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Second Explosion Rips Through Pike River Mine, New Zealand

On Wednesday, Gary Knowles, superintendent of Tasman Police Command, announced to waiting families that all 29 miners were dead.  According to CNN, a second explosion – long in duration and powerful –...

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Debut

Orbit Books just announced my first novel, Germline, in their Spring/Summer catalog (link here, mine is near the bottom of the page).  Wow.  At some point, reality sets in and I thought it was when I...

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Nature’s Futures

Logged onto my email today to find a great surprise: my latest short (flash fiction really) was bought by Nature Magazine.  Every Nature issue has a piece of hard SF and it’ll be cool to see it there....

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Debut Novel, Germline, Available for Preorder

My debut novel, Germline (Orbit Books), is available worldwide for preorder. You can get it in the US at Amazon, or in the UK at Amazon. It’s also available in Germany and in Japan (for only 826 Yen)....

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Nice Cover Launch

I came home from work all beaten-down.  Exhausted.  But I’m just egotistical enough to have a google search set for “T.C. McCarthy” and as soon as I opened my email, I found THIS, an Orbit...

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GERMLINE audio-book available

Germline is now available for pre-order as an audio book, on CD and tape – from Blackstone audio.  Can’t wait to hear what it sounds like! Germline

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Orbit Launches Its Short Fiction Program!

Yesterday, Orbit Books launched its short fiction program, with four authors and one more on the way (Brent Weeks fans – rejoice!); the link is here. My story is “The Legionnaires,” which takes place...

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Giveaway: The Legionnaires

I’m giving away five free Kindle copies of my new novelette, The Legionnaires. All you have to do is respond to this post and I’ll gift you a copy via Amazon, but you have to live in the US (not...

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Recap: Fiction Published in 2011

Looking back on 2011, it was the busiest year I’ve ever had. I wrote and submitted two books (the sequels to Germline), wrote and submitted I don’t know how many short stories, worked a full time job,...

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Tor and Military SF: Scalzi and Ringo? What about Haldeman?

In her post on Women in  Military SF over at Tor.Com, academic, frequent Tor blogger, and self-described “cranky feminist,” Liz Bourke, has this to say about women and race in Military SF: Military SF...

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Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Worsens

I’ve just posted a video on YouTube about the Ebola outbreak in west Africa. This is what I do when researching an idea for a novel and come across something that is totally horrific, etc....

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