Balticon 2018
Continuing my fortnight of events, from my sister’s graduation to the Nebulas and beyond, Balticon 52 is this weekend. Here’s my programming schedule for the weekend. Friday, May 25 5pm – How to be a...
View ArticleThrowing My Hat in the Ring
Today I’m officially launching my consulting business! I’m offering career coaching, instruction about how publishing works, marketing assistance, convention sales services, and more. I’ve learned a...
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Story World Dossier #2 – Space Opera
When I set out to write a science fiction episode of Genrenauts for the first season, I couldn’t just use ‘Science Fiction’ as the genre for this second episode. Science Fiction is too broad a category...
View ArticleSpeculate Reborn
For a couple of years now, I’ve been a co-host on the podcast Speculate! Speculate started as a science fiction/fantasy analysis and interview show, “The Podcast for REaders, Writers, and Fans.” We’d...
View ArticleJoin Me on Patreon
Since going full-time as a writer, I’ve been wanting to find other ways to give back and to create an online community away from Twitter and Facebook to be able to talk about writing, publishing,...
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2018 Eligibility Post
Hi folks! It’s December, which means Award Eligibility Season(TM), among many other things. This year has had a lot of big life changes for me with leaving Angry Robot, putting out my shingle for...
View ArticleSome of Mike’s Favorite Things of 2018
2018 was a hell of a year that was somehow also lasted a decade? I finished and submitted a novel, left the job I’d been in for over five years, and so on. The political hellscape was especially loud,...
View ArticleConfusion 2019 schedule
It’s time for another ConFusion! This has become one of my favorite cons and I think I’m up to about 5 or 6 years of attending in a row. It’s a great chance to kick off the year with some programming,...
View ArticleBaltimore Book Fest schedule
Hi all! I’ll be appearing at the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend alongside a bunch of fabulous authors. The full books schedule is here The Ivy Bookshop will be selling books by attending authors,...
View ArticleANNIHILATION ARIA release date change
After consulting with the folks at Parvus Press, we’ve decided to move the publication date of ANNIHILATION ARIA to July 21st, 2020. With so many bookstores temporarily closed due to the pandemic,...
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“This is a rollicking good time”– Publishers Weekly on ANNIHILATION ARIA
The fine folks at Publishers Weekly have reviewed ANNIHILATION ARIA in the March 30th issue. My favorite pull-quote is, as expressed in the title: “This is a rollicking good time.” But the last few...
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Booklist calls ANNIHILATION ARIA “a bright and exciting space opera” in a...
In my first starred review, Booklist (run by the American Library Association) had some very nice things to say about ANNIHILATION ARIA! An especially nice excerpt from the review: Underwood’s prose is...
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One week (and a day) until ANNIHILATION ARIA blasts off!
We’re just eight days away from the release of ANNIHILATION ARIA! I sold the book back in the fall of 2018, so it’s been a long time coming.You can read the first three chapters at Tor.com....
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Annihilation Aria is here!
The day long-awaited has finally come! Annihilation Aria aka [REDACTED NOVEL] is live and ready to purchase in ebook and paperback formats. The audiobook from Dreamscape Media will follow soon on July...
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Online event with Valerie Valdes!
Hi all!As part of my online promonado for Annihilation Aria, I’m teaming up with fellow space opera author Valerie Valdes to do an event with The Ivy Bookshop on July 29th at 6:30 pm Eastern Daylight...
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Annihilation Aria Week One in Review
Annihilation Aria has been out in the world for one week now, and it’s been a fabulous whirlwind. I started writing Aria in the spring of 2015, and worked on it on and off for several years before...
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ARIA audiobook pub day!
The audiobook for Annihilation Aria, published by Dreamscape Media and performed by Chris Andrew Ciulla and Caitlin Kelly, is now available! You can get the audiobook as a digital download, mp3 CD,...
View ArticleNASFIC Schedule
This weekend is online NASFIC, and they’ve pulled together a schedule for an online con very quickly. I’m very happy to be a participant on a couple of panels as well as doing a reading. Attendance is...
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New Speculate actual play series
In case you missed it, I’m GMing a miniseries of Michael Dunn-O’Connor’s Rebel Crown for Speculate with my co-hosts Greg and Brandon and returning Speculate players Alex Acks and DongWon Song. You can...
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Expansive Futures Bundle
I’m very pleased to be participating in another SFWA bundle with StoryBundle. This time, Annihilation Aria is available alongside seventeen other books as a part of the Expansive Futures StoryBundle....
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