Book 36: Pandemic (Infected, Book 3)  by Scott Sigler,  isbn: 9780307408976, Crown, 584 pages, $26.00

The Premise: (from the Goodreads page): The explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Infected and Contagious. The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But ( Read more... )

I tweeted quite a bit last night about who I'd love to interview in the coming weeks/months.

Before I tweeted, I had confirmed (but not completed) emails set up with young singer Anthony Gargiula (FINALLY DONE), author Bryan Thomas Schmidt (THE NORTHSTAR SERIAL, the upcoming THE WORKER PRINCE, and moderator of Twitter's #SFWRTRCHT), graphic novelist ( Read more... )

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
* What are you currently reading?
* What did you recently finish reading?
* What do you think you’ll read next?
My answers for this week:

I Am Currently Reading: TO OPEN THE SKY by Robert ( Read more... )

Book 40: Ancestor by Scott Sigler, isbn 9780307406330, 425 pages, Crown,  $24.99

Scott Sigler's latest hardcover from Crown is an re-issue / expansion of a story that Sigler first released as an audiobook podcast, then as a limited edition print book. Apparently, part of his contract with Crown was a guarantee to re-issue Ancestor. I'm glad ( Read more... )

I seem to be asking myself questions like that a lot lately.

Weds was the drive from Williamsburg to Charlotte.  I did not actually explore Williamsburg while I was there. Yes, people recommended it. Tuesday night I waited to see if I was having dinner with my buddy Davey Jones (which ended up not happening due to car issues related to weather ( Read more... )

So I figure I'm going to keep track of it like this:  I'll list all 14 of the books I packed for this trip with me, and I'll come back and strike-through the titles as I finish reading each book, and we'll see exactly how many I read.  And since I purchased the new Indiana Jones book tonight (the only book I saw and picked up), I'm going to add ( Read more... )

I picked up my 2.5 weeks worth of accumulated mail yesterday on the way to work.  Hidden amongst the bills, magazines and advertising were a few anticipated gems:

Good old infinityltd  sent me a few well-worn Wild Card books edited by grrm to reread (it's been decades), along with some comic books and an F. Paul Wilson book.

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Contagious by Scott Sigler, isbn 9780307406316, 438 pages, Crown,  $24.95

Scott Sigler's sequel to "Infected" can only be described as a "rollercoaster ride" -- if you imagine that rollercoaster pretty much being nothing but uphill all the way at bullet-train speeds until you reach a point where the atmosphere is so thin you're blacking out while ( Read more... )

I have not seen Krissy Kelly (now Sweeney), my first middle school/high school girlfriend, in probably 20 years.

Yes, I know, some of you are shocked.  (Shocked that I ever had a girlfriend, not that I let 20 years go.)  For the record, we dated for all of three weeks, because our two best friends at the time were dating so we had to.  We were far ( Read more... )