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FantaSci Schedule

I’ll be at FantaSci on March 24 — 26, 2023 in Durham, NC. I might be pain-addled (and drug-addled), depending on if I have surgery the week before. It’s a pretty busy FantaSci this year (yay!), so if I am running to another room and can’t talk for more than a few seconds, I apologize in advance.

~Friday~

3:00 — Where’s My Muse When I Need Her? (aka Dude, Where’s My Muse?) *Mod — Rob Howell **Panelists — HY Gregor, Kevin A. Davis, Patrick Chiles, Me, C.V. Walter5:00 — Turning Tropes on...

Book Finished and Cover Reveal

Kevin Ikenberry and I turned in THE MISFITS late last night to our publisher, which is the direct sequel to ON A CLOUDY DAY. This will conclude a roughly 27 book and anthology story arc which began for both of us way back in the first Four Horsemen universe anthology A Fistful of Credits, edited by Chris Kennedy and Mark Wandrey in… 2017. My story (“Paint the Sky”) and Kevin’s (“Stand On It”) set up our character’s storylines for the next 6 years — though neither one of us could have imagined it...

Audiobook is out! January was nuts!

January has been one busy month!

As you know, Bob, CHICKS IN TANK TOPS came out January 3 and continues to do well. Response has been amazing and the authors all contributed awesome stories for it. I’m hoping it does well enough that I can do a second one. Esther and I already have the title.

January 13 the fourth book in the Kin Wars was released in Germany. HAUSWACHE (that’s HOMEGUARD for those of you playing at home) is being snapped up by German readers, which is great. Gotta love it ...

On A Cloudy Day Is Out Now!

You heard right. ON A CLOUDY DAY, Book 3 of the Phoenix Initiative and my fifth Four Horsemen Universe book to date, dropped today and already is up to #2 in Hot New Releases. I was going to talk about how I was going to take down number one but then saw it was Salman Rushdie and decided second isn’t so bad.

I’m proud of this novel. We both are. Kevin and I really worked hard to make our characters mesh on page, and the end result will make people happy. Best of all, I kept my usual body coun...

I Thought It Had Only Been Two Weeks!

I thought only two weeks had passed since I’d last updated. I was WRONG.

Oops. My bad.

I’m on a vacation of sorts right now (first time I’ve done this and not been at a science fiction convention in a long time) but I figured I would update everyone on the crazy life of Cordova.

First off, CHICKS IN TANKS TOPS came out on the 3rd of this month and it seems to be doing well. Have you picked up your copy yet? Reviews are always welcome. So far people have seemed very receptive to the idea...

Book Release Day!

(…a day late…)

Yesterday the long-awaited CHICKS IN TANK TOPS was released into the wild and immediately shot up to #1 for Hot New Releases on Amazon. Which is awesome! Then to top it off, later on it went up to #379 overall across all of Barnes & Noble ebooks — in spite of their not carrying the print version in many of their bookstores.

Woot!

If you haven’t picked up your copy yet, it’s available anywhere Baen Books are sold.

In other publishing news, I’ll have a cover reveal soon...

Novel Turned In and A Year in Review

I took a brief break from doing the AI presidents because I almost missed a book deadline. Fortunately, my coauthor reminded me that we needed to have it done by Christmas and we got it. 111,000 words of mayhem and carnage, and the next Four Horsemen book coauthored with Kevin Ikenberry is finished. ON A CLOUDY DAY is Book 3 of the Phoenix Initiative and brings two of the most popular characters in the 4HU together at long last. But can Sunshine and Jessica Francis co-exist? Next up is Book 4 of...

The Midjourney Presidents — Part 2

So while playing around with the artificial intelligence Midjourney, I realized that focusing a single painter on all the presidents was, well, a tad boring. So I took a poll amongst a few friends and came up with alternates to be posted at a later date.

I actually ran out of hours this month on Midjourney for my premium account, which was the first time that’s happened.

Today we’re covering presidents 6–10. We’re sticking with Vincent Van Gogh for these five, so let’s see what Midjourney ...

The Midjourney Presidents — Part 1

I’ve been playing around with the AI painting program Midjourney (instead of writing… I know, I know) and decided I was going to do a gallery of presidents. I actually started with the more recent ones before realizing it would be better to start at the beginning.

I resisted the urge to start with King George. You’re welcome.

Convincing the AI to paint in a certain style of author has upsides as well as drawbacks. Here, the AI decided “in style of Van Gogh” meant they all needed to look li...

The Van Gogh Presidents — Part 1

I’ve been playing around with the AI painting program Midjourney (instead of writing… I know, I know) and decided I was going to do a gallery of presidents. I actually started with the more recent ones before realizing it would be better to start at the beginning.

I resisted the urge to start with King George. You’re welcome.

Convincing the AI to paint in a certain style of author has upsides as well as drawbacks. Here, the AI decided “in style of Van Gogh” meant they all needed to look li...