Kevin J. Anderson | December 31, 2010
When designing our “Life Lessons from the Desert” 2011 Calendar, Tim compiled the book covers of all my releases and reprints for 2010. Another busy year! My upcoming titles in 2011 include: • Hellhole (with Brian Herbert) • Star Challengers #2: Space Station Crisis (with Rebecca Moesta) • Star Challengers #3: Asteroid Crisis (with Rebecca [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 31, 2010
Brian and I just received this letter from a Marine stationed in the desert. Perhaps not as unpleasant a place as fictional Arrakis, but still a tough place to do pleasure reading: “Hi, I am a U.S. Marine over in Afghanistan right now and since I joined the Marines I haven’t read a book in [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 30, 2010
The Challenger Centers for Space Science Education have created a detailed Teacher’s Guide to accompany the first novel in the Star Challengers series, Moonbase Crisis. This Guide is an educational companion to help extend the learning as students enjoy the novel. The book includes a series of Language Arts lessons based on science and technical [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 28, 2010
Here’s the schedule of panels for the next Superstars Writing Seminar, which will be held in Salt Lake City, January 13–15. As you can see from the list of topics, this three-day seminar is packed with great stuff, no-nonsense and practical material taught by six bestselling authors. We’re not aware of anything comparable for [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 18, 2010
Rebecca and I just did an hour-long Writers Advisory conference call about collaborating, various techniques, the reasons to do it, pitfalls, etc. You can listen to the MP3 free by clicking on Collaboration Discussion Also, in the spirit of the holidays—as well as to tie in with the Collaboration subject—we are offering a $200 discount [...]
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 [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 6, 2010
The last entry in a series of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have time. Science fiction master Robert Heinlein proposed a set of rules for writers. His first two are “You must write” and “You must finish what you write.” Endless polishing [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 5, 2010
A series of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have time. Every creative writing teacher repeats the classic axiom, “Write about what you know.” Therefore, it stands to reason that the more you know, the more things you’ll be able to write about. [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 4, 2010
A series of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have time. After the previous tip, now that you’ve set up the perfect established writing spot, keep in mind that this is not the only way you can write. Your word processor isn’t the [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | December 3, 2010
A series of eleven tips to help you get more time for writing, and to produce more writing when you do have time. So, you’ve developed a writing routine, set up an office or at least a place where you use your laptop. It’s the way you’re accustomed to writing. But habit doesn’t necessarily make [...]
