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The Great Christmas Shopping List (2024 Edition)

Brief health update: I’m alive (yay!) still, and heading into my next cancer infusion treatment on Wednesday. It’s been exhausting. I also just got back from Dragonsteel Nexus late last night (technically early this morning because there was a nasty accident right in front of my ride and we were stuck in traffic for almost a solid hour). It was my first convention since my treatments began. We’ll see if I dodged concrud (because, you know, immune system wonky at the moment).

Anyway, let’s get...

THREE DAYS UNTIL THE END BEGINS

Only three days left until Salvage Harbinger, Book 2 of The Invasion, drops. Nick and I are super stoked about this one.

Captain Morrison and the Cabrillo must stop the invaders in their tracks, or the entire galaxy will be at risk. With only a single vessel to fight against an armada, what chance do they have?

With enough prep work and some devious thinking, a pretty good chance, actually.

Have you snagged Salvage Purgatory, Book 1 of The Invasion, yet? If you have Kindle Unlimited it’...

Side Hustle: Vol. 2 is out!

The print version actually went on sale November 1, but the ebook is now LIVE exclusively on Amazon and KU.

12 stories, including one never before published, as well as 5 Quintus Fox short stories and tie-ins, 3 Freehold stories (I’ve been in all three anthologies to date), and a Black Tide Rising short story.

Still only $4.99 because I really like that price point. Instead of a combo meal somewhere, it’s a mocha latte. I think that’s a reasonable trade.

Also, countdown to Salvage Ha...

The State of the Solo Debut Mainstream Novel

The heading isn’t misleading. I just wanted to talk about my first solo foray (we’re not counting collaborations here, or anthologies) into mainstream publishing after **coughcough** years in indie and small press. More importantly, why I’m not regretting it, but why I also am still not going fully trad in the coming years.

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First of all, having the opportunity to write in the bestselling Black Tide Rising series was a massive honor. John Ringo and Toni Weisskopf’s having faith in me and an...

LFG!! Salvage Purgatory Release Weekend

Quick cancer update: still recovering from surgery. Had some massive bleed-through the day after surgery and had to go back to the surgeon (I warned them I was a bleeder) to get the wound site redressed. Since then, been a pretty smooth-ish recovery journey so far. Sitting sucks, laying down is uncomfortable, and standing isn’t really a good idea, so… I switch around a lot. Lay down, sit, stand, rinse, lather, repeat. My employer is being awesome right now and letting me heal slowly, since I am ...

Life Update

So…

I’ve been reluctant to post about this because of how much is going on right now, plus it being in the middle of one of the busiest convention seasons we’ve had post-lockdowns, but the news broke this afternoon when the Baen Free Radio Hour went up, so…

On Aug 23 I went in to the doctor’s office to have a mole removed. If you saw me at Libertycon, you probably heard me bitching about the bloody mole that ruined two of my shirts (and led to the startling discovery that the hotel for LC ...

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,...