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SALVAGE PURGATORY cover reveal

Check out Salvage Purgatory, Book 1 in The Invasion, the new mainline series set in Kevin Steverson’s Salvage Title Universe. Coauthored with Nick and Kevin Steverson (Steversons?), the talented father-son writing duo, this begins the new series where The Coalition left off.

Something is coming that will change everything…

Overall, not a bad cover image with some space ass (rear end of a ship in space, you freaking perverts). I would have put the author names on two lines, with Kevin’s ...

It’s LIVE! And I’ll be LIVE as well

Mountain of Fire is out and in the wild!

I just got back from Dragoncon late last night (yes, I was gone for a full week… that’s Dragoncon in a nutshell) and I’m wiped out, but I should have an AAR up and running sometime this evening. But at Dragoncon we did the release of Mountain of Fire (purely coincidental that the weekend before the release was the convention, but we took full advantage of it) and it sold well. We also got a lot of people talking because the sales pitch is pretty much “...

19 Days

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Yeah, it freaks me out a little, too. Only nineteen more days until my first solo novel from Baen Books is released!

Mountain of Fire is one of those really cool ideas that pop into your head when the publisher asks if you could turn a short story into a novel. Using a few towns I lived/worked in rural Appalachia, it was relatively easy to look at the entire area and realizing that it would do rather well in a zombie apocalypse–assuming it’s a biological contaminant, and not a magical zom...

2024 Imadjinn Award

So the word came in that Larry Correia and I won an Imadjinn Award for our novel Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever in the category of Best Urban Fantasy novel last night at the Imaginarium Convention. I’ve attached part of their press release below.

The Imaginarium 2024 Awards Banquet was held last evening, where the winners of this year’s Imadjinn Awards, Film Festival Awards, the Michael Knost Wings Award, and other recognitions were announced! The Imagination Hall of Fame was also announced,...

Another Cover Reveal

This is Side Hustle: Volume 2, a collection of previously published short stories (with one or two never before seen stories). Look for it this coming November exclusively on Amazon.

Yes, that’s Quintus Fox on the cover. I have five Quintus stories in the collection. Why? Because Quintus Fox is one of my favorite characters to write.

Early Access Copy is OUT!

Mountain of Fire is currently available as an eARC (electronic Advance Reader Copy) now from Baen Books.

Baen typically releases these a few months out for readers who simply cannot wait to get their hands on the book. While this isn’t the final corrected proof, it’s close enough that it is the same version sent to reviewers and publicists.

Now, while it’s cool if people want to buy this version, I’m pinning my efforts on selling readers the hardcover version. The eARC costs $15 and with B...

What Does the Author Read?

If you asked my teachers during my “formative” years, I wasn’t much of a reader. Oh, I read books that I had to, mostly because English classes required it. To this day I still have a profound hatred for Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, thanks to an overzealous high school English teacher. She regularly argued that it was the height of literature. Me? I was bored to tears and didn’t appreciate culture, or something. I forget what the argument was, but it basically boiled down to the ...

Earning Out vs Sell Through

I thought about having some witty, clever title to this until I realized that this was going to be a business post. So I decided to go with a serious title. Well, as serious as I can be, at least.

I’ve been talking with a few people lately about the advantages (and disadvantages) of being traditionally published. The biggest disadvantage, of course, is the delay between turning in your novel and it being published. Mitigating circumstances aside (missing a deadline, etc.), it’s not a fast pat...

…and Jason Forgot the Title (Again)

I meant to post this a week ago, but… oops?

The copyeditor found some things in Mountain of Fire I’d missed (hilariously, I’d screwed up a part of the timeline in the Black Tide Rising universe after proclaiming “This is the cleanest story timeline I’ve done!”) but those were easy fixes and the final page proofs have been submitted. T-minus two months until the eARC is released by Baen… just in time for Libertycon!

But before Libertycon, next weekend I’ll be at FantaSci in Raleigh, NC. Yep...

2024 IMADJINN AWARD FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

Well, would you look at that. I’m a finalist in two separate categories for this year’s Imadjinn Awards. You’ll also see many other familiar names on the list as well!

The 2024 Imadjinn Award Finalists in each category are:Best Anthology Blood, Sweat, and Steel: Tales of Future Combat and Mechanized Warfare — Editor – Mark Greene Chicks in Tank Tops — Editor – Jason Cordova Standing Against All Odds — Editor – William Alan Webb Fantastic Schools Staff (Volume 7 ) — Edi...