplates I promised, and they are on their way. Everyone who requested a bookplate for their misprinted copy of ODDMENTS will receive one in the mail soon. I also changed the layout of the paperback to reduce the font size and clean up the formatting…
One of the top three American inventions
Why didn’t anyone inform me that licorice-flavored gum is a thing? (Today I learned that Black Jack has been around since 1884, that it was the first flavored gum in the United States, and that it was the first gum to be offered in sticks.)
Not a sponsored post (but I’m available for endorsements)
After five and a half years of steadfast and reliable service, I semi-retired The Beast, a 17″ Alienware laptop. I replaced it with…another 17″ Alienware laptop. The Beast served me so well that I decided to go the same route for its replacement. I stuck with the same brand and screen size, picked a model…
Work in progress status update
The edits for SCORPIO are done, and I’ve started work on DESCENT, Palladium Wars #4. My plan is to turn in the draft by the end of July for a release in the first half of next year. I installed a progress bar widget for WordPress, so now you can all follow along as I…
Bookplates for the ODDMENTS paperbacks without a Table of Contents
I submitted the change files for the corrected paperback version of ODDMENTS that includes a proper table of contents. It should be live within a day or two, and all the print copies ordered from Monday on should have a ToC in them. As a solution for those of you who bought the print version…
A note on the paperback version of ODDMENTS
If you’re looking to buy the paperpack version of ODDMENTS on Amazon, please hold off on the purchase at the moment. The version that is live right now lacks a table of contents, and I am working to have that fixed. I’ll post an update in this spot when the new version is available. (That’s…
ODDMENTS update
The paperback version of ODDMENTS is now live on the Amazon page. Fun fact: at 121,000 words and 521 print pages, it’s bigger than any of my novels. (The one that comes closest is CHAINS OF COMMAND at 114,000 words.)