Looks like you can now pre-order the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG. And if you order the Collector’s Edition, you’ll get a few extras, including a cool looking statue of Darth Malgus (I want).
And if you don’t know who Malgus is
In answer to a question raised on Facebook yesterday: Yes, indeed, the stories of Egil and Nix take place in the same world in which my New Dineen short stories are set. “Huzwha?” you ask. “What are these New Dineen short stories of which you speak?”
Well, the New Dineen short stories are Confession, The Spinner, and Stillborn, stories I’ve published previously in various venues. Confession and The Spinner are still available … Read the rest
As you can see from the press release here, I’ve signed a two book deal with Angry Robot Books. The books, entitled The Hammer and the Blade, A Tale of Egil and Nix and A Discourse in Steel, a Tale of Egil and Nix, both feature a pair of wily, somewhat shabby, but very likeable tomb-tappers-rogues-knaves-footpads named Egil (a burly, brooding priest of the Momentary God) and Nix (aka, Nix the … Read the rest
Dave Seeley, the artist who did the cover for my next Star Wars novel, Riptide
I don’t think it’s in my budget at the moment, but hey, if you love Star Wars, have a fondness for Jaden Korr, have $5Kish burning a hole in your pocket, and want a … Read the rest
A signal boost for my friend, onetime editor, and writing guru Phil Athans, who’s doing a webinar for Writers Digest University. The webinar is entitled, How to Sell Your Fantasy and Sci-Fi. Full details are here, but here’s a brief description:
What you’ll learn:
I came across this via John Scalzi’s blog. Writer Steph Swainston (author of many well received fantasy novels
I think the story serves as a nice reminder that writers — just like surgeons, police officers, firefighters, and career soldiers, etc. — sometimes find … Read the rest
The official Star Wars site has posted the opening of my next Star Wars novel, Riptide
Jen is now six months along in the pregnancy. And a baby on the way always makes me enormously nostalgic. I’m not entirely sure why that is, but it is. I was the same way with the boys. Don’t get me wrong. Things are great these days, better than ever. But a child on the way makes me think of my own childhood and adolescence, and I turn wistful.
I don’t have any particular point, … Read the rest
It’s a well known fact that I am an eleventh level Grillmaster, with two levels in the Searseer prestige class. I mastered the Dual Flip and Unbreakable Tong feats at five years old and have never looked back. Normally, my skills serve me well enough, and I can bend the briquettes to my will as well as the next guy. Alas, today was not normal.
After shaping the sanctified flesh into delectable discs of divine … Read the rest
Star Wars Books has been kind enough to post a couple “mini-excerpts” from Riptide
First Mini-Excerpt:
Khedryn cleared his throat. “So, then, do you have a plan? What do we do about the escaped clones?”
“We find them,” Jaden said.
“Yeah, I figured that. I’m … Read the rest