Once again, I’ve been acti­vated. And once again, this could mean a lighter touch on the blog and social media (though that didn’t happen last time, con­trary to my pre­dic­tions). Depends on the op tempo once I report.

This comes at a good time. FORTRESS FRONTIER has a com­pleted 1st draft and I am cur­rently awaiting inputs before col­lating my notes and pressing ahead with a rewrite. I’ve also com­pleted a 1st draft of another trilogy pro­posal and I have some other pitches that I’m cur­rently ham­mering out. CONTROL POINT isn’t coming out for 7 months and FORTRESS FRONTIER isn’t due until after that. So, if there was ever a few months where it’s okay for me not to be writing full-time, this is it. Also, I’m just being acti­vated to aug­ment staff at a state­side gar­rison. This isn’t Afghanistan.

So, wish me luck and leave a light on for me. I leave you with a guest blog post I just did for Civilian Reader, dis­cussing my greatest writing influ­ence (and bestest buddy) Peter V. Brett.

Don’t be shy about sending your pal Myke an email in the coming months. When you’re deployed, there’s a weird sense of the world turning on without you. Your friends develop inside jokes that you’re not in on. You see pic­tures of par­ties that you missed posted to Face­book. That part sucks, and folks tap­ping you on the shoulder to remind you that they poured one out for you at the last shindig goes a long way towards soft­ening the impact. You can reach me on the PERSONNEL TAB. Just sayin’