What I'm working on now

At present, I am:

* Editing ASSEMBLED! 2 for White Rocket Books

* Writing MARS McCOY AND THE CHAOS HORDE for Ron Fortier and Airship 27 Productions

* Plotting SENTINELS (vol. 4): THE SHIVA ADVENT for Swarm Press

* Revising the interiors and receiving interior art (from Chris Kohler) for all three existing SENTINELS novels for Swarm Press

* Re-writing LUCIAN: DARK GOD'S HOMECOMING (no publisher attached as of yet) (more info coming soon!)

* Re-plotting (?!) and re-writing ALPHA/OMEGA (no publisher attached as of yet) (ditto)

* Plotting the HAND OF THE MACHINE series (double ditto)

There's what I think to be some exciting stuff here. Can't wait to say more about it. Soon...

Recent books I've read

I plan to post a much longer list soon, listing all the books I've read over the past five years. I'm curious to see what folks think of them.

But, for now, here are a few quick listings-- favorite books I've read in the past few months, all of which have been in some way influential upon my writing:

The RAVENOR trilogy by Dan Abnett

THE NUTMEG OF CONSOLATION by Patrick O'Brian (#14 in the amazing, 20-book series)

CELL by Stephen King
(An interesting zombie novel, but not one of my favorite works by King. I gave this one away at OmegaCon in March after I finished it.)

NAPOLEON'S PYRAMIDS by William Dietrich
(Very influential for what I'm planning to do with SENTINELS vol. 4: THE SHIVA ADVENT!)

Many more coming soon...