Agents, it’s publication day for The Division: Broken Dawn in the US!* You know what to do…
*Amazon link included for convenience, but buy from your local shop when you can!
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Division 2 Giveaway!
If you’re a Division fan, here’s a way to celebrate the launch of The Division 2! SitRep Radio is giving away 2 copies of my novel The Division: Broken Dawn, 2 copies of the lore book The World of The Division, and 2 groovy Division steel mugs.
Enter here! And if you miss out on the giveaway, The Division: Broken Dawn is out March 26!
Pitchers and Catchers Report!
It’s spring! I shoveled snow all morning, but it’s spring! The Tigers are going to lose 90+ games again this year, but it’s spring!
And the beginning of spring training, the dawn of a new baseball season, is the perfect time to get yourself a copy of The Comic Book Story of Baseball, right?
Hugo-Eligible Stories
It’s Hugo Awards voting season once again! Every year I forget to tell anyone what work I’ve done that might be eligible, but 2019 is the year I break that streak. So, if you’re a Hugo voter, please keep in mind these two stories:
And if you’re not a Hugo voter, why not read them anyway? Thanks!
Marvel Battle Lines Trading Cards
Yesterday I was griping because UPS couldn’t find my house (which is in plain sight, after all). Today they located me, and dropped off an unexpected delight: A set of Marvel Battle Lines trading cards with a custom binder!
Spiffy, no? Now I’m going to have to design a tabletop version of the game.
2018 Roundup, 2019 Forecast
It’s that time of year, when we freelancers look back at what we accomplished and take a minute to feel good about everything instead of being stressed over what comes next. If you’ve read any of these things, thank you. (And if you haven’t, it’s not too late!)
Forthwith:
Things I published in 2018
- The Comic Book Story of Baseball, a book-length graphic history of the national pastime
- Halo: Collateral Damage, a 3-issue mini from Dark Horse about the early exploits of the Master Chief and Blue Team
- “Black Friday,” a short story on Tor.com
- “The Atonement Path,” a short story at Lightspeed
- And I wrote the story and dialogues for the new game Marvel Battle Lines, while continuing to write The Walking Dead: Road to Survival and occasional missions for Marvel Puzzle Quest.
Things I finished in 2018 that will appear in 2019
- The Division: Broken Dawn, a novel linking the first and second Division games and expanding the lore beyond New York and Washington DC
- “Isla Tiburon,” a short story in Asimov’s
- A kids’ picture book adaptation of Avengers: Infinity War
- A picture book adventure about Shuri and the Avengers
- More stuff I can’t announce yet
Happy New Year! And thanks again for reading!
The Division: Broken Dawn
With The Division 2 coming up in March, Ubisoft is launching several related books, including a comic series, a lore book, and a prequel novel: Broken Dawn, written by yours truly. I’d always wanted to continue April Kelleher’s story after New York Collapse, and that’s part of what Broken Dawn is about. But there’s more! The book also sets up the narrative of The Division 2, while showing what the rest of the virus-ravaged United States looks like beyond New York and DC.
Broken Dawn is out March 26 in the US! Here’s the cover and jacket copy:
Months after the outbreak of a devastating global pandemic that started in New York City on Black Friday, traces of rebirth are spreading across the United States. Spring has come to the nation, and with it a glimmer of hope as civilians band together in settlements, trying to carve out a better life.
Amidst a ruined government, a shattered infrastructure, and an eroding civilization, The Division – an autonomous unit of sleeper agents activated when all else fails – is all that protects the people from predators who would harm them, scavengers who would take from them, and oppressors who would exploit them.
Aurelio Diaz is one of those agents. A man of great honor, he is on the hunt for one of his colleagues who inexplicably abandoned his duty and caused the death of multiple civilians. This trail leads him to April Kelleher, a resourceful civilian who traveled out of New York into a troubled American Midwest. There, she hopes to understand why her husband was murdered and if an antiviral to the deadly disease exists.
Together, Agent Diaz and April soon uncover an imminent threat to the future of the country. They must act to preserve civilization’s last hope to stop a new virus and save itself from a final collapse.
