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Happy New Year! I’ve been sitting on some of this while contracts were finalized. Now seems like a good time to feast your eyeballs.
First, my story “Planet of the Sealies” will be appearing in the Dutch anthology Horizon 3.
Would you want to be the little astronaut down in the corner or [...]

They’re not having a particularly good time in Spain these days.

I still intend to bang out a more informative post about my wild adventures at Norwescon, but I’ve been obsessed with a final polish of Zone. You’d think it was the end of the world or something. Ha. The book is in my editor’s hands at last.
Off subject: I lost [...]

Here’s the cover art for Antídoto, better known to you and me as Plague War. It’s nice and freaky, and matches the first book perfectly. I like where Minotauro is going with the trilogy. La Plaga. Antídoto. Maybe the third book will be called New Outbreak, but in ultra-cool [...]

I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of gorgeous book porn like this, but fortunately I’m almost out of pictures like this.
In the meantime, I’m afraid it’s true. The La Plaga tie-in vacation contest is over. It’s won! José Garrido Calero will be enjoying an all expenses [...]

Here’s another photo from Spain. I think this is a different store, because my super sleuthing skills have noted that the floor poster is peeling at one corner in this picture, which it was not in the other… and it’s hard to imagine they’d have 40 books stacked up just to the right of [...]

Here’s another shot sent from my publisher Spain. The mind croggles. In fact, if I wasn’t already happily married, I’d probably have to fly to Europe in order to begin dating this floor stand… or would I be more interested in the floor poster?
Hmm. They both seem to have every quality [...]

Well, if I was in Spain, I’d be walking through a book store one day when I’d suddenly have a coronary from sheer explosive joy. Holy cow guts, dude!!!
Last night my publisher at Minotauro forwarded another giant pack of jpgs, some of which I’ll be inflicting upon you because, well, they’re like [...]

This photo is of the four-color newspaper ads placed by Minotauro announcing the August 27 release of La Plaga. Yes, newspaper ads!!!
Q: Will you be moving to Europe?
A: No, the Carlsons won’t be packing up our worldly belongings and moving to the coast of Spain any time soon, although it’s nice [...]

I’m told now that there are any number of book store windows with these scary, eye-grabbing displays everywhere in Spain.
Yes, that’s a giant rack of hard cover books behind the posters and the freaky yellow hazmat tape… and I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything so beautiful in my life! [...]