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About Me

Jeff Carlson is the author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers PLAGUE YEAR and PLAGUE WAR, hailed by New York Times bestselling author James Rollins as "Harrowing, heartfelt, and rock-hard realistic. Not to be missed."Jeff is currently at work on a new stand-alone thriller as well as a third PLAGUE book to complete the trilogy. He is also collaborating with New York Times bestselling author David Brin on a new adventure series entitled COLONY HIGH.Give him a shout at http://www.jverse.com

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My Blog

Podcast of "Gunfight at the Sugarloaf Pet Food & Taxidermy"

Life has been like John Irving novel. Well, maybe not that dramatic, but very busy. I'm behind on everything. Maybe someday I'll dish about it. In the meantime, StarShipSofa has released "Gunfight" ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:31:00 GMT

!!! Exploding Helicopters !!!

!!! Exploding Helicopters !!! Color me happy. I think this is my strongest cover yet. Certainly it's eye-catching, gritty, and wild... And here's the funny part. When I talk about my books in per...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:14:00 GMT

Cover art for PLAGUE ZONE

CCover art for PLAGUE ZONE "The Niners are set to take the snap. Here comes the ball... It's a fake! It's a fake! The kicker grabs the ball and runs for the strong side of the line! I think he's ...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:03:00 GMT

Book Porn From Spain

Book Porn From Spain Emailed from a fan in Spain: sweet, sweet pornography for those who read, write, and love books. Look at the sweet young thang perched there on that shelf. Firm. Dark. Intel...
Posted by on Sat, 30 May 2009 21:51:00 GMT

Trick Question

Trick Question This is a joke from a friend in a fictional language. For the prize of finding your name in an upcoming story, maybe the new piece for Asimov's, who can tell me what this simple st...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 09:23:00 GMT

This One's For You, Italian Joe

crossposted from my blog at www.jverse.comSold a short story to Asimov's this morning, my second for them.  It's slated for their December issue.  Exciting stuff.
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 10:59:00 GMT

So I've Been Busy...

So I've Been Busy... Hard to believe it's mid-May already. I meant to post this last week, at last -- the intro I recorded for Dunesteef's podcast of my short story "Enter Sandman."...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 09:12:00 GMT

Sneek Peek of PLAGUE ZONE

Sneak Peek of PLAGUE ZONE Here we have a photo of the first map for Plague Zone, a rather tense-looking future if I've ever seen one. It's a photo of a print-out of the map rather than the file its...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 18:58:00 GMT

Amazon Is God

Found this yesterday, an Amazon page for Plague Zone that lists the book's release date as November 24th, quite an early pre-Thanksgiving publication for a December title. Also, apparently it's 3...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:25:00 GMT

Lou Anders Is The Devil

On Lou's advice, I'm thinking about writing not at all anymore and, instead, twitting all day to expand my readership. Who will have nothing to read. But still, I'll be exceedingly hip.
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:15:00 GMT