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What Sticks?

(Originally posted on Twitter/X)

(I’m taking a break from editing an anthology at the moment and am using voice-text speech. I’ll try to go back after this is done and edit, but I am also functionally blind right now as my eyes recover from the ER/hospital stay and the optic nerve swelling. But then again, this is Twitter, so I guess misspellings are expected? Be warned: this might go long.) So yesterday (I think it was yesterday, time math is weird right now)

The Critical Drinker posted a...

Busy-ness Inbound!

I was looking at my forthcoming novels and anthologies I’m both in and will have edited, and realized I actually don’t have a combined pre-order list for them all.

Whoops.

I can already hear the marketing people yell at me for not flooding every instance of social media with links on a daily basis.

Anyway, here is a small list of the titles and where you can get them on pre-order for everything coming through March 2026 (so far). I have a short story coming out in September 2025 for...

And Back To Good News!

Results from the lumbar puncture (part deux) are in and there is no lymphoma!

We were a little concerned because they hit us with that possibility over the weekend while at the hospital, but my oncologist appointment this morning went well and there isn’t any sign of it. The T-cells were from the immunotherapy drugs they had me on for the melanoma treatments, and the vision problems I’ve been having (and headaches) are related. They’re stopping the drugs for now (probably for good, since I’m ...

And Now The Bad News…

Lots of new cover reveals this past week, which is great news! But then I got slammed with some bad news, so I had to make a decision.

I was hospitalized last Wednesday after some neuro complications with my eyes following a recent infusion for my cancer treatments, and they ran a bunch of tests and think they might be linked. My vision is blurred and double right now, so touch typing is manageable but unfortunately, it’s difficult for me to see what I’m trying to edit. Because of that, I mad...

Cover Reveal! Part Deux

This one has been a long time coming…

So about 16 months ago I was struggling to write this book I’d been calling The Bronze Legion. The problem was, it needed a secondary main POV character who was a pilot, someone who would swoop down and rescue her “boys” when the feces hit the rotary impeller during a rough extraction. Their “Valkyrie,” so to speak. The problem was, I knew absolutely nothing about flying.

And then I read Rise from Ruin by Melissa Olthoff and knew I’d found my coauthor....

Cover Reveal! The Monster Hunter Files Volume 2!

Cover art by Alan Pollack, story featured is Marisa Wolf’s “Land’s End.”

Coming March 2026!

Dragon Award Finalists Announced!

Okay, I hadn’t heard this until today, but the amazing Kurt Miller was nominated for Best Illustrative Cover for his work on my novel, Mountain of Fire, for this year’s Dragon Awards!

Too cool!

You still have time to register to vote. My coauthor Melissa Olthoff’s cover art for Rise from Ruin (drawn by Pierluigi Abbondanza) is also up for best illustrative cover.

Imadjinn Award Win

Been back from my whirlwind tour of the the American Midwest and recovering from some weird stomach issues that have been plaguing me since my last infusion (they were really bad over the weekend). Just wanted to let everyone know that Mountain of Fire won the 2025 Imadjinn Award for Best Horror Novel. Why horror? Because ZOMBIES.

I have seen the cover for my sooper sekrit project with Melissa Olthoff, the first book in The Bronze Legion series, and daaaaaaamn son. It looks nice. eARC exp...

No Time Math Here

I’ve got to get better about updating this.

For those of you who missed it, Dancing with Destruction is officially OUT and available everywhere you can buy a Baen book. It’s got stories from David Weber & Marisa Wolf, Jason Anspach & Nick Cole (Forgotten Ruin novella), Jacob Holo & Edie Skye, and more! These were some fantastic stories and it was a pleasure editing them.

I was informed this week that my next novel, co-authored with Melissa Olthoff, will be published in January 2026 from...

Bounty Hunter is available!

Survived Libertycon, probably won’t do an AAR (after action review) for it simply because I don’t remember much of what happened already.

On the other hand, Book 1 of the Quintus Fox series is now LIVE! You can grab your copy of BOUNTY HUNTER here! Available in both ebook and print, because I know a lot of you like the dead tree version as much as I do.