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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...

Wild Side

The past week has been a little wild.

Nick and I cracked the halfway point in the second book of our duology. The last time we did this, the second half of the book was written in about 10 days. His work schedule is hectic right now, though, so maybe two more weeks. We’re definitely going to make our self-imposed March 31 deadline though, and then we can turn in the first two books of what we’ve been calling the Salvage Invasion. Pending approval of the series creator, Kevin Steverson, that i...

Update and Cover Reveal

I have been so stupidly busy between work and writing the past month or so that I haven’t had time to update the website. There has been a lot going on!

The biggest news, of course, is that the cover reveal for my first Baen solo novel, retitled “MOUNTAIN OF FIRE,” was, uh, revealed yesterday. Isn’t it freaking gorgeous?! Kurt Miller, Baen, and I all worked together on this one to get the mental image I had of Maddie down pat. I think Kurt knocked it out of the park with this one, no doubt. T...

Side Hustle: Vol. 1 is LIVE!

I’ve been secretly-ish working on collecting some of my short stories I’ve had published over the years and waiting for the rights to revert back to me. Now that most of them have (I have a few holdouts which will come out in a second, later volume) I can collect them into one big collection (see what I did there?) and sell them as a whole.

Which brings us to SIDE HUSTLE: VOL. 1, which is available NOW on Amazon in Kindle and Trade Paperback format. You can find it here.

Look at the cover ...

Helicon Award Win

It’s award season, and here’s my annual “Do not nominate me for a Hugo because I will decline it” post. Give your nomination to someone else.

However, MONSTER HUNTER MEMOIRS: FEVER did win the 2024 Helicon Award for Best Horror Novel. W00T! You’ll probably see a lot of familiar names on that list. Here’s a link for them all.

That makes me a two-time winner now, since SONS OF THE LION won it for Best Military SF/F back in 2020 (technically I could argue I’m a three-time winner, since I was ...