And Now We Got Bad Blood!

My latest novel, Halo: Bad Blood, hit shelves (virtual and physical) around the US today. It should find its way out in other parts of the world soon after. This is my third novel for Halo, the bestselling military science-fiction series of video games from Microsoft, and it’s my second one that takes up the continuing story of the heroes from …

Halo: Bad Blood Cover and Description Revealed!

Last night, over at HaloWaypoint.com, Jeff Easterling of 343 Industries (who I finally actually met this week!) revealed some details about my upcoming novel, Halo: Bad Blood in his latest update. They revealed the cover art a while back, but now we have the full cover treatment, with logos, text, and all. In addition to that, we now have the description …

Halo: Legacy of Onyx Debuts Today!

Today is the launch day for Legacy of Onyx, my latest novel in the universe of Halo, the bestselling science-fiction first-person shooter video games from 343 Industries (and Bungie before them) and Microsoft. This is my second novel in the setting (the first was New Blood), and my third story. I wrote a prequel to Legacy of Onyx called “Lessons Learned.” It’s …

M+DEV and Menomonee Falls

I have a busy weekend coming up. On Friday, I’m going to be at M+DEV, the inaugural Madison Game Development Conference. If you’re anywhere nearby and are interested in working on video games for a living, this looks like it’s going to be a phenomenal conference. The keynote speaker is Warren Spector (Ultima, Thief, Wing Commander, System Shock, Deus Ex, Epic …

Halo Signing at C2E2!

This weekend is C2E2, the biggest comic and geek convention in Chicago. I don’t make it down there every year, but this year, I’m blasting in on Saturday to sign Halo: New Blood and Halo: Fractures at the Simon & Schuster booth (#518). The signing starts at 5 PM. I won’t be around too long, so if you want my signature on that book–or …

Halo: Fractures Is Here!

Halo: Fractures, a new anthology of stories set in the universe of the best-selling video game franchise, debuts today. I have the lead story in it, a little tale called “Lessons Learned.” It features a couple of Spartan-IIIs named Tom and Lucy–who have been part of a number of other stories in the past–and it starts out spinning off from one of …

My Comic-Con 2016 Schedule

DK is bringing me out to Comic-Con again this year, to sign copies of my Captain America book. I always have a wonderful time at this massive show. For the signings in the DK booth, I understand they’ll have free Captain America posters to hand out, but I’m always happy to sign anything I’ve worked on as well. I’ll also …

Halo: New Blood Arrives in Print Today!

It’s finally here! Today, Halo: New Blood finally hits actual, physical shelves in a snazzy print edition. The book originally came out about a year ago, but only in ebook and audiobook formats. It’s gotten rave reviews, but the biggest complaint some readers had about it was that they couldn’t hold a copy in their eager hands. The wait for that is …

Halo New Blood Deals Everywhere

As I mentioned last week, the ebook edition of my Halo novel New Blood is on sale in the US for the Kindle for only $1.99, through the end of January. It turns out that the sale’s been extended to just about every other ebook vendor. For example:  From iBooks For the Nook From Google Play From Books-A-Million If you enjoy audiobooks, you can also …

Halo: New Blood News

My Halo novel New Blood came out last March as an ebook original, the first such one in the new line from Simon and Schuster. It features the story of Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck, star of Halo 3: ODST and also one of the new team of Spartans in Halo 5.  It did well enough as an ebook that Simon and Schuster decided to release …