Jason Córdova's Blog, page 14

A Month Already? Oops.

I’ve been taking a break from a lot of things online as I rushed to finish a short story. The story, “A Most Dangerous Game,” should be seen in an upcoming Salvage Universe anthology (created by Kevin Steverson) in the near-future. I was happy with it and the editor enjoyed the story, so hopefully the fans of this best-selling universe will as well.

In the meantime, I’m hard at work on a surprise novel. Since I found myself between projects right now, I went ahead and continued working on WIN...

Book Release Day

WE SHALL RISE, the third anthology set in John Ringo’s New York Times bestselling Black Tide Rising universe, drops today.

In it you’ll find stories from Kevin J. Anderson & Kevin Ikenberry, Brendon DuBois, Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson & Stephanie Osborne, Mike Massa, Kacey Ezell, Christopher L. Smith & Brent Roeder, Lydia Sherrer, Brian Trent, Jamie Ibson… great stories all around, though I am particularly partial to the Catholic schoolgirls vs Zombies vs Wannabe Dictator story w...

FantaSci 2021 — The Fuzzy Head Edition

(Warning — the following contains words put to paper by an exhausted author who didn’t sleep well last night after arriving home. Reader discretion is advised)

I should point out immediately that FantaSci 2021 was a huge hit. I don’t know how many people there were off the top of my head but everyone I spoke to said they would probably be back next year, which makes me happy. A con less than a four hour drive from my house? Yes please.

We rolled in on Thursday afternoon and immediately ran...

Fantasci 2021 Schedule

I’ll be attending Fantasci this coming weekend (May 21-23) in Raleigh-Durham, NC. Here’s my panel schedule (note: I’m not entirely sure what all the panels are about, so I’ll be winging it on a few — not that I typically prepare for a panel anyway).

Friday2:00PM — Jump Shot (w/ Ian J. Malone, Stephen Simmons, and Jason Cordova)5:00PM — Kill ’em All, Writing Battle Scenes (w/ Rob Hampson, Chris Smith, Doug Burbey, and Jason Cordova)Saturday10:00AM — Baen Road Show (I’m not schedule...

The Sixth Stage — Indifference

They announced the 2021 Hugo Finalists last week. I almost missed the announcement (and considering my friends in the industry, the fact that none of them are really talking about it says more than anything I can). Fortunately for me, I’m pretty much indifferent towards 90% of the awards out there now, so I didn’t really care who the finalists were..

Plugging away at, uh, six current works in progress at the same time right now. Four of them are set in the JTF 13 universe. I’m taking my time ...

Exciting Update

(Side note before we begin: why is my title font so emboldened, wordpress? I’m not sure I’m liking your “new and improved” look. Kinda reminds me of the train wreck which Facebook turned in to)

This is no April Fools Day joke… or is it?

I’ve been hinting around at a few Sooper Seekrit projects floating around that I couldn’t talk much about because they weren’t official just yet. However, today I got word that one of them is a go.

MONSTER HUNTER MEMOIRS: FEVER, coauthored by myself ...

The Ongoing Saga of a World Class Scumbag

Seriously, I can’t make this stuff up. If I submitted this sort of Machiavellian scheme to my publisher in book format she would laugh at me and tell me to make it more believable.

I predicted in a blog post back on Feb 16 that scumbag extraordinaire, Jason Sanford, wrote his hit piece on Toni Weisskopf for two reasons — first, to get Toni uninvited from Worldcon as Editor Guest of Honor, and secondly, to get acclaim and applause because of the upcoming award season. A lot of people agreed th...

An Update, In Repose

Sam Smith (full name — Samuel Collingwood Smith, but that’s a lot to type out…) posted a brilliant takedown of the individual who launched a slanderous, defaming, and fraudulent attack against Toni Weisskopf and Baen Books after the whole kerfuffle went down two weeks ago. You can find that initial article here. It was a pretty good piece, all in all, and covered fully just why Jason Sanford should rightly and justly be vilified for orchestrating such a hit piece in the first place.

However, ...

Fallout From The Slanderous Article of Jason Sanford Ends Any Respectability For Worldcon

I’m too pissed off to write. Thankfully, Larry Correia seems to write better when angry. When I get mad, I typically clean my house.

The damn kitchen is going to sparkle when I’m done today.

Dear WorldCon,

You are cowards.

Several years ago, because some of you were angry at me for getting a bunch of people you don’t like award nominations, us lowly deplorable outsiders with the incorrect kind of politics, you treated my publisher, Toni Weisskopf, like garbage. Years later, after you thought...

Back To Work

Well, now that all the kerfuffle is over and done with (he said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice), we can go back to the things people come to this site for in the first place — writing.

I haven’t gotten much creative writing done this past week. Yes, I’m a slacker. I know. Been too busy writing about attacks on my publisher and my friends, as well as a very odd attack on someone I have a lot of respect for. However, I’ve procrastinated enough this week. It’s time to get back to Westland.

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