A post on Baen's Bar today pointed out that the cover for Manxome Foe is up on the S&S catalog website.

The Decatur, Alabama public library is doing a Meet the Author with Doc on Thursday, June 28th at 6:30 PM

All the info can be found here.

Today, Doc signed a deal with Motion Picture Production optioning documentary rights to the Planetary Defense book.

MPP made quite a few History Channel specials on UFO-related topics and have also made training films for the military, so this book is right up their alley.

I for one am hoping they exercise the option, as I'd love to see the resulting special.

--Alex

Twilight Times Books has signed up Doc for a couple of books, including a new series. The first book in that series is called Extraction Point.

Read the Extraction Point press release here.

He's also being teamed with TTB's bestselling author Darrell Bain on another book, tentatively titled Alien Power.

This morning, the webserver was unexpectedly down for several hours.

When I went online and checked it, I could not connect, so I went to find out what was up. Simply speaking, the lights were on, but nobody was home. Apparently, the PSU fan went some time in the night and let the power supply overheat. I could barely stand to touch the back panel, it was so hot.

I pulled the old server off the rack and stuffed the hard drive from the newer one into it, and we're back in business. Luckily, the drive didn't get crisped in the process.

Unfortunately, this server is bound to be a bit slower until I can build a new one. Here's hoping I won't have to pull out the tertiary machine.

You can see the new One Day on Mars cover over at Kurt Miller's website.

Tau Ceti has evolved into at least two books. Following the outline that I'd sold to Baen I got to a full book length at about 1/3 to 1/2 the way through it. So I revised the outline to be more than one book. The first book is called One Day On Mars. It actually all happens in one day...on Mars. The entire book literally takes place in about ten hours or so. It is non-stop space navy, Armored Environment Suit Marines, configurable hovertanks and fighting mecha, space fighters, spies, senators, presidents, a mass exodus, and multiple nuclear explosions!

The next book would be The Tau Ceti Agenda. One Day On Mars is done and turned into Baen. I'll start on Tau Ceti in a couple weeks.

Travis

The cover art for Vorpal Blade has been spotted on artist Kurt Miller's Website.

I've added an OpenID login module to the site, so OpenID users won't have to remember yet another set of account details just to post a comment with their id on it.

For more information on OpenID, see the Wikipedia entry for it. There is a list of OpenID registrars at the bottom of that page.

Doc is planning to attend Con*Stellation XXV: Cygnus this year.

Con*Stellation is an annual general-interest Science Fiction convention to be held 20-22 October 2006 in Huntsville Alabama.

For more con info, visit the Con*Stellation's website.