Over at Tor.com, I posted about Daniel Solis’s Thousand Year Game Design Challenge. In short, Daniel and his wife have put up $1,000 as a prize for the best game they think has the potential to become an all-time classic. Check out the post for more details.
Star Wars vs Star Trek Update
My next nonfiction book, Star Wars vs. Star Trek, has a page up on its publisher’s website. I just noticed it’s filed under “Humor.” Man, I wish they’d told me that earlier. (See, there’s a joke right there. That one’s free. Tip your servers.) Adams Media also put up a larger version of the cover, which you can see here. …
Boardgame Remixing at Tor.com
After the holiday break, I’ve finally gotten back to blogging a bit for Tor.com. My latest entry, “Bored of Board: Remixing the Classics,” covers The Boardgame Remix Kit, a cool idea for getting some extra mileage out of those games moldering in your closet. Check it out.
Cybermage Gives Amortals 5 Stars
I know, it’s looking like all Amortals all the time on my website, but what can I say? The book just hit the US, and I’m more than a bit thrilled about it. I’m truly grateful for the reception it’s getting. To those of you who enjoyed the book and take time to tell others about it – whether in …
SFRevu Loves Amortals
Over at SFRevu.com, Drew Bittner gives Amortals a rave review. He writes: Forbeck constructs a near-future Washington DC that seems eerily plausible (to this local, anyway), creating a culture where amortality is widespread and the “life is cheap” ethos is taken to some unusual extremes… But Forbeck’s real genius here is keeping the big and obvious aspect of this biotech …
Amortals: SFBook.com’s #3 Book of the Year
Back in November, SFBook.com gave Amortals a five-star review and named it the Book of the Month. That automatically put it into the competition for Book of the Year, pitting it against such stalwarts and bestsellers as Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Pat Rothfuss’s The Name of the Wind, and Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. At the end of a …
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 …