Month: January 2023
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I’ve Got A Little List . . .
The nice people at Shepherd.com asked me to submit a list of five book recommendations. I chose "The Best Novels About Exploring Big Things In Space." It's kind of a funny coincidence that I chose that topic, right when I have a book out about people exploring a ruined space habitat. Their site has loads…
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DiFilippo on Scarabs
Paul DiFilippo put up a very kind review of The Scarab Mission in his Locus column. You can read it here, at Locus Online. The summary: he liked it. The review calls Scarab a "rousing, unstoppable, non-stop adventure," which is good to hear. That's what I wanted to write, but you never know if you…
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FOUND!
Good news for everyone waiting to get a trade paperback copy of The Scarab Mission: the lost copies have been found! According to my publisher, "they should be going where they were supposed to this week." I'll send a signed bookplate to whoever comments first that they got their copy. (And to anyone else who…
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The Big Idea: Writing For Games vs. Writing Fiction
I wrote a guest post for John Scalzi's Whatever blog, discussing my work writing roleplaying games and how that affected my fiction. You can find it here. For visual interest, check out the cover of Weird War I!
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Scarab Mission World Exclusive!
If you want a copy of The Scarab Mission, make your way to the Westin Seaport Hotel in Boston and seek out the booth for Larry Smith Booksellers in the dealer area. They've got six signed, hand-delivered copies of The Scarab Mission, making them the only book dealer in the world right now capable of…
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Arisia 2023
This weekend Boston's biggest annual science fiction convention returns to the Westin Seaport hotel, January 13-16. I'll be there, promoting my rare and eagerly-sought new book The Scarab Mission. I'm also doing several panels and events. Saturday, January 14 10:00 A.M.: Connecting With Your Kids Through Media — How liking the same nerdy stuff as…
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Scarab Mission Update
According to my publisher, The Scarab Mission was printed on time (and I have my comp copies as proof of that), they arrived at the Simon & Schuster warehouse on time, and at the proper moment they were shipped out . . . somewhere. Not to Amazon or bookstores. The good people at Simon &…
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Book Launch Party: Everyone On Earth is Invited!
This Saturday Baen Books is hosting a virtual Book Launch party for The Scarab Mission. At 8:00 p.m. Eastern US Time I'll be on a livestream — answering questions, talking about the book and future projects, and generally doing my best to be a funny dancing monkey. You can see it on the Baen YouTube…
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I Don’t Know What’s Going On With Amazon
A number of eager fans have reported that they can't order the print edition of The Scarab Mission from Amazon. I don't know why this is happening. I've notified Baen Books about it, and I'm sure they've been rattling Amazon's cage. I am sure that the books really exist. I got my complimentary copies weeks…
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Notes on Scarabs
My newest novel, The Scarab Mission, hits the stores today. If you pre-ordered from Amazon it should be on your doorstep. So . . . what's it all about, anyway? Where did this book come from and why did I write it? The Scarab Mission is the second novel in my expanding "Billion Worlds" series…
The Cambias Digression 