Yuku free message boards

A while back I wrote a novella, BOX OF OXEN, set in near-future Israel and Palestine. Lou Anders, now editor of Pyr Books, was then handling the revived Argosy and acquired it for publication therein. Unfortunately, while the magazine was a beautiful and noble effort, it proved too costly to publish, was not successfully financially, and folded just before BOX could appear within its pages. Novellas are awkward children in the world of publishing. Too short to be successful except with certain specialty publishers, and longer than magazine or anthology editors prefer (better to have four short stories to promote in a magazine issue than one novella). As time passed, electronic publishing made rapid stries. Not wishing to see BOX languish, I gathered myself and some simple software and have put it up on Amazon's Kindle store, where you may now find and download it to your preferred e-reading platform for the modest price of $2.99. I'm proud of the story, I hope you like it, and it will be interesting to see how it does in this new publishing format. The cover is a slightly manipulated photo of mine with something of a small visual Easter egg loaded on one part of it. I'll also be interested to see who remarks on the latter.

Cobra War book 3 by Timothy Zahn (Jan 3, 2012) has a cover and blurb at Amazon.

Christie Golden has World of Warcraft: The Shattering Book 1 and Starcraft: Devil's Due coming out this year.

For the Dungeons & Dragons fans, Jeff Grubb is featured in the anthology Forgotten Realms Classics Volume 1 and Alan Dean Foster is featured in Untold Adventures.

Karen Miller has A Blight of Mages coming in August.

A blog post from Karen Traviss confirming that there will be new original fiction (not set in another tie-in universe) from her next year:

I keep promising readers some more of my original fiction "soon" and I can now make good on that promise. I realise it's taken a long time, but I've been a bit swamped over the last couple of years. Once the current franchise task is off my desk in about a month, my priority switches to my own novels for a year or so. I'll be announcing the first new series shortly. It'll be the same character driven military-political action you've come to expect from me, but in a different setting. Expect to see the first book out next year. More on that later.

I'll still be doing franchise work in different media this year, of course, because I love it.