Cross Those Contest Streams!

Throughout the month of February, I’m taking part in a huge multi-author contest set to give away dozens of free books. It’s the brainchild of my friend Ari Marmell, and it’s called Crossing the Streams. Each participating author (like me), is going to run a contest and give away a couple of books. For myself, I’m putting up autographed ARCs …

New Reviews for Carpathia

Carpathia – my upcoming historical horror novel that mashes up vampires and the Titanic – picked up a hat trick of glowing reviews over the past week. The book won’t be out until the end of February, but these reviewers got their hands on advance reader copies, and I’m happy they did. First, Nibbles at Fantasy Nibbles gives the book …

Review Roundup

A few reviews of my work – both past and future – have come in from different quarters over the past week. Here’s a quick roundup. Over at BlogCritics, Greg Barbrick raves over Book of Extreme Facts. He bought it as a Christmas gift for his son but couldn’t resist reading it himself. I had a wonderful time doing the research …

Carpathia Picked

The folks at Fantasy Faction asked the editors at many of the top genre fiction publishers to pick the top five books they’re most excited about bringing out in 2012. Angry Robot skirted the issue of having to pick favorites by choosing five of its novels with interesting stories about them. They highlighted Adam Christopher’s Empire State, Chuck Wendig’s Blackbirds, …

Free Angry Robot Song Remix Album

Earlier this year, John Anealio asked me to help him out with some verses for the “Angry Robot” song he’d written as a theme song for the Angry Robot podcasts that Mur Lafferty hosts for Angry Robot, the publisher of my original novels. He posted it on his website for free downloads, and people seemed to like it. That included the …

Angry Robot Remix Winners Announced

Earlier today, Angry Robot announced the winners of the contest we ran to remix the “Angry Robot” song I co-wrote with John Anealio. John, Marc Gascoigne, and I listened to and ranked the songs and picked three winners. David De La Hoya took third place with his mix, Denis Cherryman took second, and Dale Chase – who blew us away …

My Next Original Novel: Carpathia

This morning Angry Robot announced my next original novel: Carpathia. They astutely describe it as Titanic meets 30 Days of Night. Those familiar with lore about the Titanic know that the ship that hauled the survivors of that horrible disaster out of the icy waters of the North Atlantic was the Carpathia, another cruise ship crossing the Atlantic in the …