Amortals at the Big Thrill

Last year, in anticipation of the publication of Amortals, I joined the International Thriller Writers. It’s a spiffy organization headlined by some top-named talent, and one of the best parts about it is that it’s free to those qualified to join. The people behind it do an excellent job of aggressively promoting their authors, and as part of that Christine …

Great Amortals Review

Over at Figures.com, Jess Horsley gives Amortals a glowing review. Amortals starts out with a thunder cracker and accelerates full speed ahead, forcing readers to delve headlong with Dooley on this exciting quest to not only find and capture his killer, but understand why he was killed. He also compares the book to Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon, Warren Hammond’s Kop or Ex-Kop, and …

Amortals in America Today

Today, my first original novel, Amortals, hits shelves in bookstores all the way across America. That includes both big-box and indie stores in the USA and Canada as well as all your favorite internet shops. This is, I believe, my best work to date. If you’ve ever enjoyed anything I’ve written, do both of us a favor and hunt it …

Hear Me Speak with Angry Robot

This month’s episode of the Angry Robot Podcast, hosted by the sweet-voiced Mur Lafferty, features Colin Harvey (author of Winter Song and Damage Time) and me talking about our novels. The conversation covers a lot of ground, from our thoughts about the future to the three types of jobs that every freelancer must do. Be sure to listen in. If …

Stone Skin Press Launches

My friends over at Pelgrane Press–who are stalwart sponsors of the Diana Jones Award ceremony, among their many other good deeds–just announced that they’re launching a new fiction imprint called Stone Skin Press. Tabletop RPG legend Robin Laws heads up the new operation as its creative director, ensuring some high-quality tales. Stone Skin also announced its first three titles: New …

Conduit 2 on the Way

The next computer game I had a hand is Conduit 2, the sequel to The Conduit, one of the few first-person shooters for the Wii. Back before the original came out, the fine folks at High Voltage Software asked me to come up with the story for the sequel. The roots of The Conduit went a lot deeper than most …

Star Wars vs. Star Trek Cover

If it seems like it’s been quiet around here lately, that’s because I spent the last couple weeks crunching through to the end of Star Wars vs. Star Trek, a new nonfiction book I’m writing for Adams Media. Although Adams doesn’t have it up on its own site yet, Amazon already has information on the book, including a cover shot. …

Marvel-Ous

Last week, my first work published by Marvel Comics hit shelves. It’s not much, just an entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A—Z Update #5. I wrote the entry for Raptor, a newish Spider-Man villain. I’d already read the comics, so I figured the workload would be light. Still, the rigor with which team leader Jeff Christiansen …

The Guardian and Total Sci-Fi Love Amortals

Amortals just received two more glowing reviews, one of which includes my favorite line from a review ever. First, though, Paul Simpson at Total Sci-Fi Online enjoyed the book and says: Forbeck deftly deals with the philosophical implications of the society he’s functioning within while delivering a thrilling, chase-filled detective story with a surprising finale. VERDICT: 8/10 Highly enjoyable technothriller. Wait for …

Taking Risks at Booklife

Over at Booklife, Jeremy L. C. Jones asked a bunch of contributors to The Bones about what it means to roll the dice and take some risks with your writing. He posted my answers (along with a terribly kind introduction) today. It may be the only time you hear writing being compared with downhill skiing today.