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Overdraft: The Orion Offensive Episode 1 available today!

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It’s OOO-Day! Today, “Greenmail,” the first episode of my new Kindle Serial, Overdraft: The Orion Offensive, goes live and is available to download. Wahoo! In Part 1, we meet conniving desk-trader Jamie Sturm, the 22nd Century equivalent of a hedge fund manager. He’s blown through a huge amount of his firm’s money, putting an entire interstellar expedition at risk. But the swindler is surprised when the armored security team arrives …

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Ready Player One! Star Wars: Pinball – The Novel!

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Welcome to April! And you are welcome to read the news of my latest foray into cross-media inter-license branded fiction, with the kindly folks at Del Rey. Click here to read about Star Wars: Pinball – Boba Fett! “In late 2013, Del Rey takes that synergistic approach to a new level with its trilogy novelizing Star Wars: Pinball: Boba Fett, a new downloadable game developed by Zen Studios in partnership …

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My Midsouthcon 2013 panel schedule

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I’m in Memphis in advance of Midsouthcon — this will be the tenth in a row I’ve been a guest at, and something like the 16th or 17th overall that I’ve attended since my first one in high school. I’ll be speaking at several panels, as seen here: FRIDAY 7 p.m. Writer’s Block: Tips to help you push through mental blocks to get your story done. With Christie Golden, Jer …

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JJM launches “Overdraft: The Orion Offensive” as Amazon Serial

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When you misplace a million dollars of your company’s money, you go to jail. When you misplace a hundred billion, you go to another planet!

 When 22nd century desk jockey Jamie Sturm loses a fortune for his interstellar trading company, he’s forced to cross the galaxy risking his neck — and an interstellar war — to get it back! That’s Overdraft: The Orion Offensive — the first long-form science fiction …

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JJM talk and signing Wednesday at Memphis area library

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In advance of my appearance at Midsouthcon — my panel schedule will appear here in a couple of days — I’m doing an event Wednesday at the library in Horn Lake, Mississippi, at 6 p.m. The library is at 2885 Goodman Road. Here’s the flier the library produced, and their Facebook link. See you there!

Fun in the suns! Kenobi release date advances to August 27

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And another two weeks have passed in which I’ve been absolutely too busy to leave the writing desk (you’ll learn why fairly soon), but I have some news this morning. Del Rey announced that my new Star Wars: Kenobi novel is now releasing August 27, a month before the originally scheduled ship date. (They’ve also announced that Martha Wells’ Leia novel is moving up, as well, to October 29.) The …

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Kenobi audiobook available for preorder

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Road-trip listening alert! An order page for an unabridged audiobook for Star Wars: Kenobi has been added to Amazon. It’s set to release Sept. 24, coinciding with the hardcover, which can be preordered here. No further details, but they are soon to come, I am sure. I’ve been writing my fingers off so far in 2013, hence the shortage of posts here. But there’s something new coming down the pike …

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Preorder Star Wars Kenobi now!

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I’ve been exceptionally busy putting the finishing touches to Kenobi this month — but I can pass along that the title now has a page in the Random House catalog, and that means it can now be preordered. Click here to preorder Kenobi from Amazon. And here’s the page to order from Random House directly. Links for Barnes & Noble and other outlets will be added as they become available. …

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A decade in fiction, observed

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A personal anniversary: Ten years ago today, I was working, as usual, in the Krause Publications offices on the week before New Year’s; I tended to do that a lot, because we always waited to do the Year-in-Review articles for Comics Buyer’s Guide until the year was actually over. (A lot of major comics events had happened during that last week of the year, from DC‘s purchase of Wildstorm to …

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Lost Tribe of the Sith – Spiral: The Kesh-crushing conclusion!

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I’ve been living on Tatooine for the last couple of months, writing Star Wars: Kenobi — but the Sith will not be ignored! And so today sees the release of Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith – Spiral #5, the end of the Lord Dreypa arc and a comic book full of Sithy revenge and destruction. It’s the last release in a pretty busy year for me, which included… …

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