http://unclehugo-edgar.livejournal.com/182316.html  Though Lois Bujold took me in dollars, what with her fancy hard covers. But still, if you’re going to lose, you might as well lose to somebody that awesome. 🙂

Uncle Hugo’s is one of the biggest stores in the country. They are who introduced me to Baen back when I was self-published, and if you recall, that’s where I steered the blog traffic for autographed copies when MHV came out. I’ll be flying out there in May to sign a bunch of hard covers of Hard Magic too.

Here is the cover art for the thriller written by Mike Kupari and I. Artwork by the very talented Kurt Miller. http://www.kmistudio.com/  Check out Kurt’s page. He is one very talented dude.

Thrillers are a relatively new thing for Baen. There is the Paladin of Shadows series by Ringo and the Countdown series by Kratman. Baen, being known as a premier publisher of sci-fi/fantasy has to go out of its way to make sure that its thriller covers look like thriller covers.

The black and white contrast works well considering that the story is told by two different characters, on different sides, written by different authors. On the left is Lorenzo’s gun. Valentine’s is on the right.

EDIT: Coming November 2011.

The D6 logo went through several revisions. I thought you guys might enjoy seeing some of them:

http://www.samwellers.com/

Next Wednesday, January 12th, at Sam Wellers in SLC, starting at 6:00 PM, I’ll be doing a book signing with a whole mess of authors, most of whom are bestsellers. It is for the Superstars of Writing Seminar. Kevin J. Anderson, Eric Flint, Brandon Sanderson, Tracy Hickman, Dave Farland, Rebecca Moesta, Eric James Stone, Brad Torgersen, and more.

Spread the word if you don’t mind. I can’t be outshone by all those famous people. 🙂

Oh, and for your viewing enjoyment, here is a video from my buddy Jeff who was passing through Utah. We went shooting last week. http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=476711236212&comments I’m the ruggedly handsome one. Me, Mike, and Jeff had a pair of Berettas. Of course we had to get our Chow Yun Fat on.  He just makes it look cooler.

And yes, that beautiful scenery? That’s where I live. Pretty awesome. Cold… But awesome. As for the plate rack, I’m usually faster, but it is hard to shoot good when you can’t feel your finger tips.

I actually took a few days off this year. That’s kind of weird for me. But I’ve actively tried to do as little as possible. So that meant staying off the computer, no writing, no accounting… Just hanging out with the family, playing video games, and shooting guns.  Life is good. Next week, back to the grind. 🙂

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/16-u.s.-cities-that-could-face-bankruptcy-in-2011-535744.html

Interesting… Of those cities, how many are run by republicans? We saw something similar last year with the list of 10 worst-off states, with 8 being blue, one being purple, and one red, and when I visited that red state everyone was cursing Janet Napolitano for screwing up everything while she was in charge.

I guess the lesson for democrats is that eventually you’re going to run out of other people’s money and the good times end.