Happy Book Birthday to "The Year's Top Science Fiction", edited by Allan Kaster, and including my alt.history tale, "Darwin's Rocket"! The story originally appeared in The Sunday Morning Transport (eds. Fran Wilde and Julian Yap), and was also a Sidewise Award finalist. Whee!

Ten days and counting! "The Year's Top Science Fiction" drops on October 16, including my Sidewise-nominated story, "Darwin's Rocket." And it's in fantastic company--that's quite a Table of Contents, definitely a best-of collection worth a look!

And here it is! The plaque for my Sidewise Award arrived today, and now it feels official!

Blown away to have won my third Sidewise Award today!!--for "Caesar at Sea", from the ZNB anthology SKULL X BONES, edited by David B. Coe and Joshua Palmatier. In which a very young Julius Caesar is kidnapped by Cilician pirates, which -may- change a few things...

Well, this is a thrill: I’ve received -two- nominations for the 2025 Sidewise Awards: for “Darwin’s Rocket”, which appeared in The Sunday Morning Transport in October, and “Caesar at Sea”, from the ZNB speculative pirate anthology “Skull X Bones” in December!

I applied the Page 69 Test to my latest (short) novel, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, out a couple of weeks ago from eSpec Books, and here's the result: page69test.blogspot.com/2026… While I was on the site I also reread the blog entries for my three Clash of Eagles novels. Fun!

In which I am interviewed by the great @paulsemel and reveal some of backstory and fun facts about my new book, Mad Dogs & Englishmen!

My panels at @Balticon next w/e! • Fri 4: When Han Wasn’t Solo-Writing the Support System • Fri 5:30: Divergent Points+Alt.Hist • Sat 10: Writing Novels: the Long Haul • Sat 1: Alternate Alt.Histories • Sat 5:30: Logistics+Tactics: Writing Campaigns

Tonight I answered "Sopwith Camel" and the correct answer was "biplane" which is one of very many reasons why I should never go on Jeopardy.

Thrilled that "Radiant Sky" is still reaching an appreciative audience! (And thanks to @mars_stu for the post!)

Just out! My interview with John Goodwin for the Writers & Illustrators of the Future podcast: an in-depth discussion of my latest Cold War space race novel, Burning Night, and "its combination of real science, real geopolitics, and imaginative fiction." writersofthefuture.com/podca…

Just released! My exclusive Q+A with the great @paulsemel about the genesis and influences on my new novel, Burning Night, the final volume in my Apollo Rising sequence. (No spoilers beyond what you'd learn if you read the book cover copy or Amazon blurb.) paulsemel.com/exclusive-inte…

Podcast Monday! Okay, so that's not actually a thing, but... my interview with Edward Willett on the Worldshapers podcast went live today! Hear me wax lyrical about Book Three in my Apollo Rising trilogy, and various other topics, at the link! theworldshapers.com/2025/12/…

Thank you so much! Made my day. (And Book Three in the series, Burning Night, comes out in just three weeks ...) @mars_stu

Delighted to announce the release of "Darwin's Rocket" in Sunday Morning Transport! -in which we meet Charles Darwin and sister Caroline in a tale about an evolution that might have been... Subscription-only, but here's a link for a 60-dy free trial... sundaymorningtransport.com/

My interview series with the award-winning SciFi Thoughts podcast continues ... and today my reading from the beginning of Radiant Sky has gone live! Catch up at lancerkind.com/series/scifi-…