It's a full life, if a trifle banal

Today is the official publication day of my new Star Trek novel: Brinkmanship:

The Venette Convention has always remained independent, but it is about to become the flashpoint for a tense military standoff between the two power blocs now dominating interstellar space—the United Federation of Planets and the recently formed Typhon Pact. The Venetan government turns to the Typhon Pact’s Tzenkethi Coalition for protection in the new order, and has agreed to allow three of their supply bases for Tzenkethi use. But these bases—if militarized—would put Tzenkethi weapons unacceptably close to Federation, Cardassian, and Ferengi space. While Captain Ezri Dax and the crew of the U.S.S. Aventine are sent to investigate exactly what is happening at one of the Venette bases, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are assigned to a diplomatic mission sent to the Venette homeworld in order to broker a mutually acceptable resolution. But the Cardassian delegates don’t seem particularly keen on using diplomacy to resolve the situation, which soon spirals out of control toward all-out war...

I worked really hard with the female characters in this book. My aim was to represent as many different women with as many different agendas as I could. Hope I pulled it off.

And I'm also pleased to say that the Table of Contents has now been released of Chicks Unravel Time, in which I have an essay on Season 26 of Doctor Who. More here, where you can see the rather brilliant full list of contributors.

( Covers under the cut )

In other news, we are four days into the semester, and I'm losing my voice. Oops.