Patrick Chiles's Blog
May 12, 2025
I Still Want to Believe…
…that you guys like my books. Yes, I have a new release coming soon so this is the gratuitous marketing post. I first pitched the Interstellar Medic series to Toni Weisskopf three years ago at LibertyCon. The idea of a paramedic who’d been swept up into an alien civilization and longs for home had taken …
February 27, 2024
I Want to Believe
As a kid, did you go through a phase of being obsessed with the paranormal? I did. My early years were spent buried in books about UFOs, Bigfoot, and ghost stories. No tale was too tall, no conclusion too far of a leap. Tabloids and low-budget TV shows reinforced my belief that the world was …
January 30, 2024
Coming Soon: INTERSTELLAR MEDIC – THE LONG RUN
Being a paramedic is a tough job; it’s tougher when you stumble onto a crashed alien spacecraft. Melanie Mooney thought she was just doing her job when she came upon an unusual accident in the deep woods late one night. Acting alone, what she found was nothing like she’d expected. What followed was even more …
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May 3, 2023
Here Be Dragons
Escape Orbit has been nominated for the Dragon Award for best science fiction novel! The Dragon Awards are purely fan-driven, anyone can nominate their favorites at DragonCon’s website and registration is free. You don’t even have to vote in each category, only the ones for which you have a clear preference. The most nominations in each category will move up …
March 20, 2023
The Reviews Are Coming In…
Publishers Weekly on Escape Orbit: “Chiles couches a high-stakes rescue mission in a fascinating and believable methodology for traversing space in this sequel to Frozen Orbit… Though part of a series, this outing’s self-contained plot and interwoven backstory is easy for new readers to follow as mission control on Earth reacts to the reappearance of Jack’s …
Upcoming Appearances
ESCAPE ORBIT is coming out in two short weeks, just in time for convention season! My first appearance this year will be at FantaSci in Durham, NC, this coming weekend (March 24-26). Among other things, I’ll be on panels discussing how to whip your wayward writing muse into submission, how much research is too much, …
February 27, 2023
Five Books for Space Nerds
Shepherd is a new book discovery site, which is competing with Goodreads to become the place for finding good writers you may not have heard of before (and if you’ve spent much time on Goodreads then you know they could use the competition). Last year they asked me to recommend five books that had an …
December 28, 2022
Winter Meltdown
Southwest’s Holiday from Hell has dominated the news this week. Their route system has fallen to pieces and I can only imagine the nightmare of piecing it back together. I worked in the business for a long time as an aircraft dispatcher, which is the behind-the-scenes function of planning each flight and making sure each …
December 7, 2022
We’re Number One!
Worlds Long Lost is the #1 New Release in Science Fiction Anthologies on Amazon. WOW. When I was asked to contribute a story for this project last year, I was in the middle of writing Escape Orbit and realized it would be the perfect opportunity for a tie-in. And boy, am I glad to have …
September 8, 2022
Get It While Its Hot!
Barnes and Noble is running a big discount deal on preorders; no idea how long this will last. Enter PREORDER25 at checkout, and you can get ESCAPE ORBIT at 25% off the cover price.
