Theo Barkel – Jeff Carlson

September 9, 2016

Hello, Internet! Plus a fun review in Dutch!!

Yes, I know, it’s been a seriously long while since I posted a single word upon this world wide web. Things have been busy indeed in Carlson Land. Big summer. Many projects. Much fun. Even got some writing done!

Now that fall is upon us, I am putting my nose to the grindstone in order to finish Frozen Sky 4. You don’t know it, but I’m having a great time with Vonnie and Ash and Ben and Harmeet and the sunfish and, yes, Colonel Ribeiro. What a hardass. There might be some strangers in this book, too! Alien strangers, if you know what I mean. 😉

I promise to post more as I get back into the groove.

Meanwhile, here is a fun review for the Dutch edition of De Oorlag Van De Plaag, better known to you and me as Plague War. I’m told Bol.com is a heavyweight in their market and the review says it’s a pretty good book in a similar vein to The Stand, which is high praise indeed.

August 21, 2015

Plague War in Dutch!

As usual, I’m late (again) to my own party… but better late than never!

The good folks at Uitgeverij Macc released their blockbuster edition of Plague War last month. I have to say, their titles are my favorites from around the world. Tell this doesn’t sound extremely cool:

De Oorlog van de Plaag

Here is my hard-working editor Theo Barkel followed by a close-up of the new edition. My guess is that’s bad-ass Sarah Foshtomi on the cover with her ragtag gang of survivors. Love it!!!!

June 27, 2014

More fun from the Netherlands!

My fine editor in chief, Theo Barkel, sent some awesome photos from an sf/f festival on the lawns of a magnificent castle. You got your wookies. You got your killer elves. You got your book sellers with awesome sci fi thrillers like Het Jaar Van De Plaag.

Looks like a lot of fun!

May 16, 2014May 16, 2014

PLAGUE YEAR trilogy in the Netherlands!

The good folks at Uitgeverjj MACC and Zilverspoor MACC have released Plague Year in Dutch with War and Zone set to follow over the next year and a half. The trilogy has a great unified look. I also gotta say I love the new titles! Het Jaar Van De Plaag sounds very cool. Even better, to me these covers say “techno thriller” and “apocalyptic action-adventure.” You’ve got your space station. You’ve got your jet fighters. You’ve got battered survivors, irregular militia, gas masks, barricades, mind plague zombies, the works. As you know, that’s what I was going for.

I think they nailed it… and just like the Cam Najarro on the cover of the Russian edition has a rather Slavic appearance, so does the Ruth Goldman on the covers of the Dutch editions have a ‘Nederlanders’ style. I’d like to meet her! She looks tough and smart and determined.

Here are all three books in order.

The cosmic coincidence, of course, is we just saw these same battered survivors on the Russian cover of Year. They must be stock art. Now the poor bastards are suffering the nanopocalypse all over the world! 🙂

I’d like to give a special thanks to my editor Theo Barkel, who captained this project to fruition. More soon.