Ketchup

One of the best parts of my job is meeting book people — readers, reviewers, book store employees, and book store owners.
In February 2008, skiing somewhere along the Continental Divide, Diana and I took a side trip to Leadville, Colorado, a beautiful, isolated mountain town upon which I’d visited 600,000 starving refugees and [...]

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 [...]

Yes, it’s true: “The Frozen Sky” and my other e-book mini collections are now on iBooks as well as Kindle and Nook. If you’re an iPerson, there’s no need to chew your fingernails up past your elbow. Let your arm heal! Go forth and read.
Truth to be told, I’m still wrestling [...]

And now for something REALLY different…
Sci fi superfan Rauno Pärnits put together an SF-shaped crossword puzzle which not only tests your knowledge of the world but also features a number of Carlsonian questions.
Ready to play? You’ll probably want to print it out in larger size. Then sweat [...]

This is me on the cutting edge of the twenty-first century:
Some of you know my novella “The Frozen Sky,” an alien encounter sci fi thriller set on Jupiter’s moon Europa. In October, “The Frozen Sky” went live on Kindle, where it sat quietly until the New Year.
Since then, it’s rocketed up through the rankings. [...]

What’s in this box?  Actually, the story behind it is the coolest thing I’ve seen all month.
I’ll follow up on Ketchup this week with more, but, for now, turn your eyes toward the first of four fun photo essays — this one on Penguin USA’s “The Author’s Desk.”
And to the Sierzengas,  thank you!    :>
UPDATE:
Penguin USA [...]

Okay, so we’ve got a fun laundry list of developments this week:
1) If you live in the Bay Area, I have a local book signing on Friday, May 21st, starting at 7pm at Bay Books in Concord. We’ll be answering any questions you have about the Plague Year trilogy like “What really happened [...]

Aha ha HA ha ha ha ha! I got you again, Kat!
I was going to call this entry “Rok Pandemie, or, I Think I See A Pattern Developing Here”… but honestly, messing with Kat’s mind is just too sweet.
This is the cover for the Czech edition of [...]

Check this out. Bottom of the page. Yes, he’s serious. Bradley at Book Lovers is a mad, mad dreamer… but it is one hell of a book! Autographed, too!

Some good news today. My editor tells me Plague Year went to its fourth printing two months ago. Awesome! We’re still an exploding helicopter and an Angelina Jolie from the big leagues of bestsellerdom, but, hey, a fourth edition for a first novel paperback original ain’t no snail boogers, neither. [...]