Archive for March 2009

Article of Interest

A friend just sent me an amusing piece in The Globe & Mail about the dangers and rewards of blogging. Clearly I should sleep less and blog more…
The story is here.

I Totally Crack Myself Up

In the past few years, I’ve taken to giving bogus names when I sign up online or through automated systems for trivial stuff like web sites, DVD clubs, and so forth. I figure my real name has been dumped into too many junk mail lists as it is, right? It gives me a [...]

It begins! The book is in the pipeline…

UNAPPROVED COVER COPY—PW—2/27; T2 3/10Imprint/Month/Year: ACE/DECEMBER 2009Title/Author: PLAGUE ZONE/JEFF CARLSON[FRONT COVER:]
Plague ZoneA novel
The next arms race has begun.
Jeff Carlsonauthor of Plague War
“Gripping…An epic struggle.”—Jack McDevitt, Nebula Award-winning author of The Devil’s Eye
[SPINE:]Plague ZoneJeff Carlson

In the meanwhile…

…and because I’ve been a very busy duck lately, buried in final edits of PLAGUE ZONE, I thought I’d post this YouTube clip about where-did-you-get-your-ideas for the first two PLAGUE novels in case you missed it.
I am *very* excited about PLAGUE ZONE. This book is bigger, better, and even more cutthroat than the first two, [...]