Just a couple housekeeping items.

Amazon has chewed through the discounted copies of The Erevis Cale Trilogy Omnibus, so I have to close out the Inexpensive Erevis Cale Trilogy e-signing. You can still get autographed copies, of course (details here), but the great deal is gone, alas.

Also, I provided a bad link previously to the Warhammer Anthology, Age of Legend, in which my short story, A Small Victory will appear. … Read the rest

…we rebuild.  We always rebuild.

Star Wars Books has posted a fifth mini-excerpt from Riptide, my next Star Wars novel, which is the sequel to Crosscurrent.

Marr took Jaden’s lightsaber and turned it over in his hands, examining the hilt from all angles.

“Now take it apart,” Jaden said. He had chosen the lesson because he thought it would be well suited to Marr’s talents as an engineer.

“This is yours, Master, and—”

“Take it apart, Marr. It’s … Read the rest

As I did previously with Revenge of the Sith, I ran a live Twitter commentary to Episode IV, A New Hope last night.  It’s probably funnier in real time, but I think there are a few chuckles here even after the fact.  In any event, per a few requests, I’ve compiled the tweets here.

I picked this up late, after everyone else had gone to bed in Kempland.  When I started, our heroes were … Read the rest

Yes, the economy’s in the tank.  Worse, people are suffering while many of our politicians behave like kindergartners fighting over the last mixed berry fruit box.  But there are good things to ponder and enjoy, too!  And here, in no particular order, are a few of mine.  Feel free to add yours in the comments.

French fries.  The Condiment King loves his french fries.

Good friends.  You have some.  I … Read the rest

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has published In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. Here are the top eight shocking revelations to emerge from the book:

8. Cheney liked to freak out the White House staff by dressing in a black leotard, breathing heavily, and telling everyone, “No. I am your father!”

7. Cheney’s so mean he once shot a man (in the face) just for snoring.

6. On Earth 2, Cheney goes … Read the rest

What’s new this month in the realms forgotten, the rusty, clanky land of enraged automata, and the galaxy far, far away? Let us see.

In the Forgotten Realms, we have Shadowbane, from friend and colleague Erik Scott deBie. This is a sequel to the well-received Downshadow, and I think readers who’ve enjoyed my work will enjoy Erik’s, for whatever that’s worth. From the back matter:

The city of Luskan has always been … Read the rest

Recently I mentioned that I’d turned over a story to appear in an anthology of fiction set in the Warhammer setting, from Black Library.  Well, here it is: Age of Legend, edited by the most excellent Christian Dunn, and available in January 2012. As is obvious from the title, the stories are set in the distant past of the Warhammer world, during the Time of Legends.

I’m told the lineup consists of Warhammer stalwarts … Read the rest

And lo, the Riptide galley giveway contest is concluded.  There were close to three hundred entrants.  Thanks to all of you who took a moment to enter.

Without further ado, the two winners of an unbound signed galley of Riptide are Jedi Harris and Zardozfl.

Congrats to both winners.  Please email me your address at my email address here and we’ll get shipping figured out.  Thanks again to all who entered.  I’m really looking … Read the rest

Setting aside the fact that many works of speculative fiction are groundbreaking, important (however we define it), subversive, brilliantly written, entertaining (and never underestimate the value of entertainment as entertainment), and what have you, for me the entire genre does something much more important, separate from those factors — it exercises the imagination, fires our sensawunda, expands our sense of the possible, and encourages us to dream heroically. I think there’s enormous value in that, … Read the rest