Kevin J. Anderson’s Blog

I write. I make up stuff. I adventure hard, so you don’t have to.

Free Music Downloads from Terra Incognita CDs

Kevin J. Anderson | December 16, 2010

Getting started a little early on the holiday gifts.  We have arranged with ProgRock Records to offer free downloads of two complete Roswell Six music tracks, one from each Terra Incognita CD. “Victory” is from Terra Incognita: A Line in the Sand, an epic song with vocals by Michael Sadler (formerly of Saga) and excellent [...]

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Writing Productivity Podcast & Catching Up

Kevin J. Anderson | November 15, 2010

There’s always a price tag on a trip. After returning from our 7-day trip to the United Arab Emirates and the Sharjah Book Fair, we had to make up for the lost work time.  We had delivered the manuscript for Star Challengers: Space Station Crisis from the hotel room in Sharjah, but now we had [...]

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Cover Painting for THE KEY TO CREATION

Kevin J. Anderson | October 10, 2010

As I worked on the outline and draft for the third novel in the Terra Incognita trilogy, The Key to Creation, I sent the summary and suggested some ideas to the cover artist, Lee Gibbons.  Lee created amazing cover paintings for The Edge of the World and The Map of All Things, and also provided [...]

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“Terra Incognita” Audiobooks now available

Kevin J. Anderson | September 27, 2010

Hachette Audio has just released the unabridged audio edition of the second Terra Incognita novel, The Map of All Things.  Award-winning narrator Scott Brick is the reader.  Available in various audio formats and also for audio download from Audible.com. Scott Brick also narrated the unabridged audio for Book 1 in the series, The Edge of [...]

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Writing on the Colorado Trail

Kevin J. Anderson | August 9, 2010

Last week I found myself faced with an avalanche of deadlines.  I wrapped up all the pieces, contracts, permissions, copyright listing, contents, bios, and intros for the next Nebula Awards Showcase, which I’m editing.  Brian Herbert and I wrapped up the back-and-forth expansion of our chapter outline for The Sisterhood of Dune; we’ve found that [...]

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THE MAP OF ALL THINGS Sample Chapter 1

Kevin J. Anderson | June 13, 2010

The second Terra Incognita novel comes out in a few weeks from Orbit Books.  I’ve added the first sample chapter, below. Also, all preorders of the second Roswell Six/Terra Incognita rock CD have just shipped. You can still preorder your copy from AnderZoneShop.com.   This CD tells a part of the story that isn’t in [...]

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Covers for new DUNE foreign editions

Kevin J. Anderson | June 8, 2010

First off, just received our second review for the Terra Incognita/Roswell Six CD.  Read it at the Sea of Tranquility website. Also in today’s mail, some foreign editions of or recent Dune novels: French translation of Winds of Dune Polish translation of Winds of Dune Spanish translation of Dune: The Machine Crusade

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Lines in the Sand

Kevin J. Anderson | June 3, 2010

The second Terra Incognita rock CD, “A Line in the Sand,” is due to be released in the next couple of weeks, and I’ve just received my first sample copies.  For the past year, we’ve been hearing drafts of the songs, the music, the scratch vocals, then the final vocals, and at last the final [...]

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EDGE OF THE WORLD sample chapter

Kevin J. Anderson | May 22, 2010

The first Terra Incognita volume, The Edge of the World, was just released in paperback.  I’ve posted the first chapter below for those of you who would like to check it out.  The second novel in the trilogy, The Map of All Things, comes out in a few weeks.  (And I’ve written the third book, [...]

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Terra Incognita CD booklet

Kevin J. Anderson | May 18, 2010

The following is the introduction to the booklet for the second Terra Incognita CD, A Line in the Sand, which will ship in the next couple of weeks.  You can order the autographed novel and companion CD, as well as collectible Terra Incognita items, from AnderzoneShop.com or from progrockrecords.com.  You can also hear three complete [...]

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