Today is the release day for DESCENT, the fourth installment of the Palladium Wars! If you already preordered it, you should either have the paperback in your mailbox, or the ebook magically appeared on your Kindle this morning. For those who haven’t preordered, it’s available in paperback, Kindle, and Audible formats. (No hardcover this…
DESCENT giveaway winners
The random number gods have spoken and passed down ten numbers, which I matched up with the comments in order from first to last. There were 193 eligible comments in total, so your chance to win was a little lower than one in twenty. The winners are: Victor Weffer Fred Adrian O’Neill Phil Fab Andrew…
DESCENT giveaway is now closed
I hope you all got your comments in because the DESCENT giveaway is now closed to new entries. I will pick ten winners with the help of the RNG gods and announce them at some point tomorrow. As always, I’ll ship the books to the winners anywhere in the world free of charge. Hope you’re…
DESCENT giveaway starts right meow
Here they are–ten paperback copies of DESCENT, fourth book in the Palladium Wars series, ready to be signed and shipped to new owners. YOU TOO could be one of the lucky winners! Just leave a comment on this post indicating the desire to own a signed copy, and you will be entered in the…
DESCENT paperbacks have arrived
Author copies for DESCENT, the fourth book in the Palladium Wars series, have arrived at the Castle. If you’re at all familiar with how things go around here, you know that this means another giveaway is imminent. I’ll start the traditional pre-release contest this weekend and run it for a week as always. (Don’t put…
Cyanocitta cristata
A blue jay having a quick and easy breakfast at the local fly-thru. Fun fact about blue jays: they’re not really blue. Their feathers are black. We see them as blue because of the way the structure of the feathers scatters light. It’s known as Tyndall scattering.
Spicy Pillow Syndrome
I was typing on my old MacBook Pro today and noticed that the bottom case was wobbling back and forth a little despite being on a flat desk. I grabbed my trusty iFixit toolkit, took off the case bottom, and found this: That’s what we call a “spicy pillow”, a lithium-ion battery that has…
A magic wand for tattooing dead trees
The piston knob on my favorite fountain pen broke recently, so I sent the pen (a Lamy 2000) off to the mothership in Germany for warranty repair. It came back a little while ago, with a delivery note listing the repairs which were performed at no charge. That’s some awesome customer service for a pen I…
Quick office tour, February of twenty-four
I had to clean up and reorganize the desk today, so I took a picture of its pristine state while it lasts. The artwork on the wall: John Picacio cover for one of my Tor.com Wild Cards stories, Michael Komarck cover for LOW CHICAGO featuring my character Khan, and (above the pulse rifle prop…
Contest books are in the mail
The contest prize books will be going out to the winners today. In this round, the international readers were particularly blessed by the random numbers gods. Of twelve books, only three are going to U.S. addresses. The rest are all international: one each to Germany, Finland, and Switzerland, and six(!) to addresses in the UK….