Kevin J. Anderson | May 29, 2012
LANDMARK CROSSOVER PROJECT: NEW RUSH ALBUM CLOCKWORK ANGELS TO FEATURE ACCOMPANYING NOVEL BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR The new Rush studio album, Clockwork Angels, is accompanied by a full-length “steampunk” novel written by bestselling SF author Kevin J. Anderson and Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. In an innovative combination of music and literature, the new album [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 28, 2012
And I think it’s awesome. Another brilliant painting by Stephen Youll. Brian Herbert and I have delivered the final manuscript. The novel comes out in February 2013. And in two weeks, I’ll be flying up to stay with Brian so we start the full-on brainstorming for MENTATS OF DUNE.
Kevin J. Anderson | May 25, 2012
Sometimes it’s good to read your email as soon as it comes in! I just received this surprise announcement today. I didn’t know I was even halfway old enough to get any sort of “lifetime achievement”—I’m just getting up to speed. My sincere thanks to the nominating committee and to all the fans who have [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 22, 2012
Kensington just sent me the wonderful new cover for my second Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel, UNNATURAL ACTS. It really captures the fun of the series. In the Unnatural Quarter, golems slave away in sweatshops, necromancers sell black-market trinkets to tourists, and the dead rise up—to work the night shift. But zombie detective Dan Shamble [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 20, 2012
AFTERTASTE—the third installment of my humorous BLOOD LITE anthology series, under the auspices of the Horror Writers Association—has just been released in mass-market paperback from Pocket Books. Thirty all-new hilarious horror stories from Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Christopher Golden, Heather Graham, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and many others, including one of the last stories by LA Banks. FULL [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 19, 2012
I just received my advance reading copies of DEATH WARMED OVER, the first novel in my Dan Shamble, Zombie PI series from Kensington. Now I’ve got zombies all over the kitchen counter. SINGLE DEAD DETECTIVE SEEKS CLUE Ever since The Big Uneasy unleashed vampires, werewolves, and other undead denizens on the world, it’s been hell [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 18, 2012
It’s been an intense two months with a whirlwind of deadlines and appearances, and I’ve been stuck inside looking out at the beautiful weather (feeling like a kid with chicken pox not allowed to go out and play). But after I turned in two manuscripts, I blocked out part of a day and went on [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 11, 2012
As Brian and I finish up the final read and polish of the manuscript of HELLHOLE AWAKENING (639 pages), we just received the remarkable cover sketch from Stephen Youll. Steve has done many of our covers for years—most of the Dune novels, HELLHOLE, my three Star Wars anthologies, and BLINDFOLD. After working with our editor [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 10, 2012
We’re very pleased to show off the just-released cover for Clockwork Angels: The Novel—one of my most beautiful covers ever. The central image is from the forthcoming Rush album, with the type and cover design by Neil Peart and Hugh Syme. ECW will publish the hardcover in September (available for preorder now), a full-color volume [...]
Kevin J. Anderson | May 8, 2012
Rebecca and I just came back home from Las Vegas and the third—and, by all accounts, best ever—Superstars Writing Seminar. We had about sixty very dedicated students at the Golden Nugget, and instructors Brandon Sanderson, David Farland, Eric Flint, Rebecca Moesta, and me, as well as guest speakers Dean Wesley Smith and James A. Owen, [...]
